Christmas Tasting 2024

Dense, spiced nose with intense blackberry and blueberry aromatics. The ripe fruit is supported with cocoa and spiced oak notes; intense to the finish.

Grapes: Odesa Black

Country: Ukraine

Region: Odesa

ABV: 13%

Food pairing: Excellent with beef and other red meats, and also grilled vegetables and chicken. Also fabulous with 70% plus dark chocolate after a meal.

Serving temperature: 16-18°C

ABV: 13%

Villa Tinta has been a family estate winery since 1998 when the winery foundation was laid and 500 hectares of family-owned vines were planted. The winery is situated in the Bolgrad district where winemaking was the source of life centuries ago.

Rich, and robust with plenty of grip and some nicely mature, savoury, spicy notes on the long finish.

Country: Italy

Region: Piedmonte

Grapes: Nebbiolo

ABV: 13.5%

Perfect with any dish that contains even a hint of truffle, great with braised red meat and porcini. Perfect with Spring Lamb too.

A classic Riesling of the Mittelhaardt with the typical fruit expression, which arises only on Buntsandstein: citrus, stone fruits and a wild herbal flavours. Taut and fresh acidity. Perfectly representative of the terroir and the origin of the grapes.

Country: Germany

Region: Mittelhaardt, Pfalz

Grapes: Riesling

ABV: 12.5%

VDP.Ortsweine

residual sugar 6.8%

Certified Organic

VDP.Ortsweine must be vinified from grapes, which come from one place. So the grapes for our Deidesheimer Riesling come exclusievely from Von Bhul single sites (VDP.Erste Lage and VDP. Grosse Lage) in Deidesheim.

Warm and spicy on the nose, aromas of fresh crushed raspberries and black cherry mingle with black pepper, allspice and woodsmoke. The palate has breadth and natural juiciness combining fresh cranberry and red berry fruit with spicy, peppercorn flavours. Best served at cool room temperature.

Country: South Africa

Region: Franschhoek

Grapes: Syrah 90%, Cabernet Franc 10%

ABV: 13%

Wildeberg’s rationale is to source the finest vineyards available to us across Franschhoek and the Coastal Region, from which cuvées the eyes are plucked to make Wildeberg and the Terroir Series releases. In doing so there remains a small yet definitive expression of all the vineyards we worked with, and its these cuvees that are again selected to go into Coterie by Wildeberg. Barrel fermented for 20 months

Very elegant old world style of Sauvignon. Clean, fresh and steely with beautiful minerality on the finish.

 Country: New Zealand

Region: Hawkes Bay

Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc

ABV: 13%

Organic

Rod McDonald is a New Zealand winemaking legend who arrived in Hawke's Bay 25 years ago as a green cellarhand. Following a stint at Villa Maria he became winemaker at Vidal before setting off on a solo adventure to craft the most compelling and exciting wines from the wide variety of soils throughout the region. 
Rod has chosen to farm organically to allow his wines to really represent both the land the grapes are grown on and the people who make them.

Intense aromatics with flavours of pears, grapefruit, melon, and gooseberry. Brilliant minerality and lemony acidity. Complex and juicy, yet unwaveringly lithe. Lingering finish reminiscent of lemony creams.

Country: Germany

Region: Franken

ABV: 13.5%

Grape: 100% Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc)

Food Match: Beautiful when paired with fresh salads or a diverse range of Asian-inspired dishes. This wine love's seafood! A perfect match is whole crab with lemon butter.

Fun Fact:  Weissburgunder (/vīs-bur-gūn-dur/) is another grape of the pinot family which originated in Burgundy, France. For that reason, the German word “burgunder” is used to mean pinot in the same sense French and English speakers use it. “Weiss,” like “blanc” in French or “bianco” in Italian, is the German word for the color white. So weissburgunder is the German name for pinot blanc/bianco

Winzerhof Stahl is a dynamic young estate from one of Germany’s rising star winemakers, Christian Stahl. Christian has been making waves on the national and international wine scene since he established the estate in 2005, winning multiple accolades across the world in recognition of his talent and contribution to the world of wine.


Based in Franken, in Bavaria, Stahl makes wines in a region with a long and fruitful viticultural history, spanning over 1200 years. The Main River runs through the verdant countryside, where small villages of cobblestone paving and timber-framed houses dot the landscape. Auernhofen, where Winzerhof Stahl is situated, is one of these such villages.

This ruby red wine is juicy, fresh and floral on the palate with delicate cherry aromas.  Forest fruit on nose, blueberry, round tannins, full bodied with a long finish of saltiness
and minerality.

Country: Slovenia

Region: Štajerska

Grapes: 50% Pinot noir,
50% Blaufrankisch

ABV: 13%

Food Match: Charcuterie and hard cheeses.