2018
2018
Poppy 2018 Monterey County Pinot Noir
American Red
$39.99
Red fruit brightens the palate, joined by raspberry and spice, while toasted French oak appears in the aromas. The texture is soft and silky through the middle, supported by proper acidity. A juicy fruit impression remains through the finish. Pinot Noir comes from Monterey on California’s Central Coast, and the dry red carries 13.85 percent alcohol.
Rigour & Whimsy 2018 Gamay Noir
Canadian Red
$39.99
Whole-cluster Gamay Noir ferments for three weeks, with punch-downs increasing through the fermentation. After pressing, the wine spends eight months in neutral puncheon and barrique. Hibiscus, Spartan apple, ripe blackberry, roasted peanut and pink peppercorn form the profile. Fruit comes from a single vineyard in West Kelowna. The release carries 10 percent alcohol, with pH 3.35 and total acidity of 7.25 grams per litre.
Kühling-Gillot 2018 Spätburgunder
German Red
$41.99
Cherries, raspberries and plums form a bright fruit profile, joined by light peppercorn. Limestone and loess are also noted. The Pinot Noir is light to medium in body, with fine tannins marked by black tea and a firm framework. The wine is dry, carries thirteen percent alcohol and spent nineteen months in barrique. It is certified organic under the European Union standard.
Nervi 2018 Gattinara
Italian Red
$154.99
Garnet colour accompanies a bouquet of marasca cherry and blueberry, with powder, fireplace and tertiary aromas emerging as the wine opens. The palate is austere rather than immediate and develops gradually in the glass. Bunches are gently destemmed and pressed, with maceration lasting at least twenty days in oak and steel vats. Maturation takes place for a minimum of three years in large oak casks.
Vini Aurora 2018 Fiobbo Offida Pecorino
Italian White
$52.99
The yellow colour is bright without being deep. A slight initial reserve gives way to fresh floral character with a touch of botrytis. The palate is both soft and incisive, with acidity, salinity and freshness alongside a lightly mentholated finish. Pecorino is the sole variety. Half of the wine ferments and matures in large barrels, with the remainder handled in stainless steel; both parts age for a year before blending.
Noëlla Morantin 2018 Mon Cher
French Red
$41.99
Gamay from the Loire Valley forms this natural red wine. The grower’s parcels were already farmed organically when she began working them. After training in viticulture and oenology, she worked alongside natural-wine producers in the Loire and Burgundy before making her first vintage. She later became the owner of the vineyards and retained one hectare planted to Gamay.
Spier 2018 Creative Block 3
South African Red
$48.99
Shiraz, Mourvèdre and Viognier form this red blend from South Africa’s Coastal Region. Violets, black cherry and mulberry appear with black pepper and fennel. The mid-palate is silky and rich, with concentrated fruit and dense tannins. Grapes are harvested by hand, fermented for up to two weeks, and matured for sixteen months in French and American oak barrels.
Hic et Nunc 2018 Altromondo Grignolino
Italian Red
$42.99
Light cherry-red colour accompanies fruit, floral and spice notes, with peppery and balsamic tones. Freshness, tannin and acidity are present alongside a savoury, juicy palate. Grignolino from a marl-soiled hill with southern exposure at nearly 300 metres spent eight months in stainless steel. Six thousand bottles were produced in Piedmont, and the winery is located in Vignale Monferrato.
Cascina Tavijn 2018 Rosetta Frizzante Rosé
Italian Rosé
$42.99
Lightly frizzante and garnet in colour, this rosé shows cherry, white peach, raspberry, blueberry, strawberry, rose and spice. A slight sweetness accompanies apricot and fresh-fruit notes. Freisa receives about twenty hours of skin contact, then ferments at low temperature in stainless steel. The wine spends eighteen months in tank, is bottled unfined and unfiltered, and closes with a crown cap. The vines grow on limestone and are farmed without pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
Capezzana 2018 Villa di Capezzana Carmignano
Italian Red
$59.99
Cherries and savoury red liquorice meet black plum, spice and tobacco. The palate is rich and warm, with a long, intense finish. The blend is eighty percent Sangiovese and twenty percent Cabernet Sauvignon. Fruit comes from a west- and southwest-facing site with clay and schist over limestone. The estate covers 104 hectares and belongs to the Contini Bonacossi family.
