Wine
Wine
Bodet-Herold 2019 Physis Crémant de Loire Brut Nature
French Sparkling
Chenin comes from a southeast-facing site with light, well-draining Turonian chalk and resurfacing limestone; Grolleau grows on heavier clay-rich marl. Whole clusters were pressed at low pressure, with first-press and end-of-press juice separated. Ambient yeasts drove fermentation, malolactic conversion was blocked, and the wine rested briefly in stainless steel. Bottling took place in spring, followed by thirty months on lattes and a low dosage.
Château Sénéjac 2020 Haut-Médoc
French Red
Cabernet Sauvignon makes up fifty-four percent of the blend, with thirty-four percent Merlot and six percent each Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The vineyard covers thirty-nine hectares of deep gravel, with vines averaging thirty-five years old. Harvest ran from September 14 to 28, and grapes underwent successive manual and mechanical sorting. Vinification took place in stainless steel. Ageing lasted fifteen months in barrels, thirty percent new.
Nadelebi 2022 Qvevri Kisi
Georgian White
Orange blossom, honey, black tea and dried apricot shape the aromas. Dried peach, orange zest and floral notes appear in an aromatic, rich profile. This is an orange wine. Kisi grapes, including skins and stems, spent seven months in qvevri. The fruit came from organic vineyards in Kakheti, and fermentation used wild yeast. The wine was made without additives.
Le Coste 2016 Vigna Le Coste Bianco
Italian White
Procanico makes up sixty percent of the blend, with Malvasia di Candia, Malvasia Toscana, Vermentino and smaller amounts of older local varieties. The vines were fourteen years old and planted at high density on a steep east-facing site at 470 metres, over volcanic soil. The grapes were destemmed and placed in wooden vats. After fermentation, the wine spent about two years in 10- and 15-hectolitre barrels. No additives were used.
Château Haut-Cadet 2019 Saint-Émilion Grand Cru
French Red
This is a still red wine. Fruit is joined by spice, toast and grilled notes. The wine has good volume and supple tannins. Grapes were harvested by hand, and vinification used concrete and stainless-steel tanks. Merlot accounts for eighty-five percent of the planting, with fourteen percent Cabernet Franc. Ageing took place in tank, and production totalled fifty-five thousand bottles.
Pegasus Bay 2020 Sauvignon Semillon Waipara Valley
New Zealand White
Guava, pineapple and melon lead the tropical profile, with grapefruit, honeysuckle, crushed herbs and struck match. Rich texture meets crisp acidity and a phenolic drive, with a prolonged finish. The blend is approximately seventy percent Sauvignon Blanc and thirty percent Semillon. Most Sauvignon fermented in stainless steel, while Semillon fermented in oak puncheons. Both varieties spent about ten months on their yeast lees, and the bottled wine aged another year before release.
Château Suduiraut 2019 Le Blanc Sec de Suduiraut Bordeaux Blanc
French White
Bright light-yellow colour shows green reflections. Floral notes, white fruit and lemon are joined by delicate red fruit after aeration. The palate is round, with pear, peach and Sauvignon Blanc fruit, while the finish brings citrus zest and minerality. The blend is fifty-two percent Semillon and forty-eight percent Sauvignon Blanc. Harvest ran from September 4 to 16. Ageing lasted six months: seventy-five percent in vats and twenty-five percent in barrels.
Domaine Bailly-Reverdy 2024 La Mercy-Dieu Sancerre Blanc
French White
The profile includes pale yellow colour, green highlights, citrus, white flowers and a mineral touch. The palate is fresh, structured and rounded, with lively acidity and a long finish. Sauvignon Blanc comes from caillottes, flint and clay-limestone parcels. Hand-picked fruit is gently pressed, cold-settled for twelve to twenty-four hours, fermented naturally in temperature-controlled vats and aged for several months on fine lees.
Château de Beaulon Pineau des Charentes Blanc 5 Years
French Fortified
White flowers, honey, vanilla, mandarin and dried apricot define this fine, fresh and fruity fortified white. The blend is eighty percent Semillon and twenty percent Sauvignon Blanc, combined with Cognac eau-de-vie from the same estate. The youngest component spends five years in oak casks. Supple maturity accompanies the fruit, and the wine has eighteen percent alcohol.
