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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Shiraz/Syrah from Macedon, Victoria

Place of Changing Winds ‘Harcourt’ Syrah 2022

Liking the secondary nature of the flavour and aroma profile. Textural with a nice edge of grip that adds intrigue and a thirst-quenching nature to the wines. Earthy with a darkness. Still tightly coiled, it's a wine that will reveal much more with a couple of days open in bottle. Beautiful perfume violets and blue / red fruits with a little graphite. Fun piss.“Highly perfumed, red berries, some cranberry zestiness, wild scree and herbs in a pepper-meets-alpine greenery kind of whiff,

Vintage 2022
$61
$58ea in any 6+
$55ea in any 12+
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Red Blend from Alta, La Rioja

La Rioja Alta Viña Ardanza Reserva HALF 2017

Thrilled to be able to offer my thoughts on this special wine. Lunch with the full current release set from La Rioja Alta was thrilling. The wines are a demonstration of respect for the past and judicious use of modern technology combined with an approach that offer a style reminiscent of a refreshed classic. No fads here!The Ardanza is a ridiculous value. Coming on 10 years old. This is very good. The harmony and grape first tannin with layering of very subtle oak that wraps rather than in

Vintage 2017 375ml
$62
$59ea in any 3+
$56ea in any 6+

Red Blend from Alta, La Rioja

La Rioja Alta Viña Ardanza Reserva HALF 2019

With each step up through the range, the oak sophistication increases. Whilst clearly present in the Ardanza, it is much more sophisticated texturally. The 2019 Ardanza has a fresh line of acid. It's tight and quite vertical. Just starting to resolve. It still needs time to build expression and generosity. Saline with blue fuits. Linear shape and flow with excellent transparency. It's be intriguing to sit on a bottle over a couple of days and see where it ended up.Paul Kaan, Wine Decoded May

Vintage 2019 375ml
$62
$59ea in any 3+
$56ea in any 6+
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Gamay Noir from Morgon, Beaujolais

Daniel Bouland Morgon Délys ‘Vignes de 1926’ 2024

This wine used to come to us simply as Morgon Vieilles Vignes without the name of the vineyard or lieu-dit (it is now labelled Morgon Les Délys Vignes plantées en 1926). It comes from a single hectare of 100-year-old vines located on the Morgon-Chiroubles border at the end of the Corcelette valley—a terroir historically known as Délys. The old, gnarled vines sit on a southeast-facing slope, planted at 10,000 vines per hectare.As always, this is likely to be Bouland’s most age-worthy w

Vintage 2024
$62
$59ea in any 3+
$56ea in any 6+
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Gamay Noir from Morgon, Beaujolais

Daniel Bouland Morgon Corcelette Vielles Vignes Cailloux 2024

Year after year Bouland has turned stunning, beautiful wines! Drawn from the Domaine’s Corcelette vines rooted in this lieu-dit’s rockier soils. The vines here are only a little younger than the centurion beasts that go in the Sable version of this wine. It’s a terroir that gives a slightly more structured Morgon than the Sable cuvée. To be honest, we have never really had a preference between the two since they were differentiated on the labels starting with the 2019 vintage: both wines

Vintage 2024
$62
$59ea in any 3+
$56ea in any 6+
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Gamay Noir from Morgon, Beaujolais

Daniel Bouland Côte de Brouilly Cuvée Mélanie 2024

Named after Daniel Bouland’s daughter, Cuvée Mélanie is drawn from a small, steep, half-hectare plot on the slopes of Mont Brouilly. The 70-year-old vines are rooted on the area’s famous terres bleu (blue-tinted volcanic soils) within the lieu-dit of Tête Noire, directly above Château Thivin. The blue schist lends the wines of this Cru their unique mineral profile. Bouland’s 0.8-hectare parcel is planted at 12,000 vines per hectare. As with all of Bouland’s cuvées, this is a wine bo

Vintage 2024
$62
$59ea in any 3+
$56ea in any 6+
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Pinot Noir from Yarra Valley, Victoria