Hope Estate 2018 Basalt Block Shiraz
Australian Red
$44.99
Blackberry and plum meet pepper, cedar, olives, bay leaf, vanilla and a stony charcoal note. The fruit is juicy, with balanced acidity and a medium-plus body. The single-vineyard wine is made entirely from Shiraz grown on red, basalt-rich soils in the Hunter Valley. It matures for thirteen months in a mix of new and old French hogsheads.
Undurraga 2018 T.H. Carignan Maule
Chilean Red
$44.99
Oak, raspberry and sour cherry appear with red fruit, dry earth, spice, leather and juicy plum. Strong tannins are balanced by higher-than-expected acidity. The wine is made entirely from Carignan grown in Cauquenes and Loncomilla within the Maule Valley. Vines are goblet trained on granite-based soils. Maturation lasted sixteen months in used French oak barrels, and production totalled 1,367 cases.
Domaine Chevrot 2018 Bourgogne Aligoté Cuvée des Quatre Terroirs
French White
$46.99
Bright gold in colour, with rich vanilla and exotic orchard-fruit aromas. The palate is floral and concentrated, with semi-tropical fruit, racy acidity, generous youthful fruit and balanced volume. Most vines are at least forty years old. The wine sees no wood ageing. Ripe lemon, white peach, wet stone, crushed herbs, salinity and hazelnut are also present.
Château du Vallier 2018 Cadillac Côtes de Bordeaux
French Red
$44.99
Ruby colour with violet reflections accompanies rich black fruit and young tannins. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec make up the red blend. The bouquet combines fruit and wood, while the palate is dense and tannic. The wine is matured in barrel and carries thirteen and a half percent alcohol. Production amounted to fifty-five thousand bottles.
Jean Stodden 2018 Spätburgunder Trocken
German Red
$44.99
The profile includes plum yeast cake, forest berries, plum compote, cloves, cinnamon, blackberry, strawberry, herbs, leaves and a light smoky note. The body is firm, with a defined tannin structure, and the finish is long with spice and fruit. This dry red is made from Spätburgunder and carries twelve and a half percent alcohol by volume.
Cieck 2018 Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG
Italian White
$44.99
Made from Erbaluce selected across estate vineyards, this white wine comes from pergola-trained vines on loose, stony moraine soils at about 320 metres, with south and south-westerly exposures. The grapes are destemmed and pressed, then fermented at low temperature for twenty-one days. Four months in stainless steel follow. Hawthorn and fruit accompany a straw-yellow colour with green highlights and a lively acidic structure.
Bodegas del Monge-Garbati 2018 Viña Ane Centenaria Blanco
Spanish White
$54.99
Nine white varieties form the blend: forty percent Viura, twenty-five percent Malvasía, seven percent each Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, five percent Torrontés, and four percent each Garnacha, Verdejo, Tempranillo Blanco and Maturana Blanca. The fruit comes from a vineyard in San Vicente de la Sonsierra that was planted in nineteen hundred and five. Maturation takes place in French oak barrels that had previously held white wine.
Orsi Vigneto San Vito 2018 Grotto Pignoletto
Italian White
$46.99
Deep straw yellow, with tropical fruit, citrus zest and white flowers, this white wine is fruity, slightly mineral and persistent. Made entirely from Pignoletto, it comes from biodynamically farmed vines at 200 metres on limestone and clay. The grapes are hand-harvested, fermented spontaneously in large Slavonian-oak barrels, aged nine months on the lees and given six months in bottle.
Château Tour Saint Bonnet 2018 Médoc
French Red
$46.99
Refined crushed-berry fruit appears with cassis and subtle oak. The palate is full-bodied, with grainy tannins and balanced structure. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec and Petit Verdot form the blend. Fermentation takes place in traditional cement tanks, followed by eighteen months in large oak foudres. The vineyard occupies gravel soils near Saint-Christoly in the northern Médoc.
Le Coste 2018 Pizzicante Rosso
Italian Sparkling
$53.99
This lightly sparkling red sits between red and rosé in style. One week of skin maceration precedes ageing in stainless steel. Red and dark berries appear with mulberry, pomegranate, ripe strawberry and hibiscus. The texture is prickly and snappy, with light tannins and a short finish. The wine comes from Lazio, Italy, and contains twelve percent alcohol.
Ampeleia 2018 Kepos Costa Toscana Rosso
Italian Red
$49.99
Bright ruby in colour, this red wine brings fresh cherry, plum, raspberry and floral notes. Tension, salinity, tannins and fruit appear on the palate. Fruit comes from three vineyard sites at different elevations, with soils ranging from stony to volcanic. The wine is organic, and its grapes are grown biodynamically under Demeter certification. It contains thirteen percent alcohol.
