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• Red Wine

  2012 Peninsula Shiraz, Paringa Estate

  £3500

  A delicious cool climate shiraz from Morning ton Peninsula that we have aged in our cellars and after 8 years in bottle it is maturing nicely.

  In the glass, it is still opaque black purple colour with dark purple crimson hue. The aromas have developed since it was bottled and now waft tones of inky blackberry and liquorice with underlying dried meats and toasty vanillin spice also present.  Medium weight the palate has a flavour profile of blackberries, dark cherries and dark plum followed by a delicious spice flavour.  The finish is long, fresh and vibrant.    5% Viognier was co-fermented with the Shiraz and ageing took place in a combination of new and used French oak barriques for a period of 11 months

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  2011 Columbia Valley Merlot, Woodward Canyon

  £3650

  Merlot is a noble grape variety and at its best it is a magical glass of fine wine.  Merlot really has found a home in Washington State and none more so than at Woodward Canyon who produce some of the finest examples in the the ‘New’ World.  This 2011 Merlot is produced from grapes grown at several of the finest vineyards in Washington State. These include Woodward Canyon Estate Vineyard in the Walla Walla Valley and Klipsun Vineyard in the Red Mountains.

  Plush and dusty, this splendid Merlot offers unusual depth and texture and has clearly benefited from it’s 9 years of sleeping.   Along with black cherry fruit come highlights of herb and olive, spicy oak and rich earth. The density and detail carry through a long finish.

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  2009 Peninsula Shiraz, Paringa Estate

  £3900

  Co-fermented with 5% Viognier and aged for 11 months in seasoned French oak barriques. In the glass, it is an opaque dark red black tinged colour with a bright purple-red hue. Plum and liquorice aromas intermix with smoky vanillin cedar, earth and pepper notes. The pretty, light to medium weight palate is elegantly flavoured with spicy plum, cherries and red liquorice over faint vanillin cedar, light earth and pepper. Finishes fresh with fine-grained tannins and a moderate aftertaste. Vibrant, elegant, drinking very well after 11 years in bottle and under £30!

   

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  2005 Single Site Shiraz Lyndoch Shiraz ‘Fromm Vineyard’, Yalumba

  £4250

  The Yalumba Hand Picked Single Site wines are made to express the significance as well as the individuality of standout terroirs from within Yalumba growers vineyards.

  This 2005 Single Site Lyndoch Shiraz comes from the Fromm family vineyard on the northern outskirts of Lyndoch. This Shiraz block, known as the old Block 1, was planted in 1935 and produces a distinctly ripe southern Barossa style.

  It smells of black and red-berry fruits and is quite pure and assertive. It’s rich and dense with lovely meaty fruit. Liquorice and spice with pepper and integrated toasty oak that adds another spice dimension. Quite savoury and showing it’s from a cool climate vintage. There is sweet fruit too- black cherry, raspberry, plum and cassis with hints of mint.

  Only 318 cases produced.

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  2011 `Kyè` Langhe Freisa, G.D. Vajra

  £4250

  Freisa is an ancient local grape variety from Langhe that is fighting for survival. Part of the history and identity of Piemonte since ancient times, Freisa is one of the closest relatives of Nebbiolo. This wine is Vajra’s homage to this rare treasure of Langhe.

  Deep ruby red colour. Red berries, tobacco, roses, and white pepper with hints of hay and wild herbs on the nose. Full-bodied with balanced acidity and alcohol, this wine is sapid and rich with a long finish of black fruits and spices.

  Grapes for this wine are sourced from San Ponzio Vineyard in the Commune of Barolo. They are grown at an altitude of 390-410 metres above sea level, on a clay-rich soil with an assortment of vines selected by Aldo Vaira in an old vineyard planted by his grandfather.

   

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  2014 Pinot Noir, Stargazer

  £4500

  This stunning Pinot Noir from Samatha Connew is a world-class wine and sits in the top tier of Australian Pinot Noir (it had the honour of being rated Tasmania’s best Pinot noir in the 2014 vintage).

  Owner and winemaker of Stargazer, Samantha is a former Red Winemaker of the Year, a title won whilst head winemaker at McLaren Vale’s Wirra Wirra Vineyards.   Now bringing her skills to bear on her own project she is undoubtedly going to propel Stargazer onto ever greater heights.

