Each case contains 1 bottle of each:

Rivera Marese / Puglia, Italy

White flowers, sliced pear and hints of wet stone lift up to form a pretty bouquet on the Bombino Bianco Marese. It’s silky-smooth and juicy in feel, offering ripe orchard fruits and inner florals that keep the expression fresh and lifted. The finale is crisp and clean with a flourish of minerality that keeps you coming back to the glass.

Vincent Caille 'Je T’aime Mais J’ai Soif' / Muscadet, France

Beautiful yellow-green color. Young and fruity wine which develops aromas of citrus fruit. The white wine “Je t’aime mais j’ai soif” can be served with seafood as well as
with fresh water fish or sea fish. It will be perfect for aperitif.

Raats Original Chenin / Stellenbosch, South Africa

The wine has a distinctive yellow apple, kiwi fruit and pineapple core, alongside notes of green melon and limes. The wine is thus bursting with fresh fruit flavors. The wine has a zesty citrus flavor linger on the palate, with a long mineral finish. Serve with mild curry dishes, sushi or oysters.

Telmo Rodriguez ‘Gaba do Xil’ Mencia  / Valdeorras, Spain
 
Telmo’s red wine, once again from Galicia, is a red that shows the character of the stony hills and the Atlantic Ocean. This is a red wine made of 100% Mencia, a Spanish varietal found scattered through the country’s northwest. The vineyards are organically farmed, and the fruit is fermented again in stainless steel in order to maintain freshness, and using indigenous yeasts. The influence of the Atlantic Ocean is on full display, with its moderating influence playing its part in bringing balance to the wine. While it is ripe and full bodied, much like its white counterpart, this is vibrant and focussed, with no shortage of complexity and minerality.

Map Maker Pinot Noir / Marlborough, New Zealand

‘Map Maker’ Pinot Noir is crafted from carefully selected parcels of fruit grown on unique sites within the famous Rapaura and Brancott areas of Marlborough. Our mixture of multiple individual parcels, 4 different clones and a range of soil profiles provide us with great variation of fruit, each with unique flavour and tannin structure.

This Pinot Noir has lovely aromas of ripe black cherries and wild violets. In the mouth the wine has a grainy tannin structure and is intensely flavoured with sweet cherries, cedarwood and savoury characters such as dried herbs and wild game flavours. This is a sophisticated Pinot Noir with an ‘old world’ elegance and mineral lingering finish.

Paolo Scavino Barbera d’Alba / Piemonte, Italy

Barbera lovers rejoice! Scavino delivers again and again with this approachable, fruity variety. Vinification and aging occur in stainless steel to purely deliver its character. Floral, elegant and expressive aromatics, high toned texture, harmonious and lively acidity. 

Each case contains 1 bottle of each:

Rivera Pungirosa / Puglia, Italy

Purple-flecked onion skin color; delicate bouquet with notes of wild rose and cherry; crisp yet smooth palate, well balanced, with a subtle vein of acidity; lengthy, juicy finish.

Joseph Mellot 'Sincerite' Sauvignon Blanc / Sancerre France

The grapes for this wine are sourced from the main four appellations, including Sancerre and Pouilly Fume, which are known for their racy, mineral-driven style. The nose is fresh and vibrant with notes of lime zest, ruby grapefruit, green pear and mandarin oranges. There is an undercurrent of wet stones throughout. True to its terroir, it is refreshing with moderate acidity but it also has some weight in the mid-palate due to being aged on its fine lees.

Cabert Pinot Grigio / Friuli, Italy

Fruity, balanced, hints of nuts and toasted bread. Hors d’oeuvre, soups, fish and white meat. 

Amalaya Malbec  / Salta, Argentina
 
This wine is made with grapes from Las Mercedes Estate, sandy soil and very poor in organic matter. Mechanical harvest and aging in barrels of 25% of the wine with contributions from Tannat and Petit Verdot. Brilliant ruby color with violet edges. Strawberries, raspberries and ripe fruit with touch of pepper and spices aromas and elegant floral notes. In mouth, flavors of red fruit, spice and hints of vanilla from aging in French oak. Very nice freshness. Round, soft tannins lead to a delicate, lingering finish.

Speri Valpolicella Classico  / Veneto, Italy

91 Points, James Suckling

This is packed tight with a concentrated, silky bead of ripe red berries and red cherries that drives through the palate, until fine, quite firm tannins block its path right at the end. Medium-bodied, but the concentration of fruit makes it feel heavier. Lots of energy here, but balance, too. Delicious now. Even better after another year in bottle. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.

Lyeth Cabernet Sauvignon / California, USA

The Lyeth California Cabernet Sauvignon is has a touch of Petit Verdot for added complexity and depth of flavor. Crimson in the glass, this Cabernet Sauvignon offers expressive aromatics of red cherry, boysenberry-cedar and a touch of minerality and freshness like a seabreeze. A soft and generous palate with flavors of savory spice, bramble raspberry, chocolate-cherry and a hint of lavender on a long, lingering finish. 