Poplar Grove 2018 Merlot
Canadian Red
$49.99
Medium ruby in colour, this blend contains eighty-nine percent Merlot, four percent Malbec, three percent Petit Verdot, two percent Cabernet Sauvignon and two percent Cabernet Franc. Cranberry and red cherry meet sage, red raspberry, bramble and vanilla. Medium-plus tannins and acidity provide structure, while sweet tobacco and piecrust appear in a lengthy finish. The wine spends twenty-one months in French oak and one year in bottle.
Noëlla Morantin 2018 Marie Rose Pét-Nat
French Sparkling
$49.99
Cabernet Sauvignon is pressed directly, then fermented in fiberglass before bottling with twenty-two grams of sugar. A secondary fermentation in bottle creates the natural carbonation. The wine spends twenty-four months sur lattes before disgorgement and is bottled without added sulphur, fining or filtration. The organically certified vines grow on clay, flint and limestone soils, and the wine is classified as Vin de France.
Pentâge 2018 GSM Dirty Dozen Vineyard
Canadian Red
$49.99
Bright raspberry, ripe red cherry, cranberry and black cherry accompany baking spice. The medium-bodied palate has soft, silky tannins and gentle structure. Grenache accounts for forty-seven percent of the blend, with forty-three percent Mourvèdre and ten percent Syrah. Each variety spends fifteen months in oak barrels, twenty percent new, and the finished wine records 13.5 percent alcohol.
Bodega Cueva 2018 Bobal & Marselan
Spanish Red
$49.99
Bobal and Marselan grow on limestone and are vinified in stainless steel. The cool-year red is medium-bodied and sleek, with freshness carried through the profile. Fermentation is spontaneous; the wine is bottled without fining, filtration or added sulphur. Ripe fruit, compote, liquorice, violet, cherry and cereal notes accompany a soft, balanced and rounded texture. Alcohol is 13.5 percent.
Ramos Pinto 2018 Late Bottled Vintage Port
Portuguese Fortified
$54.99
Concentrated ruby colour, nearly opaque at the centre, accompanies ripe cherry, raspberry, black plum, eucalyptus and cedar. Cherry, plum, sweet red berries and bergamot sit with meaty, silky tannins. The blend contains Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinta Barroca, Sousão, Tinto Cão and Tinta Roriz. Grapes are foot-crushed in lagares, and the wine ages in large casks. It is bottled without filtration or hot and cold treatment.
Château Jacques Noir 2018 Saint-Émilion
French Red
$54.99
Made entirely from Merlot grown on clay, this red is aged in barrel. Ample, deep fruit accompanies blackcurrant, spice and wood-aged flavours. The palate has a firm, fine tannic structure. Production for this release amounted to 48,400 bottles, and alcohol is fourteen percent. Brilliant ruby colour, red fruit and toasted notes are also part of the profile.
Les Capriades 2018 Méthode Ancestrale Menu Pineau
French Sparkling
$56.99
Menu Pineau forms this white sparkling wine from the Loire, made by the ancestral method. The fruit was harvested on September fifteenth and sixteenth, with a yield of fifty hectolitres per hectare. Fermentation began spontaneously in tank and finished in bottle. No additives were used, and the wine was bottled without filtration. Bright acidity and mineral character accompany its dry pétillant style.
Cantine di Verona 2018 Alfabeto Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG
Italian Red
$56.99
Rich ruby-garnet colour accompanies an intense, clear profile of cherry jam and subtle savoury spice. The palate is juicy, with concentrated fruit and fine tannins. Corvina Veronese, Corvinone and Rondinella form the blend. Plum and chocolate are also present, and the palate is silky and harmonious. Part of the wine is aged in wood, and it contains fifteen percent alcohol.
Domaine Chapel 2018 Fleurie Charbonnières Vieilles Vignes
French Red
$56.99
Raspberry, cherry, rose petal, liquorice, herbs and flowers shape the profile. The palate is layered and medium to full bodied, with succulent acidity and saline character. Velvety texture accompanies supple tannins and a long, mineral-accented finish. Gamay comes from the forest-enclosed Charbonnières parcel, where granite bedrock lies beneath granitic sand and weathered rock fragments. Whole clusters undergo semi-carbonic maceration with indigenous yeast, and the wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered.