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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Luigi Pira Barolo 'Margheria' 2020

Nebbiolo from Serralunga d'Alba, Barolo

Luigi Pira Barolo ‘Margheria’ 2020

All south-facing and sitting at 340 metres, vinification is the same as the Barolo ‘Serralunga’. Intense and complex nose with notes of fruit and flowers and hints of leather and fresh hay, while on the palate it’s perfectly knit and very distinctive, red fruited in style with ironstone, choc-cherry, roses and some of the darker notes of cola and porcini, along with textural red plum-skin, grippy, black-tea tannins that underpin, but it’s still generous and very approachable now.

Vintage 2020
$177
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Benoît Moreau Chassagne-Montrachet Vieilles Vignes Rouge 2022

Pinot Noir from Chassagne-Montrachet, Côte du Beaune

Benoît Moreau Chassagne-Montrachet Vieilles Vignes Rouge 2022

Chassagne rouge is moving up in the world. Growers like Olivier Lamy, Thierry Pillot and Alex and Benoît Moreau (to mention only those producers we are following closely) show the heights this often-undervalued appellation can achieve through best-practice farming and excellent winemaking. The warmer seasons, too, have been helpful, bringing more approachable tannins when the wines are young. It’s from two small parcels of 50-year-old vines below the village. The 2022 fermented with 10% bunch

Vintage 2022
$177
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Fèlsina Chianti Classio Riserva DOCG ‘Rancia’ 2016

Sangiovese from Castelnuovo Berardenga UGA, Chianti Classico

Fèlsina Chianti Classio Riserva DOCG ‘Rancia’ 2016

The layering of flavour, tannin in this is excellent! Everyone went nuts on the Fontalloro because of a couple of extra points, wow, this is stunning! Fèlsina have tamed the beast! While this is a powerful wine with incredible depth and length, it is beautifully balanced with excellent grape tannins. It will resolve and build sensuality over the coming years. Dark and incredibly complex there's a vitality to the mouthfeel. If you're going to crack one young give it loads of air in the morning a

Vintage 2016
$180
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Sottimano Barbaresco 'Basarin' 2019

Nebbiolo from Neive, Barbaresco

Sottimano Barbaresco ‘Basarin’ 2019

As with the 2016, Sottimano's 2019 Basarin is a cracker. Finely balanced with the juicy acid that sits across Sottimano's 2019's. There's more immediate generosity compared with the Fausoni at this early stage. Excellent depth and length with fine long tannins. As with the 2016 this has to be one of the best handling of a tiny proportion of new oak in Barbaresco that you'll find. The is great drinking with beautiful shape. The fruit again shining through with an intoxicating set of aromas and f

Vintage 2019
$180
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Sottimano Barbaresco 'Fausoni' 2019

Nebbiolo from Neive, Barbaresco

Sottimano Barbaresco ‘Fausoni’ 2019

The Cru's of the Commune of Nieve in Barbaresco in general have an elegance, a fine feel to them. Fausoni fits that bill. The 2019 is defined with an excellent acid tannin complex at 14% Alcohol. With a little air time and coaxing the perfume comes, the fruit builds and the balance refines. Full of energy and life, red fruits, slate, earthiness, a little tar, leather, orange citrus and beyond are at play. Fine, dusty tannins add a nice level of grip to match the depth and length of fruit. This w

Vintage 2019
$180
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Domaine Jean Marc & Hugues Pavelot Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru 'La Dominode' 2020

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

Domaine Jean Marc & Hugues Pavelot Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru ‘La Dominode’ 2020

Pavelot's Top wine rates as one of the few remaining bargains in Burgundy! An extremely ripe yet again, still fresh nose offers up its aromas of mocha, poached plum and black cherry jam. The rich, round and quite supple medium-bodied flavors immediately firm up on the youthfully austere, palate coating and lightly mineral infused finale. This firmly structured effort is going to need at least some patience as it's presently quite tightly wound. Drink: 2036+ ♥ OutstandingAllen Meadows, Bur

