Varieties

Bouchot Terres Blanche Pouilly-Fume 2021

Region: France-(Other)

  "The 2021 Terres Blanches is round and silky with a fine chalky texture that provides a fine, appetizing texture on the finish. It is satisfying with a delightful thread of acidity that keeps it together and your mouth watering. There's an...

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...

Benjamin Leroux Volnay Premier Cru Les Mitans 2021

Region: France- Burgundy CotedeBeaune
Organic Biodynamic

  “Half a crop, 6 barrels made. Once again this is paler in colour. A pretty elegant bouquet, à la Volnay. Not huge in volume, a bit of strawberry, just enough fruit to reach the back, but one of the more delicate wines of the vintage,...

Bachelet-Monnot Bourgogne Rouge 2021

Region: France- Burgundy Other

  "The 2021 Bourgogne Rouge has a pretty nose with cranberry, raspberry and a touch of stoniness. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy tannins. The 2021 has a little more backbone than other regional reds but still with plenty of freshness on...

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...

Wynns Messenger Cabernet Sauvignon 2021

Region: SA- Coonawarra
Sustainably-made

  "One of the picks of the 2021 vintage releases, Messenger comes from The Messenger vineyard located at the southern end of Coonawarra’s famous terra rossa strip. Each year, Wynns winemakers choose a premium parcel of fruit from a single...

Petreto Chianti Classico 2020

Region: Italy - Other

  "Open and generous aromas of decaying rose, clove, dusty nuance, subtle bramble, dark cherry, and dried crushed thyme. Some air unlocks a tilled earth note adding to the complexity. Quite complex aromatics, with depth and array. The medium bodied...

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...

Bel Colle Barbaresco Convivio 2020

Region: Italy - Barbaresco

  "Cherry, mint and fennel, new leather and almond. It’s medium-bodied, somewhat juicy strawberry and red cherry, an autumnal sort of thing, tobacco and leaf litter, tea and fine dusty tannin, with a finish of good length. It feels a little...

Buckshot Primitivo 2020

Region: VIC- Heathcote

    "Aromas of Cherry, mint and spice. A plush rich palate of cherries and plums with a long, silky soft finish.  Chocolate, fruit cake, sweet mint and some warm Asian spice notes." - Buckshot    

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...

Zorah Karasi Areni Noir 2021

  "The king of Armenia’s grapes and possibly one of the oldest grape varieties in the world Areni has been present in Armenia for millennia. Never grafted and on its own roots, it is 100% indigenous to this land with a unique DNA profile that...

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...