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Beykush Lerici Timorasso 2021
Regular price £37.95This famous Northern Italian Piemontese white grape Timorasso has found a new home in the Ukrainian Black Sea region.
Concentrated, floral, fruity, with a warmth on the palate. Soft, elegant, yet intense. Very typical of Timorasso, mineral with notes of chamomile flower, yellow plums, and toasted almond in the finish. Lovely!
Grapes: Timorasso
Country: Ukraine
Region: Mykolaiv
ABV: 14%
Food pairing: Poultry. grilled fish, seafood, soft cheese and salads.
Beykush Winery is a family winery located close to the Black Sea in Chernomorka village, Mykolaiv region. Beykush vineyards consist of 14 hectares of French, Italian, and Georgian clones. They also expertly work with the Ukrainian indigenous white grape variety Telti Kuruk, which is the most important and unique for the area. The winery is recognized for its accolades at the Decanter World Wine Awards.
Serra Oca Moscatel Graudo Orange 2022
Regular price £29.95if you love orange wine, you'll love this very concentrated, rich, aromatic and complex one from Serra Oca in the Lisboa region.
Country: Portugal
Region: Lisbon
Grapes: Moscatel Graúdo
ABV:12%
Mittelbach Austrian mixed case 6
Regular price £93.70 Sale price £89.00Calabria Bianco 'Manere' Tenuta Del Conte 2013
Regular price £45.00Beautiful golden colour. The nose is very floral, with strong notes of elderflower, as well as citrus fruit, spices, and some verbena. On the palate, it shows amazing freshness despite its age, elegance, and refinement. On the palate, there are flavours of lemon, freshly cut grass, cedar, verbena, and it has remarkable salinity. The wine has a persistent length and great finesse.
Country: Italy
Region: Cirò, Calabria
ABV: 12.5%
Grapes: Trebbiano Toscano: 50%
Greco Bianco: 50%
Food match: Fish based dishes, risotto, salumi
The Cirò DOC is a picturesque corner of the Mediterranean, along the Ionian coast, in the eastern foothills of the Calabria region, a large peninsula that forms the toe to Italy’s boot. The Parrilla family, who own and run Tenuta del Conte, have been making wine here for four generations, the latest of which to take over the estate are Mariangela, Giuseppe, and Caterina.
In 2011 Mariangela Parrilla took over as winemaker. Mariangela takes a philosophical approach to winemaking, with the aim to let these traditional indigenous grape varieties speak for themselves and their terroir. Her wines are all organic, no herbicides or chemicals are used at any stage of the production process, she opts for spontaneous fermentations using indigenous yeasts, no filtration, and solely stainless-steel and bottle aging. Taking each wine vintage by vintage she lets them evolve and age “according to their own natural rhythm”, making each wine unique. This could be just one year in bottle before release or over 10 years. Not only does she capture the unique character of the grape variety but that of the vintage it's from too.
Together with a handful of other wineries in the area, Mariangela is part of “The Cirò Revolution”, a group formed to promote and protect their territory’s identity. They are dedicated to organic viticulture and minimal intervention winemaking, they make traditional wines, in homage to their ancestors, from native grape varieties.
Paulett Trillians Aged Release Polish Hill River Riesling 2018
Regular price £22.95
Country: Australia
Region: Polish Hill River, Clare Valley
Grapes: Riesling
Food Matches:
Boekenhoutskloof Semillon 2021
Regular price £49.95The nose is delicate, restrained and elegant with its grapefruit, greengage, chamomile and apple blossom aromas and whiffs of exotic spice. The floral character of the nose follows through onto a richly textured mid-palate, showing yellow peach, poached pear and nectarine against a backdrop of fresh mandarin and green fig flavours with integrated acidity and a full body. The ripe stone fruit character adds to the complexity on the palate and the spicy finish with hints of fenugreek, black cardamom and Cape fynbos complements a very balanced wine.
Country: South Africa
Region: Franschhoek Valley
Grapes: Semillon (97%), Muscat d'Alexandrie (3%)
ABV: 13.5%
Great with Cape Malay dishes such as beef baboti - a well-known South African dish consisting of spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping.
