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Chacra Sin Azufre Pinot Noir 2025
$125.00“Aromas of watermelon, dried strawberries and orange peel…Medium-bodied with fine tannins that show softness and a light, velvety texture. Only 11.5% alcohol.” 95 points – James Suckling.com A passion project for Piero that he personally oversees. Bunch selection from the 1955 vineyard, aged mostly in concrete with extreme attention to detail and zero Sulphur. Click […]
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Bondar Hope Springs Eternal Chardonnay 2024
$75.00A new wine in this lineup, from Bowyer Ridge vineyard, Lobethal, at over 500m. Three barriques, two older, one second fill, with full mlf. This needs a little time, with winemaking tricks pleasingly absent, but the acidity is coiled, crimping in flavour, of which there is ample, and texture. Time will heal. Cool nectarine, moving […]
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Delamere Vintage Cuvee 2018
$50.00Light straw-yellow tone with a fine bead showing. Poached granny smiths, crushed raspberry and baking brioche aromas. Palate fills with apple and berry fruits while a deep maturity shines through towards the finish with notes of warm sourdough and warming toffee. The acidity carries it well, lingering in the background, allowing the fine bead to […]
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Decades Pinot Noir 2024
$78.00A supple and spiced pinot noir from Tea Tree in the Coal River Valley, on black cracking clay over a calcareous Triassic sandstone. Dark cherry, wild strawberry and dark plum mesh seamlessly with underlying hints of amaro herbs, medina spice, Campari, sandalwood, pomegranate, raspberry coulis and turned earth and leaves. There’s a beautiful flow and […]
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Alheit Vineyards Huilkrans Chenin Blanc 2023
$165.00“Huilkrans comes from Jozua Visser’s Oudam farm, located at 450 metres in an isolated spot on Citrusdal Mountain, sometimes called the Skurfberg. Planted between 1974 and 1978, the vines are all dry-farmed, producing yields of almost painful paucity. Fermented in old barrels before ageing on lees for 12 months, this sings with what Chris Alheit […]
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Jasper Hill Georgia’s Paddock Nebbiolo 2024
$75.00Flavour with attitude: down to earth and savoury as savoury can be. An attitude adjustment can be made with a decent decant, and then it’s a revelation with the emergence of attractive rose and pressed flowers alongside a wealth of ripe dark fruits, spice, earth, bracken, leather, woodsmoke and cured meats. The palate is ripped […]
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Sailor Seeks Horse Dijon Clone Pinot Noir 2023
$90.00Wild ferment, clones 114, 777, 115, destemmed, 12 months in barrel (11% new). Finely honed redcurrant and raspberry aromas here with a wash of cranberry for high tones. It smells delicate and filigreed with hints of Medina spice, sous bois, fennel gratin, cherry clafoutis, drying meadow flowers, poached rhubarb and earth. More of the same […]
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Leeuwin Estate Art Series Chardonnay 2022
$150.00The palate is detailed and ethereal. Pear greets nectarine, white peach and lemon curd. Woven and harmonious, it unfolds to a graphite and mineral thread, with a touch of sherbet, aniseed and cardamom. Gentle textures open through the mid-palate with vibrant natural acidity, amidst a black tea, talc and chalk-like finish featuring characteristic length. Winemaker’s Notes […]
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Cobaw Ridge Original Block Pinot Noir 2023
$100.00A cool region, a cool season and a very cool wine. It sits nicely and feels unforced, in time, unfurling in the glass. Starts with spiced red cherries, kirsch, blood orange and amaro with some fresh bitter herbs, mint and a touch of forest floor fragrance. The palate finely tuned with feathery tannins, a raw […]
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Iggy H&C Eden Valley Syrah 2021
$75.00From 2 vineyards in 2021, after to a “miscommunication” with another vigneron left Iggy stranded without even a barrel worth of fruit. A vintage that has yielded many great wines, and the H&C is the first wine he has made with 100% whole bunch. Igor used the time old method of tasting the stalks, before […]
