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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Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

Roagna Barbaresco Albesani 2017

The 2017 Barbaresco Albesani is delicate and ethereal. Crushed flowers, sweet dried cherry, cinnamon and orange zest give this deceptively light-bodied Barbaresco a good deal of both nuance and complexity. All the elements are so nicely balanced. All things considered, the 2017 is an understated wine from this Neive site.Antonio Galloni, Vinous 92 Points

Vintage 2017
$313
$298ea in any 3+
$283ea in any 6+

Nebbiolo from Castiglione Falletto, Barolo

Roagna Barolo Pira 2017

The 2017 Barolo Pira is a powerful, intensely savory wine. Dark cherry, herbs, leather incense and licorice all add to an impression. The Pira Barolo is one of the most reticent wines in this entire collection. It is hard to read today, despite its obvious weight and character.Antonio Galloni, Vinous 93 Points

Vintage 2017
$313
$298ea in any 3+
$283ea in any 6+

Nebbiolo from La Morra, Barolo

Oddero Barolo ‘Brunate’ 2017

Give it the requisite air time & it reveals all! Given the Oddero style and the commune of La Morra this has all the ingredients need to be an impressive wine, and it is just that. Before I got my head fully around the tannin complex in the Poderi Oddero wines I cracked one of these and thought, shit, that's a bit OTT, just on the tannin side. A third of the bottle coravined out and 1 month later I chucked the rest in a decanter. The transformation blew my mind. All had resolved and harmonised t

Vintage 2017
$315
$305ea in any 3+
$295ea in any 6+

Pinot Noir from Pommard, Côte du Beaune

Domaine Jean-Marc et Thomas Bouley Pommard 2019

Resistance was futile, I had to crack one of these (May 2023). Kelley's note is bang on. Though it has certainly resolved a little since his tasting. I concur that waiting a decade will offer up something special. The missing piece of the tasting note jigsaw, texture. Important for Pommard given the significant evolution from structured wine produced by the village to the seamless, refined elegant tannins of this and many other examples. Think Thierry Violot-Guillemard, Leroux et al.The

Vintage 2019
$315
$305ea in any 3+
$295ea in any 6+
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Pinot Noir from Vosne-Romanée, Côte-de-Nuits

Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat Vosne-Romanée 2022

This is also wonderfully fresh though with more deeply pitched and spicier aromas. There is even better mid-palate density to the delicious, vibrant and velvet-textured flavors that display focused power on the compact, serious and impressively long finale. This is a very good Vosne villages that is worth considering. Top valueAllen Meadows, Burghound 89-92 PointsThe 2022 Vosne-Romanée Village is deeper-pitched than its Chambolle counterpart, evoking dark berries, plums and cherrie

Vintage 2022
$315
$300ea in any 3+
$285ea in any 6+

Garnatxa from Gratallops, Priorat

Clos Martinet ‘Els Escurcons’ Garnatxa 2019

Incredibly bright and energetic red fruits. Excellent depth and length. Wonderful shape, fine long with a gentle dusting of plush, supple tannins with a slatey twist. So layered and harmonious. Compost and straw in a nice way complimenting fruit of incredible richness and length. Sophistication in a glass.

Vintage 2019
$318
$308ea in any 3+
$298ea in any 6+

Garnatxa from Porrera, Priorat

Clos Martinet ‘Camí Pesseroles’ Garnatxa Carinyena 2019

Mas Martinet Els Escurcons Garnatxa 2019 Dark and brooding. Again excellent. Opens wonderfully with power and restraint. Very sophisticated. The play of the two varieties is excellent. Energy from grenache and dark, brooding mystery from carignan. Red fruit with earth, savoury with baking spices and quence. Superb texture. Again the elevage is bang on. Class act!

Vintage 2019
$318
$308ea in any 3+
$298ea in any 6+

Garnatxa from Poboleda, Priorat

Mas Doix ‘Doix’ Garnatxa-Carinyena 2018

Fresh energetic, fragrant fruit. The blend plays well giving a long even palate. Excellent slatey long fine tannins. That play between red and blue fruit with, savoury, earthy layers and a little subtle oak playing at the edges.. A beautfiul perfume with exceptional acid that marries the fruit and tannins perfectly.

Vintage 2018
$318
$308ea in any 3+
$298ea in any 6+
Domaine SC Guillard Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru 'Lavaux St Jacques' 2017
Layers of Silky Tannins!

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

Domaine SC Guillard Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru ‘Lavaux St Jacques’ 2017

The Lavaux is situated below Poissenot and next to Clos Saint Jacques. This Lavaux is a superb effort, a complex array of red and dark fruits, wild strawberry, raspberry, cassis, liqorice and an exquisite deeply scented fragrant lift. The aromas of this wine are captivating. The palate is superbly structured with layers and layers of the silkiest tannins one could imagine that coat your mouth and resonate for minutes, the length prodigious. A classic. 2030-2050.

Vintage 2017
$320
$310ea in any 3+
$300ea in any 6+

Nebbiolo from Serralunga d'Alba, Barolo

Massolino “Margheria” Barolo 2016

The Expression from the 2016 Barolo Margheria Divine! It draws you in! Those 2016 tannins from Serralunga are just divine. They demand time. Their quality is clear. The sophistication of this wine is palpable, this is the very definition for the iron fist in the velvet glove. It just builds and build after swallowing as the tannins subside a complex suite of red fruit wrapped in baking spice, rose, earth, a hint of blood orange and yet more flowers powers through.The 2016 Barolo Margheri

Vintage 2016
$320
$207ea in any 3+ $200ea in any 6+
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Te Mata Estate Coleraine MAGNUM 2020
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Bordeaux Blend from Hawke's Bay, North Island

Te Mata Estate Coleraine MAGNUM 2020

Only a handful for the Country! Perfumed Refined Goodness! A single vineyard wine until 1989, Coleraine is an blend of the finest wines produced from distinct plots within Te Mata Estate’s oldest Havelock Hills vineyards, first planted in 1892. Always a cabernet sauvignon dominant wine, often with merlot and cabernet franc, Coleraine is refined and classical, demonstrating the immense potential for Bordeaux blends in Hawke’s Bay. In fact, it looks mroe Bordelais than most Aussie Cabernet.

Vintage 2020 Magnum 1.5L
$320
$310ea in any 3+
$300ea in any 6+

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

Domaine de l’Arlot Nuits-Saint-Georges ‘1er Cru Mont des Oiseaux’ 2020

“The 2020 Nuits Saint-Georges Mont des Oiseaux 1er Cru offers dark cherries, hints of peppermint and spice on its quite extravagant nose. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy dark berry fruit, good volume here, fine acidity, hints of white pepper and sage furnishing the composed finish.”Neal Martin, Vinous 89-91 Points

Vintage 2020
$320
$310ea in any 3+
$300ea in any 6+

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