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 de la Pousse d'Or Grand Cru Clos de la Roche 2022

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

Domaine de la Pousse d’Or Grand Cru Clos de la Roche 2022

There is an interesting hint of smoked meat character to the spicy plum, newly turned earth and softly floral-scented nose. Once again there is an appealing texture to the broad-shouldered and muscular flavors that possess fine volume before concluding in a very firmly structured and impressively long finale. This too could use better depth but this should make for impressive old bones if given a chance. (from a .32 ha parcel) 2037+Allen Meadows, Burghound (93-95) Points

Vintage 2022
$1,228
$1208ea in any 3+
$1188ea in any 6+
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Domaine de la Pousse d'Or Grand Cru Echezeaux 2022

Pinot Noir from Vosne-Romanée, Côte-de-Nuits

Domaine de la Pousse d’Or Grand Cru Echezeaux 2022

This is the first wine to display any meaningful level of reduction and here it’s enough to push the fruit to the background. By contrast there is a lovely sense of verve and freshness on the palate of the sleek but intense and generously proportioned medium weight plus flavors that coat the mouth on the sneaky long finish. While this could use better depth, the underlying material is such that more is all but guaranteed to develop. (from a .11 ha parcel in Poullailères). 2034+Allen Mead

Vintage 2022
$1,228
$1208ea in any 3+
$1188ea in any 6+
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Domaine Bouchard Pere et Fils Grand Cru Bonnes-Mares 2020

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

Domaine Bouchard Pere et Fils Grand Cru Bonnes-Mares 2020

Here too the nose is overtly floral in character with its layered blend of red and dark raspberry, warm earth and discreet spice wisps. There is again very fine mid-palate density to the slightly bigger-bodied tension-filled flavors that flash evident muscle and power on the moderately austere, firmly structured and impressively long finish. Patience strongly advised. 2035+ (from a .24 ha mix of two-thirds terres rouges and one-third terres blanches).Allen Meadows, Burghound 91-94 Points 

Vintage 2020
$1,250
$1230ea in any 3+
$1210ea in any 6+
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Domaine Hubert Lignier Gevrey-Chambertin Grand Cru 'Charmes-Chambertin' 2017

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

Domaine Hubert Lignier Gevrey-Chambertin Grand Cru ‘Charmes-Chambertin’ 2017

An agreeably discreet application of wood sets off the attractively fresh and markedly floral aromas of black cherry, plum and abundant earth scents. There is a subtle minerality and vibrancy to the sleek and intense middle weight flavors that possess a caressing mouthfeel that contrasts somewhat with a mildly austere finale that exhibits fine depth and persistence. This is both stylish and pretty and like the Griotte, could be approached with pleasure on the younger side if that's your preferen

Vintage 2017
$1,260
$1240ea in any 3+
$1220ea in any 6+
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Ornellaia Bolgheri Superiore DOC MAGNUM 2019

Bordeaux Blend from Bolgheri, Tuscany

Ornellaia Bolgheri Superiore DOC MAGNUM 2019

Ornellaia is undoubtedly the refined lady of the estate. The reviews for the 2019 are full of superlatives. Hope to get a little of this in a glass soon.For a long time I was unconvinced wines made from French varieties made in Italy. One wine stands out as changing my mind, 1990 Ornellaia, thanks Lou!Beautifully balanced and poised it was poured at an open wine night where the only criterion was that it had to be bloody good!62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot, 3% C

Vintage 2019 Magnum 1.5L
$1,272
$1252ea in any 3+
$1232ea in any 6+
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Domaine Ponsot Corton Bressandes Grand Cru 2014
Impressive Depth!

