Red
Red
Guerrieri Rizzardi 2012 3 Cru Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Italian Red
Ripe fruit and sweet spice sit with a compote-like character. The dry red is full and rich, with a round texture, balanced oak and freshness. Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella and Barbera comprise the blend, with Rondinella accounting for ten percent. The wine carries sixteen percent alcohol and is sealed under cork. It comes from Veneto's Valpolicella Classico zone.
Nicolis 2009 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Italian Red
Ripe black cherry, spiced plum, blue flowers, baking spice and new leather accompany blackberry, crushed black raspberry, raisin, liquorice and dark chocolate. Firm tannins have a velvety texture, and the finished wine carries fifteen percent alcohol. This Veneto red wine is made as the estate's regular Classico Amarone bottling, separate from its Ambrosan Amarone release.
Rennersistas 2022 Pin-Oh! Noir
Austrian Red
A light berry colour accompanies ripe, juicy fruit. The Pinot Noir is silky and light, with hibiscus tea, violet, fresh raspberry, tea tannins and light sweet spice. Fruit comes from biodynamically farmed vines in Burgenland, and the wine carries certified organic status. The dry red contains twelve percent alcohol and is sealed under natural cork.
Wine Art Estate 2018 Idisma Drios Xi Xinomavro
Greek Red
A deep ruby colour accompanies ripe raspberry, plum, briny black olive and sun-dried tomato. Cherry, strawberry, dried cranberry, sour-cherry jam, vanilla, cinnamon, pepper, tea and forest-floor notes add further detail. The wine is full-bodied, with acidity, robust ripe tannins and a very long finish. It spends twelve months in French oak, half of which is new, and carries 14.5 percent alcohol.
Tesselaarsdal 2022 Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge Pinot Noir
South African Red
Subtle red-cherry and raspberry notes sit with clove and baking spice. Fruit comes from unirrigated vines at La Vierge in the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge. The wine spends nine and a half months in 228-litre French-oak barrels, divided among first-, second-, third- and fourth-fill wood. The finished analysis lists 12.99 percent alcohol, 5.2 grams per litre of acid, a pH of 3.51 and 1.9 grams per litre of residual sugar.
Chaberton 2024 Red 4 L Box
Canadian Red
Cherry and spice aromas include vanilla. This dry red is smooth on the palate, with flavours of cherry, plum and sweet spice. The current house blend uses British Columbia grapes sourced from the Okanagan and Similkameen valleys, with Merlot, Chancellor and Gamay Noir forming the largest portions. Vegan-friendly production, thirteen percent alcohol and zero grams per litre of residual sugar are also specified.
Clos des Centenaires 2023 Grenache Vieilles Vignes
French Red
Cooked raspberry and sour-cherry notes sit with black pepper. The tannins are supple, and roasted hazelnut appears in the finish. The Grenache fruit comes from old vines in Costières de Nîmes. Fermentation takes place in concrete, followed by ageing in used four-hundred-litre oak barrels. The vineyard has rounded Villafranchian stones and lies near the Mediterranean.
Domaine du Couvent 2020 Les Jumelles Bourgogne Pinot Noir
French Red
The two adjacent Pinot Noir vineyard parcels located in Gevrey-Chambertin are named Grands Champs and Prunier. Together they cover one third of a hectare, with each parcel equal in area and similarly planted. Their clay-rich soils are associated with roundness, structure and power. Average production from the two parcels is seven Burgundy barrels per harvest.
Michele Castellani 2006 Colle Cristi Amarone della Valpolicella Classico
Italian Red
Kirsch and prune sit with aromatic tobacco, leather, graphite and dark-chocolate notes. The tannins are compact, and the finish is long and smoky. Cooked fruit and spice accompany a velvety texture and full body. The process begins with selected harvested grapes, followed by drying, destemming and crushing before a slow fermentation and subsequent cellar maturation.
Produttori del Barbaresco 2020 Pajè Riserva Barbaresco
Italian Red
Ruby red in colour, with fresh red fruit and herbal hints. Complex flavours combine bright fruit, lively acidity and a pleasantly tannic finish. Forest berry, mint, clove and new leather are also present, alongside red cherry, raspberry compote and liquorice. The 7.5-acre vineyard lies on a lower ridge near Asili, where cool wind from the Tanaro River reaches calcium-rich soil.