  This 2014 is bright crimson with perfumed spicy lavendar and red fruits – the palate is almost smoky with dark savoury fruit and an abundance of fine tannin.  Will cellar very well and develop layers of complexity as it ages.

  Stargazer pays tribute to Abel Tasman, who as an explorer and navigator, must have spent a fair amount of time gazing towards the heavens. Tasman, a Dutchman under the employ of the United East India Company was the first European to sight Tasmania (on 24 November 1642) and then the South Island of New Zealand, nineteen days later on 13 December.

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  2008 Shiraz ‘Westgate Vineyard’, The Story

  £4500

  This is a single vineyard wine made (in the winemaker’s words) ‘naturally fermented over 21 days in open French oak puncheons, then hand bucketed and pressed to 31% new French oak from Francois Frères, and Gillet cooperages. It was allowed to mature for 14 months (then bottled) without fining or filtration’.   The result – very floral Shiraz characters such as violets, graphite, meat, black fruits and black pepper.  The palate is full of warm spice synonymous with the Grampians region. A dark, ripe, controlled and firm core of black fruit and spice ripples through the palate, the tannins are generous but supportive, and the finish fresh and lengthy.

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  2007 Peninsula Shiraz, Paringa Estate

  £4500

  This really is cracking wine from the Über Cool Mornington Peninsula.  This Shiraz includes a 5% Viognier component and was matured for 15 months in a combination of new and used barriques.  

  The bouquet of this wine has spicy blackberry fruit combined with the subtle but distinctive aromatics of viognier. On the palate, the wine has plum/blackberry fruit flavours followed by some black pepper. Good length. Fine-grained tannins with long aftertaste of blackberry, liquorice and black pepper. An excellent cool-climate Shiraz.

   

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  2018 Moppa Springs Grenache-Mataro-Shiraz, Rockford

  £4500

  A stupendous blend of Grenache, Mataro and Shiraz is elegant and restrained with a subtle note of vanilla and pretty floral notes.  The Grenache supplies tangy sour cherry to this blend whilst Mataro offers a savoury cocoa note and Shiraz holds it all together with a backbone of fine tannins and a touch of brambly fruit.

  Moppa Springs, Ebenezer, and Kalimna, are some of the driest areas in the Barossa. This hard country is cold, wet and frosty during pruning, then hot, dry and dusty during harvest. These are the kind of tough conditions that ensure Grenache, Mataro, and Shiraz give their best.

  The grapes are hand-forked into Rockford’s famed 1880’s Bagshaw de-stemmer, open-fermented and then gently basket pressed. All of the components for Moppa Springs are aged separately in a combination of seasoned American and French oak hogsheads and large vats to allow the tannins to soften and colours and flavours to consolidate.

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  2010 Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, L’Ecole No.41

  £4550

  L’Ecole Nº 41 has been producing premium, handcrafted varietal wines in the Walla Walla Valley since 1983 in the historic Frenchtown School in Lowden, Washington.

  Linseed oil, blackberry, cassis and leather aromas, flavours of ripe plum, currants and dark chocolate, very soft tannin indeed with a silky texture and an earthy, spicy finish.

  The winemakers at L’Ecole recommend the age-ability of this wine to be between 10 to 20 years, so at 10 years this 2010 is really starting to show at its best. Delicious now and for many more years yet! Basically we have done the hard work for you!

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  2017 Syrah ‘Clonal Selection’, Kershaw

  £4750

  A subtle, precise style of Syrah built on fine tannins that educe harmony and freshness with flavours of black fruits, iodine and ground white peppercorns.  Only 9253 bottles and 33 Magnums.

  The grapes come from five small vineyard parcels in several locations in the Elgin Valley. Elgin is the coolest wine region in South Africa and is situated on an inland, hexagonal shaped plateau, at an altitude of 300 metres. The region is surrounded by mountains and lies just over six miles from the Atlantic Ocean, which brings occasional sea-borne mists. February is the hottest month of the year, with daytime temperatures peaking at 23°C and night-time temperatures dipping to 14°C. The benefit of this cooler climate is that the grape cluster stays connected to its roots for longer, so it develops complex characteristics and achieves physiological ripeness more gradually, resulting in lower sugar levels and consequently lower alcohol levels.

