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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Wendouree Shiraz Malbec 2004

Red Blend from Clare Valley, South Australia

Wendouree Shiraz Malbec 2004

AP Birks Wendouree Cellars produce some of the very few wines I’ll buy without tasting! The wines are something special. A celebration of an incredible old vineyard with plantings from the late 1800s. Tony & Lita are custodians of something truly special!Ranges from 80-50% Shriaz and 20-50% depending on the year Malbec from the 1919 and 1920 plantings. The Shiraz Malbec, it's a variation on a theme of excellent wines, the opulence of the Malbec providing a twist of difference in compa

Vintage 2004
$360
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Auguste Clape Cornas 2017

Shiraz/Syrah from Cornas, Northern Rhône

Auguste Clape Cornas 2017

It's a hat trick for Clape with 2015, 2016 and 2017 all stunning vintages! Clape’s masterpiece is, of course, the classic Cornas, precisely blended from five to six cuvées of the oldest vines in the best sites. The backbone comes from Reynard, La Côte and Sabarotte. The old vines here are la Petite Syrah—the old clone considered by many to be the true Syrah—which creates a stunningly deep and complex wine that will develop for decades.

Vintage 2017
$360
$350ea in any 3+
$340ea in any 6+
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Cavallotto Barolo Riserva 'Vignolo' 2013
Power + Elegance

Nebbiolo from Castiglione Falletto, Barolo

Cavallotto Barolo Riserva ‘Vignolo’ 2013

Cavallotto's Riserva 'Vignolo' is such a delicious wine, poised, fragrant, such incredible layers of flavour & the rare seamless harmony only the greats seem to manage. Cavallotto are making beautiful wines of great presence, harmony and detail. The Riserva Vignolo is always a little bolder than the Riserva Vigna San Guiseppe. They both have that hallmark Castiglione tannin layered, supple and of line and length. Underbrush, tilled soil, blue flower, pipe tobacco and wild berry aromas mingle to

Vintage 2013
$360
$345ea in any 3+
$330ea in any 6+
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Auguste Clape Cornas 2018

Shiraz/Syrah from Cornas, Northern Rhône

Auguste Clape Cornas 2018

Four in a Row for Clape with 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 all stunning vintages! Clape’s masterpiece is, of course, the classic Cornas, precisely blended from five to six cuvées of the oldest vines in the best sites. The backbone comes from Reynard, La Côte and Sabarotte. The old vines here are la Petite Syrah—the old clone considered by many to be the true Syrah—which creates a stunningly deep and complex wine that will develop for decades.

Vintage 2018
$360
$345ea in any 3+
$330ea in any 6+
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Domaine Trapet Père et Fils Gevrey Chambertin 'Cuvée 1859' 2019

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

Domaine Trapet Père et Fils Gevrey Chambertin ‘Cuvée 1859’ 2019

The Derée Champérier vineyard was purchased by the Trapet family in 1859. After 160 uninterrupted years of farming this terroir, current generation Pierre & Louis wanted to make a cuvée as an hommage to the many generations of Trapet vignerons that have come before them. Thanks to its purity and terroir-transparency, they felt the 2019 vintage was the perfect moment to produce the Cuvee 1859.

Vintage 2019
$360
$345ea in any 3+
$330ea in any 6+
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Auguste Clape Cornas 2019

Shiraz/Syrah from Cornas, Northern Rhône

Auguste Clape Cornas 2019

Five in a Row for Clape with 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 all stunning vintages! Clape’s masterpiece is, of course, the classic Cornas, precisely blended from five to six cuvées of the oldest vines in the best sites. The backbone comes from Reynard, La Côte and Sabarotte. The old vines here are la Petite Syrah—the old clone considered by many to be the true Syrah—which creates a stunningly deep and complex wine that will develop for decades.

