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£29.50Founded in 1993, by winemaker John Hancock together with Robert and Robyn Wilson, owners of The Bleeding Heart Group and The Don in London, Trinity Hill is synonymous with quality and consistency. In 2021, Trinity Hill was bought by a group of New Zealand private investors passionate about the wine […]
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£28.50Full-bodied yet fresh, this is a fine example of a Douro red, packed with wild berries, plums and baking spices, powerful without being heavy.
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£45.99The Henschke family have made wine at their estate in the Eden Valley since 1868, with fifth-generation winemaker Stephen Henschke taking over in 1979. Together with his viticulturist wife, Prue, they have taken their two single vineyards, ‘Hill of Grace’ and Mount ‘Edelstone’ and transformed them into two of Australia’s […]
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£51.50Masters of Wine, Giles Cooke & Fergal Tynan, founded Thistledown Wines in 2010 after discovering iconic vineyard sites in the McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley and Adelaide Hills. They make hand-made, small batch wines that perfectly illustrate the benefits of great sites and intelligent, minimalist winemaking. A complex and savoury nose […]
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£21.50Aldo Vaira’s wines are characterised by pristine flavours and clearly defined perfumes. These characters are attributable to the position of his vineyards at about 400 metres above sea level in the village of Vergne in the commune of Barolo. G.D. Vajra was established in 1972 and named after Aldo’s father, […]
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£19.50This wine is bright ruby red in colour. On the nose are intense aromas of cherry, black plum and blackberry, with notes of vanilla, sweet spice and dulce de leche from oak ageing. There is good structure on the palate, with juicy fruit flavours that are balanced by fresh acidity […]
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£35.50De Martino are a family estate of Italian heritage and are heralded as being somewhat the pioneers of Chilean wine production. Whilst they have a multitude of accolades, they are renownded for being the first to identify, bottle and export a varietal Carmenere from Chile and also for changing the […]
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£11.50This is such a great, any-day wine and a favourite midweek choice in our house. An intense red ruby colour with a deep and complex nose of cherry, blackberry and violet, there are also underlying hints of oak. Gentle, juicy and charming on the palate, with smooth tannins, and a […]
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£22.50Grown on very old bush vines, d’Arenberg is one of the only estates in Australia still to use the backbreaking basket press. This gentler method of extraction extracts less of the bitter, rougher phenolics from the grapes. But that’s not all, they also foot tread all their red wines during […]
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£34.99A crowning jewel in Georgia and one of their finest wineries. Located in the Kakheti, Telavi, this wine region is surrounded by the Alazani and Ivri rivers which both have great influence on the region; moderating the temperature and thus resulting in less volatility for more consistent and viable wine […]
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£44.50Kaikenes are wild geese, native to Patagonia, that fly across the Andes between Chile and Argentina. In the same way, legendary Chilean winemaker Aurelio Montes crossed the Andes to make wines in Mendoza. Aurelio saw the enormous potential of the region for premium viticulture and, after several exploratory trips, founded […]
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£21.99Handcrafted with minimal intervention as to truly reflect the purist expression of vineyard, vintage and variety. From the vineyard to the bottle, only the gentlest techniques are utilised; harvest by hand, whole berry de-stemming, open-vat temperature controlled fermentation, gentle basket-pressing and no finning or filtration prior to bottling. A deep […]
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£11.99Red fruits. And fleshy delicious red fruits at that – raspberries, cherries with a little savouriness to outline the seriousness of the Pinot Noir. The oak has imparted some fine tannins and the altitude gives the wine a brilliant freshness.
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£15.50The wine displays an attractive red cherry colour with purple hints and layers. Clean and intense aromas of ripe red and black fruits, with spicy notes from the crianza, and mineral hints. Rich and powerful on the palate, tasting again fruity and oaky flavours perfectly integrated. On the finish the […]
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£15.99The Mandrarossa wines hail from a selection of the best sites within Cantine Settesoli’s 6,000 hectares of vineyard in southwestern Sicily, planted with 32 grape varieties. The vineyards are split between the cooperative’s 2,000 members and cover the area around Selinunte, the hauntingly beautiful ruins of a Greek town founded […]
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£18.99A Bordeaux-inspired blend, offering the best of the 4 noble varieties of Bordeaux in one delicious bottle. Packed with cherries and exuding mint and a wisp of smoke.
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£12.50The Metic wines are made for us by Luca Hodgkinson: a French/English/Spanish expat, who consults for many wineries in Chile and has his own business sourcing grapes from sustainable and in many cases organic vineyards. Metic was the term used in Ancient Greece for a foreigner living in Athens that […]
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£25.99Tasting Note: ‘Mataro, ‘The Dog Strangler’ , translated from Estrangle-Chien, as it is known in parts of France. Rarely seen as a single varietal – this wine is a standout. A lovely, deep, darkly impenetrable, purple/black colour. Deep purple, good name for a band. Blueberries, anise, smoked-meats, Asian spice, really […]
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£76.50Tapestry Reserve offers a beautiful rusticity in this elegant expression of this tremendous vintage, showing the true artistry of blending five Bordeaux-heritage grape varieties grown within the Napa Valley, which together contribute multi-layered flavors and complexity. The Cabernet Sauvignon imparts a generous core of bramble berry fruits with blackberries, blueberries, […]
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She’s Electric Single Vineyard Old Vine Grenache | Thistledown | Grenache | McLaren Vale | Australia
£30.50Some vineyards have a remarkable story to tell and at the Seaview end of Chapel Hill Rd is just such a vineyard, its old bush vines contrasted by a planting of much younger Grenache. Apparently, half of the vineyard was burned when a bird caught light on a power line, […]
