Curious Whites
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Marc Bredif Vouvray 2019
$30.00From one of the most famous names in the Loire Valley, Marc Bredif’s Vouvray Classic is brilliant pale gold. On the nose, there is a fine bouquet full aromas of white flowers and yellow fruit such as pears. Citrus notes such as grapefruit. The palate is gentle with a lovely vivacity with agreeable notes of […]
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Domaine Cauhape Jurancon Sec ‘Chante des Vignes’ 2018
$32.0060% Gros Manseng and 40% Camaralet, crushed and destemmed then macerated on skins for 12 hours before pressing. Cool-fermented in stainless steel and matured on lees for 5 months. 13.5% Alc/Vol. The nose expresses a fine and intense bouquet, with notes of citrus and exotic fruits coming from the Gros Manseng, along with hints of […]
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Jo Landron Muscadet Sevre et Maine La Louvetrie 2019
$36.00Landron’s La Louvetrie is a blinder of a wine, packed full of juicy fruit and vibrant Atlantic zing. The new vintage is not dissimilar to last year’s stunner, with generous, zesty, pithy, lemon/lime fruit alongside a ton of salinity. It glides with fantastic vibrancy across the palate. Oodles of compact fruit balanced by a mouth-watering […]
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Rippon Gewürztraminer 2019
$52.00More digestive than a fruit bomb, complex, textural, salivating and screaming for charcuterie or delicately spiced asian foods. Yet smells of rose petals, turkish delight, rose hip tea, and drying herbs. Delicious! Smells sweet but not bubblegummy and cartoony, more Turkish market spice and rosewater bath in the most refined, evocative sense. Succulent in texture, […]
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La Petite Mort VMR Qvevri 2019
$32.00La Petite Mort’s VMR Qvevri 2019 is made from whole berries of Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne fermented in terra cotta amphora for 67 days – skins and all. The Viognier gives fruit and perfume while the Marsanne lends it’s waxy texture and the Roussanne gives a hint of savouriness. Bottled un-fined and un-filtered. A unique, […]
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Jo Landron Muscadet Sevre et Maine Le Fief du Breil 2016
$60.00Le Fief du Breil comes from a single, six-hectare biodynamically farmed vineyard, situated on a south-facing slope above the Sèvre river in La Haye-Fouassière. Fief is a term from the Middle Ages which means a piece of land once associated with (and probably owned by) the local Abbey or Duke. This in turn infers quality, as the local […]
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LAS Vino CBDB 2019
$49.00Review for the 2018 – Light straw-yellow colour, slightly cloudy in the glass – an unfiltered appearance. Lemon, herb and floral aromas, very attractive. The wine is bright and fresh, crisp and lively, with a dry finish and brisk acidity. A touch of nuttiness. Honey grew the longer it was in the glass. Struck-flint notes […]
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Guilhem & J-Hugues Goisot Bourgogne Aligote 2019
$46.00The 2019 Bourgogne Aligoté had been bottled the previous day and comes from 50- to 95-year-old vines. It has a striking bouquet of expressive lime, Nashi pear, honeysuckle and pink grapefruit aromas – so vivacious. The palate is well balanced with a spicy entry, offering ginger and lemongrass, notes of white peach, gooseberry and dried […]
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Domaine de Souch Jurancon Monplaisir Sec 2018
$55.00Domaine de Souch’s Monplaisir Sec is pure, ethereal and extraordinarily complex. Apricot, peach, honey, melon and pineapple. The palate is all dancing lightness and yet the wine has immense presence. Neat, discreet and balanced acidity. Delicious and unique. Grown on clay and limestone soil with puddingstone, “Poudingue” in French. The vineyard is located on the […]
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Damien Laureau Savennieres “Les Genets” 2016
$80.00Damien Laureau makes this Savennieres from a selection of the sandier soil terroirs, mostly from the Moulin de Beaupréau lieu-dit. Les Genets is tank fermented, then matured in barrel for 12 months, followed by a final elevage in tank for another 4-6 months. This cuvée comes from older vines, at least 25-years old, planted on […]
