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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Oddero Barolo 'Rocche di Castiglione' 2017
Rare as Hens' teeth!

Nebbiolo from Castiglione Falletto, Barolo

Oddero Barolo ‘Rocche di Castiglione’ 2017

Rocche di Castiglione has to be one of my favourite Crus. The wines have incredible harmony, they are just so complete.I haven't had the chance to try this. I have devoured the 2017 Villero from just around the corner. Given Oddero's consistency through their range I'd say you're in for very safe bet here!The 2017 Barolo Rocche di Castiglione is a beautiful wine that captures the natural intensity of the year while maintaining the style of the site. Silky aromatic and wonderfully nua

Vintage 2017
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Domaine Hubert Lignier Morey-Saint-Denis 'Les Blanchards' 2019

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

Domaine Hubert Lignier Morey-Saint-Denis ‘Les Blanchards’ 2019

I first tried Hubert Lignier's wines back in the 1990's & have never looked back! "A neighbour of Clos Baulet, this clay terroir at the bottom of a slope gives us more dense, tannic wines. Sometimes austere in its youth, it gradually takes on a fruity character accompanied by smoky or spicy notes." From Laurent Lignier

Vintage 2019
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Domaine Louis Jadot Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru 'Estournelles Saint Jacques' 2018

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

Domaine Louis Jadot Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru ‘Estournelles Saint Jacques’ 2018

Jadot have turned out a divine Estournelles from 2018. Burghound's note of it being an understated style rings true. Many 2018 from Gevrey-Chambertin are bold in nature. Here we see a delicacy that has it showing fine and elegant. Tasted blind you'd possibly look to another village. Deceptive it is, with considerable depth and length. Poise, flow and shape, with a perfume floating over delicious fruit. Jadot again showing a deft hand in crafting a sophisticated Pinot full of personality. April 2

Vintage 2018
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Domaine Jean-Marc et Thomas Bouley Volnay 2019

Pinot Noir from Volnay, Côte du Beaune

Domaine Jean-Marc et Thomas Bouley Volnay 2019

Aromas of raspberries and plums mingled with hints of orange rind, sweet spices and forest floor introduce Bouley's 2019 Volnay Village, a medium to full-bodied, supple and seamless wine that's lively and penetrating, concluding with a long, saline finish. As I've written before, this cuvée blends the rich, clay soils of lieux-dits Poisots, Famines and Cros Martin with the thinner, whiter soils of Ez Blanches above the Clos de Chênes; but in 2019, the wine's tone is set by Ez Blanches, even if

Vintage 2019
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Domaine SC Guillard Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru 'Lavaux St Jacques' 2021
Layers of Silky Tannins!

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

Domaine SC Guillard Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru ‘Lavaux St Jacques’ 2021

The Lavaux is situated below Poissenot and next to Clos Saint Jacques. Lovely crimsonNose is in the darker fruit spectrum, some cassis and blackberry and that cherry liquor, a lick of new oak as always when the wine is young. Quite intense and deep.The palate is the most structured and intense, quite firm tannins and a real youthful energy to the palate. It is long and impressively concentrated with layers of fruit and tannin interwoven.Drink 2028-2040+Tom Carson

Vintage 2021
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Fratelli Alessandria Barolo 'Monvigliero' 2019

Nebbiolo from Verduno, Barolo

Fratelli Alessandria Barolo ‘Monvigliero’ 2019

'The 2019 Barolo Monvigliero shows a medium dark garnet appearance with an especially focused quality of fruit. There is wild cherry and Japanese plum, but the Monvigliero cru also delivers crushed rose, earthy iris root, candied orange peel with clove and dustings of black pepper. The wine is exceedingly silky and polished in texture, but its inherent complexity is never diminished. It should be interesting to revisit this bottle after the 10-year mark. This estate was the first to bottle a Mon

Vintage 2019
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Àlvaro Palacios 'Finca Dolfi' 2021

Garnacha from Gratallops, Priorat

Àlvaro Palacios ‘Finca Dolfi’ 2021

I had the pleasure of devouring the 2016 about 18 months ago over an aged scotch fillet with a friend. A wine of presence and importance. Along with the other Priorats I've had from Àlvaro it's clear he's got it right in both the vineyard and the winery. After all, to make a wine like the legendary L'Ermita you need mad skills!Even just after landing in the country when wines are a little out of sorts from shipping across the world, the perfume builds in the glass with all the trademark

Vintage 2021
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Domaine des Croix Beaune 1er Cru 'Les Pertuisots' 2023

Pinot Noir from Beaune, Côte du Beaune

Domaine des Croix Beaune 1er Cru ‘Les Pertuisots’ 2023

The 2023 Beaune 1er Cru Pertuisots is dense and impressively concentrated in a vintage where that's far from the norm, offering up aromas of cherries, cassis and rose petals, followed by a medium to full-bodied, deep and layered palate structured around chalky tannins.William Kelley, The Wine Advocate 91-93 PointsThe 2023 Beaune Pertuisots ler Cru shows a little reduction on the nose, but it is armed with pretty blueberry and raspberry fruit that blossoms in the glass. The palate is

Vintage 2023
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Domaine Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny 2017

Pinot Noir from Chambolle-Musigny, Côte-de-Nuits

Domaine Ghislaine Barthod Chambolle-Musigny 2017

Here too the aromas of plum, violet and blueberry are super-fresh and expressive. The sleek, intense and beguilingly delicious middle weight flavors exude a subtle minerality onto the firm and relatively serious finish. This is perhaps less elegant than it usually is as it's more structured but it may well compensate by developing even better depth over time. ♥ OutstandingAllen Meadows, Burghound 89-92 Points Barthod's beautiful 2017 Chambolle-Musigny Village reveals an inviting b

Vintage 2017
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Domaine de la Pousse d'Or Volnay 1er Cru 'Clos de la Bousse d'Or Amphore' 2020

Pinot Noir from Volnay, Côte du Beaune

Domaine de la Pousse d’Or Volnay 1er Cru ‘Clos de la Bousse d’Or Amphore’ 2020

This is also aromatically cool but ripe and spicy though in this case the red and dark raspberry scents are notably more floral in character. The delicious, intense and well-detailed lighter weight flavors possess a succulent mid-palate that contrasts with the moderately austere and quite firm finale where a touch of sweetness gradually emerges. 2030+Allen Meadows, Burghound

Vintage 2020
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Domaine de Montille Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru 'Aux Thorey' 2020

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

Domaine de Montille Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru ‘Aux Thorey’ 2020

"A more elegant, cooler and spicier nose reflects notes of the pretty essence of red currant, rose petal and a floral top note. The elegance continues on the palate of the nicely textured and quite punchy flavors that exude evident minerality on the sneaky long and moderately structured finish. As is usually the case, this is a Nuits 1er of refinement and even a certain finesse." Drink 2030+ Outstanding ♥Allen Meadows, Burghound 91-93 Points

Vintage 2020
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Castello dei Rampolla 'd'Alceo' 2018

Red Blend from Greve UGA, Chianti Classico

Castello dei Rampolla ‘d’Alceo’ 2018

This show how good Bordeaux blends can be in Italy and just how different they are from their French counterparts! Jumping from 4,000 vines a hectare to 8-10,000. Grown as bush vines. Immediate oppulence and generosity on the nose. The structural element from the tannin are very different from the tannins of Bordeaux, edgy again in a good way.  Such complexity with a layer of macerative characters and the perfume they can offer. Vibrant acidity and flowers from the Petit Verdot. d'Alceo is a wo

Vintage 2018
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