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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Domaine SC Guillard Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru 'Poissenot' 2021
Dripping with class!

Pinot Noir from Gevrey-Chambertin, Côte-de-Nuits

Domaine SC Guillard Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru ‘Poissenot’ 2021

‘Poissenot’ is situated above Lavaux St Jacques on the northern ridge of Gevrey. Deepest color of the 21’s and the most complex and pure on the nose, red fruit compote, cherry liquor and florals abound, complex super pure and transparent. The most complex of the 3 1er cru’s.Delicious palate intense sappy energetic, will live a very long life. It’s expansive but coiled and opens beautifully in the glass and gets longer and more intense as it breaths.Drink 2026-2040+Tom Carso

Vintage 2021
$280
$273ea in any 3+
$266ea in any 6+

Nebbiolo from Serralunga d'Alba, Barolo

Luigi Pira Barolo ‘Vigna Rionda’ 2020

In recent times, Vigna Rionda gets spoken about as the grand cru of the Langhe – altitude, exposure and soil profile play an integral part. As expected, this is Giampaolo’s flagship wine. The oak regime is similar to the ‘Marenca’ but with a larger portion of newer oak – around 30%. Ultra-powerful and layered in fragrances, flavours and textures. Smoke, graphite, incense, stock/porcini, sweet tobacco, violets. All this character is underpinned by a fierce, tingling acid line and a comp

Vintage 2020
$280
$270ea in any 3+
$260ea in any 6+

Pinot Noir from Chassagne-Montrachet, Côte du Beaune

Domaine Marc-Antonin Blain Chassagne-Montrachet 1er ‘Morgeot’ Blanc 2021

These vines recently joined the Domaine, a gift from Marc-Antonin’s parents. They lie in a sub-section of Morgeot called Champs Jendreau, just downhill from Clos de La Boudriotte, not far from the village.

Vintage 2021
$281
$271ea in any 3+
$261ea in any 6+

Pinot Noir from Morey-Saint-Denis, Côte-de-Nuits

David Duband Morey-Saint-Denis 1er Cru ‘Clos Sorbé’ 2020

"A softly perfumed and pretty red berry fruit nose is also trimmed in just enough oak influence to merit pointing out. The round, fleshy and solidly voluminous middle weight flavors possess a refined mid-palate texture that carries over to the youthfully austere and highly persistent finale. This lovely effort needs to develop better depth, but more should develop if it's allowed at least a few years to mellow in a cool cellar."Allen Meadows, Burghound ♥ Outstanding

Vintage 2020
$282
$272ea in any 3+
$262ea in any 6+

Pinot Noir from Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte-de-Nuits

David Duband Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru ‘Les Proces’ 2020

This beautifully sited vineyard sits directly above Nuits St Georges adjoining 1er cru Les Pruliers. Average age of vines more than 35+yo and this is one the “sweet-spot” wines of his portfolio always showing excellent expression and balance with notable floral lift to the aromas giving a very attractive and accessible wine with notable elegance yet remarkable depth.

Vintage 2020
$282
$272ea in any 3+
$262ea in any 6+

Pinot Noir from Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte-de-Nuits

David Duband Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru ‘Aux Thorey’ 2020

"A more restrained but equally pretty nose displays a broad range of floral nuances along with pretty spice nuances on the red and dark currant scents. The sleek and nicely elegant medium-bodied flavors possess a really lovely mouthfeel as well as excellent length on the compact, youthfully austere and balanced finale. Note that this is sufficiently structured to require at least a few years of cellaring before it will be approachable." 2032+Allen Meadows, Burghound ♥ Outstanding

Vintage 2020
$282
$272ea in any 3+
$262ea in any 6+

Sangiovese from Montalcino, Tuscany

Poggio di Sotto Rosso di Montalcino 2021

The 2021 Rosso di Montalcino is dark and intense, smoldering up with masses of smoky black cherries, sage and incense. This possesses a core of ripe wild berry fruit underscored by saline minerals and savory spice, all guided by zesty acidity. The 2021 finishes structured and long, with a concentration that reminds me more of Brunello than Rosso, leaving grippy tannins and hints of sour citrus that keep me looking back to the glass for more. There will be a 10% reduction in quantity for 2021 due

Vintage 2020
$283
$268ea in any 3+
$253ea in any 6+
Daniel Bouland Morgon Bellevue Cailloux JEROBOAM 3L 2023
Ridiculous Yields!

Gamay Noir from Morgon, Beaujolais

Daniel Bouland Morgon Bellevue Cailloux JEROBOAM 3L 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. I typically find Bouland's wines need at least 18

Vintage 2023 Jeroboam 3L
$284
$274ea in any 3+
$264ea in any 6+

Gamay Noir from Morgon, Beaujolais

Daniel Bouland Chiroubles Chatenay JEROBOAM 3L 2023

Dense yet fresh, elegant and fine. Graphite tannins and lovely vibrant red fruit. Sensational texture. Fine cleansing acid, long, delicious and delicately spiced. Beautiful. Juicy fruit with a much more immediate approachability than previous vintages. I typically find Bouland's wines need at least 18 months to 2 year to resolve and for their tension to relax following bottling. This will undoubtedly offer more with time in bottle.

Vintage 2023 Jeroboam 3L
$284
$274ea in any 3+
$264ea in any 6+

Pinot Noir from Volnay, Côte du Beaune

Domaine de la Pousse d’Or Volnay 1er Cru ‘Caillerets – Clos des 60 Ouvrées’ 2022

An exotically spicy and broadly floral-suffused nose is comprised mostly by ripe plum and black cherry scents. The super-sleek and highly energetic medium weight flavors brim with both dry extract and an almost aggressive minerality on the precise, intense, balanced and lingering finish that, like the Bousse d’Or, would benefit from better depth. Even so, this is very classy juice with the aging potential to match. (Monopole) 2034+ ♥ Sweet spot OutstandingAllen Meadows, Burghound (92-94

Vintage 2022

Pinot Noir from Pommard, Côte du Beaune

Domaine Thierry Violot-Guillemard Pommard 1er ‘Clos de Derrière Saint-Jean’ Monopole 2016

Opens with juicy crunchy fruit that takes just a little while to settle in. More immediately overt than the others. There’s a build in tannin here that when you relate it back to the vineyard location near Rugien and listen to Anne Parents thoughts on Pommard makes sense. A certain savoury meatiness comes through. You can see this will need a little more time in bottle to really come together. Excellent depth and length of fruit as seems to be the case with all of Thierry’s wines.

Vintage 2016
$285
$275ea in any 3+
$265ea in any 6+

Red Blend from San Vicente de la Sonsierra, La Rioja

José Gil vino de paraje ‘Camino de Ribas’ de pueblo San Vincente 2021

The single-vineyard red 2021 Camino de Ribas comes from a plot, La Cóncova, under the Toloño peak close to Rivas de Tereso, a hamlet from San Vicente de la Sonsierra, possibly the coolest zone, with a north-facing exposure, a place with shallow soils with sand, limestone and sandstone and full of aromatic herbs. It's a blend of 50% Tempranillo, 40% Garnacha and the rest Viura, Jaen, Garnacha Blanca, Palomino and other white varieties. It fermented with a long and soft vinification with some wh

Vintage 2021
$285
$275ea in any 3+
$265ea in any 6+

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