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Domaine Overnoy Savagnin Type 2016
$110.00The Domaine Overnoy Savagnin spends four years sous-voile and two in bottle. Wow! here is complexity – citric, saline in the mouth and complexed by curry leaf, saffron and baking spices. Has super length and complexity with a finish that goes on and on.. gastronomic and salivating all at once. This is quite remarkable. Andrew […]
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Corymbia Chenin Blanc 2020
$30.00Pure, and reminiscent of the likes of Eben Sadie or Donavan Rall. Complex, tight, but not tense, fluffy almost. Citrus, sunflowers, stone fruits, cherry, melon and green apple. Lees-ey, creamy. Remarkable combination of amplitude and texture, fruit and minerality. There are some fascinating herbal elements of watercress and sage that impart a gathering firmness, towards […]
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Michel Lafarge Aligote ‘Raisins Dores’ 2018
$55.00From vines planted in 1937. This wine is a from a 0.8ha block on deep clay over limestone. Whole bunch pressed into stainless steel for fermentation and then aged 3-6 months in old barriques. The 2018 Bourgogne Aligoté Raisin Dorés has a delightful bouquet of yellow plum and light lemon curd aromas that are well […]
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Sadie Family Swartland Skerpioen 2019
$120.00Skerpioen is quite a place: a wind-swept, seashore vineyard with sand and limestone soils that makes one of the Cape’s most distinctive whites. Produced from co-planted Chenin and Palomino, it’s wonderfully yeasty, pithy and saline with mouth-watering freshness and notes of kelp and fresh bread. 96 points, Tim Atkin MW, South Africa Special Report 2020 […]
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Albamar Albarino 2019
$37.002018 and 2019 are a return to cooler vintages in Rías Baixas, and I was able to compare the entry-level Albariño bottling from Albamar from both years, the youngest of which, the 2019 Albamar, had just been bottled. Here, they use purchased and own grapes, and it’s produced in a fresh style. This is a little riper than […]
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Benjamin Leroux Bourgogne Aligote 2019
$70.00Screwcap. As followers of Domaine Comte Armand will know, Leroux has considerable pedigree with this variety. This year’s release is solely from a parcel of 50-year-old Estate-grown fruit in Meursault’s Les Belles Roses. This site is home to Aligoté Doré, the high-quality, low-yielding cultivar of this variety which takes on an ochre colour when fully ripe. […]
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Domaine Overnoy Savagnin Ouille 2017
$110.00The 2017 Overnoy Ouille is a Savagnin topped up in the Burgundian manner. The grapes are harvested by hand from vineyards on blue marl soils. Vines are mostly 40 years of age. Natural fermentation as are all the wines and bottled with a tiny dose of sulphur. The nose is salty and fresh, with green […]
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Rall White 2019
$55.00Out of Stock
The effects of the drought in the Swartland the last few years forced many vineyards to be harvested earlier than usual to retain freshness. In 2019 though we had extremely high malic acids and we could afford to wait a bit longer for the grapes to develop more flavour without losing tension in wine. The […]
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Sadie Family Swartland Palladius 2018
$225.00Space prevents me from listing all of them, but this remarkable Swartland white is made from 11 different varieties, including Chenin Blanc, Grenache Blanc, Verdelho, Palomino, Marsanne and Roussanne, spread across 17 different sites. Peach, pear and lime flavours are beautifully melded on this more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts white, with gentle oak spice and a thread of acidity […]
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Albamar 69 Arrobas Albarino 2018
$73.00The fruit comes from a selection of different Albariño vineyards from the Valle de O Salnés in Rías Baixas. Their seaside location, granitic soils and old vines give this wine its unique character. The fruit is hand-picked whole bunch fermented with indigenous yeast and aged for a year in stainless steel on its lees without […]
