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By Farr Farrside Pinot Noir 2023
$105.00The evolution of this site and wine is complexing, gone are the days of words being used like bold, brash and muscular. Now two decades of releasing the wine, the description is fine, vibrate and ethereal. This wine has a retained nose for the moment, but the mouthfeel is almost jubilant in comparison. Even against […]
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Place of Changing Winds Between Two Mountains Pinot Noir 2023
$135.00A phenomenally individualistic wine and the most emblematic pinot noir that I have had from Place of Changing Winds. There is tension everywhere. Sleek shape and structure, with high toned fruit notes of blueberry, hedge fruits, black and red, with cut flowers Indian spices, sweet and savoury, vanilla and mint. There is a brooding quality, […]
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Storm Vrede Pinot Noir 2022
$70.00The best wines have elements of contradiction, a balancing act and tension of elements. All of Storm’s pinot noirs are distinct yet they share in their sense of the obviousness and elusiveness. The 2022 Vrede pinot noir is made from two clones and aged in 35% new wood. Juicy and mouth filling, a sense of […]
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Hochkirch Villages Pinot Noir 2021
$50.00Out of Stock
This is 100% estate fruit, 25% whole bunches were retained while the balance of the crop was destemmed. A wild ferment was in small open vats and the juice had about three to four days rest before some gentle foot-stomping and a daily plunge. Everything was pressed after 14 days into tank, and then gravity-fed […]
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Lambert Wines Nebbiolo 2023
$79.00Lambert’s Nebbiolo block sits halfway up Denton’s northwestern slope, catching all available sunshine. There are six acres planted to a patchwork of six clones; Mat 3 accounts for half the acreage, with the balance comprising K6, Mat 9, 10, 230 and 111. The soils here—granitic sand over granite bedrock—provide a unique terroir for the Yarra […]
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Mullineux Straw Wine 2021 (375ml)
$90.00Gosh! this is a tough one to describe as we have not really tasted anything quite like this. Expressive bouquet of lime marmalade, lavender honey, apricot, yellow peach, fig and cherry. Luscious and intense with thrusting acidity and slightly textured. There is a reductive nutty element that balance’s the sweetness of the wine, but there’s […]
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Sailor Seeks Horse Pinot Noir 2022
$65.00Out of Stock
Light in colour, with scents of an English Summer. Sweet strawberry, raspberry and cherry, with star anise, clove and fennel seeds. Silky, sappy, supple and mineral, very gentle mouthfeel, but totally immersing the palate in flavour. Beautifully toned wine, the fruit so fresh and pure. But it’s the lightness I love, the gentleness and ballerina […]
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Hochkirch Maximus Pinot Noir 2021
$70.00Out of Stock
This is the best Pinot Noir that John can produce each year at Hochkirch, some years it is not made. These are the oldest vines and the best barrels. This wine always has a sensual, elegant mouthfeel but with outstanding retention of acidity and freshness and a distinctive earthy, sappy complexity which is the terroir. Pure, […]
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Jean Foillard Morgon Cote du Py 2022
$95.00Out of Stock
The 2022 Morgon Côte du Py has another very attractive bouquet with just a touch more fruit intensity than the Côte du Py, wonderful mineralité and tension. Very composed. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, a little sturdier than the Cuvée Corcelette. There’s fine grip toward the finish with a persistent peppery aftertaste. Be […]
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Picardy Pinot Noir 2021
$65.00At once pretty, haunting and deep. Intense aromas of tangy red fruits, dark cherry, rhubarb, spiced plum, geranium and cassis. Very deep layered flavours, pure, precise, the fruit buoyed by fine purring tannins, subtle oak and abundant natural acidity. So long in the mouth, supple, the flavours mouthcoating, rich and ripe yet bright and invigorating. […]
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Standish Wine Co The Standish 2021
