Save over £15 on the cost of buying separately! Our absolute favourite red wines from across the globe.

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Abaton Xinomavro blend, Mt Athos, Greece - a truly heavenly wine from a working Monastery on Mt Athos. Wild strawberry, sour cherry and smoky undertones, held together in a sublime medium-bodied structure. Quite ethereal.

Les Coteaux Schisteaux Cotes du Rhone Seguret - full bodied yet supple and silky, and deliciously oaked. White pepper, berry fruits and herbal notes combine in a velvety textured delight. A bestseller.

Bodegas Roda Sela, Rioja. A superb fruit-forward Rioja from this cutting-edge producer who eschew the old labelling terms and just do what's best with their fruit. Ready for drinking, full of plum, blackcurrant, vanilla bean and subtle woody aromas. Decant before serving.

Clos du val Zinfandel, Napa Valley, California - legendary wine from California's Napa Valley. Luscious, ripe, and deep with full-bodied prune, tobacco and raisin notes. Perfect with crispy duck.

Rapaura Rohe Pinot Noir, Marlborough, NZ - multi award winning Pinot from the Southern Valleys region of Marlborough. Fleshy and juicy yet refined and precise. Subtle oak use lends further class and complexity. Lovely.

Touriga Vai Nua, Portugal - Touriga goes naked! A classic Port grape, but unrecognisable in this lithe and juicy format. Fruit-forward and unoaked and so refreshing. Great lightly chilled and an easy food partner.

Saving nearly £13 on the cost of buying separately, this sumptuous collection showcases the very finest examples of our favourite white wines.

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Terlaner Kreuth - knock-out Chardonnay from Alto Adige, the most northerly wine region in Italy. Steely, clean citrus notes lead to toasted brioche and apricot, ending with fresh cut pineapple and white fruits. Persistent and moreish.

Faiveley Bourgogne Chardonnay - sourced from villages-level vineyards in the Cote d'Or this is exceptional value - a rare thing in Burgundy - and shows the rising quality of 'Bourgogne' level wines from thr region. Faiveley retain their high repute for good reason.

Auntsfield Single Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, NZ - from Marlborough's oldest vines. Pristine, aromatic, utterly refreshing. Cut grass and kiwi, guava and lime zest.

Benufet Garnacha Blanca, Terra Alta - An off the beaten track wine from the hinterland around Barcelona. This won the best garnacha blanca for this region. Unoaked but rich and layered, with complex floral and stone-fruit nuances. Muy bien!

Bernard Fouquet Cuvée de Silex Vouvray - the most legendary of the Loire Valley Chenins, this just off-dry offering is complex and honeyed, with unmistakable Chenin blanc 'zip' and nerve. Intense and mouthwatering; perfect with roast chicken.

Stockwerk Gruner Weltliner, Austria, Organic - bright stone fruits and citrus with just a touch of spice in this wonderfully linear and precise white wine from Austria. A flinty backbone gives structure and leaves you wanting more.

Les Allées de Cantermele is the second wine of Château Cantemerle which can be traced back to the 12th century, when it started life as a fortification guarding the shores of the Medoc.

A very refined and delineated bouquet with blackberry, crushed stone and light mint aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins that will mesh together. There is a fine spiciness/white pepper note on the finish. What an outstanding second wine. Offering sweet, soft and ripe dark berries, this wine is fresh and ample with black cherry notes in an elegant style. This remains one of the best Bordeaux value wines in the market today.

13% abv

The importance of wines such as Meerlust Rubicon should not be overlooked as milestones in the developing history of South African wine. First made in 1980, it essentially set the pattern for Bordeaux blends in the country.

Like the best Bordeaux wines, the 2016, certainly has ageing potential. However, it is drinking so beautifully now that I suspect people will struggle to stop themselves opening it. The tannins are present, but supple and plump, and backed with a certain freshness of acidity as a counterpoint to its nicely ripe black fruit. It is lip-smacking and moreish.

Slow ripening in the vintage meant uneven ripeness in the Cabernet Sauvignon while Merlot apparently shone. Consequently, the 49% Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend is the lowest in Rubicon history, with 28% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot making up the remainder. In addition, extraction during fermentation was deliberately gentle with the Cabernet, reflected in the supple tannic structure.

