25 to 40

Álvaro Domecq's Vermut is made with a combination of Oloroso and Pedro Ximenez sherries, with more than 20 different botanicals. Sweet and full-bodied yet silky smooth with an excellent balance of bitterness – great with ice, soda and a slice of orange.

Grapes: Palomino Fino and Pedro Ximenez

ABV: 15.5%

A deliciously unique blend, with lime and rose petals, green apple, orange zest, backed with toasted almond characters, multi-layered and charmingly complex. Reflecting Pieter’s focus on overlooked, high-quality vineyards.

Country: South Africa

Region: Western Cape

Grapes: Grenache Blanc, Clairette Blanche, Fernão Pires, Semillon and Verdelho

ABV: 13.5%

The combination of fruit from 17 Western Cape sites, including Grenache Blanc (Piekenierskloof), Clairette Blanche and Fernão Pires (Swartland), plus Semillon (Elgin) and Verdelho (Voor Paardeberg), brought together in this defining blend created from Pieter's conscious brain. His favourite barrels, tank selections and varietals from a range of different sites across the winelands, then aged 10 months in old French oak.

Winemakers don't come much more creatively brilliant than the genius that is Pieter Walser. He's the sort of man that's had more fantastic ideas before breakfast than we manage in a whole week and that talent shines through in his wines. Each comes with a story often as captivating as they are mystifying so we've asked him to record a few to give you an insight into the magic behind the vino!

Round and elegant wine with classic, subtle buttery notes balanced by juicy acidity. A top quality white Burgundy with more than 10 year aging potential.

Country: France

Region: Burgundy

Grapes: Chardonnay

ABV: 12.5%

Light refreshing and easy-drinking Provence rose. This wine is full of floral notes and also displays aromas of citrus, lemongrass and red currant. 

Country: France

Region: Provence

Grapes: Grenache, Tibouren, Mourvèdre, Rolle

ABV: 12.5%

Colour dense, darkly garnet. Nose is full of bright aromas with intense notes of black fruits. In taste of tone of ripe red and black berries, slightly oaked, earthy flavours with good tannin structure, with pleasant, balanced, juicy acidity. Complex Christmas cake character. Soft and fleshy on the palate with mocha notes. Excellent body in the mouth point to a long life in the bottle.

Country: Georgia

Region: Nukriani in Signaghi

Grapes: Budeshuri Saperavi

ABV: 12.5%

Food Match: Cheese and cured meats with nuts and salty crisps

Savoury and elegant wine coming from vineyards of more than 20 years located at the core of the village Nukriani in Signaghi area. Kakheti. Georgia. 

Budeshuri Saperavi is a distinct bio-type of Saperavi , native to the Kakheti region. It is traditionally cultivated in small plots for its aromatic refinement and natural balance. The name “Budeshuri” is believed to reference its historical origin in the Budeshe area near Telavi. Compared to the more widespread Saperavi Didi (large-berried clone), Budeshuri has smaller berries and thinner skins, resulting in wines of greater concentration, finesse, fragrance, and precision.

A fine, expressive style with Barolo's classic combination of mature, lightly floral aromas with richness and structure. Dark plum, leather and delicate violet aromas, plus notes of wood smoke and brown spice. A full, firm and ripe red with rich, powerful flavours. All balanced by ripe tannins, complex savoury notes and a long finish.

Country: Italy

Region: Piemonte

Grapes: Nebbiolo

ABV: 13.5%

Vegan

Food pairing: Perfect with any dish that contains even a hint of truffle, great with braised red meat and porcini.

After pressing the wine was settled for two days, and then racked to stainless steel tanks for malolactic fermentation. After three years maturation in 50hl Slavonian oak casks it was racked and bottled.

Intense red cherry fruit aromas on the nose and palate. This ‘baby Barolo’ is made from Nebbiolo grapes from selected sites in the Langhe region giving a delicious, medium bodied wine  with garnet highlights and a wonderful scent of ripe prunes. This is a really well-balanced wine, rounded and smooth, and expresses the typical characteristics of the Nebbiolo varietal and its terroir. From of of the two certified biodynamic wine estates in Barolo.

Country: Italy

Region: Piedmont

Grapes: Nebbiolo

ABV: 13.5%

Food Match: Antipasto, pasta dishes with tomato sauce or slow cooked red meat stews. Very versatile.