Vintage 2020
$180
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Francesco Versio Barbaresco 2019
Superb! Bravi Francesco!🍷

Nebbiolo from Neive, Barbaresco

Francesco Versio Barbaresco 2019

The 'Side Project' of ex-Bruno Giacosa's winemaker Francesco Versio this is a stunner! The Francesco Versio 2019 Barbaresco is delicate and fine, almost fragile, with iris root, rusty nail, cassis and licorice root. The wine is carefully balanced to show the intensity of the grape, yet its aromatic profile is carefully measured and contained overall. This is an exciting wine with impeccable winemaking.Monica Larner, The Wine Advocate 95 PointsA Neive village blend of San Cristoforo, Curr

Vintage 2019
$180
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Fletcher Barbaresco 'Roncaglie' 2021
Nebbiolo!

Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

Fletcher Barbaresco ‘Roncaglie’ 2021

An Aussie in Piedmont! Dave Fletcher's Barbaresco is turning heads in Australia & Italy! PREVIOUS VINTAGE The 2020 Barbaresco Roncaglie shows a distinctly earthy, savory expression of Barbaresco, with the fruit pushed more into the background than it is in some of the other wines in the range. Dried herbs, flowers, mint, macerated cherry and sweet pipe tobacco all open in the glass. The Roncaglie is not an overt wine, rather it is a Barbaresco built on subtlety and nuance.Antonio Galloni, Vi

Vintage 2021
$180
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Giuseppe Quintarelli 'Primafiore' 2022

Red Blend from Valpolicella, Veneto

Giuseppe Quintarelli ‘Primafiore’ 2022

Corvina , Corvinone and Cabernet , dark, meaty and ripe on the nose with cassis and earth tones . The palate is fresh with forrest berries and red plums . wonderful complete wine already .50% Corvina and Corvinone, 50% Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc

Vintage 2022
$180
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Paul Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet Vieilles Vignes Rouge 2022

Pinot Noir from Chassagne-Montrachet, Côte du Beaune

Paul Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet Vieilles Vignes Rouge 2022

This gorgeous old-vine Chassagne rouge hails from a single 0.94-hectare parcel of 50-plus-year-old Pinot Noir vines grown on the red clays of Les Grandes Terres on the Santenay side of Chassagne. The clay-rich soil has long produced some of the finest and silkiest reds of the village. The 2022 fermented with 50% bunches, bringing perfume and extra-fine tannins. It’s an incredibly pretty, floral, red-and-blue-fruited expression of Chassagne. It’s already drinking remarkably well!“M

Vintage 2022
$180
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Giuseppe Quintarelli 'Primafiore' 2023

Red Blend from Valpolicella, Veneto

Giuseppe Quintarelli ‘Primafiore’ 2023

The 2023 Primofiore is more savory than sweet, opening with dusty rose tones, a beguiling whiff of tangerine, wild strawberries and stone dust. It is round and energetic in style, perfumed with violet and lavender tones as ripe blackberry fruits swirl throughout. The finish is classically dry and long, yet remarkably fresh, leaving a subtle tannic crunch and a hint of wild blueberry to linger.Eric Guido, Vinous 93 Points50% Corvina and Corvinone, 50% Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet

Vintage 2023
$180
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Artuke 'El Escolladero' Rioja Tinto 2021

Red Blend from Alavesa, La Rioja

Artuke ‘El Escolladero’ Rioja Tinto 2021

The flow, harmony, fine long fruit and acid entranced. An edgy grip works well in a cleansing way. Super juicy, fine, refreshing with so much energy, vibrant and long. This will settle into something delicious. Savoury, meaty play going on, building into some forest floor. Tightly wound with plenty more to come. This is well worth having a look at, a demonstration of the new Rioja!El Escolladero is a vineyard planted in 1950 in the village of Ábalos at 660 meters in altitude. As with mo

Vintage 2021
$181
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$167ea in any 6+
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