Giuseppe Mascarello 2020 Bricco Mirasole Dolcetto d’Alba
Italian Red
Deep ruby-red tends toward violet. The profile is winey, strong, fruity and varietal, with a very dry, typically bitterish taste and an intense, elegant, well-balanced character. Fruit comes from a vineyard in Castiglione Falletto. Selected, thinned estate fruit undergoes traditional floating-cap fermentation at controlled temperature, followed by stabilization in an inert tank without oak. Bottling occurs one year after harvest.
Trefethen 2016 Estate Pinot Noir
American Red
Forest floor, dark cherry, raspberry and strawberry appear in the aromas. The palate is velvety and carries truffle, mushroom and baking-spice flavours. Fruit comes from Oak Knoll District in Napa Valley, and the bottle carries thirteen and six-tenths percent alcohol. The winery recommends leaner meats, poultry or sausage, with coriander, rosemary, thyme, tarragon, cinnamon or allspice.
BACA 2018 Bleachers Rudy’s Vineyard Zinfandel
American Red
Wild game and mushroom are joined by ripe, rich fruit and powerfully built tannins. A crisp, crunchy undercurrent of high-toned red fruit brings brightness, and the finish carries oaky spice. The wine comes from Rudy's Vineyard in Dry Creek Valley and contains fifteen and four-tenths percent alcohol. The fruit is identified as old-vine Zinfandel from Sonoma County.
Mount Edward 2020 Ted Pinot Noir
New Zealand Red
Bright red-ruby in colour, with plum, coffee and herb aromas and flavours. Smooth tannins accompany a lively, medium-long finish. Redcurrant, raspberry, liquorice and dark chocolate are also present. The Pinot Noir is grown organically in Central Otago under New Zealand certification, and the bottle carries thirteen and one-half percent alcohol. The overall texture is soft and supple.
Tenuta Casenuove 2018 Chianti Classico Riserva
Italian Red
Deep, brilliant ruby in colour. The bouquet includes violet, red fruit and black fruit, with morello cherry and blueberry. The palate is full, enveloping, elegant and sinuous, with dense, silky tannins and acidity. Selected fruit spends twelve months in cement, large Slavonian-oak casks and new and used barriques, followed by twenty-four months of bottle ageing.
Simonnet-Febvre 2020 Irancy Paradis Pinot Noir
French Red
Intense violet colour accompanies berries and blackberries. Present, melted tannins give the wine power and length, with roundness and firmness in balance. Pinot Noir grows on limestone marl in a south- to southwest-facing amphitheatre protected from northerly winds. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel, followed by eighteen months of ageing divided between eighty-five percent stainless steel and fifteen percent oak.
Benton-Lane 2022 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
American Red
Fresh raspberry and sour cherry meet black pepper, cardamom, earth, dried thyme and pennyroyal. The wine is medium-bodied, with a vibrant, textured midpalate, elegant tannins, balanced acidity and a long finish. Each vineyard block was handled separately, with five to seven days of cold soak before fermentation. After gentle pressing, malolactic fermentation took place in French oak, followed by ten months in barrel with nineteen percent new oak.
Gabriëlskloof 2022 Syrah on Shale
South African Red
A single Bokkeveld shale site with high clay content retains water and contributes a riper fruit profile. More than half the crop was destemmed, while the balance remained in clusters. Wild fermentation took place in small open-top fermenters, followed by extended maceration and fourteen months in second- and third-fill French oak. Violets, pepper, blueberry, darker berries and black olive accompany stony texture, powdery tannins and fresh acidity.
Tedeschi 2020 Marne 180 Amarone della Valpolicella
Italian Red
Fruit from hillside Valpolicella vineyards is dried for about four months in a controlled environment. Maturation lasts three years in Slavonian oak, followed by at least six months in bottle. Aromatic freshness, substantial structure, balance and good acidity characterize the wine. The designation refers to marl soils and vineyard exposures running from southwest to southeast across a span of 180 degrees.
Domaine de l’Ecu 2017 Ange Pinot Noir
French Red
Pinot Noir is harvested by hand, with half the fruit destemmed. Native fermentation takes place in stainless steel, with pumpovers during the first seven or eight days, followed by pneumatic pressing and twelve months in amphora. Bottling is unfined and unfiltered. Ripe black fruit, blackberry, violet and delicate spice accompany a full-bodied profile that combines power with delicacy.