Vintage 2019
$360
$345ea in any 3+
$330ea in any 6+
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Domaine Louis Boillot Pommard 1er Cru 'Croix Noires' 2022

Pinot Noir from Volnay, Côte du Beaune

Domaine Louis Boillot Pommard 1er Cru ‘Croix Noires’ 2022

“This is perhaps even cooler and more restrained with its layered array of various dark berries, plum, freshly turned earth and a whiff of violet. The mid-palate mouthfeel of the middleweight plus flavors is quite refined yet this contrasts substantially with the moderately rustic, dusty, austere and serious finale. This very powerful and compact effort is expressly built-to-age and is one that is definitely going to need it, indeed I would be surprised if it is approachable before 10 years ha

Vintage 2022
$363
$348ea in any 3+
$333ea in any 6+
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Giovanni Sordo Barolo 'Monprivato' 2021
Gardini 97+ ID 95 GW 97

Nebbiolo from Castiglione Falletto, Barolo

Giovanni Sordo Barolo ‘Monprivato’ 2021

A little lift blows off quickly. Serious wine with completeness and intensity. Seamless on palate, the shape and flow is superb. Superb tannin. Layered long and fine. So flowing. When this builds generosity and the acid resolves it will be something special. Elegance and delicacy. Powerful fruit tamed by the acids. Deceptive length and depth. A lovely suite of flavours and aromas.Gardini 97+ Points ID 95 GW 97

Vintage 2021
$364
$349ea in any 3+
$334ea in any 6+
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Grattamacco Bolgheri Rosso Superiore 40 Anniversario 2022

Red Blend from Bolgheri, Tuscany

Grattamacco Bolgheri Rosso Superiore 40 Anniversario 2022

2022 Grattamacco pours a more youthful red/purple hue and opens to a more blue-fruited nature at this early stage, with sweetly perfumed aromas of blackberry, violet candies, pressed sage, and fresh earth. The palate is gorgeous and full, with velvety tannins, a youthful plushness of fruit, and its characteristic savory elements highlighting the wine with a long, balanced finish. It’s a very even wine but does show the stress of a hot year with late rains. It feels like the duck on water – g

Vintage 2022
$365
$350ea in any 3+
$335ea in any 6+
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Giuseppe Cortese Barbaresco Rabajà Riserva 2016

Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

Giuseppe Cortese Barbaresco Rabajà Riserva 2016

🍇RABAJÀ RABAJÀ RABAJÀ 🇮🇹 The 2016 Rabajà Riserva has that spark taking it from good to great. Engaging from the outset, take your time, enjoy this over hours even days in its youth.Cortese have always marched to their own tune, making grape first wines that have a finesse and sophistication about them. Balancing freshness and energy with development. They often appear a little out of sorts when young, particularly at the entry level. Those with patience are rewarded as they shap

Vintage 2016
$366
$351ea in any 3+
$336ea in any 6+
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Domaine Jean Marc & Hugues Pavelot Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru 'La Dominode' MAG 2022

Pinot Noir from Savigny-lès-Beaune, Côte du Beaune

Domaine Jean Marc & Hugues Pavelot Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru ‘La Dominode’ MAG 2022

Pavelot's Top wine rates as one of the few remaining bargains in Burgundy! This is at once the spiciest and the most floral-suffused nose in the range with its ripe yet ultra-fresh nose of various dark berries, anise and newly turned earth scents. The mouthfeel is also intriguing as it combines excellent density with an appealing sleekness that carries over to the mineral-driven, powerful and compact finale that is wonderfully persistent if very clearly built-to-age. This is almost always Pavel

Vintage 2022 Magnum 1.5L
$366
$351ea in any 3+
$336ea in any 6+
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Wendouree Cabernet Malbec 2009

Red Blend from Clare Valley, South Australia

Wendouree Cabernet Malbec 2009

AP Birks Wendouree Cellars produce some of the very few wines I’ll buy without tasting! The wines are something special. A celebration of an incredible old vineyard with plantings from the late 1800s. Tony & Lita are custodians of something truly special!Around 30% Malbec and comes from 1975 Central, 1920 Eastern, and 1989 Western vineyards.The blend of Cabernet and Malbec is well known throughout the world. Along with Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, they are two of the variet

Vintage 2009
$370
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