DML VIN Upper Yarra Pinot Noir 2019

D'Anna + Middleton + Lewis = DML VIN Pinot! It’s very pretty and refined. All fresh raspberry and red cherry, floral perfume and a dusting of spice, kind of juicy, but nicely composed, expanding and filling the mouth with flavour and gentle emery tannin, fresh and long through the finish. Wholesome feeling, classic styling, and just lovely to drink Gary Walsh

Vintage 2019
$64
$62ea in any 3+
$60ea in any 6+

Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

Giuseppe Cortese Langhe Nebbiolo 2021

A Langhe Nebb made from young vine Rabajà .. Yes it's true! Always a fun wine. Elegant and juicy fruited, with solid core of fruit wrapped in chewy tannins. It’s a playful Langhe. Typically perfumed with a savoury twang, a little orange. Loads of fun to be had here. Always better after an extra year in bottle & a good decant. Will reward 2-5 years patience.The 2021 Langhe Nebbiolo emerges from young vines in Trifolera. It's a gorgeous entry-level wine with tons of Nebbiolo charact

Vintage 2021
$64
$61ea in any 3+
$58ea in any 6+
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Nebbiolo from Valgella, Valtellina

Sandro Fay Valtellina Superiore Costa Bassa 2020

Yet another successful 'Costa Bassa' from Fay! Thoughts read pretty much the same as for the delicious 2019. Loads of pleasure here, the harmony, and, the inviting, drink me, nature of the wine is just the beginning. It really has everything in all the right places.Excellent. Got that whole alpine thing going on. Excellent weight and shape to it. Playful dusty chalky slightly chewy tannins with fine boned acid. Sour cherry with licorice a hint of smoke, resinous. A thirst quencher with epic

Vintage 2020
$64
$61ea in any 3+
$58ea in any 6+
Daniel Bouland Morgon Bellevue Cailloux 2023
Ridiculous Yields!

Gamay Noir from Morgon, Beaujolais

Daniel Bouland Morgon Bellevue Cailloux 2023

Of the two Bellevue Cuvées, the Cailloux has better balance and energy with a touch less alcohol and a touch more acid. Excellent darker, earthier profile than the Chiroubles. Beautifully weighted, plump fruit with a spice layer and just a little playful stalk tannin grip keeping the palate lively and, with that fine line of acid, refreshing. Any excellent rendition and like the other 2023's more immediate approachability than previous vintages. Paul Kaan, WINE DECODED Nov 2024

Vintage 2023
$64
$61ea in any 3+
$58ea in any 6+
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Shiraz/Syrah from Yarra Valley, Victoria

Wine Decoded Yarra Valley Shiraz 2017

Our 3rd and Best Release is Here! I'm quietly very happy with this one. As a passion project we had no commercial time constraints and were able to give this much more time maturing in barrel and then bottle prior to release, over 5 years prior to release.The end result is a wine of poise and balance. I reckon I've nailed it. Delicious, cool climate Shiraz with energy, vibrant fruit, layered savoury, earthy complexity with pops of spice. An underlying darkness, fine, long, plush and caressin

Vintage 2017
$65
$62ea in any 3+
$59ea in any 6+
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Yarra Yering Dry Red No.2 HALF 2019
Seduction by Wine!

Red Blend from Yarra Valley, Victoria

Yarra Yering Dry Red No.2 HALF 2019

The original Shiraz Viognier blend .. with a spalsh ofMataro! A complex and layered wine; sweet and savoury all at once. The fragrance is melting pot of violets, plums, savoury spices and a whiff of bramble and five spice. Moderate in weight; the summer pudding fruits come in all colours dialling up the flavour interest. There is cigar box and cardamom spice lending intrigue. Firm yet fine tannins ably support the fruit and texture drive the palate. This one is hard to put in a box, there is so

Vintage 2019 375ml
$65
$62ea in any 3+
$59ea in any 6+

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