Tim Atkin MW
96 points. Boekenhoutskloof's world-class Semillon uses grapes from three distinct blocks in Franschhoek, planted in 1902, 1936 and 1942, combining these with 3% Muscat d'Alexandrie. Showing more acidity and restraint than the stunning 2020, and less of the struck match character, it has notes of lemongrass, custard and beeswax and a core of chiselled acidity. Drinking 2024-32
Chanzy Rully 1er Cru 'Rabourcé' 2020 Magnum
Regular price £95.00Wow - This is beautiful, and a masterclass in balance. Rich stone fruit, apples, pears, and quince. Hints of spice, orange zest apple strudel, and a great backbone of acidity make this a very delicious wine indeed. Rabourcé is one of the warmest sites in Rully and lends itself very well to creating fruit forward wines with spice and texture. This wine was not produced in 2021 - so a good vintage to stock up and keep!
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Grapes: Chardonnay
Food Match: Salmon En Croûte
Chanzy Mercurey Blanc 'Les Caraby' 2021
Regular price £36.95A much warmer site than ‘Clos Les Bussieres’, ‘Les Caraby’ is a small 1 hectare ‘clos’ tagged on to the end of Mercurey’s most famous premier cru, ‘Clos du Roy’. Almost always the first vineyard picked, this is a fast ripening site with its own little valley of both north and south facing vines. This vintage has produced a really well balanced wine with ripe tropical fruits jumping out of the apple and citrus background. Really good texture and weight. No new oak was used in this vineyard. Only one barrel produced. *Limited Availability*
Country: France
Region: Burgundy
Grapes: Chardonnay
Food Match: Wonderful with rich lobster linguini
Star investment wine - drinking 2024 to 2030
Viré Clessé Loron 2019 Magnum
Regular price £49.00The youngest of the Mâcon appellations, created in 1999. Its soils cover 4 communes and are partially made up of "cray”, a type of limestone soil with magnificent white pebbles... Clean, fleshy white fruit aroma with a subtle honeyed finish.
Country: France
Region: Mâcon, Burgundy
Grapes: Chardonnay
ABV: 13%
Food Match: white meat, seafood and soft goats cheese
Quinta da Costa do Pinhão, Branco
Regular price £38.80This golden coloured wine has a welcome reductive nose with hints of mineral, gunpowder and stone combined with delicate fruits, citrus and white flowers. Excellent acidity, minerals and herbal touches on the palate this is complex and intense with a lovely long finish.
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro
Grapes: Old Vine Field Blend
ABV: 13%
The wine spent 3 weeks on the skins and was fermented in concrete with minimal interventention. This is a low sulphite wine that is good introduction to the orange wine styles with wonderful texture and tannins.
Romantic Night In Bundle
Regular price £69.70 Sale price £62.70Four fabulous wines from around the world. Starting your evening with pink fizz from France and finish with a sticky sweet from South Africa.
Jaffelin Crémant de Bourgogne Rosé nv
Henry of Pelham Riesling 2018 VQA Niagara Peninsula
Saraja Kramori Vermentino di Gallura DOCG 2023
Regular price £26.95Straw yellow in colour. Fresh in flavour, this wine is fruity with superb minerality which adds length. Elegant and intense in aroma.
Country: Italy
Region: Gallura, Northern Sardegna
ABV: 14%
Grapes: Vermentino
Food match: Seafood Linguini
Fresh and zesty nose with notes of citrus, peach, and a hint of honeysuckle. The palate is lightly honeyed and textural with ripe lemon characters balanced by crisp acidity, and with a touch of white spice and a fresh, mineral finish.
Domaine Désiré Petit Vin Jaune, AOP Château-Chalon 2017
Regular price £59.95Fino Sherry notes on the nose from the the method of production of this traditional style of wine which involves a floating layer of yeast called Voile - very similar to the Flor yeast found in Jerez. Notes of fresh walnuts and hazelnuts, roasted almonds and saline minerality. The finish is fresh, refined and very long. Drink now or keep and develop for 10-15 years.
Country: France
Region: Jura
Grape: Savignin
ABV: 15.5%
620ml bottle
Food Match: Comté cheese, creamy chicken dishes with mushrooms or creamy fish dishes
World Riesling Discovery Case 6
Regular price £120.50Reichsrat Von Buhl Bone Dry Riesling 2022
Henry of Pelham Riesling 2019 VQA Niagara Peninsula
Horst Sauer Escherndorfer Lump Riesling S. Trocken 2020