Red
Red
Mandrarossa 2024 Sentiero delle Gerle Etna Rosso DOC
Italian Red
Currant, blackberry and plum accompany spice and coffee. The palate is full-bodied and balanced, with fine tannins, freshness and persistence. Nerello Mascalese grows on volcanic soil along Etna's south-eastern slope. Maceration and fermentation last ten to twelve days at 25–27°C. The wine is separated from the skins without pressing and matures for ten to twelve months in 50-hectolitre French oak.
Montevertine 2017 Pian del Ciampolo Toscana IGT
Italian Red
Red fruit, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, cassis, plum and floral notes define the profile. Sangiovese forms the blend with small amounts of Canaiolo and Colorino. The parcel covers 1.5 hectares and has an east-northeast exposure, producing a long growing season and complete grape maturation. The wine matures for eighteen months in large barrels and contains thirteen percent alcohol.
Ferraris Agricola 2021 Clàsic Ruchè di Castagnole Monferrato DOCG
Italian Red
Black cherry, blackberry and pomegranate sit with rosemary and thyme. The wine is fresh, with dense tannins and a lingering fruit finish. The cuvée combines Ruchè from five growing areas within the seven authorized municipalities of Castagnole Monferrato. Ruby colour with bright reflections accompanies rose-petal and spice notes and a delicate tannic texture. The wine contains fifteen percent alcohol by volume.
Mendel 2020 Cabernet Franc Paraje Altamira
Argentinian Red
Intense ruby colour accompanies raspberry, cherry and pink and black pepper. The tannins are ripe and firm, with a silky texture and lingering finish. Cabernet Franc grows at 1,100 metres in Paraje Altamira on sandy loam over massive calcareous blocks. Grapes are harvested and selected by hand. Maceration lasts twenty-five days. Ageing lasts twelve months in French oak divided equally among new, second-use and third-use barrels.
Domaine de La Bégude 2022 IGP Méditerranée Rouge
French Red
Purple colour with violet reflections accompanies black cherry, spice and mint. The palate is harmonious and fruity, with coated tannins and a long, spicy, generous finish. The blend is sixty percent Grenache, thirty percent Syrah and ten percent Mourvèdre. Grapes are fully destemmed, fermentation uses indigenous yeasts, and maceration is long. Maturation takes place in stainless steel, and the vineyards are certified Organic under EU standards.
August Kesseler 2022 The Daily August Pinot Noir Trocken Rheingau
German Red
Subtle cherry and blueberry sit with cassis and red pepper. Made from Pinot Noir, this dry red comes from the Rheingau. The producer uses classic maceration and barrique maturation for its Pinot Noir range and describes this cuvée in terms of fruit radiance and finesse. Alcohol is fourteen percent, and the 750-millilitre bottle uses a screw cap. The wine is classified as vegan-friendly.
Domaine Mosse 2021 Bisou Vin de France
French Red
Raspberry colour accompanies blackberry, cardamom and fresh fig. The wine is light and fruity, with a direct attack and a tangy finish. Grolleau Noir, Grolleau Gris, Gamay, Cabernet Franc and Chenin are vinified separately with four-to-ten-day semi-carbonic macerations. Ageing lasts eight months in foudre. Indigenous yeasts are used, and the wine is bottled unfiltered with twenty-four milligrams per litre of total sulphur.
Caviro Antico Rosone 2020 Montepulciano Abruzzo 3 L Bag-in-Box
Italian Red
Ripe red fruit sits with earthy, floral and dried-herb notes. Currant and cherry are also present, alongside acidity, velvety tannins and a medium-to-long finish. The blend contains eighty-five percent Montepulciano and fifteen percent other red varieties. It sees no wood and remains in stainless-steel tanks for three to six months before bottling. Alcohol is twelve and a half percent.
Emandare Vineyard 2023 Wolff Vineyard Pinot Noir
Canadian Red
Red cherry, cranberry, wild rose, mushroom, subtle apple and dusty minerality shape the profile. The palate has a clean texture. Pinot Noir comes from thirty-five-year-old vines and is fermented and aged in neutral French oak. Bottling takes place without fining or filtration. Cellar work follows a minimal-intervention approach. The old-vine site is in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
Fairview Cellars 2016 The Bear Reserve Meritage Golden Mile Bench
Canadian Red
Red and black berries, currant, tobacco, bell pepper, herbs and anise define the profile. Integrated tannins, medium acidity and a long, clean, balanced finish are present. The blend combines Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, with Cabernet Sauvignon making up at least half. The wine comes from Golden Mile Bench in British Columbia.