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Pyramid Valley North Canterbury Orange 2020
$48.00Complex and fine and Wow! Orange, citrus, spice, lavender and apple. Juicy, and subtly textured. There’s some white pepper, cherry, orange pith and Cointreau. Terrific finesse, and a style of wine we wouldn’t usually go for, but this is amazing. Waters Wine Co. 87% Pinot Gris, 7% Muscat, 4% Riesling and 2% Gewürztraminer. Sourced from […]
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Chantereves Bourgogne Aligote Les Chagniots 2019
$85.00This is produced from fruit off the recently purchased Chagniots parcel situated between Ladoix and Corgoloin. The Aligoté (doré) vines here are 100 years old, although one-quarter of the vineyard had to be replanted. This deep clay plot is a mere 0.17 hectares, farmed organically. Even at this villages level, the soils are horse-ploughed by […]
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Boutique Aussie White Mixed Pack
$180.00 Per case of 6Contains 1 bottle each of the following and includes shipping: Frederick Stevenson Marsanne Roussanne 2020 Honeyed stone fruits and crisp acidity make this a beautifully well-rounded, delicious and golden Rhone blend. Lambert Crudo Chardonnay 2020 White peach, grapefruit, lime and wafts of white flowers. Subtle leesy cream with a backbone of freshness and a biting […]
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Tissot Savagnin 2014 (33mth sous voile)
$92.00This wine has spent 3 years under flor, hence sous voile. Utterly unique and mind bendingly complex. Aromas, of seaweed, walnuts, butter, spice and limes. But it’s the palate that sets your senses racing. Fleshy and juicy, but with real textural grip. Almost bitter, but not. Fine, elegant, with a cutlass of mineral, briony acidity […]
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Damien Laureau Savennieres “Belle Ouvrage” 2014 (sec)
$82.00Generously exotic scents of fresh pineapple, green lemon, grapefruit and white flowers on the nose. Power, complexity, structure, straightness and finesse define this wine. A noble wine. Very long lived.
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Bernard Baudry Chinon Blanc 2019
$60.00100% Chenin Blanc. Baudry’s rare Chinon Blanc hails from two small parcels: 0.8 hectares of vines behind the Château de Sonnay (these propagated with cuttings from the vineyards of Domaine Huet); and the eroded limestone of Le Clos Guillot. Vine age is in the 12 to 15 year ballpark. Matthieu Baudry naturally ferments the wine slowly […]
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Domaine Gramenon ‘Vie on y Est’ Cotes du Rhone Blanc 2020
$70.00The 2020 Côtes du Rhône Blanc ‘Vie on y Est’ is produced from Viognier and a touch of Clairette and spends six months in barrel before bottling. It has a discreet and floral nose with citrus oil, flowers and mint, much the same as fine Condrieu. Very pure and finer than usual in the mouth […]
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Clos Larrouyat Jurancon Sec Meteore 2020
$55.00Météore is the Domaine’s core wine and hails from a 60:40 blend of Gros and Petit Manseng. Naturally fermented, this wine saw a six-month élevage in neutral wood with bâttonage to add texture and depth. Full of tension and focus, this is the juicier, more perfumed of the two dry whites. It’s spring loaded with agile […]
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Jo Landron Muscadet Sevre et Maine Amphibolite 2019
$44.00This much-heralded cuvée shows a finely expressed style in this vintage, brimming with minty saline and iodine notes, along with softer notes of crushed chalk which give the wine a mineral freshness. There is a similarly soft style on the palate which is plush and lightly gripped, with lots of midpalate substance. I find good […]
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Domaine de la Pepiere Muscadet Sevre et Maine 2020
$32.00Very fresh always, with expressive white pear fruit. The palate is both tight and supple, although the feeling is very direct and refreshing. Fine acid underpins the wine – it’s lightly stony core with a fine cushion of elegant fruit and lovely lingering minerality. A wine to drink over the next 3 to 5 years, […]
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