Crasto Douro Rose 2024 75cl
£15.04
Bright salmon in colour, the wine delivers great aromatic freshness, with attractive notes of wild berry fruit nicely combined with elegant floral hints Very appealing on the palate, showing good volume and a polished structure made up of soft-textured tannins and vibrant minerality This is an engaging and balanced wine, with a refreshing finish
Franck Massard El Mago Organic Garnacha 2023 75cl
£16.01
This is dangerously easy to drink It smells and tastes like strawberries, with the merest suggestion of spice, and it's extraordinarily soft-textured, with such gentle tannins that they almost go unnoticed However, thanks to the high-altitude vineyards, there is nice, crisp acidity that keeps everything fresh On the finish, the strawberry fruit gives way to an intriguing hint of blood oranges and blanched almonds
Antonio Caggiano Fiano di Avellino 'Bechar' 2025 75cl
£19.54
Intense gold colour On the nose this wine presents aromas of apple, pears and banana On the palate it has a full bodied rich and persistant flavours of tropical fruit and a refreshing acidity
D Arenberg The Laughing Magpie 2019 75cl
£19.07
Dark brooding fruit is apparent on the nose with earth, spice and dried herbs The palate is round and luscious with an attractive black olive and sage character persistent throughout the palate This wine has fantastic fruit weight, with great supporting tannin and balanced acidity It still looks very youthful and should easily cellar for the next ten years
Chaffey Bros Wine Co Not Your Grandma's Chillable Red 2023 75cl
£15.46
Medium colour with a garnet hue Lifted aromatics of rose petals, red berries, cola and a subtle fresh earthy note Palate sits somewhere betweena rose and red, it's medium bodied, soft and smashable, with refreshing acidity leaving you wanting more Upfront red fruits, continuing with earthy, cola/anise characters and finishing with a peppery stalky spice A great balance of sweet and savoury from the likes of Grenache and Mouvedre
Chaffey Bros Wine Co Not Your Grandma's Rose 2025 75cl
£15.70
Grenache contributes the raspberry and strawberry palate while Mourvedre adds structure and a lingering spice The splash of aromatic field blend wine emphasises strawberry, musk and turkish delight aromas Early picking allows for a textural mouthfeel, luminous rose-diamond colour and crisp natural acidity giving great length Grenache contributes the red berry and strawberry palate with Mourvedre adding structure and lingering spice
Bacca Nera Negroamaro Primitivo IGT Salento 2025 75cl
£15.97
A blend of two of southern Italy's most famous grape varieties, Negroamaro and Primitivo, Bacca Nera has the succulent, developed character expected of fruit ripened under the Mezzogiorno sun Redolent of plump blackberries and a hint of prune, this is rich, ripe, soft-textured and slightly sweet
Ken Forrester Wines Old Vine Reserve Chenin Blanc 2025 75cl
£16.75
A full bodied, well rounded wine, that is a great example of the harmonious balance which can be achieved between fruit and delicate oak flavours, as they combine to produce gentle complexity Bursting with dried apricot and pineapple, a hint of vanilla and some typical Chenin honey notes on the long-lasting finish
Tenute Orestiadi - Tenute Orestiadi Perricone 2023 75cl
£18.28
Wine with deep purple colour with an incredible aromatic bouquet of red berries mixed with hints of black pepper and Mediterranean spices Perricone on the palate is soft and elegant with dense fruity sensations of wild berries The finish is sumptuous and persistent The evolution in the bottle reserves surprising notes of liquorice
J Chivite Family Estates Las Fincas Rose 2024 75cl
£17.76
This delicious rose (in a beautiful bottle!) has intense aromas of strawberry, pomegranate, raspberry and rose petals It is smooth-textured, rounded and balanced, with persistence of flavour on the finish with lingering notes of cherry pie Created by Julian Chivite as an homage to his great friend and top Spanish chef Jose Maria Arzak, this food-friendly wine is made from Garnacha and Tempranillo, and has been lees-aged for six months to add creamy texture to its vibrant, fresh fruit character The grapes are grown on the Finca de Legardeta vineyard, that has belonged to the Chivite family for hundreds of years, with truly special climate and soil
Vina Falernia Carmenere Gran Reserva 2021 75cl
£16.30
The colour is brilliant and deep, the nose intense with aromas of brambly black fruit, espresso, spice and sweet pepper Robust and dense on the palate, super-velvety tannins, fine oak nuance and positively bouncing with blackcurrant fruit A hugely impressive wine that benefits from the grapes being dried, hand-picked at harvest and grown at high altitude Inspired by the drying process used to make Amarone, you will not find an Amarone of this quality for anywhere near this price!
Bonny Doon Vineyard Picpoul 2024 75cl
£18.72
It's becoming increasingly rare to find wine at just 11% alcohol, and who would have thought we'd track one down from Arroyo Seco, California? It has an intriguing nose of lemongrass, sherbet lemons and a hint of spring flowers
Crasto Douro Superior White 2024 75cl
£18.59
How do you make a white Burgundy lookalike out of obscure Portuguese grapes in the place most famous for Port wine? We have absolutely no idea, but through some strange alchemy, Crasto have done exactly this This is a seriously sumptuous bottle, and we highly recommend it
D Arenberg The Footbolt Shiraz 2022 75cl
£16.28
Earthy, spicy Shiraz from McLaren Vale in South Australia, full of black plums, liquorice and black pepper, with a peaty underlayer of mushroom, pipe tobacco and charcuterie
D Arenberg The Dry Dam Riesling 2024 75cl
£16.68
This has a beautifully intense mandarin orange and lemon sorbet character, with bright, tangy acidity balanced by finely-judged sweetness, resulting in a dry-ish style overall At only 10% alcohol yet with masses of character, this really is the perfect foil for prawns or langoustines, or Thai, Vietnamese and Malaysian food It would go equally well with a very British plate of fish and chips Chester Osborn says that d'Arenberg makes McLaren Vale's only Riesling, and they prune back hard to heighten the wine's intensity and pick early for vibrancy and freshness In theory, this could be cellared up to half a centurybut in practice most is drunk up in the first couple of years after the vintage