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Daou Chardonnay 2015

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Daou
Varietal: Chardonnay
Vintage: 2015
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Paso Robles
Retail Price: $20.99

Tasting Notes: A beautifully balanced chardonnay from Paso Robles. It has a rich mouthfeel of butter and a hint of caramel with pops of tropical fruit and acidity. An amazing wine for dishes with butter as a theme. 
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Blackbird Paramor Red 2007

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Blackbird
Fanciful Name: Paramor
Varietal: Blend
Vintage: 2007
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Napa Valley
Retail Price: $90

Tasting Notes: A wonderful red blend with nuance of spice, red pepper, cassis and oak on the nose. The palate showcases the rich plums, blackberries and graphite with a finish of beautiful, dense, yet smooth tannins, with slight basil and dried fruit lingering minutes later.
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Aperture Sauvignon Blanc 2016

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Aperture
Varietal: Sauvignon Blanc
Vintage: 2016
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Alexander Valley
Retail Price: $46.99

Tasting Notes: This barrel-fermented white is blended with 5% sauvignon musqué for an interesting twist on this variety. The wine has light, inviting apple blossom aromas. It demonstrates a refreshing complex arrangement of hay, honey, apple, savory fig and lemon curd. A chardonnay-lover’s sauvignon blanc.
Aperture Sauvignon Blanc 2016

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Aubry Brut Premier Cru Champagne NV Champagne

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Aubry Brut Premier Cru Champagne NV
Varietal: Champagne
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Champagne
Retail Price: $48.99

Tasting Notes: This is not your typical non-vintage brut. A blend of ancient indigenous varieties, which make up 5% of the blend; pinot meunier accounts for 45%, the balance in equal parts pinot noir and chardonnay. The taste is like an essential champagne, with scents of chalk, mushroom, pear and lemon curd creating a bold surround sound of flavor. There's purity to the expression and a healthy weight to the wine. 
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Sonoma Loeb Pinot Noir 2016

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Sonoma Loeb
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2016
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Sonoma Coast
Retail Price: $34.99

Tasting Notes: This is bright, intense, red fruit-dominated pinot noir is stunning with more than enough fresh acidity and beautiful texture to make this a standout. The elegance is striking and plentiful because of the lengthy finish.
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Keenan Cabernet Sauvignon 2014

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Keenan
Varietal: Cabernet
Vintage: 2014
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Napa Valley
Retail Price: $55

Tasting Notes: This complex Napa cabernet sauvignon offers extracted rich fruit flavors of currant, cassis, black cherry and blackberry. There is a hefty mouthfeel mid-palate giving way to some rustic flavors, black licorice, kirsch and spice. The finish lingers with a fair amount of tannins. Ready to drink now, but will age well for another seven years.
Keenan Cabernet Sauvignon 2014

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Abstracto Fifth Empire Gran Vino Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

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Abstracto Fifth Empire
Fanciful Name: Gran Vino
Varietal: Cabernet
Vintage: 2017
Country of Origin: Argentina
Appellation: Tupungato
Retail Price: $29.99

Tasting Notes: A flavor-packed explosive wine that jumps out of the glass with richness and a taught powerful texture. The French oak gives great structure to the main show of overwhelming raspberry and dark cherry notes. The finish just keeps going.
Abstracto Fifth Empire Gran Vino Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

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Hagen’s Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

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Hagen’s Reserve
Varietal: Cabernet
Vintage: 2015
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Napa Valley
Retail Price: $79.99

Tasting Notes: This stunning cabernet is a packed with power and elegance, with notes of raspberry and dark cherry, all held up with tannic backbone. With all its youth and power this is sure to age beautifully and will improve — but the wine is showing fantastically today.
Hagen’s Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2015

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The Mascot Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

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The Mascot
Varietal: Cabernet
Vintage: 2012
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Napa Valley
Retail Price: $130

Tasting Notes: Wonderful aromas on the nose of raspberries, currants, spice and vanilla, with subtle hints of stone and graphite. On the palate this wine opens up to blackberries, slight herbal notes of tarragon, with gripping-yet- elegant tannins and a balanced acid that creates an amazing long finish.
The Mascot Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

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Paradigm Merlot

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Paradigm Merlot
Varietal: Merlot
Vintage: 2013
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Oakville
Retail Price: $59.99

Tasting Notes: Strong aromas of red berries, black cherries, spice and vanilla lead to an outstanding wine with elegant ripe plum and blueberry. Complex flavors also include rich blackberry cobbler, with the berries, brown sugar and vanilla, along with sandalwood incense and a hint of cocoa. This is an impressive wine with big, yet fine, texture and a lengthy finish. 
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Gran Moraine Pinot Noir

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Gran Moraine
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2015
Country of Origin: Oregon
Appellation: Yamhill-Carlton District
Retail Price: $55.99

Tasting Notes: This dark, red-hued pinot noir opens with a ripe black cherry bouquet with hints of raspberry, tea and cigar box. On the palate, this wine is medium-bodied, balanced, refined and smooth. The flavor profile is a gentle red plum, flinty minerality, notes of black cherry and a hint of cinnamon. The finish is smooth and dry, while its flavors fade away nicely. 
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Twomey Pinot Noir

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Twomey
Varietal: Pinot Noir
Vintage: 2015
Country of Origin: California
Appellation: Anderson Valley
Retail Price: $50

Tasting Notes: Absolutely stellar, elegant and seductive pinot noir from the Silver Oak people. Silky, smooth, aromatic ripe berries and a long, luscious finish.
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