Varieties

Pio Cesare Pio Barolo 2019

Region: Italy - Barolo

  "2019 is shaping up to be a great vintage in Barolo and this Pio Cesare Barolo is a delightful example. The 2019 Pio Cesare Barolo has a very immediate and appealing nose..it has a beautiful, melting texture and super refined, perfectly ripe...

P. Laroche des Hates Fourchaume Premier Cru 2021

Region: France- Burgundy Chablis
Vegan-friendly Sustainably-made

  "A broader, more open aromatic – slightly airy – greatly inviting! Extra width, cooler fruit, mineral and silk – I hardly see the 2/3rds wood elevage. Such a mobile, complex energetic but pure thing. Bravo – fine finishing...

Luigi Baudana Barolo Serralunga 2020 DOCG

Region: Italy - Barolo
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "The 2020 Barolo del Commune di Serralunga d’Alba shows all the breadth of Serralunga, but in the somewhat austere style that runs through all the wines this year.  Dar red fruit, sage, mint, leather and spice fill out the layers...

Luigi Baudana Barolo Cerretta 2020 DOCG

Region: Italy - Barolo
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "The 2020 Cerretta from Luigi Baudana is fantastic. It starts off the with intense aromas of camphor dark culinary spice blue flower and new leather while the delicious palate features ripe raspberry fleshy Morello cherry and layers of star anise...

Luigi Baudana Barolo Baudana 2020

Region: Italy - Barolo
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "Aromas of menthol black spice leather rose hip and citrus lead the nose on the stunning 2020 Baudana from Luigi Baudana. It's smooth and delicious delivering wild raspberry strawberry compote blood orange tobacco and star anise alongside a...

G.D. Vajra Barolo Ravera 2020 DOCG

Region: Italy - Barolo

  "The G.D. Vajra 2020 Barolo Ravera reveals wild forest berry, cherry, licorice root and sweet summer fruit. The effect is focused or chiseled thanks to animating acidity and pinpoint fruit flavors. Located in the village of Novello, Ravera...

G.D. Vajra Barolo Coste di Rose 2020 DOCG

Region: Italy - Barolo

  "So often the most charming wine in the Vajra portfolio. It’s red fruited, floral, spicy. mint and liquorice-laced. Cherry and raspberry, supple powdery tannin grip, gently ferrous, quite spicy and clove perfumed, not quite sweet, but quite...

G.D. Vajra Barolo Bricco Delle Viole 2020 DOCG

Region: Italy - Barolo

  "The G.D. Vajra 2020 Barolo Bricco delle Viole is a very pretty wine with brightness and delicate aromas that remain etched and defined. You get dried violet or lilac tart cherry cranberry lavender essence rosemary and other perfumed...

G.D. Vajra Barolo Albe 2020 DOCG

Region: Italy - Barolo

  "You can't beat this value. The G.D. Vajra 2020 Barolo Albe is buttoned up with fresh primary fruit, and the wine does not have that hint of over-ripeness that is found across this vintage. The fruit is dark and savory, and there is a big mineral...

Wynns Michael Shiraz 2021

Region: SA- Coonawarra
Sustainably-made

  "A wine that is only made in the better vintages although it has made more regular appearances in recent years, thanks to the combination of vintages and vast improvements in viticulture that were part of the Wynns overhaul some years ago. This...

Bel Colle Barbaresco Pajore 2020

Region: Italy - Barbaresco

  "The perfume is a mix of red berry fruits underscored with dusty, ferrous tones, dried Mediterranean herbs and hints of baking spices and pan juices. It is savoury to taste as well, spice and a hint of volatility evident with dusty tannins adding...

Place of Changing Winds Between Two Mountains Pinot Noir 2022

Region: VIC- Macedon Ranges
Vegan-friendly Organic

Giaconda Beechworth Shiraz 2022

Region: VIC- Beechworth
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "Giaconda Estate & Warner Vineyard. Luscious and captivating, with dark plums, cassis and subtle briar notes that demand your attention are backed by a stridently confident palate. The textural nature of this wine and glossy...

Giaconda Roussanne 2022

Region: VIC- Beechworth
Organic Sustainably-made

  "The 2022 Estate Vineyard Roussanne marks the inaugural release of this cuvee, and it is evident upon tasting the wine that it is a worthy addition to the Estate Vineyard range. Somewhat golden in the glass and leading with an incredibly spicy...

Giaconda Nebbiolo 2021

Region: VIC- Beechworth
Vegan-friendly Organic Sustainably-made

  "Roasted chestnuts, rose petal, forest floor undergrowth, dark orange chocolate and tar. A combination of Amphorae and geriatric oak have been used for Élevage. Scintillating tannins compliment the pristine fruit. A truly magnificent wine...

Two Wolves Cabernet Franc 2019

Region: USA-(Other)
Organic

  "Always a native fermentation under this roof, this wild animal is only slightly tamed by its elegance and restraint. Fresh pine, oregano, cranberry, concentrated raspberries, violets, chamomile, and black peppercorn. The tannins are alive...

Pierro Vintage Reserve Chardonnay 2020

Region: WA- Margaret River
Organic Sustainably-made

    "Ripe lemon and lime, nectarine and pineapple, ginger and baking spice, nougat, pastry dough and aniseed. It's a veritable powerhouse when it comes to flavour, floods the mouth, but also has a core of bright limey acidity through salted...

Standish The Standish Shiraz 2022

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

  "The 2022 The Standish Shiraz is again providing me with the opportunity to assess bottles two days apart, and how different they are. The freshly opened bottle, as we would all experience upon our first opening, is tight and fresh, with cracked...

Standish The Relic Shiraz Viognier 2022

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

  "The 2022 The Relic Shiraz-Viognier contains 2% Viognier skins, and this addition presents in this vintage as a core of raspberry and pomegranate. It is pure fruited and powerfully aromatic, as this cuvee always is. Interestingly, I am tasting...

Standish Schubert Theorum Shiraz 2022

Region: SA- Barossa Valley

  "I'm excited to taste this, as it was my favorite cuvée last year. It usually changes year to year, given the seasons, and I like that. It's usually the only cuvée to enjoy the benefits of an alternate vessel—a concrete...