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  2017 Pinot Noir, Hamilton Russell

  £4900

  Hamilton Russell Vineyards, one of the most southerly wine Estates in Africa and one of the closest to the sea – is located in the beautiful, cool, maritime Hemel-en-Aarde Valley appellation.  The Estate specialises in producing highly individual, terroir-driven Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, which are widely regarded as the best in South Africa and among the best in the New World.

  ‘The wine is very rich and intense on the nose, brimming with dried rose petals, lavender, cherry blossom and dried thyme and oregano herbs. The palate is super concentrated with sweet black cherry, graphite spice and grey slatey gravelly minerality. While this wine has more concentration than previous vintages, it also has restraint and dusty structured tannins that add a beautiful frame from which to hang the complex fruit adornments. There is a real gravitas, complexity and textured layers to this very ‘grown up’ wine. The finish is long and precise and just when you think the last word will be left on a mineral note, a burst of pithy juicy stony red cherry fruit kicks in to tantalise the palate. This is a great effort from winemaker Emul Ross and a killer wine that should age gracefully for 15+ years.’ 95+ points, Greg Sherwood MW

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  2010 The Ironstone Pressings GSM, d’Arenberg

  £4900

  The Ironstone Pressings is named because most of McLaren Vale’s acclaimed and historic vineyards are impregnated with ancient, decomposed laterite granite known as ironstone. Its extraordinary rusty red-brown colour is derived from the iron oxides present in the stone. The larger pieces were cleared from the vineyards in the late 1880s and utilised in many of the buildings at d’Arenberg, most notably the old stables.

  Unctuous blackberry and plum notes lay at the heart of this classic d’Arenberg example of a Grenache, Shiraz and Mourvedre (GSM).  A spattering of exotic spices the likes of star anise, cardamom and nutmeg cling to the sweet, dark fruits and of course, it wouldn’t be a d’Arenberg wine without a rousing dose of earthy, gamey character.   The palate is fleshy and juicy with an almost velvet-like texture. Abundantly warm and generous but sufficiently structured to suggest this wine can go the long hall.

  While enjoyable in youth, this wine will reach its full potential with bottle age up to at least 20 years. The considerable structure and depth will ensure that the fruit characters will develop over time revealing more complexity and providing immense interest.

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  2011 Pinot Noir ‘Museum Release’, Dog Point Vineyard

  £4950

  Dog Point has since their first vintage in 2002, set aside a limited quantity of each vintage for later release, with this 2011 being the latest release from their museum.

  In its prime now this wonderful Marlborough Pinot Noir is a deep ruby in the glass, with aromas of spice and ripe red fruits imbued with hints of leather and mushroom, together with subtle spicy oak savouriness. On the palate, deliciously flavoured with intense red fruits, subtle sweetness and excellent balance. Well-integrated oak leads to a delicate lingering soft, supple finish.

  Dog Point Pinot is similar in production to some of the great houses of Burgundy and is made using 75% destemmed grapes and 25% whole bunches, which spends a total of 18 months in oak (30% new).

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  2020 Guidalberto, Tenuta San Guido

  £5000

  Sassicaia’s younger brother Guidalberto consistently offers incredible value from the Tenuta San Guido stable.   Nicolo Incisa della Rocchetta, Tenuta San Guido’s owner, explains how Guidalberto came into being: “first of all, [there was] the desire to see what we could accomplish with Merlot, a grape that we had never used before; second, the desire to offer the consumer a wine which could be appreciated at a younger age compared to our veteran Sassicaia”.

  The 2020 Guidalberto has an increased percentage of Merlot (60%) that brings added freshness to a wine that is in great shape for one so young. This the 21^st vintage of Guidalberto has a profound nose that offers ripe, fragrant fruit and sweet spice. Plum, strawberry, blackcurrant and forest floor reveal the interplay of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, which constitute equal parts of the blend this year. The palate is juicy and supple, with admirable freshness given the warm vintage, framed by fine tannins. Drink 2022-2030.

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