Bergamais: A youthful wine, fruity and refreshing with a juicy aroma.
This wine may be enjoyed on its own or with your favourite foods. It is best
served slightly chilled.
California Burgundy: Specifically, Burgundy refers to only an approved
wine making region in France, as set out by French wine law. Generally, Burgundy
is used to describe a wide variety of red wines. This California Burgundy
is light bodied and softly rounded with the flavour and aroma of warm
berries.
Pinot Noir: The Pinot Noir grape is responsible for all the great
red wines from Burgundy, France. It produces a light to medium bodied wine
that is delicate, smooth and rich in complexity with a warm, oaky flavour.
Valpolicella: A refreshing, lighter style Italian red. Fragrant and
fruity, it has a rich texture and delicate bouquet. The perfect picnic red.
Especially good when served slightly chilled.
Barbera: Native to Northwest Italy, Barbera wine is a medium bodied,
heady combination of warm fruit, lightly oaked with a dry, crisp finish.
Not a shy wine, it is a favoured guest at Italian dinner tables.
Chat Dormant: This is a Burgundy style wine, made from the Pinot Noir
varietal. Chat Dormant is dark and velvety with an aroma of Blackberry and
Black Cherry. Oak is added to balance the fruitiness and expand the
bouquet.
Chianti: From the famous Tuscany region of Italy, this lucious wine
is admired for its rich, velvety fruitiness subtly accented with oak. It
is very good on its own and may be enjoyed all year round.
Domaines des Brumes: This is a medium bodied red with the taste and
aroma of soft, ripe berries. And, where some red wines are best in winter
and others in summer, Domaines des Brumes can be enjoyed all year round,
on its own or with food.
Jermillon: France's largest wine growing district, Bordeaux, is the
ancestral home of Jermillon. This is medium bodied, elegant wine, smooth
on the tongue and flavoured with berries and oak.
Lemberger: Originally of Austrian and German ancestry, Lemberger produces
a wine noted for its deep, red colour and spicysweet, earthy flavour. It
has a good backbone of tannin, subtly accented with oak. Lemberger is a robust,
full bodied alternative to Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz.
Val-de-Grace: This is a full bodied, Bordeaux style red wine. Warm
and earthy with a generous oaky flavour and a soft hint of fruit. This is
an ideal wine for both summer evening barbeques and winter afternoon
get-togethers.
Barolo: The Piedmont region of Italy is noted for its fine red wines
and Barolo in particular. Traditionally matured in oak barrels this rich
red wine was much admired by Julias Caesar. It has a full flavour, ripe with
warm, black fruits and toasted oak.
Cabernet Sauvignon: Originally from France, this prestigious grape
of Bordeaux has become America's finest red wine grape. It is prized for
its depth of flavour and aroma. It is full bodied, rich and intense wine
with cherry-currant sometimes herbal flavours, nicely rounded with oak.
Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon is the great grape
of Bordeaux. Tiny and black, it has a full and distinctive flavour. When
blended with the softness of Merlot the results is a firm and smooth red
wine, warm with the fullness of ripe berries. Rounded with a hint of oak
to give it a slightly roasted flavour.
Cabernet Sauvignon/Shiraz Blend: The firm flavour of Cabernet Sauvignon
has been well married with Shiraz to create a lush, full red wine. Nicely
rounded with oak, it's mature and sure of itself.
Merlot: A rich red wine grape, grown extensively in the Bordeaux region
of France. Merlot has a soft, full flavour delicately laced with oak to enhance
its characteristic fruitiness. A supple wine, delicious on its own or with
a wide variety of foods.
Shiraz: An excellent red wine grape, native to the Rhone River in
France, where it is known as Syrah. It produces a rich, dark and robust wine,
combining notes of warm berries, fresh pepper and oak. This little grape
is responsible for Australia's finest red wines. Shiraz is the perfect
accompaniment with rich, flavourful meats and pastas.
Vieux Chateau du Roi: This is probably the best known of the red wines
of the Rhone, where France's oldest wine making area is found. Vieux Chateau
du Roi is a classic, full bodied red wine. Deep in colour, it carries a warm
bouquet of ripe berry fruit rounded nicely with oak.
Zinfandel: This grape, grown in California for the past 130 years,
produces a medium to full bodied red wine. It is soft, sometimes spicy with
a fruity, brambly characteristic and a hint of oak.
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