View Drinkfinder's extensive range of red, white, sparkling and fortified wines from all around the world, all available to order online and delivered direct to your door. We stock wines for every occasion, or to complement any type of food, with over 700 varieties to choose from. If you are not sure what to buy, try some of our recommended wines or browse our gift selection for a perfect present idea.
Our collection of Champagne available to buy online include vintage Champagne, non- vintage Champagne and rose Champagne. Other Sparkling wines from around the globe include Prosecco from Italy, Cava from Spain, Cremant from France and Sparkling Shiraz from Australia.
We know our whisky! From single and blended whisky to grain and rye whisky, we stock over 1000 varieties of whisky, available to buy online. Our range includes whiskies such as Glenmorangie, Glenfiddich, Macallan, Glenrothes and more popular brands such as Jack Daniels and Jameson Irish Whiskey. We stock American, Japanese or Swedish whisky, and for the whisky connoisseurs there is always something new to discover at Drinkfinder, we will keep you up to date with the latest whiskies to the market and rare whiskies for your collection.
Drinkfinder stock a delicious range of Brandy, Armagnac, Cognac or Calvados made from apples and or pears, all ready to buy online and delivered nationwide. We can supply rare and collectible fine brandies or if you are looking for a special gift a bottle of fine brandy or Cognac can be gift boxed and sent direct to a loved one.
Rum is made from sugar cane, either the raw juice Rhum Agricole or from molasses and comes from many parts of the tropical and sub-tropical world including Central and South America, Australia, India, Mauritius, Hawaii and, of course, the Caribbean. Our range includes many varities of dark, light, spiced and white rum and some of the more well known flavoured rums.
From well known spirit brands like Gordons Gin and Absolute Vodka to more unusual spirits from around the world like Schnapps and Grappa, Drinkfinder have the largest selection of spirits available to buy online.
Everything you could need to make a delicious cocktail you will find right here at Drinkfinder. Buy online all your essential spirits, cocktail mixers and syrups as well as a selection of ready mixed cocktails - just add ice and enjoy!
Our beer offering is focused on Cornish quality ales. In the past decade there has been a huge increase in number of boutique breweries in Cornwall all producing award winning ales. Skinner’s and Sharp’s are producing some memorable beers with names like ‘Doombar, Chalkies Bite (produced with help from Rick Stein), Knocker, Betty Stoggs, to name but a few. St Austell Brewery has made some fantastic beers in recent years scooping awards nationally and internationally. We also have a collection from smaller brewers such as Penpont and the very fine Lizard Ales.
For a great gift idea send a case of wine, a rare whisky or an expensive bottle of champagne! The Drinkfinder gift range includes gift sets, special editions and presentation boxes or why not select a case of wine and choose the varieties yourself and we will make sure it is gift boxed with a personal message. Ideal for large orders or as corporate gifts for co workers and clients.
We are holding a tasting of over 150 different wines, whisky, rums, liqueurs and other spirits.
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Some Young Punks epitomise the best of New Australia. The punks consist of Col McBryde (voted Australia’s Young Gun Winemaker of the Year), Jen Gardner (self confessed nerdy yeast expert) and thirdly Nic Bourke. Like most amongst the new breed of interesting, young winemakers in Australia they aren’t moved by porty Shiraz and seeks instead a sense of place and restraint the wines, influenced by the best of the Old World and the New. Col McBryde is as unimpressed by flash-in-the-pan medal-winners that are short on provenance as he is by being hide-bound to the Old World, and carves his own niche. Yet being media savvy and having a sense of humour allows this ironically quietly-spoken but earnest bunch to market themselves outrageously and to bring a fresh approach to labelling. Expect to see increasingly alarming label sported by increasingly interesting and wholly unique wines.
We have added two new wines from the punks ‘Fierce Allure Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 (only 482 cases) - produced from a single vineyard in Maclaren vale and Lust Collides Mataro 2009 - Dark, savoury and seductive Mataro. Wonderfully textured, layered with dark fruits, a spark in the mid-palate and a smooth, soft (only 524 cases)
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Vermouth is a fortified wine, flavored with aromatic herbs and spices (“aromatized” in the trade) such as cardamom, cinnamon, marjoram and chamomile.[1] Some vermouth is sweetened; unsweetened, or “dry” vermouth tends to be bitter. The person credited with inventing the vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction “vermouth” in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavoured with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.
