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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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Domaine Armand Rousseau Grand Cru ‘Clos de Bèze’ 1999

Pinot Noir | Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy

Price on Application – Contact us.Full ruby-red. Extraordinarily perfumed, profound nose combines tangy black raspberry, rose petal, coffee and game; essence of Cote de Nuits pinot noir. Lush, sweet and seamless; wonderfully silky and aromatic in the mouth. Truly palate-staining wine, with compelling sweetness and smooth, thoroughly buffered tannins.Stephen Tanzer, Vinous 94+ Points Tasted Mar 2002The medium to dark ruby-colored 1999 Chambertin Clos de Beze has a beguiling

Domaine Armand Rousseau Grand Cru ‘Mazy-Chambertin’ 2002

Pinot Noir | Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy

Price on Application – Contact us.There is a slightly cloudy aspect to the appearance. This has begun to turn secondary with overtly earthy and sauvage characters to the perfumed and pure aromas that lead to rich, punchy, intense and tautly muscular flavors that exude a fine minerality on the utterly delicious, balanced and long if robustl finish where a hint of wood surfaces. I have had two very different experiences with this wine as one bottle seemed relatively light and almost rea

Domaine Armand Rousseau Grand Cru ‘Clos de la Roche’ 1999

Pinot Noir | Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy

Price on Application – Contact us.An exceptionally pretty, even perfumed nose is still relatively primary with its combination of various red berries, earth and soft earth and leather nuances. There is excellent size and weight to the seductively rich but overtly powerful big-bodied flavors that deliver outstanding length where the only minor nit is a touch of warmth. This remains notably robust and will need at least another 5 to 10 years to arrive at its full peak. In a word, impres

Domaine Armand Rousseau Grand Cru ‘Clos de la Roche’ 2002

Pinot Noir | Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy

Price on Application – Contact us.Like night and day between this and the Mazis as here there is much more weight, size, earth and power with a much firmer tannic spine plus an edgier, more complex finish. This is still a bit awkward but it should benefit from another 6 months in cask. This too could be the best Rousseau Clos de la Roche in several vintages.Allen Meadows, Burghound 89-92 Points Tasted Jan 2004 Drink: Try from 2008-2017The 2002 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru ha
Price on Application – Contact us.Initially this opens with just enough reduction to push the fruit to the background so if you're going to try a bottle anytime soon I would strongly suggest decanting it first. Once the reduction clears off there are airy and cool notes of Asian-style green tea, truffle and an array of red berry fruit scents. The intense and intensely mineral-driven middle weight flavors display excellent vibrancy on the beautifully long if ever-so-slightly edgy and y

Domaine Armand Rousseau Grand Cru ‘Charmes-Chambertin’ 2002

Pinot Noir | Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy

Price on Application – Contact us.This too is very forward and pretty but there's more depth and structure than usual. The medium weight flavors are very supple, ripe and nicely elegant with mouth coating sap and relatively pliant tannins. There is better finishing intensity than usual and this is the best vintage of this wine than I've seen in a while.< Allen Meadows, Burghound 88-91 Points Tasted Jan 2004Palish medium red. Light, lively aromas of red fruits and rose peta
Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Noir 2022
Fanco's done it again!

Hoddles Creek Estate Pinot Noir 2022

Pinot Noir | Yarra Valley, Australia

You'd be hard pressed to fined a better value Pinot than this! Cherry, plum, baking spice, a little more earthy – more bass than treble here – some vanilla, thyme and mint in the mix too. It’s full of juicy red and black fruited flavour, a slight orange peel amaro twist through it, a pleasing amount of grainy/silty tannin, kind of autumnal too, a little rhubarb and spice, with a juicy and sappy finish of excellent length. Lots of flavour and a good amount of chewy texture. It’s balance o

Wine Decoded ‘Bathtub’ Yarra Valley Cabernet 2015

Cabernet Sauvignon | Yarra Valley, Australia

The Wait is Over … Our 1st Wine Decoded Wine is Here! This is Not Just a Wine! This is 27 years in the making! Finally it is here, the first wine to be released under my own label!Just a little bit excited 😉 Explore below for all the juice on making, the style & what's next!Thanks to all the friends the helped make this possible!Our Wine Decoded 'Bathtub' Cabernet is an elegant rendition, with a perfumed scent, layered with an earthiness, vibrant and fresh. The texture is th
$32
$29ea in any 3+
$26ea in any 6+

Wine Decoded Yarra Valley Shiraz 2016

Shiraz/Syrah | Yarra Valley, Australia

The Wait is Over … Our 2nd Ever Wine Decoded Wine is Here! This is Not Just a Wine! This is 28 years in the making! I've made 100's of wines, this is only the 2nd to be released under my own label.Just a little bit excited 😉 Explore below for all the juice on making, the style & what's next!Thanks to all the friends who helped make this possible!I have tasted 3 wines made by different makers from the same Shiraz. All show characteristics of the site, yet they are incredibly
$35
$32ea in any 3+
$29ea in any 6+
Bondar Rayner Vineyard Grenache 2016
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Bondar Rayner Vineyard Grenache 2016

Grenache | McLaren Vale, Australia

Grenache is Back Baby! ... and in Style! So many good wines coming out of Aus! 20 years ago making wines like these would have made you an outcast in McLaren Vale. Times have changed, and, I'm glad they have. Andre & Silena's Rayner Vineyard Grenache (Check out their review in 1min) shows a level of sophistication and rich core of fruit, perfectly balanced with the kind of quality tannins that you can only get from old vines, we're talking 45+ years.
$40
$38ea in any 6+
$36ea in any 12+

San Giusto a Rentennano Fuori Misura Rosato Toscano 2024

Red Blend | Tuscany, Chianti Classico

Delicious. It takes some mad skills to pull off a wine like this. The balance point between rosé & light red, the crunch with real flavour, the texture. Sure winemaking smarts are key, it's that innate sense of touch that allows a cluey vigneron to layer in the kind of character this has that makes the real difference.Cherries & rhubarb, orange, a pinch of baking spice, plenty of zip, little lick of anise. Phenolic grip playing at just the right level. Perfectly weighted, is it a Li
$42
$39ea in any 3+
$36ea in any 6+

Benevelli Piero Langhe Nebbiolo 2023

Nebbiolo | Piedmont, Barolo

The Perfect intro to Nebbiolo from Italy! It's got all the complexity & style of good Neb. The Neb-Heads GO MENTAL! Varieties like Nebbiolo and Pinot can take a bit to get your head around. Sometimes you just need the right wine to kick you off. This does the job nicely. From one of the greatest Nebbiolo growing regions in the world Monforte!Year in year out this is has been the best value Neb in our portfolio. Always a great perfume a little spice, a wicked core cherry of fruit. Depth and l
$43.50
$41.5ea in any 3+
$39.5ea in any 6+