Light Reds
Light Reds
Calusari Pinot Noir 2022
Regular price £10.95Pinot Noir is one of Romania’s greatest hidden secrets. Probably the only place in the world that can do this grape variety justice at such brilliant value.
Delicate aromas of blackberry and touches of violets. A juicy, light-bodied palate with black cherry flavour and fresh finish. Enjoy slightly chilled with rich, creamy fish dishes.
Country: Romania
Region: Recas and Minis
ABV: 12.5%
Grapes: Pinot Noir
As you walk through the rolling vineyards of the 700 hectare Cramele Recas estate, two things are inescapable. The first is the scale of the transformation that Englishman Philip Cox and his wife Elvira have managed to achieve, replanting 700 hectares of decrepit vineyards and replacing them with immaculately tended sites the equal of anywhere else in the world. The second is that if you didn't know where you were, you'd be convinced you were in Tuscany or any other "Classic" wine producing region. And, to a certain extent you are, Romania has a history of winemaking stretching back millennia and it was this potential that has driven this dynamic duo to dedicate their lives to driving forward Romanian winemaking to it's current state of rude health. A 20 million euro investment in the vineyards and brand new winery.
Long Barn Pinot Noir 2021
Regular price £15.95Really bold and smokey Pinot oozing loads of ripe cherries and mulberry characters.
Country: USA
Region: California
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 13.5%
Santa Macarena Single Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021
Regular price £13.95Only 5km from the coast, this cool climate vineyard produces fantastic Pinot Noir.
This wine is bright, aromatic and fresh with subtle oak playing a supporting role. The emphasis on the delicious red fruit flavours, drinkability and enjoyment. A seriously cool Pinot.
Country: Chile
Region: Aconcagua Valley
ABV: 14%
Grapes: Pinot Noir
The Cloud Factory Pinot Noir Marlborough 2020
Regular price £16.95Pretty and poised Pinot.
Classic cranberry and red current aromas giving us a wine with enough bite and texture to be foody but with enough generosity of fruit to be a delicious glass on its own. A touch of oak in the wine making lends a little soothing creaminess to the finish.
Country: New Zealand
Region: Marlborough
ABV: 13%
Grape: Pinot Noir 100%
Jaffelin Pinot Noir Vin De France 2021
Regular price £13.95This wine represents phenomenally good value for money! Soft, red berry fruit and silky tannins, very moreish.
Country: France
Region: Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 12.5%
Wildsong Pinot Noir 2021
Regular price £19.95Black cherry, violet and subtle herb characters on the nose with complex liquorice and earth flavours on the palate. Firm, but ripe tannins, great structure.
Country: New Zealand
Region: Hawke's Bay
Grapes: Pinot Noir
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.
Eagle Rock Vineyards 11th Hour Pinot Noir NV
Regular price £13.95Cherry, strawberry and rhubarb notes define the aromatics of this wine and are backed by hints of cinnamon and oregano. Bright flavours of cherry, raspberry and ripe tomato are balanced by a layer of earthy mushroom. Smooth and silky!
Country: USA
Region: California
Grapes: Pinot Noir
Vegan/Vegetarian
From the Sacramento and Lodi areas at the northern end of California’s San Joaquin Valley.
Santenay Les Heritiers Saint-Genys Rouge 2019
Regular price £35.95Rustic in a pretty way; your classic rosy-cheeked farmer's daughter. Violets on the nose. Great structure, pure elegance.
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
ABV: 12.5%
Grapes: Pinot Noir
Burgundy is renowned for a jigsaw of small plots, fitting side by across the rolling cotes and cru with many different owners - the result of equal inheritance. While some heirs want to make wine, others prefer to live their lives elsewhere, meaning their plots go unloved. Enter Patrice du Jeu, a Parisian restaurateur with the dynamism and energy to revive such plots. Together with family and friends, he managed to buy several parcels in excellent terroirs of the Côte de Beaune including Santenay, Chassagne Montrachet and Mercurey. Joining with white Burgundy expert Jean-Baptise Alinc the wines of these heirs - Les Héritiers - are both technically competent and beautifully crafted.
