Red Wine

100% Carignan from 80 year old vines. Complex floral aromas. On the palate the fruits, such as raspberry and morello cherry, are crunchy and fresh. There is also a very strong stony/mineral feeling. The finish is long and pure. A vibrant wine.

100% Grenache from 120+ year old vines. Complex floral aromas. On the palate the fruits, such as raspberry and morello cherry, are crunchy and fresh. There is also a very strong stony/mineral feeling. The finish is long and pure. A vibrant wine.

The greatest wine of all of the satellite appellations of Bordeaux and often close in quality to the same owner's top Saint Emilion, Le Tertre Roteboeuf. A wine for those "in the know". The blend here is 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Malbec. This is a sumptuous, smooth, creamy wine with a blackberry purée richness. The palate is plump, supple, and silky with touches of exotic Eastern spices from 100% new oak. Forward and approachable, this sexy and voluptuous wine will give great pleasure to hedonists at an early age. Jancis Robinson MW OBE 17.5 Tasted blind. Dark with some evolution at the rim. Really interesting evolution on the nose. Lots of sweet fruit, melded and in a glorious bouquet. Great balance. Dry, rich and powdery tannins on the end but definitely evolved and approachable. Long. Really ready to broach. "If wine is a beverage of pleasure, Roc de Cambes satisfies that requirement impeccably," once wrote Robert Parker. The 2012 is absolutely a pleasure, an overachiever of the vintage, exceptionally concentrated and fully ripe. Winemaker François Mitjavile took a chance and picked the grapes in October for this Bordeaux and it paid off. It’s one of the finest the chateau has ever produced.

"Young, charming, receptive and brimming with energy, Giulia Negri is a self-styled ‘Barologirl’. The latest generation to take the reins of a family estate stretching back 150 years, Giulia is mindful of history but ambitious too. Keen to forge her own path, she looks to other small, maverick producers around the world to glean knowledge and experiment. She is also fortunate to be working with extraordinary vineyards, the highest in Barolo, surrounded by truffle forests – an epicurean utopia."

This is from the lieux-dits Famines, which has the old vines, and Grands Champs, which is just above Famines. You can sense how Paul’s winemaking has worked: there is a lovely, ripe, open entry of pure coulis, but then a tightening of the tannins to pull the wine together.

This is Fiona Leroy's first vintage in Burgundy and what a first showing this is. Fiona approaches winemaking from a 'common sense' standpoint, that means all vineyards are managed organically. Part of the approach chez Fiona Leroy involves manual work and no new oak barrels. These wines are only going to go up in price as people catch on. So enjoy it now at a sensible price.

In recent years this has been stunning value and, even more, a stunning red Burgundy. The 2018 is true to form, a fleshy, layered, old-vine red Burgundy that is both delicious now and also age-worthy. It hails from a single 0.94-hectare parcel of 40-plus-year-old Pinot Noir vines grown on the red clays of Les Grandes Terres (on the Santenay side of the commune). This clay-rich soil type has always produced the finest and plumpest reds of the village.

This is Rioja at its precocious youthful best, with intense raspberry and black cherry fruit overlayed with a flourish of vanilla and coconut from 4 months in American oak. It is beautifully balanced with medium weight and cushioned by fine grain tannins." Ted Sandbach

Barossa Valley winemaker Rolf Binder makes this delicious medium-bodied classic Shiraz exclusively for a band of indepedendent wine merchants. We're determined to shake up the old order and ship great value wines direct from the producer and offer our customers excellence and affordability. We've nailed it with this charmer. Vegan.

Crazy value. Like a handful of cool crushed berries dripping on to granite. Parker 92 "...pretty aromas of blackberries, peonies and subtle forest floor... velvety and enveloping, with lively acids, velvety tannins and a long, mouthwatering finish... a characterful and viscerally drinkable Beaujolais-Villages that exemplifies all the merits—as well as the incredible value—offered by the appellation at its best." "The more I taste Jean-Marc Burgaud's wines, the more I find to admire... A winemaker at the peak of his powers... one of the region's finest values..."

Created in the late 18th century, the Bellefont-Belcier estate is perfectly situated on Saint-Emilion’s south-facing slopes, neighbourhing Château Pavie, Château Larcis-Ducasse and Château Tertre Roteboeuf.Château Bellefont-Belcier originally belonged to a very powerful Bordeaux family: at the end of the 18th century, the Count Louis-François de Belcier had first founded the vineyard then, at the beginning of the 19th century, he built the Château which he named Bellefont Belle Fontaine means ‘beautiful fountain’ and is a reference to the numerous springs hidden on the hillside into which the vines plunge their roots.)Major restructuring work in the vineyard was undertaken in 1994. Château Bellefont-Belcierwas classified in 2006 as a Grand Cru Classé. This second wine has a beautiful and intense purple colour with hints of ruby. Fresh on the nose with notes of red tangy fruit. This wine shows rich aromas of blueberry, redcurrant, jammy prune and ripe blackcurrant. It is silky smooth on the palate and extremely well balanced.

