Saperavi Solo, Tiko Estate
Re-establishing their family’s winemaking roots in Georgia, brothers Levan and Georgi Chychynadze operate and run a small winery in the Kakheti region, Eastern Georgia, about 2 hours from the country’s capital, Tbilisi. Kakheti is Georgia’s most significant winemaking region in terms of quality, quantity, and history, with evidence showing that wine has been made here […]
Manoir du Carra, Beaujolais Villages, Non Filtré
The Sambardier family from Manoir du Carra have been our ‘go-to’ Beaujolais producers for many years. They have 35 hectares of vineyards with the 19ha of Villages on exceptionally exposed granite slopes in the southern Beaujolais hills above Denicé, where they have been for generations. This Beaujolais Village is a blend of grapes from two […]
Pedro Ximenez, Lustau
The company Emilio Lustau was established in 1896 and was initially a small family concern until the founder’s son-in-law placed it on a business footing. The firm is perhaps best known as pioneering the Almacenista system, whereby individual dry sherries are produced from small private holdings. These are bottled under Lustas’s name but with the individual bodega’s […]
Quinta do Pôpa, Contos da Terra Tinto
Quinta do Pôpa are a family run estate, founded by José Ferreira and named in honour of his father, Francisco ‘Pôpa’ Ferreira. José (aka Zeca do Pôpa) bought vineyards in 2003. Situated on slopes in Adorigo and Tabuaço, overlooking the Douro River, these vineyards are a mix of old vines (some over 80 years old) […]
The Black Craft, Shiraz
Smalltown Vineyards express many of the Barossa’s prized districts form Gomersal, Kalimna as well as the Eden Valley and beyond. They work with exceptional vineyards simply expressed using minimal intervention, basket press where relevant, natural ferments in open top fermenters to best capture the Barossa’s magical flavours. This Shiraz is sourced from the finest available […]
Kingston Estate, Cabernet Sauvignon
Nina and Steve Moularadellis both emigrated from Greece to Australia as young adults, seeking a better life in the 1960s. They met while picking fruit in the Riverland region of South Australia, where they had both chosen to settle. When they could afford it, they bought their own block of land on which they gradually […]
Gran Passione, Rosso, Veneto
For centuries Veneto, in the North East of Italy, has been one of the foremost wine producing regions and one of the most modernised of Italy. With its vast micro-climates, no other region offers more diversity in such close proximity than Veneto. The Gran Passione project was set up in 2013 in homage to the […]
Lionheart of the Barossa, Shiraz, Dandelion Vineyards
Dandelion Vineyards is the venture of self-titled ‘typist’ Zar Brooks and his winemaking wife Elena, with wines made from the Barossa and Eden Valleys, Fleurieu, the Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale. The approach is remarkably simple and sees Elena making wine from a suite of beautiful old vineyards across that blessed curve that runs from […]
Larga Historia, Garnacha
It’s a long story . . . . these guys went to great lengths to find this wine but after much searching, we believe they have struck the right balance of fruit and intensity with this vibrant, strawberry filled, Garnacha. Like every good story it lives long in the mouth and has a superb finish. […]
Passion, Some Young Punks
£16.75
Primitivo di Manduria, Magnifico Rosso, Fuoco
The vineyards for this Magnifico Primitivo di Manduria are very close to the little town of Manduria in Puglia. They are south-facing and enjoy a very hot, mediterranean climate. The primitivo grapes are grown on bush vines, ripen early and are handpicked in early September. Fermentation is carefully controlled using a submerged cap system in […]
Pulenta La Flor, Cabernet Sauvignon
£13.95
