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The magnificent Massaya Arak is produced exclusively from local Obeidi grapes and green organic aniseed. It is triple distilled in the traditional process using copper stills and heated by fragrant fires of vinewood. The spirit is then aged in ancient clay amphorae for two years. This is best enjoyed on the rocks or as an ingredient in a multitude of cocktails.

The name Massaya comes from the Lebanese word for twilight which captures the moment the sun sets behind Mount Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley becomes a beautiful dark blue colour - their Arak bottle is a similar, mesmerising blue colour.

Country: Lebanon

Region: Bekaa Valley

Grapes: Obeidi grapes with green organic aniseed

ABV: 53%

A brilliant Petit Chablis - ripe and untouched by oak. Showing all the characteristics of the terroir, as well as lemony freshness and vivacity, underpinned by tight minerality.

Country: France

Region: Chablis

ABV: 12.5%

Grapes:  100% Chardonnay

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

A generously textured Chenin with some serious ageing potential, this wine is extremely versatile. Lots of ripe apple notes with a lightly smoky backdrop and a very long, mineral finish.

Country: France

Region: Loire

Grapes: Chenin Blanc

ABV: 13.5%

Organic

This is a vegan wine with a potential to bottle age. A ripe red wine with the notes of dried herbs, plums and cherry. The tannins are ripe with the flavour of liquorice. A long and complex finish that leads to the notes of orange peel and ripe red fruit.

Country: Italy

Region: Veneto

Grape Variety: Corvina 30%, Corvinone 30%, Rondinella 30%

ABV: 17%

Food Match: game, roast beef, mature cheeses

Fruity nose often expressing notes of rhubarb. Full mouth with lots of fat on the finish and notes of toasted almonds.

Country: France

Region: Côte de Beaune, Burgundy

Grapes: Chardonnay

ABV: 13.5%

Fresh cut grass and tropical fruit and lemon zest on the nose. Dry and crisp on the palate with a slightly saline finish. 

Country: South Africa

Region: Swartland

Grape: Chenin Blanc, Grenache Blanc and Viognier

ABV: 13%

Food Match: Goes perfectly with smoked fish salad (South African snoek is amazing if you can get hold of it!)

Inzuzo means benefit in two of the main South African languages Zulu and Xhosa. The Inzuzo Wine Company is a BEE project spearheaded by Journey's End wines in Stellenbosch and run by one of their talented winemakers, Kaylin Willscott. Kaylin grew up in the poverty stricken Sir Lowry's Pass area. Kaylin's story is integral to the heart of the Inzuzo brand. As a Cape Wine Guild protégée and one of the few women of colour winemakers in South Africa, her journey is a powerful narrative of talent, determination, and community upliftment in South Africa.

Brouilly cru vineyards of the Beaujolais region are the most southern in the area and produce riper, more concentrated grapes. The wines therefore tend to be more robust and intense than their neighbouring villages such as Fleurie. This Gamay red is medium bodied and full of ripe black cherry and cocoa aromas and flavours.

Country: France

Region: Beaujolais

Grapes: Gamay

ABV: 14%

Food match: excellent with roast pork or duck

It is a rich, concentrated, and complex wine from Margaret River, Australia, featuring dark fruit flavours of plum, blackberry, and black cherry, complemented by savory notes of chocolate, leather, pepper, and spice. 

Passel Estate, founded by Wendy and Barry Stimpson, is in the heart of the spectacular Margaret River region. Their 6Ha vineyards are surrounded by an impressive granite outcrop and pristine bushland of ancient flora. Sea breezes from the Ocean nearby provide calming relief in the hot summer months and this special location not only produces some of the region’s finest wine grapes, but also provides sanctuary to the endangered Western Ringtail Possum, whose collective noun is a "Passel”!

Grape: Shiraz

Country: Australia

Region: Margaret River

ABV: 14.5%

We recommend decanting this wine to reveal an olfactory wave of glazed cherries, red currants, violets and mulberries, woven into a tapestry of fine French oak tones of cedar, freshly roasted coffee and bay.

Passel Estate, founded by Wendy and Barry Stimpson, is in the heart of the spectacular Margaret River region. Their 6Ha vineyards are surrounded by an impressive granite outcrop and pristine bushland of ancient flora. Sea breezes from the Ocean nearby provide calming relief in the hot summer months and this special location not only produces some of the region’s finest wine grapes, but also provides sanctuary to the endangered Western Ringtail Possum, whose collective noun is a "Passel”!

Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon

Country: Australia

Region: Margaret River

ABV: 14%

Rich, concentrated aromas of black, ripe fruit, candied peel, rose petals and sweet spice with a hint of tobacco leaf and menthol. The palate is complex with ripe plum, blackberry and black cherry, fine tannins and notes of black pepper. Elegant and long.

Country: Italy

Region: Veneto

Grape Variety: Corvina 35%, Corvinone 35%, Rondinella 25% 

ABV: 14.5%

Food Match: Cumberland Sausage and mash or beef casserole

Twenty year old vines from their the Morandina vineyard near the Lessini mountains is at 450 metres altitude. Soils are limestone, calcareous and the site has a south-easterly exposure.It is a blend of Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella, plus a tiny bit of Oseleta, the vine shoots are cut allowing the grapes to dry for a month on the vine before harvesting. After fermentation the wine is aged for 18 months in barrel.

Delicious, dry amber wine made in traditional Georgian Qvervri. An aromatic nose of citrus blossom, dried apricots and almonds. On the palate there are hints of burnt orange rind and dried peach, structured with soft tannins and a long finish.