The wine spent 16 months in 55% new oak barrels, with the oak giving cedar and some incense-like spice notes which worked in harmony with tobacco-leaf aromas that are most likely from the Cabernet Franc component. Satisfying and rewarding. A wine to bring a smile to ones face.

Organic, Biodynamic, young, trendy, and Austrian! Michael Opitz is part of the new generation of wine growers, no longer producing mainstream but rather, distinctive, confident wines. The personality of this wine grower is reflected in the style of the wines, which are considered and confident without excessive inclination towards the dramatic. Michael Opitz also particularly values sustainability in the winery. This includes improvements in the vineyard and in the cellar as well as considerations concerning transport, packaging materials and many other aspects.

This, his Sauvignon-Pinot Gris blend is a revelation! A truly sophisticated wine, full of finesse and soft tones, with Burgundy elegance and reserved coolness. A fascinating, sensuous palate, with fully mature flavours, which impresses from the first sip. The herbaceous tang of Sauvignon creates a fine balance of sweet fruitiness and crisp acidity.

Benanti Etna Bianco is a characterful white wine produced with Carricante grapes that grow in 35-50 year old vineyards on the southern and eastern slopes of Mt Etna in Sicily.  It displays delicious ripe red and green apple aromas with a hint of ripe pear. On the palate the intense fruit is complimented by a textured mouthfeel, balanced by a refreshing acidity and an aromatic, herbaceous touch on the finish.

Excellent with all seafood, like spaghetti with sea urchins, grilled shrimps or swordfish.

The Benanti winery was founded in 1988 by Giuseppe Benanti. Wine had been produced by the family for several generations, mostly for private consumption, until Giuseppe finally decided to establish the winery with the aim of preserving the unique terroir of Etna’s volcanic slopes, whilst cherishing and developing the indigenous Etnean varieties.

12.5% abv

La Réserve d'Angludet is the second wine of the Château d'Angludet. It comes from the same 34 Ha of vines that counts Angludet's vineyard. A series of thorough tasting carried out by Ben Sichel determines the final distinction between the top wines. La Réserve d’Angludet offers the best quality for price in the entire Margaux appellation, offering dazzling aromatic expression and gentle extract, which is sustained yet delicate.

A still youthful bouquet that opens gradually to offer up a rich palate of wild fruit, violets, blackberry, blackcurrant, and plum. The beautifully well-bred palate, with smooth extract adding elegant plumpness to the moderate tannins and a hint of toastiness. Drunk in its youth, it will offer all the finesse and charm typical of this exceptional terroir. Drink 2020 - 2025

A sublime Cru Bourgeois wine from this stellar vintage. This decadent wine comes from a historic estate in Listrac, dating to the 18th century. It offers ripe tannins and a bold, structured, core. Dark black plummy fruits alongside tones of liquorice and floral notes. Decanter's most improved Cru Bourgeois Chateau since 2010. This impressive wine is starting to show well now but will continue to develop slowly for the next 10-15 years.

Serve with roasted red meats or game, pâté en croute, mature cheeses such as fromages Mont d'Or, Cîteaux or Reblochon.

100% Chardonnay from the Cote Chalonnaise. 50% of the musts was fermented in French oak barrels, 10% of which are new oak. The ageing period lasts 16 months with regular stirring whilst the rest of the blend is aged in vats. This allows the wine to develop delicate cedar and nut notes whilst conserving its freshness and distinctive character. Favourable climate conditions in 2017 gave charm and generosity to the wine; a classic style of vintage that can also be enjoyed in its youth.

Clear, light yellow colour and a fresh nose characterised by flinty, mineral notes. The palate is smooth, round and very distinctive with a delicate touch of acidity that lingers on the fresh finish. Pair with baked salmon parcels and vegetable terrine.

Merry Edwards was a rare female graduate of UC Davis in 1973, and was hired as a winemaker by Mount Eden Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She later upped sticks to Sonoma in 1977 where she promptly became winemaker at the Matanzas Creek Winery in Santa Rosa. It was not until the late 1990s that she managed to establish her own label, building her own winery in 2006.

Now in her seventies, it was time for Edwards to hang up the secateurs and leave the punch downs to someone else, so Edwards sold her winery to Champagne Louis Roederer. From 2015 onwards, current winemaker Heidi von der Mehden worked alongside Edwards and 2018 was her first vintage in full charge of everything.