Today popular brands are Noilly Prat, Dolin, Lillet, Dubonnet, Martini and Cinzano.
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Sherry is a fortified wine, produced in the southern tip of Spain. The demarcated area around the towns of Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María in Andalucia, forms the Denominaciónes de Origen of Jerez-Xérèz-Sherry and Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
How is it Made?
The grapes are harvested, pressed and fermented. The lagriña, or free run juice of grapes from the albariza soils, is invariably used for finos and other musts and the remainder of the press tends to be made into oloroso. PX and moscatel grapes are partially air-dried before fermenting and the wines remain naturally sweet. Classification of the light wines follows for the next six months or so. The classification produces the following wine types:
Wines that are delicate with fine flavours and aroma—suitable for fino and amontillado—fortified to 15 %
Wines that are richer and fuller-bodied—ideal for oloroso— fortified to 17.5 %
Wines that will be allowed to develop before classifying— fortified to 15%
Wines unsuitable for sherry—to be sent for distillation
The sherry is then transferred to 500–600 litre American oak butts. These are filled to 5/6 ths capacity or two-fists from the top ; and will either grow the flor (those with 15 % fortification) and become finos or begin to age oxidatively (those fortified to above 17 %) and become olorosos.
The fortifying alcohol is a blend of 50 % high-strength brandy at 95.5 % abv and 50 % wine at 12 % abv and is known as mitad y mitad, or half and half, giving an average of about 54 % abv. At this first stage the wines are called sobretablas, and can now be used to refill the solera.
The solera system is used to age almost all sherry. The system is comprised of as many rows, criaderas, as the ageing sherry requires—but each individual set of barrels is rarely stacked higher than four on top of one another—and the wine flows down through the scales into one final layer, the solera. Less than 30 % of the solera wine may be siphoned off for blending and bottling in any year. On occasion, wines destined to be oloroso are left as sobretablas and these are known as añada wines, unblended wines of one year.
Thus, the new refreshes the old (and with finos, breathes new life into the older flor) and the old gives character to the new. In this way consistency is achieved and an harmonious balance is created between the structural complexity of age and the freshness and vibrancy brought about by youth.
Sherry Maturation and Development
It is easiest to illustrate the evolution of sherry by describing what it becomes. Wine that grows flor becomes a fino or manzanilla, these age under flor for up to 10-12 years, but can be sold as young as three years old.
Fino A wine that must have experienced flor keeping it pale, delicate and fine. A dry, fresh, aperitif wine with hints of almonds. An ideal accompaniment to fish dishes, olives or on its own. As it ages it becomes softer and can lose its flor, becoming an amontillado.
Manzanilla - A fino aged in the seaside town of Sanlúcar de Barrameda. The cooler summer days here promote greater flor growth resulting in wines of even greater finesse and delicacy although less complexity. Lighter and drier than finos these wines quite often pick up a salty tang from the sea air. Older manzanilla becomes a pasada—literally leftovers.
Amontillado - In its true form it is bone dry ; essentially a very old fino or manzanilla. After about a decade the flor dies and the wine subsequently interacts with oxygen gaining colour and a nutty complexity on the palate. Amontillado can live for many decades.
Palo Cortado – A wine that starts off life as a fino but inexplicably loses its flor and develops like an oloroso. The transvestite of the sherry world, this wine combines the elegance of amontillado with the full-body and subtlety of an oloroso ; can age for many years developing great power and persistency.
Wine that has never seen flor is designated either oloroso or raya (inferior) often the basis for blended sherries.
Oloroso – The true oloroso reacts with the oxygen from day one and develops into a big, full-bodied, rich wine with notes of dried fruit and nuts.
Pale Cream – A light, sweetish wine made from lower quality finos and rayas. Normally decoloured to look more attractive.
Medium – A blend of sweetened rayas with the colour and body of amontillado or oloroso, often labelled as such.
Cream – A blend of sweetened olorosos with or without colour ; many of these have great balance and a velvety palate with a touch of PX flavour.