Dönnhoff 2018 Tonschiefer Riesling Trocken
German White
Peach, slate, grapefruit, tart orange, citrus zest, white flowers and meadow herbs appear with salinity. The dry Riesling is full-bodied, creamy and tangy, with fine minerality, fresh acidity and grip. Fermentation takes place in large oak, while maturation takes place in stainless steel. The finish is long, with mineral drive and lift. Alcohol is 12.5 percent.
Castello di Ama 2021 Ama Chianti Classico DOCG
Italian Red
Bright ruby colour accompanies violet, redcurrant, cherry and strawberry. The palate has fruit, polished tannins and fresh acidity. The blend is ninety-six percent Sangiovese and four percent Merlot. Each variety ferments separately with ambient yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel. Manual pumpovers and twenty-five days of cuvaison are used for both grapes. Malolactic fermentation takes place in steel before blending and ageing in second-passage fine-grained oak barrels. The estate holds Equalitas certification for sustainable viticulture.
Meyer Family Vineyards 2023 McLean Creek Road Vineyard Pinot Noir
Canadian Red
Bing cherry, black raspberry, beetroot, pepper and toasted oak form the profile. The fruit is gently destemmed by gravity into open-top fermenters with twenty-five percent whole clusters. A cold soak precedes a two-week indigenous-yeast fermentation with gentle hand plunging. After fermentation and a post-maceration period, the wine moves to French oak, twenty percent new, for eleven months. It is unfined and coarsely filtered, with ripe fruit and a lasting finish.
Idun 2022 L’Intemporelle Cap Classique Brut Nature
South African Sparkling
Lemon zest, green apple, crushed oyster shell and delicate flowers appear in a taut profile. The palate is dry and chiselled, with a fine bead, salinity, length and linear mineral character. The blend is seventy percent Pinot Noir and thirty percent Chardonnay from a single vineyard at 300 metres. Ten percent of the base wine fermented in seasoned French oak and the remainder in stainless steel. The wine spent thirty-one months on lees and was disgorged without dosage.
G de Château Guiraud 2022 Bordeaux Blanc Sec
French White
Passion fruit and pink grapefruit accompany a pale, bright-yellow colour and minty freshness. Ripe-Sauvignon freshness, roundness, flesh and light brioche notes are present on the palate. Fifty-three percent Sauvignon Blanc and forty-seven percent Semillon form the blend. Fermentation is divided equally between one-wine barrels and stainless steel, with five percent malolactic fermentation. Barrel ageing lasts six months and includes regular lees stirring.
Tenute Vignola 2023 Jagamu Vermentino di Gallura DOCG
Italian White
Intense straw yellow with golden reflections accompanies yellow flowers, ripe fruit, citrus and delicate sweet notes. The palate has mineral freshness, pronounced savouriness and an elegant, silky texture. Vermentino is hand-harvested in small crates, refrigerated overnight and pressed as whole clusters without crushing or destemming. Only free-run juice is used. It settles at 7°C for seventy-two hours before about two weeks of alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel.
Idun 2022 L’Impassible Cap Classique Brut
South African Sparkling
Citrus blossom, red apple, crushed raspberry and toasted brioche shape the bouquet. Lemon zest and almond accompany a fine mousse, crisp acidity and a long mineral finish. The blend is seventy percent Pinot Noir and thirty percent Chardonnay from a single vineyard at 300 metres. Eight percent of the base wine fermented in seasoned French oak, with the balance in stainless steel. The wine spent thirty-one months on lees.
López de Heredia 2017 Viña Cubillo Crianza Rioja
Spanish Red
Ripe black fruit, tobacco, liquorice, toast, light spice and fine leather shape this Rioja red. The blend includes Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo. It spends three years in French oak and is racked twice each year before further bottle ageing. The palate is soft and light, with fruit, toast, fresh acidity and a pleasant finish.
Clos du Tue-Boeuf 2022 Pineau d’Aunis
French Red
Raspberry, flowers and white pepper shape this light Loire red. Pineau d'Aunis comes from organically tended, hand-harvested vines that are about a century old. The wine spends six months in old barrels and is bottled without added sulphur. Translucent ruby colour, cranberry and blood-orange acidity, green-olive character and a peppery rocket note are also present.
Milan Nestarec 2020 Bum Bum Cha Rosé Pet-Nat
Czech Sparkling
This gently sparkling rosé combines Riesling, Frankovka, Sauvignon and Zweigelt. The grapes co-ferment before the wine is sealed under crown cap to finish fermentation. Strawberries and cherries are part of the profile, and the wine contains eleven percent alcohol. Four distinct colourful label versions were created for this release and are mixed within the cases.