When you taste this you realise that it’s not your typical porch Sauvignon Blanc, it’s a serious wine that Merry developed. She didn’t like Sauvignon Blanc and tried to make a wine she liked. That meant harvesting riper to get these tropical flavours and fermenting fully in oak.

But it’s not only harvest point that makes the difference: “We’ve built upon our style by changing how we farm, so we have very open trellises and canopies. Others want dappled light on their grapes, I go out there and we take almost all the leaves off on the morning side of the vineyards and help the sun to penetrate. This gets the pyrazine [the green, leafy notes so typical for Sauvignon Blanc] flavours out of the wine.” The wines ferment in wood and about a fifth of the oak is new, with the lees stirred to enhance the creaminess.

The nose initially has a little smoke and the merest whiff of grass, but the palate is rounded, warm, smooth, creamy. The oak is a textural element here, and the less stirring makes this super creamy. It is bold, ripe, concentrated but ultra-mellow; a wine one could luxuriate in right now, however, there would be rich reward for those who can leave this well alone and uncork it in five years’ time...

From one of our favourite domaines in Burgundy, this Pinot noir shows a beautiful ruby colour. This wine has fresh, red-fruit aromas on the nose, which is found again on the palate. Raspberry and cranberry notes, followed by a touch of cedar and spice. It has a rich and very ripe substance, with fine and round tannins. This is a very well-structured and pleasing wine, very approachable and versatile.

Thörle is a much-acclaimed family domaine based in Saulheim in the Rheinhessen, and since 2006 it has been run by brothers Christoph and Johannes. The vineyards are managed organically, and the domaine is being taken in a biodynamic direction. Soils are interesting and varied, with light clay, limestone, red sandy loam and even flint and schist. Riesling from limestone is an altogether different and more Burgundian prospect to wines from elsewhere in Germany that might be grown on slate or loam. 
Hölle is in a small, protected valley at 150-220m, with 35 year old, deep-rooted vines. This is a dry Riesling (1.8 g/l residual sugar). Very intense and precise with lovely pear, melon and citrus fruit. Really linear with a strong mineral core to it. Superb stuff, in a class of its own. 94/100

‘Les Champs Gains’ is a Puligny-Montrachet Cru that benefits from a high altitude terroir and limestone soils, instilling in its wines aromatic purity, richness of flavour and a clear minerality – all beautifully displayed in this wine.18 months ageing in French Oak, 25% new.

Jouard produces some of the best value wines in the Côte de Beaune. Stunning richness balanced by acidity and full flavours, all underpinned by a great mineral quality. Champ Gain is one of the top Premier Cru vineyards in Puligny-Montrachet. The texture of this wine goes beautifully with creamy dishes.

Drink up to 10+ years after the vintage.

Made using part appassimento method. Vibrant purple colour and a rich luscious nose full of sweet ripe dark cherry, plum, vanilla and christmas spice. Rich and velvety, with lots of juicy fruit. Very easy drinking. Great wine for roasted and grilled meats. Ideal with game dishes. Excellent with mature hard cheeses. 

Before picking, the ripe grapes are left on the vines for up to 15 days. The grapes begin to dry naturally on the vine (appassimento). The grapes are then carefully hand harvested before being pressed. After fermentation the wine is aged in oak for 3-4 months. This careful and prolonged winemaking delivers a wine of excellent quality and depth, yet at a snip of a price.

Sourced from one of the three first growths in Pauillac this is top notch Bordeaux - declassified to be offered at a more everyday price.

Beautifully coloured with deep purple tints, this wine offers all the richness and elegance typical of this prestigious appellation. Grown in the very best terroirs and vinified with the same meticulous care as the grands crus, it offers up a bouquet suggestive of pepper and liquorice along with fresh red fruit aromas. The silky, aromatic attack is followed by an elegantly structured mid-palate that goes hand in hand with moderate extract and notes of pure cassis. The distinguished finish is typical of this exceptional terroir.

Can be enjoyed while young (2-3 years after vintage) but has cellaring potential for quite a few years more.

This Pinot Gris is a sourced from 30 year old vines in the sustainably farmed Tukwilla Vineyard in the Dundee Hills. Tukwilla is LIVE (Low Impact Viticulture and Enology) certified. Everything in this wine starts from the magnificent terroir that farming captures. In the winery, after gently pressing, the fermentation is managed in five separate lots, three in neutral French oak, for a complex array of aromatic expressions, textures, and fruit components, body and weight. The remaining stainless steel fermented and aged lots help to retain the verve at the core of the wine. Fermented completely dry for a rich, complex, and food-friendly wine.