Cartlidge & Browne Pinot Noir 2022
Regular price £21.95Without a doubt, one of the very best Pinot Noirs we have found (and we kiss a lot of frogs!)
Cherry, strawberry and rhubarb notes define the aromatics of this wine and are backed by hints of cinnamon and oregano. Bright flavours of cherry, raspberry and ripe tomato are balanced by a layer of earthy mushroom. Smooth and silky!
Country: USA
Region: California
Grapes: 89% Pinot Noir, 11% Zinfandel
Vegan/Vegetarian
Food Match: Veal, Venison, Salmon
The Cartlidge & Browne slogan; “Please stick your nose in our business”, has become an offbeat way of expressing the winery's attitude that wine should not be taken so seriously! Everyone at C&B has chosen winemaking as a profession for many reasons, but above all else, they want the wines they produce to ignite stories of good friends, good food, lots of laughter and lasting memories.
Josef Chromy Pinot Noir 2017
Regular price £29.95This wine has deep, dark cherry and raspberry fruit flavours with hints of mocha and clove. Sweet fruit and subtle savoury tannins provides an elegant, supple and long finish.
Country: Australia
Region: Tasmania
ABV: 14%
Grape: Pinot Noir
Josef Chromy is a true success story based on hard work, experience and commitment to creating quality wine. Since arriving in Australia as a refugee from Soviet-occupied Czechslovakia, he has been a major proponent on the Tasmanian wine scene. He invested in the state’s fledgling wine industry and has owned and developed some of Tasmania’s leading wineries including Jansz, Heemskerk, Tamar Ridge Wines and what is now known as Bay of Fires.
Montsablé Reserve Pinot Noir 2021
Regular price £13.95Aromas of dark cherry and blackberry plus a rich, round palate of red berry fruit are complemented by toasty, vanilla notes that bring a touch of spice to the finish.
Country: France
Region: P Haute Vallée de L’Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Pinot Noir
Food Match: Beautiful drinking on its own or with game, robust fish or slow cooked stews.
Creation Pinot Noir 2020
Regular price £27.95A full bodied style of Pinot Noir this vintage. Deep ruby in colour. Intensely fragrant bouquet of red berry aromas, elegant vanilla and a touch of wood spice. These follow through on the full-bodied palate where soft, supple tannins contribute to the dense structure. Well balanced with a lingering aftertaste. Yummy!
Country: South Africa
Region: Hemel en Aarde
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 14%
Cantina Terlano Riserva Pinot Noir Monticol 2020/21
Regular price £39.95The whole team is in love with this wine after sharing a magnum for our Christmas dinner at Prime. Floral and elegant nose of violets and strawberries with a dusting of cocoa. Concentrated, yet light and delicate. A beautiful, ethereal finish of minerality and fruit.
Country: Italy
Region: South Tyrol
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 13%
Pinot Noir Johanneshof Reinisch 2021
Regular price £19.95A charming fragrance and intensity, with aromas and flavours of raspberries and blackberries. Very elegant, with soft, round tannins and a lovey lingering finish.
Country: Austria
Region: Thermenregion, Lower Austria
ABV 12.5%
Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
ORGANIC
Food Match: This wine fits excellent to roast veal, wildfowl (pheasant, partridge), and coq au vin. Pairs very nicely with mushroom risotto/pasta dishes too.
Now in its fourth generation of winemakers, the 40 hectare estate is run by Johann Reinisch's three sons: Hannes, Michael and Christian. With a 2,000 year legacy of wine growing in the region, the Reinischs maintain traditions with vineyards planted with 65 % red and 35 % white vines. The winery is best known for their excellent Pinot Noir and St. Laurent grown in vineyards from both the stony, alluvial gravel soils of Tattendorf (rich in both chalk and lime) near the winery and the elevated, nutrient rich soils of Gumpoldskirchen.
Lyme Bay Pinot Noir 2021
Regular price £35.00From young Pinot Noir vines showing great potential. Lovely and ripe from the 2020 sunshine, showing notes of crunchy red fruits like cranberries and currants. Wonderful English red!