Rich and textured from spending 12 months in oak barrels. Aromas and flavours of stone fruit, citrus and vanilla with a long and mineral finish.

Grapes: 50% Chardonnay, 50% Aligoté

Country: Ukraine

Region: Kyiv, Odesa

ABV: 12%

Food pairing: 

"BIOLOGIST craft winery” from the Kyiv region creates unique and unmatched wines. They have rented vineyards in the Odesa region (the majority of nowadays wines are made from these grapes) and a 1.5-hectare vineyard in the Kyiv region, which is experimental and biodynamic.

Rich, complex and voluptuous Chenin stony soils, with a warm, dry climate and sea breeze unique to the Malgas region of South Africa. Fresh fruit and complex mineral  flavours, this wine carries on for a long time on the finish. 

Country: South Africa

Region: Malgas, Swellendam, Western Cape

Grapes: Chenin Blanc

ABV: 14%

Sijnn is prounounced 'sen', or 'seine'

Certified IPW sustainable

Fresh, creamy, with soft red fruit flavours on the palate and aromas of mangosteen and strawberry. 

Country: South Africa

Region: Overberg Highlands

ABV: 12.5%

Grapes: Malbec

Food Match: Oysters, fresh from the sea or antipasti.

Great balance and fruit in this high quality Alsace Riesling.

A pure fruit driven nose, perfumed with cut limes and a hint of petrol and candle wax. The wine has a voluptuous, honeyed palate and is intensely fruity with white peach and apricot flavours and mineral complexity. The finish is dry, refreshing and beautifully balanced, and incredibly open for a young Alsace Riesling.

Country: France

Region: Alsace

ABV: 13%

Grapes: Riesling

Light straw yellow colour.  Aromas of white flowers and yellow fruits, guava with a note of sage. Great balance between acidity and minerality with weight and texture on the mid palate a fresh finish.

Country: Italy

Region: Veneto

Grapes: Garganega

Food Match: poultry, Asian dishes or salads

Aromatic and lifted nose of raspberry, plumb, white pepper and red berries. A beautifully layered, textural palate with wild strawberry and spice on the finish.

Country: Australia

Region: McLaren Vale

Grapes: Grenache

ABV: 14%

Food Matches: Moroccan lamb tagine

A beautiful, pale rosé with crisp, refreshing acidity, perfect for summer. The palate is bright and lively, with red berries, vibrant citrus, delicate tropical notes and a touch of salinity, reflecting the vineyard's close proximity to the river.

Country: England

Region: Crouch Valley, Essex

Grapes: Pinot Noir

ABV: 13.5%

A wonderful new addition to our range of English wines. Husband and wife team Umut and Katie Yesil manage their Essex vineyard with a low-intervention and sustainable approach. They don’t use herbicides and manage the vineyard mechanically rather than chemically where possible, to protect soil health and biodiversity which is hugely important to them. 

Ripe and spicy nose with complex aromas of violets, cassis, tobacco and liquorice. Full-bodied, with concentrated ripe plum and dried black fruit characters - all enhanced by fine tannins from well-integrated spicy oak. Beautifully balanced acidity with a sour cherry twist. 

Country: Italy

Region: Chianti

Grape: Sangiovese, Pugnitello, Abrusco and Malvasia Nera

ABV:  13.5%

A seriously complex, generous style of Chianti Classico produced from San Felice's oldest vines and best plots of Sangiovese (80%), with a mix of other native varieties from their experimental vitiarium, including Pugnitello, Abrusco and Malvasia Nera.

A refined, light golden straw colour with a fine lively mousse and a great complexity of aromatics. Pronounced and rich yeasty tones on entry, layered with bright green lime zest to citrus aromas from the Chardonnay. Followed by raspberry notes and sweet sour cherry fruit aromas, from the Pinot Noir. Brilliant brightness due to long lees ageing with well-structured layers. Bright long lingering finish.

Country: South Africa

Region: Robertson, Stellenbosch

Grapes: Chardonnay 61% & Pinot Noir 39%

ABV: 12%

No introductions are required for Mr and Mrs Bubbles themselves. Ann, the owner, and Pieter, the winemaker, at Pieter Ferreira are nothing short of South African legends. 

Pieter has always been a fearless boundary breaker when it comes to producing some of the world’s best bubbly – his journey started out with three harvests in Champagne before returning to South Africa where he chairs the Cap Classique Association and is a member of the Cape Winemakers Guild. The Extra Brut 2017 is no exception to his rule of excellence.

The 2018 vintage produced Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with great elegance. This release offers wonderful balance, ripe fruit and restraint. The Chardonnay and Pinot Noir were hand-selected and hand-picked. After whole bunch pressing with the separation of cuvée from the taille the clear juice was fermented in stainless steel. Only cuvée juice is used for fermentation. After the first fermentation, the wine was blended and prepared for secondary fermentation in the bottle. The wine stays on the lees for 54 months and then is riddled and disgorged.

Yuzu fruit soaked in Ginjo-grade sake give a wonderfully vibrant citrus flavours with a hint of mint.

A fantastic white rum from a highly respected rum distillery.

A fresh, fruity and young white rum thats the perfect mixing rum for all the classic rum cocktails.

Country: Barbados

Region: Barbados

ABV: 40%

The Story of RL Seale & Co

The Foursquare Distillery occupies the site of a former sugar factory that dates back to 1636 and, as one of the most modern and efficient rum distilleries in the world, is designed to be both highly energy efficient and environmentally friendly. The distillery produces light rums in a three-column vacuum still and heavier rums in a modern pot still.RL Seale is one of Barbados’ oldest trading houses, a family-owned business whose involvement in rum-making extends from father-to-son since 1820. Current head distiller, Richard Seale, is one of the region’s most innovative distillers and blenders and has a passion for producing perfect rum with great flavour.

Rum has been produced on the island of Barbados for more than 300 years, but it was not until the 1906 Rum Duty Act was passed that the industry began to develop as we know it today. Prior to this, distillation took place on many of the plantations, but the new law meant the distilleries had to obtain a licence and could sell only in bulk. Hence many of the Bridgetown trading companies became bottlers, including Martin Doorly & Co, and the growth of branded names began. Martin Doorly evolved into Doorly’s Macaw Rum, and became the first bottled rum exported from the island. Doorly’s rums are still famous throughout the world.

A mixed selection of 12 locally brewed craft ales

100% Semillon from Elgin, made after Pieter had his second epileptic fit. The label is a scan of his brain, the resulting wine is incredibly complex. Savoury nutty notes interspersed with stone fruit and saline finish.

Country: South Africa

Region: Elgin

Grapes: Semillon

ABV: 13.5%

Winemakers don't come much more creatively brilliant than the genius that is Pieter Walser. He's the sort of man that's had more fantastic ideas before breakfast than we manage in a whole week and that talent shines through in his wines. Each comes with a story often as captivating as they are mystifying so we've asked him to record a few to give you an insight into the magic behind the vino!

Medium to full bodied, delicious red from rock star wine maker and artist Pieter Walser. The translation of the broken down word Malbec in Afrikaans: Mal  - Mad, Bek - mouth is the inspiration for the striking label! Aromas of blackberry, blueberry, baking spices and heady whiffs of violets create complexity. Dark berry fruit, liquorice, notes of sweet tobacco and allspice follow through onto a vibrant mid-palate with bright, svelte tannins and a silky texture. The wine shows exceptional balance with fresh, integrated acidity. Dark plums, black olives and hints of tar and cigar box linger on an earthy finish.

Country: South Africa

Region: Stellenbosch

Grapes: Malbec

ABV: 14.5%

Fresh and vibrant, with ripe pear, citrus and white peach, the wine combines lively acidity with the gentle roundness of Semillon, bringing texture, balance and poise. The finish is clean, precise and lingering.

Country: South Africa

Region: Polkadraai Hills, Stellenbosch

Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon and Chenin Blanc

ABV: 13.5%

Organic and Biodynamic

Vegan/Vegetarian

Intense straw yellow colour with golden highlights. Beautifully balanced, fresh and clean, with a hint of toasted hazelnut richness and a long, creamy finish.

Country: Italy

Region: Langhe, Piedmont

Grapes: Chardonnay

ABV: 13.5%

Fresh lemon and lime followed by creamy nuttiness on the nose. This wine has a complex structure with a vibrant crisp palate flowing into an elegant oak finish.

Country: South Africa

Region: Simonsberg, Paarl

ABV: 14%

Grapes: 100% Chardonnay