From one of the top names in the region, Domaine Hubert Lamy. Highly perfumed with aromas of lime and tangerine on the nose. The palate shows great tension with racy acidity, fresh bitter lemon citrus notes and a precise, saline finish. From 10 parcels over three hectares of village St Aubin, this is aged mostly in larger 500- and 600-litre foudres, with about 10% in new barrels. Always with pinpoint freshness, this year the warmth of the vintage is still not really in evidence. Cool and assertive. Drink 2021-2024.

Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and 15% Cabernet Franc, showing very ripe red fruit with some firm structure. Already drinking beautifully (and will for some time yet); and as ever a very superior Bordeaux Rouge - winner of a Gilbert & Gaillard gold medal 2018. We sold pallets and pallets of the 2015 vintage, but arguably the 2016 is even better: The cooler nights of 2016 brought a little more finesse to the reds - a trait that we much admire in Bordeaux. Drink now till 2023.

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This domaine produces a range of 10 appellations from the villages of Volnay, Pommard, Beaune, Monthelie, Saint-Romain and Aloxe-Corton. Reyane and Pascal's son, Pierrick, the 6th generation of the wine growing family, joined his parents for the 2005 harvest, after completing his studies at the wine school in Dijon. Since 2015, this young man has been making his wine on his own, as his parents have now retired. He continues to respect the principles of sustainable viticulture while introducing new winemaking techniques to the domaine.

This is the second vintage Bouley has made from a property in the Citernes climat. The wine features dark fruits with lightness, but also some Aloxe-Corton rusticity to the tannins. Still showing a silky texture and some finesse, with good length on the finish. Attractive trufffle and woodlabnd notes are just strating to develop and complexity will continue to build in this exceptional wine for many years yet. 

3 litres of excellence from the Marques de Murrieta! From this legendary Rioja house comes this exquisite Reserva wine. There is rich complexity to be found here with layers of plummy, spicy fruit over fine, slightly smoky tannins. The extended ageing lends it a mellow roundness with breadth and depth that will enable long-term ageing if desired. Full bodied and brooding and wonderful. Drink or keep. This Reserva 2015 is ready to drink now (but would also rewards cellaring, for a more developed style). A crowd-pleaser and connoisseur-pleaser all in one.  

In 1974 Christian took over his parents' estate, with vines mainly in Meursault, and some of his father-in-law's vines in Savigny lès Beaune. His son, Christophe, joined him in 1995. Together they expanded the estate with plots in Meursault, Savigny lès Beaune, Chorey lès Beaune and Beaune. Today Christophe manages the estate, now totalling 9 hectares. 30 year old vines average.
Vinified in oak barrels, 20-25% new, for 18 months. Full bodied and rich and long. A wine that will certainly withstand cellaring but is drinking beautifully now, with aromatic stone fruits, butter and toasted nuts. 

Nose of jammy red fruit with a good freshness. The palate is silky and well balanced with delicate tannins. Blackcurrant-fruit driven with cedar, tobacco, and a touch of liquorice on the finish. 

Manual harvest. Classical vinification with long final maceration. Fermentation on the skins for 4 to 6 weeks. Ageing for 18 months in vats and barrels of which 30% are new.

The Martin family has been based in Saint-Julien for more than three centuries and has engaged in various different professions all with links to viticulture (farmers, cellar masters, managers, coopers), whilst at the same time owning a little vineyard known by the name of Château Haut-Beychevelle Gloria. This cru, which is considered to be the family's historic property and crown jewel, was the original source of Henri Martin's passion for wine.

Suggested food and wine pairing: Grilled beef fillet, rack of lamb, terrine or cheese

Full-bodied, rich & ripe. Enjoy the fruits of Winemaker Kevin Willenborg’s journey from Petrus to Paso This exceptional lot, bottled unfined and unfiltered, is representative of the Creston Valley terroir – where the vineyard’s limestone soil is expressed through the wine’s structured, yet velvety tannins. Petite Sirah has been a classic grape planted and grown in California for more than a century and is well suited to the limiting soils found in this special estate vineyards in Paso Robles.