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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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Massolino "Margheria" Barolo 2016
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Massolino “Margheria” Barolo 2016

Nebbiolo | Serralunga d'Alba, Barolo

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
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Te Mata Estate Coleraine MAGNUM 2020
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Te Mata Estate Coleraine MAGNUM 2020

Bordeaux Blend | New Zealand, Hawke's Bay

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.
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Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat Vosne-Romanée 2019

Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat Vosne-Romanée 2019

Pinot Noir | Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy

The 2019 Vosne-Romanée Village is also very promising, mingling aromas of cassis and raspberries with hints of dark chocolate, rose hips and warm spices. Medium to full-bodied, concentrated and vibrant, it's deep and layered, with powdery structuring tannins and a long, sapid finish.William Kelley, The Wine Advocate 90-92 Points BH 89-91 NM 88-90
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Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat Chambolle-Musigny 2019
Aromas of cherries, cassis, sweet spices, rose petals and loamy soil introduce the 2019 Chambolle-Musigny Village, a medium to full-bodied, deep and concentrated wine that's lively and mineral. From the usual eleven parcels, dotted around the appellation, this is a fine success.William Kelley, The Wine Advocate 89-91 Points BH 89-91 NM 88-90
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Domaine Trapet Père et Fils Gevrey-Chambertin Ostréa 2022

Domaine Trapet Père et Fils Gevrey-Chambertin Ostréa 2022

Pinot Noir | Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy

A beautifully layered if somewhat reserved nose grudgingly offers up its array of wild dark berries, anise and violet scents. The delicious, concentrated and caressing medium weight flavors possess a lovely sense of refinement on the slightly less powerful mineral-driven finish. This is qualitatively similar to the straight Gevrey villages but the two wines are quite different. Drink 2029+Allen Meadows, Burghound 89-91 PointsThe 2022 Gevrey-Chambertin Ostrea is excellent, mingling ar
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Barale Barbaresco 'Serraboella' MAGNUM 2019
They understand the rule book so have thrown it away only to be used when they know they need to. I guess that's what 150 years of making wine can give you! The 2016 of this was a cracker. True to the vintage & site with bold yet refined structure. The 2019 is again a cracker and true to vintage. This time all grace and elegance from what is proving a classic year.Beautifully weighted, the body of this slightly warmer vineyard with the clarity and sophistication of 2019 Barbaresco. Rich
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Vietti Barolo Riserva 2015
1st Release of Barolo Riserva!

Vietti Barolo Riserva 2015

Nebbiolo | Piedmont, Barolo

Show the class of the vineyards and the winemakers! Here's an exciting new submission from Vietti that takes us to a whole other level (and evolutionary timeframe). A very late release that is held back at the winery, the 2015 Barolo Riserva sources its fruit solely from Castiglione Falletto. In fact, it represents a special section of the best sites that go into the Barolo Castiglione. Some of that fruit was so impressive, I am told, the decision was made to age it longer (with up to 30 months
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Vietti Barbaresco 'Masseria Roncaglie' 2020

Vietti Barbaresco ‘Masseria Roncaglie’ 2020

Nebbiolo | Piedmont, Barbaresco

The 2020 Barbaresco, from vines in Roncaglie, sizzles with tension. Bright, red-toned fruit, orange peel, mint, white pepper and crushed rocks are all beautifully delineated. In many vintages, the Roncaglie is quite showy. That is hardly the case in 2020, a vintage in which the wine is classically austere and in need of time. Super-classic.Antoni Galloni, Vinous 94+ PointsThe Vietti 2020 Barbaresco Roncaglie Masseria has bright rose, cherry, redcurrant and angel food cake with stra
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Talenti Brunello di Montalcino 'Piero' 2019
"The 2019 Brunello di Montalcino Piero is impossible to ignore, slowly blossoming with an enticing blend of spice-dusted blackberries, violet pastille and orange zest. This impresses further with its vividly ripe wild berry fruits and juicy acidity. Tactile mineral tones add contrast, and rosy inner florals form toward the close. The 2019 lingers impossibly long, taking on a spicy edge, as the palate is left reverberating with zesty tension, even as fine-grained tannins grip the senses. The Pier
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Domaine Louis Boillot Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru 'les Prûliers' 2019
Boillot has always done a remarkable job with this vineyard and 2016 will only add to that track record. There is gorgeous complexity to the fresh and notably ripe red berry fruit, humus and pungent earth scented nose. The succulent, dense and powerful broad-shouldered flavors brim with copious dry extract that mostly manages to buffer the very firm tannic spine on the superbly long finish that flashes just a trace of Nuits style rusticity. This very serious and built-to-age effort is breathtaki
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Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair Chambolle-Musigny Vielles-Vignes 2019
Initially there is a touch of reduction though aggressive swirling slowly reveals overtly floral-suffused nose that is comprised mostly by attractively spicy red and dark berries aromas. There is excellent volume to the rich but appealingly delineated medium-bodied flavors that also exude a subtle minerality on the mildly austere, firm and sneaky long finish. A sophisticated Chambolle villages. Drink: 2026+Allen Meadows, Burghound
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Àlvaro Palacios 'Finca Dolfi' 2017

Àlvaro Palacios ‘Finca Dolfi’ 2017

Garnacha | Spain, Catalunya

I had the pleasure of devouring the 2016 about 6 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!The single-vineyard 2017 Finca Dofí comes from ten hectares that were planted 20 years ago in the village of Gratallops. It’s mostly Garnacha with 8% Cari�
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