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Lustau, founded in Jerez de la Frontera in 1896, recreates it by ageing an oloroso in the warmest part of the bodega and blending it with sweet wine made from sun-dried Pedro Ximénez grapes, the whole matured through a solera. The result is a rich, oxidative sherry of the sort that once travelled halfway around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is best served at around 13 degrees with dark chocolate, blue cheese, dried fruit or walnuts, and will keep for months once opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Fino is made from Palomino, fermented out to full dryness and fortified only to about fifteen per cent, low enough for a film of flor yeast to form on the surface of the wine in the butt. The flor feeds on the wine, seals it from the air and shapes it over several years of ageing in a solera, where casks of different ages are blended by successive fractional transfers so that the finished wine is always a continuous average of what came before. Jerez's damp Atlantic air keeps the flor alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe properly cold, at around 7 degrees, in a decent-sized glass with olives, almonds, jamón or fried fish, and treat an opened bottle as a white wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Palomino \/ Jerez \/ Lustau","offer_id":44031279267899,"sku":"LUSFDP23506","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/lustau-en-rama-fino-del-puerto-500ml-2022.png?v=1787318275"},{"product_id":"grappa-di-bolgheri-sassicaia-500ml-nv","title":"Grappa di Bolgheri Sassicaia 500mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrappa di Bolgheri Sassicaia is an Italian grape spirit distilled from the pomace of one of the country's most famous wines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrappa is made not from wine but from vinaccia, the skins, pips and stems left behind after pressing, which are distilled and traditionally taken at the end of a meal; the name is legally protected and the spirit must be produced in Italy from Italian pomace. This bottling is drawn from the pomace of Sassicaia, the Cabernet based wine made at Tenuta San Guido on the Tuscan coast at Bolgheri, the wine that created the Super Tuscan category in the 1970s and eventually earned Bolgheri its own denomination. As with all serious grappa, distillation follows soon after harvest while the pomace is still fresh, rather than after long storage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe in a small glass at cool room temperature after dinner, or alongside espresso in the Italian fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Burgundy has grown blackcurrants commercially since the nineteenth century, and the Noir de Bourgogne variety, with its small, dark berries, is the one growers there prize. The drink owes its fame to Canon Félix Kir, mayor of Dijon after the Second World War, who served white Burgundy topped with cassis at civic receptions and lent the aperitif his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTraditionally mixed with dry white wine, Aligoté for a proper kir, or with sparkling wine for a kir royal; it also works simply over ice or with soda. And it is best kept refrigerated once opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Liqueur \/ Burgundy \/ Negociants Imported Other","offer_id":44031654690875,"sku":"PHICDC706","price":58.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/philippe-de-bourgogne-creme-de-cassis-700ml-nv.png?v=1787318368"},{"product_id":"torres-jaime-1-gift-box-700ml-nv","title":"Torres Jaime 1 Gift Box 700mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eTorres Jaime 1 Gift Box is the top brandy in the Torres range, distilled in Catalonia and presented in a gift carton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Torres family, based at Vilafranca del Penedès since 1870, has distilled brandy for almost as long as it has made wine, working from base wine made with Parellada, the white grape that also underpins much of Catalan sparkling wine. The spirit is distilled in copper pot stills and then matured by the solera method, in which barrels are arranged in tiers and a portion is drawn from the oldest for bottling and replaced from the tier above, so that every bottle carries a fraction of much older spirit. Jaime I sits at the summit of that system and is named for King James I of Aragon, the thirteenth century monarch who looms large in Catalan history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBest served neat at room temperature in a tulip glass after dinner, with coffee or dark chocolate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Parellada \/ Catalonia \/ Torres","offer_id":44031713706043,"sku":"TORJAM6","price":176.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/torres-jaime-1-gift-box-700ml-nv.png?v=1787318545"},{"product_id":"valdespino-contrabandista-amontillado-sherry-gift-box-nv","title":"Valdespino Contrabandista Amontillado Sherry Gift Box NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino Contrabandista Amontillado Sherry Gift Box is a medium style Amontillado from Jerez, from one of the oldest houses in the sherry trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn Amontillado begins life as a fino, ageing under the layer of flor yeast that grows on the surface of the wine in cask; when the flor dies away, the wine is left in contact with air and continues to mature oxidatively, and it is that double life that separates it from both fino and oloroso. Valdespino has been in Jerez since the fifteenth century by its own account and is one of the few houses to have kept the slower, older ways of working, including patient ageing through the solera, in which wine is drawn from the oldest scale of casks and replaced from younger ones so that no single year stands alone. Contrabandista is finished with a measure of Pedro Ximénez, which brings it into the medium category.