The Guimberteau family has owned the Château Franc-Baudron estate since 1923. This is a vineyard on a human scale where each generation has left its footprint on the family heritage. Since 2010, the new generation of Château Franc-Baudron has embarked on an environmental approach by converting the entire vineyard to organic farming. The area hosts bee-hives, uses plants for treatments (horsetail, nettle and ferns) and seeds flowers to encourage biodiversity of wildlife in the vines. They have begun implementing new winemaking techniques by using minimal inputs to express at its best the nature of the grapes and the type of soil. Most of the family’s plots of Montagne Saint-Emilion are located on a clay-limestone plateau. Bright and intense in colour with aroams of blackcurrant, blackberry and oak notes.Well balanced, powerful and velvety.

90% Tempranillo, 5% Graciano and 5% Garnacha from Rioja, Spain. The wine spends 20 months in a combination of French and American oak barrels. Inviting aromas of ripe black cherry, nice vanilla notes and a touch of balsamic. The wine tastes smooth and round in the mouth with lots of tart black cherry fruit, sweet spice notes, licorice and more vanilla.

"From a .36 ha parcel in Mochamps; 75% from 25+ year old vines and the remainder is from 40+ year old vines** A discreet application of wood frames intensely earthy and somewhat sauvage aromas of violet, tea and spicy black pinot fruit. There is excellent volume to the powerful and muscular yet seductively textured big-bodied flavors that deliver very fine depth on the beautifully long finish. This is a big but not rustic effort though there is an ample amount of youthful austerity present that suggests this is unlikely to drink well without at least 6 to 8 years of bottle age." 91/94 Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (57), January 2015

Old vines, Amarone-style appassimento, tiny yields. Wonderfully extracted, deeply layered and complex. A year in French oak. V. classy. One of our biggest-selling wines. Old vines, Amarone-style appassimento, tiny yields. Wonderfully extracted, deeply layered and complex. A year in French oak. The 'Black Grape of Troy" another southern best. From Decanter "Left on the vine to partially dry, the grapes for this wine were not harvested until early November, giving it a powerful character and rich texture. Dark, liquorice-imbued fruits of the forest aromas alongside menthol and blueberry notes, almost medicinal. It is really rich on the palate with plummy, leathery flavours, macerated black cherries and even a hint of nectarine on the finish. Really gorgeous and complex..."

Domaine Arlaud Moray Saint Denis 2014 is a bit of a fire cracker with dark raspberry fruit, floral notes, violets and a glossy liquorice and bitter chocolate edge. It has great minerality on the palate, lots of energy and fruit purity which makes it an exhilarating glass of wine.

A small family-run bodega near the village of Navarrete, in the heart of Rioja D.O.C., making wines of great integrity and some finesse. It was founded in 1918 and is today run by Antonio Navajas and his wife. This is a big favourite of many of our customers and on a 'value for money' basis it is not hard to understand why.

The Kerruick family bought this small 5 hectare farm near Bendigo at the beginning of the century, originally planting only Pinot Noir. The Estate Pinot Noir has consisitently won plaudits from wine critics since the 2008 vintage, only their second release. The Ballasalla is made for earlier drinking. 100% destemmed Pinot Noir, aged in oak barriques for 6 months. Deep coloured, the wine exhibits dark ripe fruit characters as well as truffle, spice and subtle toasted oak on the palate. A fulsome, structured and well rounded Pinot Noir with a soft acidity and generous mouthfeel

A blend of traditional Douro red grape varieties, led by the perfumed Touriga Nacional, with the addition of 20% Syrah, a variety which Quinta do Noval believes is perfectly suited to the climate and soils of the Douro. The wine is aged for 10 months in French oak barrels, 12 % in new barrels. The nose reveals spicy aromas, followed by chewy flavors of chocolate, and dark plum. A firm acidity on the palate, slightly smoky finish which enhances the purity and the freshness of the fruit.

Aromas of blackcurrant and ripe red fruits. Full and rounded palate with a long lingering finish.

Ruby red colour with violet tints showing its youth. On the nose it is fresh and elegant with characteristic aromas of cherry and red fruits typical of this variety. Light, harmonic and round on the palate with soft tannins.

Asti is the next place along from Alba. This cheeky red is all Barbera should be: vital, cherry-red, bright, lifted, cool and crunchy. Shouts Piedmont loud and clear. Lovely chilled, with salads, with tomato sauces, and tomatoes, herbs, pepper steak. Truly epic value from this super grower.

Jonathan Livingstone Learmonth "this is solid Value: has a shiny, bright dark red, jolie robe. The nose is sweet-noted, a good pile of cherries in the frame, with salt clarity, licorice, good life overall. This is direct, off we go: solo drinking right on the agenda here, thanks to a burst of live black fruits, some good, fresh lift. It is quite flashy, suited to a crowded bar and noise. The fruit is exuberant"