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 ‘Pico Ferreira’ Mencia 2023

Savoury, earthy, bolder, slightly richer iteration, admittedly starting from an elegant base across the range. Ripper more even tannin profiles still showing the whole bunch factor that will need time to settle. More expressive yet still needing a few years to settle. Raspberry liquorice. Layers of perfume. Paul Kaan, Wine DecocdedThe 2023 Pico Ferreira comes from a lieu-dit in the village of Corullón, a northwest-facing, shady slope planted with centenary vines on slate soils. It

Vintage 2023
$97
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$89ea in any 6+

Sangiovese from Greve UGA, Chianti Classico

Fontodi Chiant Classico 2019

The thirst-quenching nature combined with great intensity and personality draws you in!  More elegance than 18 looking good. Refined fun. With lovely red fruits, earthy, savoury with a little herbal pop. Pretty bloody serious Sangiovese for the coin. A very clever layer of oak in this. Complex with fine tannins with a slight build to mid-palate that’s going to work beautifully with loads of food. This should be very interesting with 5-10 years of age on it.

Vintage 2019
$99
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$91ea in any 6+

Pinot Noir from Savigny-lès-Beaune, Côte du Beaune

Domaine Jean Marc & Hugues Pavelot Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru ‘La Dominode’ HALF 2019

Pavelot's Top wine rates as one of the few remaining bargains in Burgundy! The 2019 is on the edge of the next phase of life, still incredibly youthful, a hint of secondary character is sneaking through. As seems always to be the case with Pavelot's top 1er Cru 'La Dominode' it hold a wonderful balance between ripeness, energy and vitality, subtle well handled oak balancing the sunshine the village of Savigny typically offers. Opulent and plush, mulberries play with a fine line of spice. A clea

Vintage 2019 375ml
$99
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$91ea in any 6+

Dolcetto from Monforte d'Alba, Barolo

Giuseppe Mascarello Dolcetto d’Alba ‘Vigna Santa Stefano di Perno’ 2022

Reduced on opening take 3 days to pop out of it's shell and reveal it's full potential. A richer Dolcetto without being over-blown. Plenty of vibrant, energy to the fruit and fine tannin. You just need to be patient and coax it out over a few days.**PREVIOUS VINTAGE** 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 2

Vintage 2022
$99
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$91ea in any 6+
Yabby Lake Block 6 Pinot Noir 2015
Cellar it for a couple of years!

Pinot Noir from Mornington, Victoria

Yabby Lake Block 6 Pinot Noir 2015

Brooding with Sour Cherry and Dark Fruit. Kinda the child to Block 1 and Block 2 It's got some edgy tannin and extraction on one hand from the Pommard clone of Pinot. On the other it's got concentration and oppulence from the MV6 clone. Really want to see this wine in another 12-24 months.

Vintage 2015
$100
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Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

La Ca’ Növa Barbaresco 2022

The 2022 Barbaresco is superb. Deep and layered, the 2022 offers an explosion of red-toned Nebbiolo fruit intermingled with floral and spice overtones. This succulent, generous Barbaresco will be easy to drink and enjoy on release. Like all the 2022s here, the Barbaresco is open-knit and also impeccably balanced. Vineyard sites are Ovello, Cole and Loreto.Antonio Galloni, Vinous 91 Points

Vintage 2021
$100
$96ea in any 3+
$92ea in any 6+

Barbera from Neive, Barbaresco

Bruno Giacosa Barbera d’Alba Casa Vinicola 2022

One of Italy’s great value red wines, the Barbera d’Alba ‘Casa Vinicola’ is an expression of Barbera fruit sourced from around the Barolo and Barbaresco sub-regions. This is one of the longest standing labels in Giacosa’s stable having first been produced in 1969, just after the first Barolos and Barbarescos of the mid-60’s. These days it is a refreshing red that shows the ripe red berries of great Barberas from Alba, alongside notably sinewy tannins and a good mineral core.

Vintage 2022
$101
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$91ea in any 6+

Gamay Noir from Morgon, Beaujolais

Jean-Marc Burgaud Morgon Côte du Py ‘Javernieres’ 2018

I thought Bouland, Thivin & Foillard were good! Judging by the not so 'standard' Côte du Py and the 'James' from 2018, this will be stunning.The cuvée Javernières is produced from a 0.5 hectares parcel with clay soils, it will charm you with its elegance, finesse. It makes for a fascinating comparison with the James, a blend of several of the domain greatest terroirs, that develops serious complexity with age. Burgaud's 2018 Morgon Côte du Py Javernières is showing beautifully, unfurli

Vintage 2018
$102
$97ea in any 3+
$92ea in any 6+

Red Blend from Ribeiras do Sil, Ribeira Sacra

Guímaro Ribeira Sacra ‘San Pedro’ Mencia 2020

Guímaro’s wines draw you in. At this level, they move well beyond and above the playful, juby, joven styles. Complex, savoury, layered with sophisticated tannins all of Guímaro's top wines show a deft hand in élévage to elicit the personality of the fruit from which they are made.There's a build in weight and richness here over the Miño river sibling to this wine.The San Pedro has a beautiful acid balance. Savoury salami, spiced, energy and freshness, super complex. Harmonise

Vintage 2020
$102
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Pinot Noir from Gevrey-Chambertin, Côte-de-Nuits

Domaine Trapet Père et Fils Bourgogne Rouge 2022

Sourced from vineyards immediately next to the Gevrey-Champertin AOCUltra-fresh aromas of red pinot fruit, spice and more discreet earth nuances lead to equally delicious and more finely textured middleweight flavors that possess notably better volume on the better balanced and sneaky long finish. This is quite good for what it is and worth checking out.Allen Meadows, Burghound 87 PointsThe 2022 Bourgogne Rouge delivers notes of cherries, plums, smoke and loamy soil, fol

Vintage 2022
$102
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Nebbiolo from Sassella, Valtellina

Sandro Fay Valtellina Superiore Sassella ‘Il Glicine’ 2021

The first time we've had Sandro Fay's wine from the Sassella sub-zone of Valtellina and it's a ripper. A step up from the Valgella appropriately reflected in the price difference. Longer and with more mid-palate depth it shows excellent flow and shape. The pure, fine acid and long sophisticated tannins make for an equally refreshing drop. Darker sour cherry fruit laced with slate, spice and lick of that alpine thing doing on. Great transparency. Loads of joy to be had with this pleasure festa!

Vintage 2021
$104
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Shiraz/Syrah from Cornas, Northern Rhône

Auguste Clape “Le Vin des Amis” 2019

The least expensive, but still ageworthy, wine is the Le Vin des Amis, a blend of young-vine Cornas and Syrah grown just south of the village.

Vintage 2019
$105
$101ea in any 3+
$97ea in any 6+

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