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe lightly chilled, at 12 to 14°C, with cured ham, almonds, hard cheese or mushroom dishes; presented here in a gift box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Palomino fino \/ Pedro Ximenez \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031784419387,"sku":"VALCON6GB","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-contrabandista-amontillado-sherry-gift-box-nv.png?v=1787318546"},{"product_id":"valdespino-inocente-fino-375ml-nv","title":"Valdespino Inocente Fino 375mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino Inocente Fino is one of the very few single vineyard sherries made, and one of the last finos still fermented in cask.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine comes from Macharnudo Alto, a high pago north of Jerez whose chalk white albariza soils are among the most highly rated in the region, and the Palomino Fino is grown there rather than blended from across the zone. Valdespino, a Jerez house whose origins are traditionally traced to the fifteenth century, ferments Inocente in old oak butts rather than stainless steel, a practice almost every other bodega abandoned decades ago, then ages it biologically under flor through a long solera. The flor consumes oxygen and alcohol in the cask and shields the wine from air, which is what keeps a fino pale and dry, and it must be fed by regular refreshment from younger casks to stay alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe properly cold, at 7 to 9°C, in a white wine glass with olives, almonds, jamón or fried fish, and treat an opened bottle like a fresh white and finish it within a few days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Palomino Fino \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031784550459,"sku":"VALINF3712","price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-inocente-fino-375ml-nv.png?v=1787318543"},{"product_id":"valdespino-pedro-ximenez-el-candado-nv","title":"Valdespino Pedro Ximénez El Candado NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino Pedro Ximénez El Candado is a sweet sherry from Jerez, sold with the small padlock on the neck that gives it its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePedro Ximénez is made by laying the picked grapes out in the sun until they shrivel, concentrating the sugar to a point at which fermentation can barely begin; the must is fortified early and then aged in a solera, where wine passes through a series of casks over many years and the oldest scale is never fully emptied. The result is among the sweetest wines made anywhere, carrying several times the sugar of a conventional dessert wine. Valdespino is one of the oldest bodegas in Jerez, with a history traditionally traced to the fifteenth century, and has stayed with long cask ageing rather than the shortcuts available to a modern producer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe cool, at around 13°C, in a small glass with chocolate, blue cheese or dried fruit, or poured over vanilla ice cream; the sugar preserves an opened bottle for months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031795724347,"sku":"VALPEC6","price":46.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-pedro-ximenez-el-candado-nv.png?v=1787318544"},{"product_id":"valdespino-pedro-ximenez-el-candado-375ml-nv","title":"Valdespino Pedro Ximénez El Candado 375mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino Pedro Ximénez El Candado is a sweet sherry from Jerez, sold with the small padlock on the neck that gives it its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePedro Ximénez is made by laying the picked grapes out in the sun until they shrivel, concentrating the sugar to a point at which fermentation can barely begin; the must is fortified early and then aged in a solera, where wine passes through a series of casks over many years and the oldest scale is never fully emptied. The result is among the sweetest wines made anywhere, carrying several times the sugar of a conventional dessert wine. Valdespino is one of the oldest bodegas in Jerez, with a history traditionally traced to the fifteenth century, and has stayed with long cask ageing rather than the shortcuts available to a modern producer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe cool, at around 13°C, in a small glass with chocolate, blue cheese or dried fruit, or poured over vanilla ice cream; the sugar preserves an opened bottle for months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Valdespino is one of the historic bodegas of Jerez, with a lineage traditionally traced to the fifteenth century, and has held to long cask ageing. Sherry of this kind is bottled when the bodega judges it ready rather than according to a vintage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe at around 13°C in a small glass with chocolate desserts, blue cheese or dried fruit, or over ice cream; an opened bottle will keep for months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Sherry \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031796445243,"sku":"VALPEX6","price":31.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-pedro-ximenez-yellow-label-nv.png?v=1787318543"},{"product_id":"valdespino-vos-medium-oloroso-solera-500ml-nv","title":"Valdespino VOS Medium Oloroso Solera 500mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003eValdespino VOS Medium Oloroso Solera is an aged, lightly sweetened oloroso from Jerez carrying one of the region's certified age designations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVOS stands for Vinum Optimum Signatum, a category the Consejo Regulador awards only to sherries whose average age has been verified at more than twenty years; the tasting panels and laboratory analysis involved mean relatively few wines carry it. An oloroso is fortified high enough that the flor yeast never forms, so it spends its whole life in contact with air and concentrates slowly in cask as water evaporates through the wood. A medium oloroso is one adjusted before bottling with a measure of sweet wine, usually Pedro Ximénez. Valdespino is among the oldest houses in Jerez and holds some of the region's deepest reserves of very old soleras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe at 13 to 14°C in a small glass with game, oxtail, aged cheese or roasted nuts; and it will keep for some weeks once opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. If you are after a specific vintage, please contact us prior to ordering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DiVino.com.au","offers":[{"title":"Palomino Fino \/ Pedro Ximenez \/ Jerez \/ Valdespino","offer_id":44031796641851,"sku":"VALSOL506","price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0823\/1483\/files\/valdespino-vos-medium-oloroso-solera-500ml-nv.png?v=1787318541"},{"product_id":"poli-distillerie-aperitivo-veneto-airone-rosso-700ml-nv","title":"Poli Distillerie Aperitivo Veneto 'Airone Rosso' 700mL NV","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoli Distillerie Aperitivo Veneto 'Airone Rosso' is a red bitter aperitivo from a family distillery in the Veneto foothills.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Poli family have been distilling at Schiavon, below Bassano del Grappa in the Veneto, since 1898, and are now in their fourth generation. They are best known for grappa, and for the small copper stills they use, but the range also takes in gin, amaro and aperitivi drawn from the same Venetian drinking tradition. Airone Rosso belongs to that last group, an aperitivo built on an infusion of herbs, roots and citrus peel in the northern Italian style, made for mixing rather than sipping neat. The family also run the Poli Grappa Museum at Bassano del Grappa, a free museum devoted to the history of distillation in the region, which says something about how seriously they take the craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe well chilled over ice with soda or sparkling wine as a spritz, or use it in place of any red bitter in a cocktail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Grappa is made not from wine but from vinaccia, the skins, pips and stems left behind after pressing, a by product turned spirit in its own right. Poli work with small copper stills heated by steam, distilling in batches so that each variety keeps its own character. The Cleopatra range is the distillery's presentation line, sold in a distinctive bottle, and the Moscato Oro is aged in wood, which is what the word oro signals on the label. Moscato pomace comes from the same grape that gives Asti its wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe at around 16 to 18 degrees in a small tulip glass after a meal, or alongside dessert and coffee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Torcolato is made at Breganze, a short distance from the distillery, from Vespaiola grapes that are picked and then hung to dry until December, which is where this grappa takes its name. The bunches were traditionally twisted onto cords, and the word torcolato comes from that twisting. Because the grapes lose so much water before pressing, the pomace left behind is unusually concentrated, and very little of it exists in any year. Poli distil it in small copper stills heated by steam, working in batches so that the character of the raw material carries through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe at about 16 to 18 degrees in a small tulip glass after dinner, with dessert or on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Otima arrived at the end of the 1990s with a clear flat bottle and a lighter presentation, but the wine inside follows the old method exactly: a blend of casks left to age slowly in seasoned oak pipes in the lodges at Vila Nova de Gaia, where the cooler river air suits long oxidative maturation. Twenty years is a considerable average age, and the blend is assembled and bottled ready for the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eServe chilled at around 12 degrees with dried fruit, walnuts, hard cheeses or crème brûlée; it keeps for weeks after opening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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Quinta da Cavadinha lies in the Rio Pinhão valley in the Cima Corgo, on high, cool ground that ripens later than the Douro floor, and it has been the backbone of the Warre's style since the family acquired it. Single quinta ports of this kind are made in good years when a full vintage is not declared, from the fruit of one property alone. The wine is bottled unfiltered after around two years in cask and matures in bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDecant carefully off the sediment and serve at about 16 degrees with hard cheeses, walnuts or dark chocolate; it will continue to develop for decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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The word traditional matters here: the wine spends around four to six years in cask, is bottled without filtration or fining, and is then given further age in bottle before release, so it throws a deposit and behaves much as a vintage port does. Most modern LBVs are filtered and made to be poured straight from the bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDecant off the sediment and serve at around 16 degrees with Stilton, walnuts or dark chocolate; unopened bottles will keep and improve for a decade or more in a cool cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is accurate; however, variations can occur. 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