Pedro Ximénez & Moscatel Sherry’s only naturally sweet wines made by sun-drying the grapes thus concentrating the sugars, flavouring elements and acids. The resulting high-sugar level is simply too much for the yeast, which after partially fermenting the must dies, leaving high levels of residual sugar. These wines are then fortified and aged in solera in the usual fashion producing amazing, rich, unctuous, molasses-like wines of great intensity.
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Port is a sweet fortified wine from the Douro Valley in northern Portugal; the Douro River runs from west to east, from Oporto on the Atlantic Coast through to Spain. Only 40 % of all the wines in the region may be made into port each year, with the governing body, the Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto (IVDP), decreeing each vineyard’s annual production limits.
Port Maturation
Port lends itself to ageing, both in wood and bottle, producing a number of differing styles within the closely defined IVP system. The IVP allows for three different types of port wine according to how it has been aged : ruby, tawny and white.
Ruby Ports
Basic Ruby -A blend of young wines generally aged in barrel or vat for two to three years. Reserve Ruby Usually grapes from better vineyards with perhaps four to six years of age in wood. These wines normally have brand names avoiding any use of the word ruby. These included Cockburns special reserve, Krohn Rio Torto and Warres Warrior
(Filtered) Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) Wine of a single year, cask aged for four to six years; subsequently chill filtered, stabilised and bottled with a stopper cork. Such as Grahams and Taylors ports.
(Unfiltered) Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) Very high- quality wine of a single year given a minimum of four years and a maximum of six years in cask. Bottled without fining or filtration and with a driven cork; it will continue to improve in bottle for up to a decade and will throw a sediment or crust. Popular unfiltered LBV ports are Krohn, Niepoort, Noval, Warres Traditional, Crusted Essentially a blend of un-bottled vintage wines, the eldest of which will be about four years old. Cannot be released until it has had three full years in bottle and will continue to develop for up to 15 years. Lighter and ready to drink earlier than vintage ports these wines represent tremendous value. Grahams produce a very good crusted style Port.
Vintage Declared only in exceptional years (three to four times a decade) achieving perfect balance in excellent growing conditions. A blend of fine wines from the best quintas, given two years in cask and bottled without fining or filtration ; can require 15–25 years ageing. Some of the most sort after vintage ports are Taylors, Grahams, Fonseca, Noval Nacional, Warres and Dows. Excellent vintages are 1963, 1966, 1970, 1977 1983, 1985, 1991, 1994, 2003, 2007
Quinta/Branded Vintage As a vintage from one estate or in the case of the brands, two or more. These wines are normally somewhat lighter than a full vintage, can be produced every year and will develop well in bottle.
Tawny Ports
Simple Tawny Can be a blend of white and ruby or lesser wines that have been aged in cask. Tawny with an age st atement Aged in cask for at least seven years so it develops soft, silky characteristics. Can be labelled as Reserve, 10yo, 20yo, 30yo, or 40yo. These are made from very high-quality wines that have been set aside in undeclared years. The age does not always indicate the youngest wine in the blend, but indicates an average as many of these wines are regularly refreshed.
Colheita – A wine of a single vintage, aged in cask and not bottled until it is at least eight years old ; essentially a vintage tawny.
White Port
White From gouveio (verdelho) and malvasia fina grapes ; white ports are generally fermented drier than the reds and are about three years old, although age statements are not allowed. The wines vary in style depending on the length of ageing and can be as low as 16.5 % in alcohol.
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Abrazo de Toro is a project created by Axial, that we sell at present in the U.S.A. Their is enormous potential for the wines of Cariñena. The grape variety Garnacha has its origin in the region of Aragón, with a long tradition in the culture of wine elaboration that goes back to the Roman times.Founded in 1942 is managed by a good, young team. Covinca S. Coop. is supplied by 700 associated grape growers which own 3.000 hectares of vineyards.
Covinca S. Coop. disposes of 9.000 square meters to make wines with state of the art equipment such as stainless steel tanks with temperature control, pneumatic presses, and horizontal destalkers, a high tech bottle line with a capacity of 5.000 bottles per hour under the strictest hygienic conditions and a 1000 m2 warehouse for the finished goods.
D.O. Cariñena it is located at 46 km from Zaragoza in North Central Spain. The main grape varieties in the D.O. Cariñena are Garnacha (as it’s its birthplace) and Cariñena for red and rosé wines and Macabeo for white wines.
At the present time Covinca S. Coop. has new plantations of Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
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