$135.00Very deep colour and remarkably vivid considering the presumably long period in wood. There is bright purple towards the rim, fading from the deep blackness of the core, suggesting the inclusion of whole bunches. Intense aromatics, florals, black fruits, sweet and savoury spice. It’s not overly complex at present but the flavours are utterly captivating […]
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Dappled Tradition Cabernets Limited Release 2023
$40.00“68/32% cabernet sauvignon/cabernet franc. Made from a vineyard planted in Steels Creek in ’81. 20% whole bunches. A medium, bright crimson. Dark cherry and blackberry fruit aromas intermingle with a little cedar, oyster shell and some whole-bunch derived floral notes. The medium-bodied palate is energetic and bright with quite chewy, long-chained tannins that bode well […]
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Chacra Chardonnay 2024
$240.00“Sourced from silt-dominated soils, the 2024 Chacra Chardonnay opens with an immediately inviting and complex bouquet melding marshmallow, saline and citrus notes with ever-increasing definition and harmony. The palate echoes with a deep, velvety, effortless richness perfectly counterbalanced by a chalky, lifted, tangy energy. It concludes with a multidimensional, bright, mineral-drenched finish further elongated by […]
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Farr Rising Saignee Rose 2025
$43.00The 2025 Farr Rising Saignee returns with its familiar salmon pink hue and complex oak characteristics. Playful on the nose with ripe tropical fruit, and a rounded nutty aroma to draw you back in. The palate is both soft and refreshing, to be enjoyed equally with food or without. The wine is ready to be enjoyed now […]
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Standish Wine Co The Relic 2022
$140.00The 2022 The Relic Shiraz-Viognier contains 2% Viognier skins, and this addition presents in this vintage as a core of raspberry and pomegranate. It is pure fruited and powerfully aromatic, as this cuvee always is. Interestingly, I am tasting this wine from two different glasses: one opened two days ago, one opened this morning. They […]
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Alheit Vineyards Hereafter Here Chenin Blanc 2022
$65.00Hereafter Here is a young vineyard wine. The great thing about planting young vines is that you can choose the site and the material purely for the sake of quality wine. Some of our favourite growers have already planted new vines, as will we on our own farm in the coming years. I find the […]
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Felton Road MacMuir Pinot Noir 2022
$120.00A huge pinot noir and of a style that as far as i know, i have only tasted from Central Otago. Intense in every way. all the elements dialled up. Soaring aromatics of blackcurrant, blackberry, mulberry, sweet raspberry, licorice and dark chocolate. Dense, deep, concentrated and chewy, the fruit exuberant and glossy. Round and curvaceousness, […]
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Jean Foillard Morgon Cote du Py 2023
$100.00The 2023 Morgon Côte du Py comes from several parcels of granite and schistous soils with many centurion vines. This has a wonderful, very complex bouquet with exquisite delineation: crushed stone filters through dark berry fruit alongside hints of ash and light stony scents. The sapid and vivacious palate has filigree tannins, a silver thread of acidity, and […]
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Chacra Cinquenta Y Cinco Pinot Noir 2024
$125.00Extremely aromatic, with very floral aromas of lavender, violets, peaches and citrus blossoms. It’s medium-bodied with firm and crunchy tannins. Structured and solid as a rock. Only 11% alcohol. Magic. Drink now. Why wait? 97 points – JamesSuckling.com From vines planted in 1955 on a sea of pebbles. There is a wonderful purity in […]
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Mullineux Old Vines White 2021
$55.00Among their many other talents, Chris and Andrea Mullineux are superb blenders. This cuvée of Chenin with Clairette, Viognier, Grenache Blanc, Semillon, Viura and Verdelho proves the point. Savoury, waxy and focused, with engaging minerality, fine texture and flavours of pear, peach and citrus peel. Drink date: 2022-2027. 95 Points – Tim Atkin, MW, timatkin.com, […]
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Sadie Family Citrusdal Mountain Soldaat 2024
