Red Wine

Red and black fruits, intense and ethereal bouquet of vanilla, full, firm but velvety flavours with a fine lingering aftertaste of liquorice and ripe red fruits.

Intense sense of terroir on this, from the gnarly old Grenache bush vines - 65 years old plus and not irrigated. Wafts of hot earth and cigar, ripe but bruised fruit, evolved, no new oak apparent An affordable classic from this epic estate.

Made from a Sangiovese-led blend of 2015, 2016 and 2018 wines, it slips down slightly more easily, with a beautiful fragrance and charm, with the faintest waft of herbs and old wood. We could drink it all night long. It's one of our favourite wines for sharing with friends. We cannot recommend this highly enough. "Succulent, polished fruit in beautiful balance. This is enough to inspire a rash of multi-vintage blends, no? Walter may disapprove of the incursion of those Bordeaux grapes but it's a really lovely drink, grown, presumably, not that far from Tenuta del Trinoro. Very long and nuanced. Beautiful texture and freshness. Lip smacking! How wonderful to find this under £20 a bottle. No prizes for label design but I'd much rather all the effort went into making a lovely (and ready) drink. Not a wine for long keeping. Just drink it. VGV" 17.5/20 Jancis Robinson MW Date tasted 2020-06-25 Drink 2018 - 2025

An intense ruby red colour. Vinous and clean aromas with hints of red berry fruits. Round in the mouth and medium bodied. A well-rounded finish with mellow tannin.

Bright ruby, showing youthful fruit aromatics and light floral notes. Esporao winemakers David Baverstock and Luis Patrao have created a charmingly rustic, tasty, top value red.

A delicious Puglian Primitivo, bursting with aromas of ripe berries and spice. This wine is ruby red in colour with a violet hue. It has intense aromas of red cherries, blackberries and hints of spice and leather. These aromas follow through on to the palate which is rich and velvety with generous tannins and great length.

Vibrant and juicy nose of fresh blackberry with a hint of dark chocolate. The palate is rich and juicy.

Opens with bold aromas of boysenberry, black cherry and a bevy of vanilla nuances. On the palate, this wine is fruit-driven with flavours of pomegranate, black cherry, fresh cranberry and nutmeg.

A stunning wine this vintage from this world-renowned producer. Cuvée “Les Racines” showcases the vineyard parcels surrounding the winery—the origin of the domaine with the oldest vines—with the emphasis on freshness and extravagant cornucopian fruit.

The 2007 Leoville-Barton is more vigorous and fruit-driven than the Langoa, with gorgeous dark berry fruit, wilted rose petals and orange blossom scents that really blossom in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with a sensual, quite rounded opening that belies the structure of this Leoville Barton, armed with black pepper and cedar towards the long finish

Price check Berry Bros £75 One of the finest estates in Burgundy. This is from a single 1.5-hectare plot in the lieu-dit Le Bas de Combe whose location next to Vosne-Romanée is borne out by this wine’s open, lifted bouquet which would be more Vosne than Nuits but for that engaging hint of spice. The oak (50 percent new) is well-integrated and there’s a pleasing roundness to the palate - indeed, this is remarkably complete for such a young wine

The 2009 has the highest percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon (90%) ever included in a Calon-Segur (the rest is Merlot and Petit Verdot). Completely different from its St.-Estephe brethren, it is more backward and structured with a dense purple color, lots of black cherry, black currant, loamy earth, forest floor and spice notes, excruciatingly high levels of tannin, and a wonderful inner core of sweetness and concentration

With its solid tannins, and chunky texture, this is a well-balanced wine. The fruit is ripe, full of freshness, big on generous structure

Reminiscent of a Provençal street market (which I always get from classic Gigondas), it has ultra-fine tannin, excellent concentration and a rocking finish. Drink this beauty through 2029

Freisa is a red grape variety peculiar to Piedmont and in the hands of genius Fabio Alessandria it is deeply coloured, violet and raspberry scented and exquisitely pleasurable.

Only after four years of aging the Barbaresco obtains the title "Riserva". Garnet-coloured wine, in the mouth it reveals its aging in a harmonious and velvety way. It lends itself to a long aging in bottle. Serve at 16-18 ° C It can be tasted with traditional Piedmontese dishes, game, mushrooms and aged cheeses.

Halliday 93/100 "combines heft with restraint and that's its key. Black coal, redcurrant, blackberry, clove... a hearty red wine to sit down and settle in with."