Olivier Rivière 2024 Plaisir Simple Côtes de Bourg
French Red
Cherry, cassis and ripe red fruit accompany a supple, velvety texture, fine tannins, freshness and a lightly mineral finish. The blend combines Merlot and Malbec. Grapes are harvested by hand and sorted twice. Parcel selections undergo maceration and fermentation in neutral tanks, followed by ageing in vessels chosen for the conditions and yield of the harvest. Alcohol is twelve percent.
Tenute Vignola 2024 S’Inventu Cannonau di Sardegna DOC
Italian Red
Deep ruby colour with garnet shades accompanies red-fruit, balsamic and Mediterranean-scrub notes. The palate is fruity, decisive and persistent, with round, smooth tannins. Cannonau is harvested by hand in crates, then crushed and destemmed. A forty-eight-hour cold pre-fermentation maceration precedes fermentation lasting approximately ten to twelve days. The grapes come from Sardinia’s Gallura area. Alcohol is thirteen and a half percent.
Château Pailhas 2022 Saint-Émilion
French Red
Red fruit, blackcurrant, blackberry, Morello cherry and spice shape the profile. The blend is eighty percent Merlot and twenty percent Cabernet Franc. The vines average thirty-five years on clay-limestone soils and are mechanically harvested. Vinification takes place in concrete and stainless-steel tanks. Ageing is divided evenly between new barrels and barrels that have held at least one wine.
Château Gigault 2001 Cuvée Viva Premières Côtes de Blaye
French Red
Blackberry and boysenberry fruit accompany floral, plum and raspberry notes. Merlot forms ninety percent of the blend, with Cabernet Sauvignon accounting for the balance. The profile is light to medium in body, with silky tannins and fine mid-palate sweetness. The middle is defined, the fruit is not overdone, and the finish is medium in length.
Slobodné Vinárstvo 2017 Partisan Cru
Slovak Red
Frankovka Modrá makes up about sixty percent of the blend, with thirty percent Cabernet Sauvignon and ten percent Alibernet. Grapes are grown in organic vineyards with biodynamic practices on calcium-rich loess soils at 200 metres with southwest exposure. Fermentation uses no selected yeast, enzymes or other additives. The wine is neither fined nor filtered, contains twelve percent alcohol and has twenty-four milligrams per litre of total sulfur.
Domaine Louis Jadot 2021 Monthélie Les Sous Roches
French Red
Pinot Noir grows on an east-facing, 1.16-hectare site with clay and stones at the surface. Grapes are hand-harvested into small cases, sorted by hand and destemmed. Maceration lasts three to four weeks in open wooden or stainless-steel vats, with twice-daily punching down during fermentation. Maturation lasts about eighteen months in barrel, with around one third new oak. The wine comes from a village appellation in the Côte de Beaune.
La Soeur Cadette 2024 Juliénas
French Red
Perfumed plum, juicy raspberry, cassis, red fruit and spice accompany mineral texture and fine tannins. Gamay comes from two sites with blue granite and sandy soils, where the vines average around eighty years. Whole clusters ferment in concrete before eight to ten months in older barrels. Native yeast is used. A scrubby herbal note appears on the finish, and alcohol is twelve and a half percent.
Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme 2020 La Tesnière Pineau d’Aunis
French Red
Cranberry, cherry, damp forest floor, clove and pepper accompany a pale, glossy red with juicy fruit, fine tannins and a mineral finish. Pineau d'Aunis comes from vines averaging twenty-five years on flint and clay soils. Semi-carbonic maceration lasts thirteen days in wooden vats. Native-yeast fermentation runs for two months, followed by six months in used 228-litre barrels. The wine is bottled unfiltered.
Château Jacques Noir 2018 Saint-Émilion
French Red
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.
Craven Wines 2024 The Firs Syrah Stellenbosch
South African Red
Violets, blackberry, leafy notes and pepper accompany a sappy palate with concentrated fruit, bright acidity and firm tannins. Syrah from a Devon Valley vineyard planted in the year two thousand grows in deep, clay-rich red soils. Whole bunches are lightly foot-stomped, with gentle pumpovers once or twice daily. After pressing, the wine matures for ten months in concrete. Alcohol is thirteen point zero three percent.
