SIZE

12 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $25.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Mondo del Vino

VINTAGE

2020

COLOUR

RED

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

VENETO, Italy

GRAPE

Rondinella, Corvina Veronese, Corvinone

 

Winemaker Notes

A classic Valpolicella Ripasso. A powerful and elegant wine with aromas of roasted coffee and chocolate. Deft & silky, not over-extracted. Lovely Corvina edge of petals and almond nmd earthy leathery notes. Bright, intense garnet red. Aromas of ripe plum and sweet hints reminiscent of hazelnuts and Amarena cherries and black elderberry. On the palate it impresses with a fully harmonious, dense body paired with a round tannin structure. Intense cassis notes as well as licorice and truffle taste. Long-lasting, exciting finish with a lot of concentration of ripe berries.

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $69.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Gigi Rosso

VINTAGE

2019

COLOUR

Red

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

barolo docg, Piedmont, Italy

GRAPE

NEBBIOLO

Winemaker Notes

This Cru best interprets Traditional Barolo: the strength, fullness and longevity typical of this area. Aromas of spices, chocolate, liquorice, tobacco and mint. Light nose with hints of tobacco, oak, red flowers, and cherry and rich tannins. Aged three years in oak barrels. 

SIZE

12 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $22.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Château Grand Renom

VINTAGE

2022

COLOUR

RED

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Bordeaux, France

GRAPE

CABERNET FRANC, merlot

Located at an altitude of 80 metres on a rich, diversified terroir, the Merlot and Cabernet Franc grapes are rigorously sorted and selected to produce a typical Bordeaux wine. The wine is vinified in temperature-controlled stainless-steel vats and matured for 8 to 14 months in stainless steel and concrete vats. A fruity, rich wine, with a beautiful ruby-red colour. Delicate notes of red and black fruit (blackcurrant, blackberry, cherry) enhanced by a hint of woodiness. Balanced on the palate, the attack is full bodied and pleasant. Tannins are silky and delicate with fine aromatic freshness.

90 Points, Wine Enthusiast

An aroma with a touch of chocolate and with fresh acidity and spice give complexity and a juicy character. The wine has depth, with its black-currant aftertaste. Drink from 2025. 

SIZE

3 PACK, 1500ml BOTTLES, $259.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Felton Road

VINTAGE

2023

COLOUR

Red

REGION, COUNTRY

Central Otago, New Zealand

GRAPE

Pinot Noir

The vivacious fruit and spices are present as always, but are perhaps lighter in tone and more exotic. The palate has a savoury tone, which sits surprisingly well with the usual Cornish Point indulgences: luxurious fruit and exotic woods like Sandalwood, even Lebanon Cedar. The tannins are beautifully balanced and integrated, ever present, but never interfering; just contributing to the overall stature.

95 Points, The Real Review

Savoury and dried herbs evident on the aroma with floral, violet, dark cherry and berry, grape stems and spicy oak. Made using 25% whole clusters in the fermentation, which might explain a firm tannic structure that makes the wine slightly closed at this stage but suggests a promising future.

SIZE

3 PACK, 1500ML BOTTLES, $259.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Felton Road

VINTAGE

2023

COLOUR

Red

REGION, COUNTRY

Central Otago, New Zealand

GRAPE

Pinot Noir

 

94+ Points, Wine Advocate (2022 Vintage)

This wine hits a massive stride. Forthright tannins accompany powerful fruit and fine acidity to make an impact. There’s pomegranate and cherry, violets, rosehips and capers, with green olive tapenade and even a hint of bone broth. Once again, the acidity in conjunction with the tannins combine to bring on a cool finish...

SIZE

12 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $18.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Rivera

VINTAGE

2021

COLOUR

Red

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Castel del Monte, Puglia, Italy

GRAPE

Nero di Troia, Cabernet Sauvignon

 

Ruby with purple highlights; bouquet of wild red berry fruit; smooth, fruity late, well balanced with subtly tannic finish. Rivera is a benchmark producer of premium wine from Italy's Puglia region.  

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $73.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Meerlust Estate

VINTAGE

2021

COLOUR

Red

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Stellenbosch, western cape, South Africa

GRAPE

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc

 

Very youthful colour, deep and dense with almost purple hue. Quintessential Rubicon nose with violets, ripe plum, cedar wood, fennel, and intense spiciness. Typical liquorice notes also evident on the nose. Still young and intense, the palate is full bodied, structured but packed with fresh dark fruit and rounded tannins and seamlessly integrated oak.

The Rubicon is a true expression of the Meerlust estate and draws fruit from their four distinctive terroirs. Each terroir provides a unique element to the final blend.

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $57.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Marchesi di Gresy

VINTAGE

2023

COLOUR

Red

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy

GRAPE

Nebbiolo

Produced with grapes from the same vineyard from which we obtain our Barbaresco, it has all the character and elegance of the great Nebbiolo, with intense and very fine aromas of flowers and small ripe fruits. Fresh and pleasant on the palate, with the typical tannic astringency, it is ideal with grilled foods, white and red meats, medium-aged cheeses. Brilliant ruby red of medium intensity. Clear and intense fruity scents of strawberry, raspberry, black cherry and cherry. Fresh, lively, harmonious and balanced mouthfeel that is medium-bodied and pleasantly tannic.

The Langhe Nebbiolo Martinenga shows delicate fiber and a thin veiling of small forest fruit, licorice and rain-washed stone or cement. Those small details converge to create a very elegant and polished expression of Nebbiolo. For its accessibility and drinkability, I highly recommend this pretty wine.

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $62.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Savage Wines

VINTAGE

2023

COLOUR

Red

REGION, COUNTRY

Western Cape, South Africa

GRAPE

Cinsault

 

Deep, dark and very serious on the nose, boasting layers of raisined cranberries, dried strawberries, red currants and subtle perfumed hints of rose petals and violets. While the aromatics might be slightly shyer than usual, the palate displays a wonderfully toasty, savoury depth of red and black berry fruits, cherry cordial, wild strawberry and a sappy, spicy finish. There is plenty of depth with supporting structure but also an accessibility with a delicious dark fruited opulence.

Duncan is no doubt one of the best winemakers in South Africa. In fact, Tim Atkin (MW) has proclaimed, "Duncan Savage thinks he hasn't hit his full potential yet. Heaven help his rivals when he does.

 

92 Points, James Suckling (previous vintage)

 

This is a supple and delicious red showing aromas of paprika, wild herbs, strawberries and red cherries on the nose. Very soft tannins that melt in your mouth. Medium-bodied, fresh and fruit-driven.

 

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $62.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Savage Wines

VINTAGE

2022

COLOUR

Red

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Western Cape, South Africa

GRAPE

Syrah

2022 was a warmer vintage yielding a Savage Red with a touch more generosity. Plums, lavender, cola, violets and the characteristic Langverwagt white pepper. The palate remains taut and focused to compliment the typical tannins one would get from the granitic soils.A wine that will drink well over the next 10 years.

 

Grapes are sourced from the Langverwagt farm in Kuils River on the outskirts of Stellenbosch. Decomposed granite soils overlooking Table Bay and False Bay, a perfect home for maritime Stellenbosch Syrah. Three parcels of vines, all trellised but farmed as a sprawl canopy – trellised bush vine of sorts. Soils are poor, vigour is low and grapes are scarce, all a perfect recipe for classically styled Syrah.

All the fruit is sorted as wholebunches before spontaneous fermentation in conical foudre and open-top fermenters. 30% of the fruit is submerged cap with regular aeration, the balance as open fermentations with 2-4 aerated pump-overs per day. 50% of the fruit as wholebunches. 2-3 weeks on skins is followed by basket pressing and ageing in old 500L barrels for 13 months. The wine then spends a further 10 months in foudre prior to bottling.

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $59.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Bachelder

VINTAGE

2022

COLOUR

red

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Niagara, Ontario, canada

GRAPE

pinot noir

 

Although this wine dances the line between raw and crunchy red fruit, between deliciousness and perfumed, spicy seriousness, this vintage of Parke carries the dense fruit weight and ‘gibier’ complexity of a ‘Grand Vin.‘ It torques up the volume in the mid-palate, and a grand finesse of suave fruit emerges that leads us to a saline minerality. This Wismer-Parke will undoubtedly mature into one of the hits of this Toussaint Release!

Drinking development to prime: 2025-2036

147 cases made.

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $29.99 EACH

PRODUCER

Bachelder

VINTAGE

2022

COLOUR

red

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Niagara, Ontario, canada

GRAPE

gamay

 

From the western side of Line One, just outside the Old Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Not only is Kirby* Vineyard in the Four Mile Creek sub-appellation, but the Four Mile Creek actually runs along the side and back of the vineyard! The colour is a little deeper than the “Les Villages,” but the nose – while still a little mute – is fairly brimming with red fruit, minted raspberries with a clove-spiced edge. It swirls as it dances across the palate. Darker-toned flavours ‘cut into’ the beam of the cherry fruit dance. Huge volume and sense of place on the impressive slatey finish from these older vines! We are still undecided as to which of these two Kirby iterations best reveal the local terroir. Stay tuned for the 2023s next year at this time!

SIZE

6 PACK, 750ml BOTTLES, $224.99 EACH

PRODUCER

SADIE Family Wines

VINTAGE

2022

COLOUR

RED

SUB-REGION, REGION, COUNTRY

Swartland, Western Cape, South Africa

GRAPE

Syrah, Mourvèdre, Grenache, Carignan, Cinsaut, Tinta Barocca

99 Points, Tim Atkin

"This is the lightest bodied Columella ever, according to Eben Sadie, but he’s not lost any concentration or intensity at the lower alcohol level. Sourced from 12 different vineyards... a brilliant vintage of one of the world’s greatest reds. Partnering Syrah, Mourvèdre, Grenache, Carignan, Cinsault, Tinta Barocca and Pinotage, this is an almost indecently perfumed cuvée with lilac, fynbos and rose petal aromas, plum, red cherry and blackberry fruit, subtle 5% new wood and a focused, grippy, stony finish..."

 

This 2022 Columella vintage displays floral aromas, and the bright, fresh fruit aromas carry over into oriental spicey aspects that then meet up with deepened earthy dynamics. Over time, the trademark violets and perfumes will develop further; the wine is very compact. The acidity at the end of the palate and the overall tannin are very well-placed, and the overall balance of the wine is terrific. The first thought that comes to mind is that it is a classic vintage, with most aspects being textbook. This 2022 vintage is also the lowest alcohol we ever achieved on the blend at 13,2 %. The wine needs time./span>