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Place of Changing Winds Between Two Mountains Pinot Noir 2024
$140.00A phenomenally individualistic wine, and the most emblematic Pinot Noir from Place of Changing Winds. Tension runs through every seam: sleek and structured, with high-toned blueberry, hedgerow fruits, cut flowers, Indian spices, vanilla and mint, balancing sweet and savoury. There’s a brooding, elemental quality beneath a shroud of smoky, flinty reduction, hinting at greater beauty […]
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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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Standish Wine Co The Standish 2021
$150.00Very 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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Storm Ridge Chardonnay 2023
$60.00A wine of phenomenal detail, complexity and layered richness. Juicy, succulent and luscious, with butter, honey, mandarin, fig, grapefruit, pawpaw, citrus blossom, star jasmine, crushed pineapple and macadamia. Richly textured, with savoury oak, dry extract and fleshy fruit, yet the acidity is taut, driving and beautifully tense. Like an Italian interior: sumptuous, sophisticated and somehow […]
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Chacra Trienta Y Dos Pinot Noir 2024
$260.00“The aromas of this red are rather endless, with rose petals, rose stems, strawberries, sliced oranges, crabapples and hints of white pepper and peaches. Medium-bodied with depth of fruit. intensity and crushed stone flavors. Linear, racy and vibrant, with brightness and energetic length. From vineyards planted in 1932. 11.2% alcohol. Drink or hold.” – 98 […]
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By Farr GC Chardonnay 2024
$170.00“Bright, light yellow colour; slightly green/herbal aromas of celery stalk, a suggestion of parsnip/earthy root vegetable. The wine is tight and tense, firm and has excellent concentration and vitality, oak taking a back seat. The finish is very dry, mineral and lip-smacking. This is lovely now and will cellar well for many years. 05 Nov […]
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Chacra Chardonnay 2025
$245.00“Wow. This is really complex, with sliced apples, lemons, flint, stones and a hint of limes on the nose. It’s floral and aromatic with white flowers. Long, long finish. Complex and thoughtful. Drink or hold” – 99 points, James Suckling From 40 year old vines with alluvial stones covered in calcaire. The wine is intense […]
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Chacra Mainque Chardonnay 2025
$125.00“The saltiness in this chardonnay is so impressive, with aromas of sliced apples, honey, crushed stones and honeysuckle. Medium- bodied, crunchy, vivid and flavorful, with hints of peaches and grape skin” – 96 points, James Suckling From 3 parcels with a range of sand, clay, and pebble soils. Warmer conditions yielding bolder flavours this year, […]
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Kleine Zalze Vineyard Selection Chenin Blanc 2024
$32.00Flavours of melon, white peach and almond blossom and a hint of minerality that adds to the elegance of the wine. Masterfully oaked, this wine is textured and creamy on the mid-palate with a lively, crisp finish. 92 points, Tim Atkin SA Special Report 2025 Shop all South African wines
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La Rioja Alta 904 Gran Reserva 2015
$250.00A perfumed nose of plums, mulberries, mushrooms, caramel, sweet tobacco and sweet spices. Full-bodied with velvety, fine tannins and lively acidity. Balanced and supple with a creamy texture. Delicate and precise with a long, polished finish.97 points – James Suckling COLOUR: cherry, garnet rim AROMA : balanced, complex, ripe fruit, spicy, fine reductive notes, […]
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Chacra Cincuenta Y Cinco Pinot Noir 2025
$125.00“Strawberry, spice, nutmeg and orange peel aromas follow through to a medium body with fine tannins and underlying salinity. Crunchy, tight and classy. Only 11.8% alcohol.” – 96 points, James Suckling From vines planted in 1955 on a sea of pebbles. There is a wonderful purity in this wine with dried strawberry and iodine. Cherry […]
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Standish Wine Co The Relic 2022
$150.00The 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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Joshua Cooper Doug’s Vineyard Pinot Noir 2025
$75.00A familiar wine, with a flavour profile and shape that remains reassuringly consistent year on year. Elegant and finely detailed, with lacy tannins – a clear departure from more rugged, rough-hewn Pinots. Sandalwood, fresh herbs and blueberry lead into a compote of English summer red fruits. The palate finishes mouth-watering and gently tightening, bringing focus […]
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Mullineux Old Vines White 2024
$55.00It’s worth tucking a few bottles of this flagship white away for a while as it improves with age. Chenin Blanc based with a supporting cast of 14% Clairette Blanche and 6% each of Garnacha Blanca, Semillon Gris and Viognier, it has masses of focus and extract, texture from 60% malolactic, pear, quince and white […]
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Kleine Zalze Cellar Selection Chenin Blanc 2022
$25.00The grapes for this wine come predominantly from selected vineyards in Stellenbosch, Paarl and Swartland. Owing to the nature of bush vines, careful canopy management was exercised so that no bunches were exposed to excessive sunlight and that an even ripening of the grapes was ensured. The 2022 harvest started very late due to covld […]
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Leeu Passant Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$68.00The Leeu Passant Cabernet Sauvignon comes from two parcels on the Lower Helderberg with a marked influence from False Bay. Subtle, focused, refined and nuanced, it’s a Cape red for lovers of fine Bordeaux, combining notes of graphite, cassis, plum and fresh herbs framed by graceful tannins. 2025-30. 94 Points – Tim Atkin MW […]