Lyrarakis 2020 Mandilari Plakoura
Greek Red
Deep ruby in colour, this Mandilari has black fruit, cedar-chocolate, nutty oak, vanilla biscuit, earth and dried-herb notes. The vineyard sits at five hundred metres on sandy-loam soil with a northern aspect. Grapes are hand harvested, destemmed and crushed, then macerate during fermentation for ten days below twenty-seven degrees. Fine-grained tannins, vibrant acidity and a long savoury aftertaste are present.
Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme 2019 Tuffeau Chenin
French White
Chenin grows on white chalk beneath shallow topsoil. The profile combines ripeness with the grape’s acidity, while minerality and salinity are present. Élevage lasts about a year in demi-muids, followed by another year of bottle ageing. The fruit comes from an organic grower in Vouvray, and whole clusters are pressed before fermentation in neutral oak.
Koehler-Ruprecht 2020 Spätburgunder Kabinett Trocken
German Red
Wild raspberry, cherry, red currant, plum, forest floor, mushroom, liquorice and clove shape this Pinot Noir. The vines grow around Kallstadt on gravelly sandstone and loess over limestone. Natural fermentation occurs in steel, with pressing after four to six weeks. Ageing uses old oval barrels and old barriques. Red berries, earth, fresh acidity, fine tannins and spice are also present.
Koehler-Ruprecht 2020 Kallstadter Saumagen Riesling Kabinett Trocken
German White
Lime peel, candied lemon, pineapple, white flowers, crushed stone and fresh herbs shape this dry Riesling. The vines grow in deep loess and marl with a high proportion of limestone on a south-east-facing parcel. Natural fermentation takes place in large old oak barrels, with at least eight months on lees. Citrus, salinity, bright acidity, rounded texture and a stony finish are present.
Maison En Belles Lies 2019 Beaujolais-Villages
French Red
Gamay comes from a four-hectare parcel in Quincié-en-Beaujolais, where the soils include schist, basalt, granite and quartzite. Many vines are more than a century old. Whole clusters ferment in open wooden vats with light foot treading and no pump-overs. The wine spends eighteen months in barrel and has ripe fruit, fresh acidity and concentrated character.
Foppiano 2021 Estate Grown Zinfandel Russian River Valley
American Red
Red raspberry, dark fruit jam, cinnamon, clove, ripe plum, black tea and lavender oil form a layered profile. Blueberry, elderberry and cranberry accompany oak spice and baking notes. The blend is eighty-nine percent Zinfandel and eleven percent Barbera. Soft tannins, tangy acidity and a long, mouthwatering finish are also present in this firmly structured red.
Domaine Chevrot et Fils 2020 Pivoine Coteaux Bourguignons
French Red
Raspberry, cranberry, red currant, strawberry, spice, violets and stony mineral notes shape this light, fresh red. Pinot Noir and Gamay are placed as whole bunches in neutral vats. The palate combines vibrant acidity with fine tannins, red fruit and light texture. Minimal sulphur and intervention are used during élevage, and spice is present on the finish.
Les Capriades 2018 Méthode Ancestrale Menu Pineau
French Sparkling
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.
50th Parallel Estate 2022 Pinot Noir Rosé Magnum 1.5 L
Canadian Rosé
This dry rosé is made from Pinot Noir grown specifically for the style. The Lake Country estate covers sixty-one acres across thirteen vineyard blocks near Lake Okanagan, with Pinot Noir central to its production. The wine comes from British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, was bottled in 1.5-litre format and received a silver medal at the All Canadian Wine Championships.
Malgiacca 2021 Bianco Toscana IGT
Italian White
The blend is approximately half Trebbiano, with fifteen percent each of Vermentino and Malvasia; Grechetto, Moscato and other varieties make up the balance. Half the fruit is pressed pneumatically and half in a basket press. Fermentation takes place naturally in stainless steel without temperature control, followed by malolactic fermentation and three months on lees. Floral, fresh, mineral and savoury notes define the profile.
Diego Conterno 2021 Baluma Langhe Nebbiolo
Italian Red
Red berries, cherries, wild flowers and warm spice appear in a medium-bodied profile with silky texture and ripe tannins. Nebbiolo comes from the Ferrione vineyard near Monforte d'Alba, on a west- to southwest-facing slope with clay and calcareous marl. The grapes are harvested by hand and destemmed. Fermentation uses native yeasts, followed by five months in 500-litre oak and four months in cement.