Varietal

Red Wine

There’s 1,000’s of red grape varieties grown around the world making a diverse range of wines.

Exploring the red wine world will take you from lighter more elegant wines to brash, bold wines.

There are infinite combinations of different colours, aromas, flavours, and, textures making for a lifelong pleasure fest for your senses.

A dozen varieties make up the majority of the red wines produced. Think Pinot Noir, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, and, Merlot.

Are travels to Italy, Spain, and, France have seen more Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto, Sangiovese, Nerello Mascelese, Grenache, Carignan, and, Tempranillo red wines being poured into our glasses.

The wine world is producing better wines than ever before. In regions where laws permit broad experimentation with growing and making red wines is resulting in rapid evolution and refinement of styles.

In countries like Australia, cooler climate reds are really making a name for themselves.

Gobally, there’s been a welcome shift away for cumbersome, overripe, high alcohol, oaky wines, to red wines made with more restraint and freshness.

Our tip, celebrate the different personalities of each!

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Mencia from Bierzo, Castilla y León

César Márquez ‘El Rapolao’ Mencia 2022

Boldest, most immediately generous of this set of 2022's. Red and blue fruited. Carries through to the palate. Building in the glass. Friendly, so easy to drink. Deceptively, less cerebral than the Pico. Great transparency. Seamless and plenty of fun.Paul Kaan, Wine DecocdedI love the elegant, floral and nuanced nose of the 2022 El Rapolao, sourced from a plot in the coldest part of the village, where the soils are rich in iron and organic matter. It fermented with 25% full clusters

Vintage 2022
$93
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$85ea in any 6+

Mencia from Bierzo, Castilla y León

César Márquez ‘Pico Ferreira’ Mencia 2022

Super expressive, elegant & complex. Nose is complete and intoxicating out of the gate (tasted form a bottle under Coravin for a month). Great drinking flow shape and expression. The tannin and flavour from the stalk work adds interest. Delicacy with refinement. Savoury with licorice and spice playing with  woody herbs, baking spice. Edge of grip that intrigues. Perfumed.  Vibrant with a wonderful core of fruit. Earthy, forest floor & truffles at play. A lot to love here. Paul Kaa

Vintage 2022
$93
$89ea in any 3+
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Sangiovese from Montalcino, Tuscany

Fuligni ‘Ginestreto’ Rosso di Montalcino 2019

Rosso doing it right! Fuligni's 'Ginestreto' is beautifully poised. Ever so devourable this is classic Sangio! Excellent. True to the Fuligni style, perhaps with an extra bit of complexity for the wine at this stage of its life. A wonderful core of fruit. This is more in the mold of a baby Brunello than a playful Rosso. Plush, with fine tannins, generous mid-palate and great length. The build in complexity with layers of intrigue, from earthy almost truffled pops. Long delicious. Plump and vital

Vintage 2019
$95
$92ea in any 3+
$89ea in any 6+

Red Blend from Bramaterra, Alto Piemonte

Antoniotti Bramaterra 2016

The Alto is sharing its gems with us! Antoniotti's Bramaterra is a stunner. A blend of 70% Nebbiolo, 20% Croatina, 7% Vespolina & 3 % Bonarda, it just keeps giving, sniff after sniff offering up something new and special, layered, earthy, savoury, a little pine resin, spice, blue fruits and more. A richness of fruit, that I suspect is fortified by the Coratina and Vespolica, yet freshness rests beautifully in a cradle of suitably edgy Neb tannin that has you salivating for more!If this

Vintage 2016
$95
$91ea in any 3+
$87ea in any 6+

Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

La Ca’ Növa Barbaresco 2021

The 2021 Barbaresco is exquisite. Bright and delineated, with tons of energy, the 2021 bristles with saline-infused energy. Red berry fruit, blood orange, chalk, mint and white pepper lend tons of energy to this deceptively mid-weight, nervy young Barbaresco. Vineyard sites are Ovello, Cole and Loreto.Antonio Galloni, Vinous 94 Points

Vintage 2021
$95
$91ea in any 3+
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Nebbiolo from Serralunga d'Alba, Barolo