Pinot Noir from Aloxe-Corton, Côte du Beaune

Domaine Ponsot Corton Bressandes Grand Cru 2014

Lush red cherries & raspberry preserve aromas, dried orange peel, menthol. Medium-bodied with ripe red berry fruit and cracked black pepper, saline with impressive depth & structure on the finish. This is our second allocation of this wine, which hails from a 0.26 hectare parcel of this powerful terroir. The vines here are on the younger side, but low yields of less than 25 hl/ha and Ponsot’s typically late picking offset the relative youth of the vines. It’s a deeper, more concentrated and

Vintage 2014
$1,280
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Domaine Bouchard Pere et Fils Grand Cru 'Chambertin Clos de Bèze' 2019

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

Domaine Bouchard Pere et Fils Grand Cru ‘Chambertin Clos de Bèze’ 2019

"Here too there is just enough wood present to remark upon mingling with the equally spicy nose that features notes of plum, various dark berries, exotic tea and hints of game. The sleek, cool and restrained larger-scaled flavors are finer still while flashing no lack of power and drive that really builds toward the intensely saline-suffused finish. This is very classy juice that should age effortlessly for the next two decades."Allen Meadows, Burghound

Vintage 2019
$1,290
$1270ea in any 3+
$1250ea in any 6+
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Roagna Barbaresco Pajè Vecchie Viti MAGNUM 2016

Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

Roagna Barbaresco Pajè Vecchie Viti MAGNUM 2016

The 2015 Barbaresco Pajè Vecchie Viti captures everything that makes Nebbiolo so seductive. The 2016 Barbaresco Pajè Vecchie Viti is an exotic, totally beguiling wine laced with super-classic Nebbiolo notes of rose petal, orange peel, cinnamon and macerated cherry. Aromatic, sensual and constantly changing in the glass, the Pajè Vecchie Viti is everything Nebbiolo and Barbaresco are supposed to be. The complexity here is just unreal.Antonio Galloni, Vinous

Vintage 2016 Magnum 1.5L
$1,320
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Roagna Barbaresco Montefico Vecchie Viti MAGNUM 2016

Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

Roagna Barbaresco Montefico Vecchie Viti MAGNUM 2016

The 2016 Barbaresco Montefico Vecchie Viti is a big, statuesque wine. Of all the 2016 Barbarescos, the Montefico seems to be the wine that is still recovering most from its bottling, about two months before this tasting. The vertical structure of Montefico is evident, as are the intense tannins. Deeply savory and mineral, the Montefico is a wine for readers who can afford to wait for it.Antonio Galloni, Vinous 

Vintage 2016 Magnum 1.5L
$1,320
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Roagna Barbaresco Asili Vecchie Viti MAGNUM 2016

Nebbiolo from Barbaresco, Piedmont

Roagna Barbaresco Asili Vecchie Viti MAGNUM 2016

The 2016 Barbaresco Asili Vecchie Viti is sensual, gracious and light on its feet. The purity of the fruit is simply dazzling, while tannins are all Asili, which means a bit softer than in the other wines. In the glass, the Asili is beautifully perfumed and ethereal, yet also quite deep, in the way only Nebbiolo can be. Crushed red berry fruit, kirsch, orange peel, cedar and cinnamon all linger.Antonio Galloni, Vinous

Vintage 2016 Magnum 1.5L
$1,320
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Domaine Bouchard Pere et Fils Grand Cru 'Chambertin Clos de Bèze' 2020

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

Domaine Bouchard Pere et Fils Grand Cru ‘Chambertin Clos de Bèze’ 2020

Moderately generous wood and menthol fight somewhat with the exuberantly spicy black cherry liqueur-like aromas that are cut with lovely floral wisps. There is excellent concentration to the bigger-bodied and more powerful flavors that are blessed with ample amounts of sappy dry extract that does a fine job of buffering the firm tannic spine shaping the complex, balanced and hugely long finale. Excellent. 2035+Allen Meadows, Burghound

Vintage 2020
$1,320
$1300ea in any 3+
$1280ea in any 6+
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Domaine de la Vougeraie Grand Cru 'Bonnes-Mares' 2022

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

Domaine de la Vougeraie Grand Cru ‘Bonnes-Mares’ 2022

There is ample earth character to the markedly floral-scented nose of various red berries, soft wood and a hint of smoked game. The beautifully textured, if not particularly concentrated middleweight flavors possess excellent vibrancy as well as focused power that seems to build on the beautifully long finish that really tightens up as it sits on the palate. This is a deceptive wine in that it seems a bit light but delivers superb flavor authority. (from a .70 ha parcel of vines near the Morey b

Vintage 2022
$1,325
$1305ea in any 3+
$1285ea in any 6+
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