Country: Georgia

Region: Kakheti

Grapes: Rkatsiteli, Mtsvane, and Kisi

ABV: 13%

Food Match: Fermented food such as Kimchi. Spicy dishes, seafood such as shellfish and salmon, aged hard cheeses.

Shilda Winery is located in the Alazani River Valley at the foot of the Caucasus mountains, the heartland of Georgian wine producing region, Kakheti. Its unique soil composition and microclimate provides perfect conditions for vine cultivation, especially for indigenous grape varieties like Saperavi, Kisi and Rkatsiteli. 

Light, crisp, refreshing dry white wine. The notes of minerals, citrus, stone fruit

Grapes: Roussanne, Grenache Blanc

Country: France

Region: Languedoc-Roussillon

ABV: 12.5%

Food pairing: pasta, poultry, vegetarian, aperitif, fish

Organic

A delicious Canarian white flecked with quince, orange blossom, smoke, creamy yet fresh with hints of salt. Poised, elegant and textured with a very long mineral and saline finish.

Country: Spain

Region: Lanzarote

Grape: Malvasia Volcanica, Listán Blanco, Diego

ABV: 13%

Food match: Grilled tuna steak with potato salad and Mediterranean roast vegetables. 

The grapes come from different locations on the island: La Geria, Masdache, and an estate located in Tisalaya. This wine is meant to reflect the island, its diverse landscapes, and the work of the different vine growers on their small plots, with vines from 10 to over 100 years old utilised.

A variety of production methods were used here, from direct pressing to maceration with skins, depending on the state of the grapes (health and ripeness). Some batches, after temperature controlled alcoholic fermentation with natural yeasts, underwent malolactic fermentation. Ageing is in stainless steel, resting for 10 months on lees, and bottles without filtration.

A great starting point if you're just discovering sake. this is made with Gohyakumangoku rice milled down to 60% of its original size. Light, delicate and complex with a creamy mouthfeel and tropical fruit notes.

Authentic Japanese Sake, handmade in small batches by Kimio Yonezawa, 4th generation Sake maker at the Akashi-Tai Brewery in Japan.

ABV: %

Regarded as one of the best sites in the region, Montestefano does not disappoint! Complex aromas of red fruit, blood orange, sweet spice and cedar wood. Juicy, rich and full bodied with a mid palate and finish that goes on forever. Very elegant and refined. Special wine!

Country: Italy

Region: Piemonte

Grapes: Nebbiolo

ABV: 14.5%

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Drinking Window: 2025 - 2035
Antonio Galloni, September 2024
The 2020 Barbaresco Riserva Montestefano is one of the most elegant, polished
wines in this range. Bright red-toned fruit, blood orange, spice, mint and cedar are
beautifully lifted. The tannins are remarkably polished for a young, recently bottled Riserva. I admire its poise and elegance. This is an especially refined edition of the Montestefano. In 2020, the mix of vineyards is a bit younger than in the past, as one of the blocks of older vineyards was replanted and not used. If I could have only one of the Riservas in 2020, this would be it!

Country: Italy

Region: Piemonte

Grapes: Erbaluce

ABV: 12.5%

Food Match: Grilled prawns with parsley or hard Italian cheese.

Country: USA

Region: Paso Robles California

Grapes: Counoise

ABV: 13%

Food Match: 

The bright notes of red fruit with a little bit of cocoa and earth. You will taste raspberries, spices and cranberries.

Grape: Pinot Noir

Country: USA

Region: Oregon

ABV: 13.1%

Food match: beef, veal, poultry, deer, venison

Perfumed nose of white flowers of tropical fruit (pineapple and mango) with hints of grapefruit, candied citrus fruits and sweet spices (ginger and cardamom). Very clear mineral notes on the palate with a long, elegant finish.

Country: Italy

Region: Veneto

Grape Variety:  Garganega

ABV: 12.5%

Located in Fitta, in North West Italy, Suavia is owned and run by the three Tessari sisters: Meri, Valentina and Alessandra.

Food Match: goats cheese, asparagus or fish stir-fried Chinese dishes featuring fresh vegetables and/or  prawns.

Ginger, lime zest and quinine; the palate has a saline minerality, spice, ripe pear, quince and citrus and a lingering minerality. 

Country: South Africa

Region:  Elgin

Grapes: Semillon

ABV: 13%

Food Match: Seafood, grilled fish, salads or creamy pasta dishes.

Shannon’s Sémillon vineyards are planted on Table Mountain Sandstone soil, eight miles inland from the cooling breeze of the Atlantic Ocean. Matured in new French oak barrels for 3 months.

Country: Spain

Grapes: 

ABV: 0.3%

Aromas of plum, bramble leaf, and a hint of black pepper and spice. The palate is complex with ripe black fruits, prune, fig and an orange zest hint balanced by savoury characters of cloves and cedar. A rich wine with supple tannins and a graphite minerality, finishing long and elegant.

Country: Italy

Region: Veneto

Grape Variety:  50% Corvina, 30% Corvinone, 10% Rondinella, 10% Merlot 

ABV: 14.5%

Food Match: Sausages and rich stews

A fruit driven wine which is rich and peppery on the nose. The palate is beautifully balanced with sweet cherry, plum, pepper and liquorice. Extended oak age adds to the structure, softening the tannins, the finish is long with a spicy note.

Country: South Africa

Region: Franschhoek

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon (55%) Merlot (43%) Mourvèdre (2%)

ABV: 13%

Food match: This wine will pair perfectly with pasta, pizza and grilled meats cooked over flame.

A blend dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with a touch of Mourvedre for complexity. This wine ferments spontaneously with wild yeasts and following this is then transferred to barrel for 16 months to mature.