Catherine & Pierre Breton 2019 Nuits d’Ivresse Bourgueil
French Red
Smoky black fruit, spice and wild bramble accompany a broad, structured profile with smooth tannins. Cabernet Franc is hand-harvested, destemmed and fermented for three weeks with native yeast. Malolactic fermentation and ageing take place in used barrels. No sulfur is added during vinification. The vines are farmed organically and biodynamically, and the wine contains thirteen and a half percent alcohol.
Bodegas Albamar 2020 Albamar Tinto
Spanish Red
Caíño Tinto, Espadeiro and Mencía form this red from Rías Baixas. The varieties grow near the mouth of the Umia River in the Ría de Arousa, among gentle relief, sandy and clay soils and a constant sea breeze. Fermentation uses native yeast in stainless steel, where the wine matures for six months and completes malolactic fermentation. It then rests for three months in oak. Alcohol is eleven percent.
Domaine Julien Sunier 2022 Régnié
French Red
Vine peach and a smooth texture accompany velvety tannins in this Régnié. Gamay Noir comes from certified-organic south-facing parcels between 280 and 400 metres, with vines averaging sixty years on sandy pink granite. Whole bunches undergo carbonic fermentation with native yeast in concrete. After slow pressing, the wine matures for nine months in equal parts foudre and barrel.
Koppitsch 2021 Happy Anniversary
Austrian Red
Blaufränkisch and Sankt Laurent are blended in proportions of seventy and thirty percent. Around ten percent of the stems remain in the mash before natural fermentation in stainless-steel and fibreglass vats. Pressing takes place after about ten days. The wine then spends twenty-two months on gross lees in 225-litre barriques and is bottled unfiltered, without fining or additives. Alcohol is eleven percent, and no sulfur is added.
Wasenhaus 2023 Grand Ordinaire
German Red
Fresh herbs, tobacco leaves, bright red cherry and fresh leather accompany this dry natural red from Baden. The palate has fresh acidity and tannins, with cherry and red plum. Spätburgunder undergoes carbonic maceration and is pressed after ten days, while fermentation is spontaneous. The wine contains twelve and a half percent alcohol. Air softens the palate and brings greater balance.
Pheasant’s Tears 2019 Poliphonia
Georgian Red
This light-bodied red brings together more than one hundred and seventeen indigenous Georgian grape varieties from the main vineyard in Sighnaghi, Kakheti. White, yellow, pink, golden, red and black grapes are fermented and aged in qvevri, followed by further time in stainless steel. The wine is medium-bodied, with high acidity, and contains twelve and a half percent alcohol.
Clos du Tue-Boeuf 2021 La Caillère Cheverny
French Red
Predominantly Pinot Noir with a smaller share of Gamay, this red comes from a 1.3-hectare parcel of silex and clay in Cheverny. The vines averaged about thirty-five years of age when documented, and the wine spends around one year in neutral 400-litre barrels. The profile is fresh, clean and aromatic, with reductive and herbaceous character.
Frasca La Guaragna 2022 Freisa d’Asti
Italian Red
Ruby red colour has purple highlights. Wild berries, violet, herbs, redcurrant, mulberry and blackberry accompany black tea, earth and lively acidity. The medium-bodied palate has fine tannins, freshness and a mineral finish. Made entirely from Freisa grown in Moasca, the wine includes thirty percent whole bunches, receives delicate maceration without punch-downs, and matures for four months in a large oak barrel.
Luis Seabra 2019 Xisto Ilimitado Tinto
Portuguese Red
Balsamic notes, fresh red fruit, local scrub and spice accompany flint and broken-stone mineral character. The palate is dense and fresh, with fine tannins, acidity, red cherry and pomegranate. Two vineyards were harvested separately, and sixty percent of the fruit was vinified as whole bunches in old wooden Port vats. Maceration lasted twenty-nine days, followed by eighteen months of ageing.
Mendall Alícia Serres 2024 Santa Helena
Spanish Red
This red combines eighty percent Carignan with twenty percent Grenache Blanc from young vines in Vilalba dels Arcs, Terra Alta. The vines are farmed biodynamically on calcareous clay soils, and the grapes are harvested by hand. Maceration and spontaneous co-fermentation take place in amphora. The wine also ages in amphora before pressing and is bottled unfined, unfiltered and without added sulfur dioxide. Alcohol is fourteen percent.