Country: England
Region: Devon
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 12%
2020 gave us a long summer which enabled the fruit to ripen to its potential and produces a wine busting with fruit character. Deeply coloured and concentrated this wine has great potential to develop over the next few years. Drinking now the wine really comes to life in a large glass which gives the wine every opportunity to release all its aromas.
Ten Minutes by Tractor 10x Pinot Noir 2021
Regular price £36.00This cool climate Aussie Pinot punches above its weight.
Surprisingly restrained and elegant for what was a warm ripening season. There are layers of complexity here. Lifted aromatics of tart cherry, fresh tobacco leaves and candied ginger, the palate is supported by a fine acidity, gentle tannins & alluring savoury characteristics of dried red earth, leather and pencil shavings.
Country: Australia
Region: Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
Grapes: 100% Pinot Noir
ABV: 13%
Bercher Burkheimer Spätburgunder Village (Pinot Noir) 2019
Regular price £24.95Wonderfully light, full of wild strawberry, bitter red cherry and raspberry aromas and flavours.
Country: Germany
Region: Kaiserstuhl, Baden
Grapes: Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir)
ABV: 13%
Perfect with roast pork loin stuffed with garlic, onions and sage.
Located between the Rhine River and the Black Forest, Burkheim produces lush and mineralic wines that are ideal companions to a wide range of modern cuisine. Bercher<br>produces Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir), Weißburgunder (Pinot Blanc) and Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris). All the wines go through extended lees-aging and have a wonderful aging potential.
Domaine Lucien Boillot Gevrey Chambertin 2021
Regular price £98.00Powerful and concentrated on the nose. This may only be a village wine, but it has has the opulence and stature of a 1er Cru.
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 13.5%
Heritage Collection Heart Break Grape Pinot Noir 2019
Regular price £32.00'Pinot Noir sidles up halfway through the bottle, revealing a hint of heaven and then leaving you heartbroken. This starts the obsession. Some of us fall so hard we go beyond acquiring bottles, we plant the mercurial grape, usually in land that talks to our heart, not our head.
This wine is from the deep, cold south, where storms smash frigid waves into the rocky coast and where winemakers dream of finding meaning in their lives and loves. It is ethereal and nuanced and perfectly poised to make you smile that knowing smile.'
Country: South Africa
Region: Cape South Coast, Hemel-en-Aarde Valley (69.5%), Elim (30%) and Overberg (0.5%)
ABV: 13%
Grapes: Pinot Noir
Food Match:
Pair with slow-braised wild rabbit rack on a bed of shredded fried parsnips and roasted pine nuts.
Adelsheim Breaking Ground Pinot Noir 2021
Regular price £59.95Deliciously layered aromas of black cherry and raspberry lift out of the glass, followed by exotic spice notes and a dark, rich loamy quality. This wine is like satin in the mouth—so supple. It toes the line between ethereal and ponderous in the most delightful way.
Country: USA
Region: Chehalem Mountains, Oregon
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 13%
Chanzy Mercurey Rouge 1er Cru 'Clos Voyens' 2021
Regular price £45.00One of the first Premier Crus to be designated as such in 1943, ‘Clos Voyens’ is a 1ha south-west facing vineyard at the top of a hill that borders a small wood. Around 40-50% whole bunch fermentation this year and to great effect. A perfumed nose, with notes of wet stone. The perfect balance of sweet mulberry, red cherry and strawberry fruit, with some herbal (Eucalyptus and Pine) undertones, and a lovely lifted finish. This is beautifully balanced and delicious, and will be even more so in 5 - 8 years’ time.
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Grapes: Pinot Noir
Food Match: Roast duck or partridge
La Crema Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir 2022
Regular price £36.00A nose of raspberry, cranberry, black liquorice, and exotic tea notes. The palate has red cherry, plum, and boysenberry, subtle hints of espresso and cocoa nib underpin notes
of spice and toast. Firm yet integrated tannins and bright acidity drives a long finish.
Country: USA
Region: Sonoma County, California
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Pinot Noir