Agostina Pieri 2017 Brunello di Montalcino
Italian Red
Clusters are selected by hand in the vineyard and again on sorting tables in the cellar. Fermentation takes place in temperature-controlled stainless steel, followed by twenty-two days of maceration. The wine spends twenty-four months in wood, divided between 600-litre demi-muids and larger French-oak casks, then six months in stainless steel and eighteen months in bottle. The blend is entirely Sangiovese from two south-facing vineyards.
St. Amant 2022 Marian’s Vineyard Reserve Zinfandel
American Red
Bright, acid-driven red fruit appears with soft tea-like tannins and baking spice from used oak. Earthiness and a leaf-to-stem character sit alongside whole-cluster fermentation. The wine is fermented with native yeast and finished without new oak. The vineyard was planted more than a century ago and is farmed by Mohr-Fry Ranches under LODI RULES certification in Lodi, California.
Painted Rock 2022 Malbec Skaha Bench
Canadian Red
Floral notes and purple fruit accompany blue and dark fruit with a savoury note. The palate is dense and rich, with black cherry, red cherry, blueberry and mocha. The acidity is lifted and the finish has a mineral character. Made entirely from Malbec, the dry red comes from Skaha Bench in the Okanagan Valley and carries fourteen and eight-tenths percent alcohol.
Dr. Edge 2022 North Pinot Noir Tasmania
Australian Red
Dark cherry, wild strawberry and raspberry meet dried citrus rind, red flowers, spice and amaro herbs. Flint, charcoal, graphite, shiitake broth and light game add savoury detail. The tannins have a powdered-granite character, with mineral energy in the wine. Pinot Noir from northern Tasmania carries twelve and a half percent alcohol and uses a screw-cap closure.
Emandare 2023 Estate Pinot Noir
Canadian Red
About two acres of Pinot Noir occupy the middle of a south-facing terraced slope near Somenos Lake and Mount Prevost. The dry-farmed vineyard is kept to roughly two and a half tons per acre. Clones 667 and 777 each make up forty percent, with fifteen percent clone 115 and five percent clone 114. Fermentations use ambient yeasts.
Enrico Serafino 2019 Picotener Langhe Nebbiolo
Italian Red
Bright red colour with violet shades accompanies rose, violet, cherry, plum and fine spice. The wine is fine, velvety and fresh, ranging from medium-bodied to structured, with delicate tannins and a long, persistent mineral finish. Made entirely from Nebbiolo, it ferments in temperature-controlled stainless steel with an eighteen-day maceration. Maturation lasts twelve months in medium-sized oak barrels and wooden vats.
Matthieu Barret 2022 Pas Calé Pinot Noir
French Red
Fresh rose and violet accompany smoked bacon, cocoa, mint, blueberry and clove. The red wine is structured, rich and elongated, with young tannins. Pinot Noir comes from thirty-five-year-old vines rooted in Jurassic clay-limestone. Grapes are hand-harvested, then undergo whole-cluster carbonic maceration and a three-week maceration. The wine matures for eight months in glass vessels and is bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Cascina Penna-Currado 2022 Langhe Nebbiolo Bricco Lago
Italian Red
Deep garnet colour accompanies raspberry, cherry, wild strawberry, rose and violet. Crisp red fruit and citrus appear with soft, enveloping tannins. Spice, sweet flowers, chalky texture and a light sanguine detail are also present. The medium-bodied wine is fresh, with ripe tannins. Whole berries make up thirty to forty percent of fermentation, and maturation takes place in cask.
Lingua Franca 2021 Avni Pinot Noir
American Red
Subtle, mouth-filling and rich, with red cherry, black cherry, tea, rose petal, savoury and mineral nuances and a round, plummy texture. More than seventy percent of the Pinot Noir comes from the estate, with the remainder from Eola-Amity Hills vineyards. Grapes are hand-harvested and fermented spontaneously with eighteen percent whole clusters before twelve months in French oak and four months in tank.
Suvla 2021 Reserve Syrah
Turkish Red
Ripe black fruit and herbal undertones are joined by soft, ripe tannins. American oak nuances join a fruit structure, with medium length and a short finish. The red wine is dry, made entirely from Syrah and carries fourteen and a half percent alcohol. It comes from Thrace-Marmara in Turkey and uses a natural cork closure.