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Adrien Renoir Le Terroir Champagne NV
$195.00Disgorged in April 2021 with 1.6 grams per liter dosage, Renoir’s NV Extra-Brut Grand Cru Le Terroir (2018 base) is showing very well, unfurling in the glass with aromas of nashi pear, crisp yellow orchard fruit, clear honey and freshly baked bread . Medium to full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a layered but tightly wound […]
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Jean-Paul and Benoit Droin Chablis 1er Cru Mont de Milieu 2023
$190.00“Benoît calls his Mont de Milieu ‘my little Condrieu’ because of its ripeness and ripe aromas of apricot, nectarine and quince with hints of honeysuckle. Despite the ripe fruit there is also a sense of firm minerality on the lingering finish. The grapes are from a south-facing site, which is among the right bank’s sunniest; […]
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Jean-Paul and Benoit Droin Chablis 1er Cru Montée de Tonnere 2023
$200.00”Aromas of citrus blossom, orange oil, white flowers, iodine and honey introduce the 2023 Chablis 1er Cru Montée de Tonnerre, a medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered wine that’s rich and dense. It’s a strong effort with good cellaring potential.” 93 points – William Kelly | The Wine Advocate “This exquisite wine enchants with a complex […]
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Moss Wood Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$140.00One of Australia’s great cabernets. This from a cooler season highlights and accentuates the typical bright red fruits and blue fruit mix, especially on the nose. It’s aromatic and perfumed with an African violet scent. The palate as always is so exquisitely balanced and refined. Since 1989 the cabernet has been augmented with the floral […]
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Thorne and Daughters Menagerie Pinotage 2022
$40.00Thorne and Daughters ‘Menagerie’ Pinotage is the contemporary face of Pinotage, a grape that is extremely versatile in the cellar and at table. Carbonic maceration followed by ageing in neutral oak for 9 months. It’s tangy, with the grape’s trademark sandy tannins providing precision, rails and length. Bloody plum, rhubarb, raspberry, cocoa powder and cherry. […]
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Alex Moreau Chassagne Montrachet 2022
$265.00“Smoke and petrol nuances add breadth to the aromas of rosemary oil, pear and soil tones. There is impressive volume to the dense and seductively textured medium weight flavors thanks to the abundant amount of dry extract that imparts a sappy quality to the lingering, powerful and balanced finale. This is noticeably less refined, indeed […]
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Disznoko Tokaji Aszu 5 Puttonyos 2013 (500ml)
$145.00A late ripening year with an ‘Aszú miracle’ appearing from mid-September onwards, giving beautifully concentrated Aszú berries with intense botrytis but also great acidity. It’s still a real baby, showing creamy vanilla aromas with ripe pear, acacia and peach. It’s luscious and silky with lovely purity and superb intensity of quince and honey, and fine […]
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Valenciso 10 Anos Rioja 2012
$115.00The subtle, elegant and complex 2012 10 Años Después (10 years after!) matured for four years in concrete followed by four more years in Caucasian oak barrels that polished it. It has an incredible 15% alcohol, which doesn’t show at all, and the wine comes through as balanced and elegant, powerful too but with no […]
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Domaine Larue Puligny Montrachet Le Trezin 2021
$220.00Le Trezin is a Puligny Montrachet village Lieu Dit from the top of the incline, perched above the Premier Crus of Champ Gain & La Garenne and south of 1er Cru Sous le Puits. The last vineyard to be picked by Larue due to the cooler terrior. Always a tight style when young but delightful in the same way because […]
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Weiser-Kunstler Gaispfad “Grosse Eule” Riesling 2021
$100.00The 2020er Ellergrub, as it is referred to on the consumer label (the reference to Grosse Eule is left for the back label), has a restrained yet beautiful nose of minty herbs, thyme, yellow flowers, smoke, lozenge, spices, and blackberry. The wine proves slightly juicy and creamy on the mid-palate, yet there is quite some […]
