Fine Red Wine

Winemaker Enrico Mercato has crafted this sumptuous lightly oak aged wine which is soft and full of rich black fruit flavours with a hint of spices and a lovely finish.

The Gran Reserva red from Altos, invariably 8-10 years old, has long been a favourite of ours and of many of our customers, with its astonishingly low price.

Made from low-yielding Grenache vines averaging over 70 years of age for a delicious example of how good modern Spanish winemaking gets.

Catlo Volpi’s organic sangiovese from high altitude vineyards in Le Marche is a fruit driven red that makes for perfect summer drinking.

A lovely grenache, syrah and carignan blend with bags of crunchy ripe fruit and a hint of plumbs, strawberries and spices with a lingering finish. It will age well.

From the exceptional and forward 2018 vintage - our everyday drinking claret with everything we are all looking for - soft, rich merlot driven fruit.

A delicious red Rhône and a long a favourite of the Guide Hachette des Vins, Hugh Johnson, Robert Parker and ours. Grenache, syrah and just a touch of mourvedre.

A lovely pinot noir from the Languedoc made by Burgundian Bruno Lafon, at a fraction of the price of red burgundy from the Cote d’Or or Cote Chalonnaise.

A great example from Saint-Gervais - one of the best Côtes-du-Rhône Villages. A blend of ripe syrah and grenache and is gloriously rich and jammy.

The Meffre family with 900 hectares of vineyards make some of the finest Châteauneuf and Gigondas. Their everyday Plan du Dieu is a bargain.

This hand picked and hand sorted premium pinot noir comes from a small, steep vineyard, known for more than 300 years as the Hundertpfunder above the Neusiedlersee. 

A delightful rich 2015 Graves from vineyards first planted by monks in the 17th century. At the time they knew more about where to plant than anyone.

made from 40 year old vines and aged in French oak barrels. Priorat with just Rioja has the highest designation for a wine appellation in Spain.

A delightful soft juicy red made by Alexander Sichel that is lapped up by the Wine Bars and Bistros in Paris who always eek out the best new wines.

An elegant, silky, complex style of Pinot from the upper reaches of the Awatere Valley and Southern Hills sub-region of the Wairau in Marlborough. Supreme value.