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Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Bourgogne Blanc 2024
$125.00‘The Bourgogne vineyards are in Meursault Puligny, Chassagne and St-Aubin. Glowing pale lemon. Crisply attractive, not very reductive, no great weight on the palate, tingling acidity, a little citrus rinse, fair length. Drink from 2026-2028.’ (86-87) Jasper Morris MW, Inside Burgundy, October 2025. From vines located in Meursault (40%), Puligny (15%), Chassagne (15%) and […]
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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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Michel Lafarge Passetoutgrain L’Exception 2022
$75.00Out of Stock
From 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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Savage Thief in the Night 2022
$60.00Billie and Erasmus van Zyl’s plantings at 642 metres in painterly Piekenierskloof supplies the raw material for this enticing, high-altitude Grenache from sandstone soils. Intensely fresh, mineral and chiselled, it combines raspberry and redcurrant flavours with sinewy tannins and a long, satisfying finish. Drink 2024-30. 96 points – Tim Atkin MW 86% Grenache […]
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Sailor Seeks Horse Chardonnay 2023
$69.00There’s a little more aromatic concentration this year methinks. Still resplendent in its ripe white peach and citrus fruits, flecked with spiced oatmeal, clotted cream, meadow wildflowers, grilled cashews, nougat, distant struck flint and nicely judged vanillin oak. Stony and nicely focused on the palate with a briny sapidity and impressive tension between fruit and […]
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Sadie Family Swartland Treinspoor 2021
$145.00The 2021 Treinspoor is Sadie’s Tinta Barocca that the man himself likes to Nebbiolo, also opining that it is a wine that needs considerable aging. These vines were planted in 1974, and the blend includes 40% whole clusters. It has a complex, succinctly defined bouquet with melted tar and graphite infused dark berry fruit, a […]
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Domaine de Souch Jurancon Monplaisir Moelleux 2019
$60.00Monplaisir is made from the main plot located just under the property with the first picking of clusters affected by passerillage. The grapes are hand-harvested, whole cluster pressed and vinified in stainless steel vats. Malo does not happen and the level of sulphur is kept on the lower side for Moelleux. The wine is sterile-filtered […]
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Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey St Aubin 1er Cru Marguerite 2023
$260.00The 2023 Saint-Aubin Hommage à Marguerite 1er Cru, a blend of Combe, Perrières and Craillot, is delightful, fresh and saline with subtle notes of sea spray and white peaches. The palate is well balanced with a tangy opening, and lively peach nuances develop toward the finish. This is harmonious and quite irresistible already. Recommended. (91-93) […]
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Patrick Sullivan Bull Swamp Chardonnay 2024
$95.00“Medium-full yellow colour; a touch of grassiness at first sniff, then lemon, grapefruit and verbena, the palate refined and intense, seamless and energetic with a laser-beam focus, an impression of richness and a long-lasting finish. Mouth-watering aftertaste. Utterly delicious chardonnay.” 96 Points – Huon Hooke, The Real Review “While there’s plenty of texture and opulence […]
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Sylvain Cathiard Bourgogne Aligote 2025
$110.00A small amount of Aligote from vines located in the Hautes Cotes (95% of this comes from 30-80 year old vines in the village of Villers-la-Faye above Corgoloin and 5% from vines in Nuits St Georges planted in 2011). This bright pure white makes a brilliant addition to the Cathiard range, and what a great […]
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Jean Foillard Morgon Cuvee Corcelette 2022
$110.00The 2022 Morgon Cuvée Corcelette has a crisp and delineated bouquet brimming with energy. Lively red fruit seems to leap from the glass. The palate is beautifully built, svelte tannins matched with a silver bead of acidity, very harmonious with a lightly spiced and persistent finish. This has a bit of Liam-Gallagher-like swagger about it—nothing […]
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Reed Frequency Botrytis Riesling 2025
$90.00White nectarine and crystallised honey, followed by the smell of a Hawaiian botanical garden on a hot day, think hundreds of ginger flowers filling the humid air with their perfume. There’s a depth to this wine that pulls you in and almost warms you with its golden hues; colour you can taste. At first sip, the […]
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Beeslaar Pinotage 2023
$100.00From a 2.5 ha vineyard, dry grown, shale soils and old bush vines. Open top fermentation, followed by 20 months in French oak barriques. Very simple stuff, but the wine is far from simple. Intense aromas of blackberry, blood plum, mulberry and cassis. Rich and full bodied, remarkably elegant – svelte even, considering the size […]
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Schafer-Frohlich Felsenberg Riesling GG 2022
$170.0095 points Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com): “Stacks of smoky minerality on the sleek, yet compact and well-structured palate. Also excellent citrus ripeness that easily carries the vibrant grapefruit acidity. Long, super-clean finish. Drink or hold. (9/3/23)” 93-95 points Anne Krebiehl MW (Vinous): “The 2022 Riesling Schlossböckelheimer Felsenberg Grosses Gewächs is made from various parcels at different […]
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