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Weiser-Kunstler Trabener Gaispfad Riesling 2018
$85.00Generally preferring sweeter styled Mosel wines, it’s always a thrill to love the unexpected. Immensely complex, deep and brooding with aromas of gooseberry, kiwi, lime, ruby grapefruit, spring jasmine smoke and earth. Absorbing and immense, it’s hard to grasp the sheer depth and breadth of this wine, yet without heaviness or unnecessary structure. Silkily textured, […]
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Guillot-Broux Genevrieres 2020
$110.00A vineyard long abandoned, replanted to high density in 1983. East facing with a bed of limestone over clay. Subtle, yet soaring aromatics of smoke, peach, acacia honey, grapefruit and gardenia. Tight, tangy and coiled. Focused, precise and deep. Tingling with fresh citrus, zest, orchard fruits, lemon drops and minerals. The fruit is so pristine, […]
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Australian Sparkling Pack
Original price was: $147.00.$138.00Current price is: $138.00. Per case of 3A trio of top-quality Australian fizz – pure, vibrant and seriously impressive. Three pack contains 1 bottle each of the following: J&S Fielke Blanc de Blancs 2023 “This comes from the Deanery vineyard in Balhannah, grown organically. Wild ferment, to barrel, unsulphured until just before bottling. The wine remained on lees for 18 months. […]
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Marc Sorrel Crozes Hermitage Rouge 2023
$130.00‘Very concentrated, but so cool and precise. The wild berry freshness is off the scale, but the herbal freshness is what makes this leap right out of the category and establish its own category. Such exciting and refined tannins. They drive the extremely long, racy and pure finish. 100% whole cluster. Drink form release.’ 97 Points – […]
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Christian Moreau Vaudesir Grand Cru 2022
$225.00From a tiny 0.50ha plot of vines planted in 1998 with a south-east exposure located near the top of the hill of Grand cru’s. (from a .50 ha parcel of vines on the ‘sunny’ side that were replanted in 1998; vinified in stainless but with the élevage in older wood). This is also aromatically […]
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Delamere NV Sparkling Rose
$40.00100% pinot noir grapes with 20% reserve, consisting of 8/8/3/1% 2021/2020/2019/2018. All reserve wine is aged in old hogshead barrels. Aromas of red apple, ruby-red grapefruit, citrus fruits and raspberry with hints of rose petals, redcurrant, sea spray, crushed sea shells and freshly baked apple/raspberry pastries. Taut and high tensile with a fine, briny acid […]
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Christian Moreau AC Chablis 2024
$75.00The 2024 Chablis Village, which was taken from tank, has a light, fresh, marine-influenced bouquet that becomes quite smoky. The palate is lightly spiced, with nice weight, a citric lift and moderate length. (85-87) Vinous Media, Neal Martin, July 2025. Aged in stainless steel this year. 40+ years old vines. Comes mostly from a […]
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House of Arras Vintage Blanc de Blancs 2017
$135.00A spectacular Blanc de Blancs. It is a wonderfully elegant, complex wine with an enduring base of grapefruit, lemon and apple accented with nuances of sea spray, crushed stone, ozone, white peach, grilled nuts and apple pastries. It boasts the finest aromatics of the new releases and the time on lees has built a layered […]
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House of Arras Vintage Rose 2017
$120.00A combination of 73% Pinot Noir and 27% Chardonnay, displaying a mesmerizing rose-gold colour. If it’s true that we buy first with our eyes, then shut up and take my money. We’re again in low-dosage territory, with only 3.1 g/L. And the fruit shines. A vibrant, lifted, mildly aromatic yet composed nose, so gently perfumed […]
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Sylvain Cathiard Hautes Cotes de Nuits 2023
$225.00A lighter crimson ruby. The nose takes a moment to come out. A leafy note to the fresh red fruit, medium bodied, a little leaner than the Bourgogne but fine-boned and will develop further when the oak subsides. 60% vignes basses, the other two cuvees 100%. Drink from 2026-2028. Tasted Nov 2024. (87-88) points, Jasper […]
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