Ever faithful to its roots, Monte Velho is the Alentejo in a glass, coming to represent a benchmark of the region in Portugal and the world over the years. Made by Sandra Alves and chief winemaker David Baverstock, it's fragrant, fruity and deliciously smooth.

A deliciously ripe and generous Douro red made from Tinta Roriz, Touriga Franca & Touriga Nacional. Dried herbs, liquorice, dark berry fruit and a spicy hint of cinnamon with rich and dense character. About 20% of the blend is aged in oak for six months.

The 2009 Gruaud Larose is blended of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon and 32% Merlot. Medium to deep garnet colored, it charges forth with warm black raspberries, crème de cassis and redcurrant jelly notes with touches of potpourri, cigar box, new leather, hoisin and molten chocolate. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is packed with black fruits and savory layers with a firm, grainy texture and seamless freshness lifting the long earth-laced finish.

Alistair Cooper MW Jancisrobinson.com 18.5/20 "Cask samples tasted at the domaine. Foudre sample 1: Nose is crackling with energy. A yeasty dark-fruit core with strawberry, liquorice and mouth-watering freshness. There is minerality here alongside an elegant and beautifully rounded palate. Foudre sample 2: A spice-led nose, with a hint of reduction. Beautiful purity and vibrancy with a fine peppery streak – so much energy and refined tannins. This is already absolutely delicious. Foudre sample 3: Dark chocolate and forest fruits on the nose. Marked firm and fine tannins – this shows real richness and weight as well as beautiful spice."

Alistair Cooper MW Jancisrobinson.com 18.5/20 "Cask samples tasted at the domaine. Foudre sample 1: Nose is crackling with energy. A yeasty dark-fruit core with strawberry, liquorice and mouth-watering freshness. There is minerality here alongside an elegant and beautifully rounded palate. Foudre sample 2: A spice-led nose, with a hint of reduction. Beautiful purity and vibrancy with a fine peppery streak – so much energy and refined tannins. This is already absolutely delicious. Foudre sample 3: Dark chocolate and forest fruits on the nose. Marked firm and fine tannins – this shows real richness and weight as well as beautiful spice."

Jancisrobinson.com 18/20 "Lustrous mid ruby. Pure deep sweet, youthful cherry nose with a hint of black tea leaves and a suggestion of oak. Succulent cherry fruit palate that closes up swiftly. Tangy finish with gorgeous coating tannins. Super-elegant palate weight at 14.5% alcohol, yet plenty of concentration..." vinous.com 95/100 "The 2016 Brunello di Montalcino excites the senses with a wonderfully pure and fruity display of wild strawberries, woodland herbs, wet stone and flowery undergrowth. Both savory and sweet, the textures are like silk, with waves of ripe red fruits and spices which give way to salty minerals, licorice, hints of black tea and a coating of fine tannin. While youthfully structured, there’s a juicy freshness to be found throughout, creating harmonious balance and symmetry that makes the 2016 Lisini so easy to like already. That said, the best is yet to come."

James Suckling 96/100 "Black cherry, walnut, bark and wet earth on the nose. Some mushroom, too. Full-bodied with firm, velvety tannins that are energetic and polished at the same time. Plenty of character at the finish, if a little subdued. Very persistent..." Jancisrobinson.com 17.5/20 "Fermentation in stainless steel and large oak casks. Total skin maceration of 40 days. Aged in French tonneaux of which one-third was new and two-thirds second passage. Lustrous mid ruby. Garden herbs, minerally notes and brooding. Compact, pure and concentrated cherry fruit with bags of chewy tannins. Great length and bite."

Parker 93/100 "...a blend of 70% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacho and 5% each Mazuelo and Graciano, matured in used American oak barrels for six years. It has some toasted character, with ripe fruit, black rather than red, denoting a warm year but more restrained than the Bosconia Reserva from the same vintage. 2009 is a year of ripeness, concentration and tannin; the wines are powerful, but here you see the finesse of Tondonia..."

A nose full of black and red fruit combined with spicy aromas. Very fresh but rounded as well with elegant fruit and acidity. An excellent example of Malbec from the Uco Valley.

From 45 year old vines in Maipú in Mendoza, this is a truly refined example of Pinot Noir with a fresh fruit-driven character. Notes of strawberry, violet and chocolate complement the intense and velvety palate making this a very attractive wine. It is voluptuous and fresh in the mouth with smooth tannins. This wine is straightforward and robust in the palate, with a well-defined character and an expressive aftertaste with a hint of herbs.