$185.00“Sliced strawberries, pomegranates, rose hips, orange rind and wet stones on the nose of this supremely elegant, fragrant red. Sour cherries, too. It’s medium-bodied, very fresh and silky, with very fine tannins, seamless but present. Persistent and salty at the end. Great expression of grenache. Fermented and aged in concrete.” 97 points, JamesSuckling.com “Erasmus van Zyl’s […]
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Jean-Louis Chavy Puligny Montrachet AC 2022
$225.00From ten small parcels of 20-60 year old vines. Les Tremblot, (“more Puligny in character, as the soil is argileous,” says Jean-Louis); Les Meix, Les Levrons (more rounded wine for there are more stones and gravel here and it is not so heavy), Corvée des Vignes and Les Reuchaux. These small vineyard holdings are all […]
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Disznoko Tokaji Late Harvest Furmint 2019 (500ml)
$45.00László Mészáros makes this late harvest wine from mainly botrytised Furmint grapes (along with 6% Zéta and 6% Hárslevelu), which have shrivelled to around half of their original volume. Termed Késói Szüretelésú in Hungarian, there was no berry-by-berry selection here as there is for Aszú wines. Instead, selected bunches of botrytised clusters and part-clusters were […]
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Michel Lafarge Passetoutgrain L’Exception 2022
$75.00From vines planted in 1930’s on gravel and sandy soil that suits the 50/50 Gamay/Pinot field blend. Oddly, both varieties reach maturity at the same time. Normally Gamay would ripen quite a bit earlier. It seems that this vineyard is in harmony. 100% de-stemmed, lightly crushed, pneumatic press, indigenous yeast fermentation. Aged for 15-18 months […]
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Jean Foillard Fleurie 2022
$125.00Out of Stock
For us, this is the easiest wine to drink now. Predominantly red fruits, flowers and very pretty. There is such an easy way about this wine that one can forget how serious it is. The palate is even and integrated, everything in its place. Red fruits, a touch of blueberry, thyme and coal smoke. The […]
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Domaine Tempier Lulu and Lucien Bandol Rouge 2022
$110.00At Domaine Tempier, grapes from different vineyards are skillfully blended to create this wine, made up of between 70 and 75% Mourvèdre (depending on the year) combined with Grenache, Cinsault and a hint (2%) of old Carignan. Clusters are hand-selected in the vineyard and in the cellar; de-stemmed, crushed and put into concrete vats for […]
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Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Hautes Cotes de Beaune Blanc 2023
$130.00‘These are mostly from young vines, planted with high quality material in 2015 and 2018 along with a few 40 year old vines. A fine glowing lemon and lime colour. There is more bouquet here, picked later of course, 7-9 September, with classic Colin-Morey tension, more than reduction, yet ripe enough fruit and a sense […]
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Storm Ridge Chardonnay 2023
$70.00A wine of phenomenal detail, complexity and layered richness. Juicy, succulent, rich and luscious with butter, honey, mandarin, fig, grapefruit, pawpaw, citrus blossom, star jasmine, crushed pineapple and macadamia. Textured with savoury oak, dry extract, and fleshy fruit stuffing. Thoroughly irresistible and the acid line taut, tensioned and driving. Like an Italian interior; sumptuous yet […]
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Sato Le Ferme de Sato Sur Les Nuages Pinot Noir 2022
$75.00“The aromas and flavors are marked with dried-strawberry, nutmeg, bark and mushroom character. Tar too. This is structured, showing fine tannins that give a beautiful mouthfeel and tension. Medium-bodied with a dusty texture in the finish and a long and thoughtful ending. Rather ethereal and energetic. Drink now or hold. Screw cap.” 97 Points – […]
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Joshua Cooper Doug’s Vineyard Pinot Noir 2024
$75.00I’m pretty familiar with this wine and its flavour profile and shape, year on year, is very consistent. An elegant wine, the tannins lacy. Different from those rough hewn cabernets! Sandalwood, fresh mixed herbs, blueberry and a compote of English summer red fruits. Mouth-watering backend finale, tightening, firming. As always, very beautiful indeed. Waters Wine […]
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