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $114.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Bruno Paillard

VINTAGE

MV

COLOUR

Sparkling Rosé

REGION, COUNTRY

Champagne, France

GRAPE

Pinot Noir

 

Winemaker Notes

A hymn to the bright delicacy of Pinot Noir, the Premiere Cuvee Rosé is named on account of its composition of only the first pressing. The pink copper color with a hint of raspberry when young evolves to salmon while ageing. The fine bubbles are due to a strict selection of the best grapes, perfectly controlled temperature in the cellar and very long ageing. The initial aromas of redcurrant and red fruits evolve to morello cherry, wild strawberry and violet while breathing in the glass. A touch of lemon denotes the discrete presence of Chardonnay. With age, aromas tend towards dark fruits like dark cherry, fig and blackberry. Red fruit captured at their full freshness on the palate. The finish is bright and long.

93 Points, Decanter

There's a touch of orange peel on the nose along with notes of tart red fruit. Despite the lightness and delicacy there is concentration on a creamy palate, where lemon and strawberry play off each other. The finish reveals even richer citrus on this subtle wine.

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $71.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Le Soula

VINTAGE

2015

COLOUR

Red

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Fenouillèdes, Roussillon, France

GRAPE

Syrah, Carignan, Grenache

 

The 2015 is a blend of 53% Carignan, 37% Syrah and 10% Grenache Noir with fleshy fruit, supple tannins and some gentle evolution with good length.

93 Points,  La Revue du vin de France

A delicately floral wine with wild pepper that titillates the mouth. A slender wine that transmits aromas of juniper berry and sandalwood.

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $99.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Maison Champy

VINTAGE

2018

COLOUR

White

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Pernand-Vergelesses, Burgundy, France

GRAPE

Chardonnay

 

93 Points, Decanter

Not the biggest white wine cuvée at Maison Champy at only 25 barrels, but this 1ha parcel planted in the 1970s has produced a very stylish, saline, focused Chardonnay in the heat of 2018, with sweet vanilla-spicy oak, subtle gunflint aromas and a core of fresh, tangy, citrus and lime fruit.

Winemaker Notes

These vineyards cover the hilly slopes of Aloxe-Corton and Savigny-lès-Beaune. There are only four Premier Crus Pinot Noirs: “Les Fichots”, “En Caradeux”, “Creux de la Net”, “Iles des Hautes et Basses Vergelesses”. This wine is aged in a 350-barrel and a 228-litre used barrel. The wine is open and intense on the nose with notes of orange and grapefruit. The attack is fresh and supple. A well-balanced and concentrated wine with good mineral length on the finish.

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $87.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Domaine Belargus

VINTAGE

2020

COLOUR

white

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

anjou, Loire Valley, France

GRAPE

chenin blanc

 

Winemaker Notes

A terroir from which world-renowned sweet wines are produced, the Chaume 1^er Cru and Quarts-de-Chaume Grand Cru appellations also have the capacity to produce great dry whites. The Ronceray cuvée refers to the Abbey of the same name, owner of the Chaume vineyard from the 11^th century. Until the French revolution the lords of Haute-Guerche, farming this vineyard, were paying the nuns with "the best quarter of the harvest"... The "Quarts-de-Chaume" name was born.

Ronceray is a complex wine, resulting from the blend of our plots on the rump of Quarts-de-Chaume. A terroir with complex geology, the marriage of shales and pudding sandstones gives this cuvée a sharp minerality and a floral and fruity richness. A fine bitterness, signature of this terroir, brings complexity and length on the palate.

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $74.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Maison Champy

VINTAGE

2020

COLOUR

White

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Pernand Vergelesses, Burgundy, France

GRAPE

Chardonnay

 

Winemaker Notes

These vineyards cover the hilly slopes of Aloxe-Corton and Savigny-lès-Beaune. There are only four Premier Crus Pinot Noirs: “Les Fichots”, “En Caradeux”, “Creux de la Net”, “Iles des Hautes et Basses Vergelesses”. Two new “clos” have also received the appellation Premier Cru: “Clos du Village” and “Clos Berthier”.

The grapes from Domaine Champy's “Les Quartiers”, “Les Pins”, “La Morand” and “Derrière Frétille” are used in this wine. They are grown on clay and limestone soil. The grapes are harvested by hand, fermented and aged for 10 months in barrel (30% of which are new). This wine is pale golden in colour with hints of silver. It has good aromatic intensity and nice transparency. The nose opens with white flower, citrus and wild mint notes, and a mineral touch. A frank, fresh and elegant attack. On the palate, the wine is mineral, harmonious and rich, with a long and persistent finish.