Boasso Barolo ‘Margheria’ 2016

Cru Margheria at this price is unheard of! As you climb the Boasso hierarchy the structure builds. Amping up the edge on the tannin with a resinous finish. Yeah, the tannins are old school, the fruit, however, is contempary, fresh, and energetic. Lovely red fruits which like the Commune are made to look a little darker with the Tea and Tar. Definitely a lift in depth and length of fruit. The tannins will need some time to resolve and come into balance. Where the Commune sits fruit vs tannin is a

Vintage 2016
$96
$92ea in any 3+
$88ea in any 6+

Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

Fletcher Barbaresco ‘Recta Pete’ 2021

An Aussie in Piedmont! Dave Fletcher's Barbaresco is turning heads in Australia & Italy! FYI - Recta Pete translates to Shoot Straight. Dave has a deft touch making sophisticated wine with fine bone and a delicious core of fruit. He's quickly established respect in the region through is work making the wine at Cerretto and his efforts establishing his own venture. The wines always show great restraint and harmony.By all accounts Dave's done it again in 2018. Can't wait to get my laughing gea

Vintage 2021
$96
$92ea in any 3+
$88ea in any 6+

Barbera from Monforte d'Alba, Barolo

E. Pira (Chiara Boschis) Barbera d’Alba Superiore 2023

Our Barbera d'Alba Superiore is made from Barbera grapes grown on our own vineyards. These vineyards are planted on Helvetian soil, which lends structure and elegance, enhanced by approximately one year of aging in wood. The color is an intense ruby red, tending towards violet and purple. On the nose, it offers vinous aromas of red and black fruits such as cherry, plum, and blackberry. The palate is full and robust, with a pleasant flavor of typical red and black fruits and a pleasant sensation

Vintage 2023
$96
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$88ea in any 6+

Nebbiolo from Grumello, Valtellina

Ar.Pe.Pe Valtellina Superiore Pettirosso 2022

The Robin has landed! The Pettirosso is a 50:50 blend of Grumello and Sassella fruit. Boldness coming from Grumello and delicacy with fine, mineral traits from Sassella. Try the Superiores from each of the sub-regions and you’ll see these characters. The blend works beautifully. The 2022 had an epic 101 day extended maceration! An excellent stepwise build in complexity depth and length.

Vintage 2022
$96
$92ea in any 3+
$88ea in any 6+
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Sangiovese from Montalcino, Tuscany

L’Aietta Rosso di Montalcino 2022

L'Aietta  Rosso di Montalcino was first produced in 2005 after Francesco began his foray into wine making with his Brunello in 2001.  The wine is produced from a rented parcel in Castelnuovo Dell'Abate, fermented in steel, and raised in Slavonian oak for 1 year.

Vintage 2022
$97
$92ea in any 3+
$87ea in any 6+

Dolcetto from Monforte d'Alba, Barolo

Giuseppe Mascarello Dolcetto d’Alba ‘Vigna Santa Stefano di Perno’ 2021

Bold primary tones of plump cherry and blackberry are delivered to the bouquet of the 2021 Dolcetto d'Alba Vigna Santo Stefano di Perno. This wine is all about freshness, fruitiness and richness. Mauro Mascarello says the 2022 vintage had less volume overall. Production is always lowered in the hottest drought years because the grapes tend to slow down. But 2021 was a quality year for Dolcetto, he says, both in terms of quality and quantity.Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate 92 PointsH

Vintage 2021
$97
$93ea in any 3+
$89ea in any 6+

Mencia from Bierzo, Castilla y León

César Márquez ‘El Rapolao’ Mencia 2023

A lift in perfume. Build in overt whole bunch stalk and spice with a sappy nature. Lined up toward Grenache a little more. A delicacy with a finely weighted palate. Refreshing and thirst-quenching, it draws you in. The palate is much more complete than the nose at the moment. I expect the whole bunch nose to resolve over the coming year to deliver a special wine.Paul Kaan, Wine DecocdedCésar's 2023 El Rapolao was sourced from a centenary plot in the coldest part of the village, wher

Vintage 2023
$97
$93ea in any 3+
$89ea in any 6+

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