Adelina Eternal Returns Arneis 2017
£19.99
Rich nose yet with tension and minerals, savoury hints and aromas of peach pannacotta with herbal notes. The palate is rich with a creamy mouth feel, white stone fruit combines with minerals and fresh herbs. Dry finish with mineral acidity and powerful, persistent length.
Adobe Gewurztraminer 2017
£8.99
The nose offers floral aromas of jasmine, lychee, and honey notes. The floral notes reappear on the palate, along with apricot, and mandarin orange. Medium bodied with good concentration and a refreshing ripe fruit finish. A Thai fighting delight!
Food match
Its sweetness makes this wine ideal as an aperitif served with mild cheeses, ham, and dried fruit and nuts. It is also excellent paired with sushi and fresh fruit desserts.
Albourne Estate Bacchus 2017
£16.49
The 2017 vintage has produced a delightfully fresh, well-balanced and smooth Bacchus. Calmer yet more complex on the nose than many vintages, our 2017 wine leads with herbal, tomato leaf and basil notes complimented by delightful tropical tones of papaya, mango and pineapple…with elderflower taking a less pronounced but vital supporting role. We delight in the way our Bacchus exposes so many new faces to us every year. As always, the palate is super-clean, refreshing and balanced….always leaving you wanting another sip!
Albourne Estate, Blanc de Noir 2013
£28.95
100% Pinot Noir
The beautiful rose gold colour of our Blanc de Noirs comes from the gentle whole bunch pressing of Pinot Noir grapes (hence, “white of blacks”). Coupled with extended on-lees ageing this has created a rich, complex and full sparkling wine with mature autolytic character and hints of red fruit notes.
Alphabetical White Vin Ordinaire 2016
£12.50
A blindingly good wine for the price made from one of our favourite grapes, roussanne, that you find in Northern and Southern Rhone blends, but in this case from South Africa. It is a masterful little wine that wont overtake proceedings but will add a lovely bit of character to a lunch or an evening - a scent here and there of stone fruits and mountain herbs as you lift the glass to your nose - with just the right amount of fruit and character for foods like fish, chicken, or fresh pasta with vegetables or riccota.
It will be lovely with light starters like burrata and olives. It sits firmly in, if not at the very summit of, the unbeatable-value midweek bottle category. If you are in one of those households where someone likes Sauvignon but someone has gone off it, and you can't agree on what to drink then try this.
Alphabetical White Vin Ordinaire 2017
£12.50
A blindingly good wine for the price made from one of my favourite grapes, roussanne, that you find in Northern and Southern Rhone blends, but in this case from South Africa. It is a masterful little wine that wont overtake proceedings but will add a lovely bit of character to a lunch or an evening - a scent here and there of stone fruits and mountain herbs as you lift the glass to your nose - with just the right amount of fruit and character for foods like fish, chicken, or fresh pasta with vegetables or riccota. It will be lovely with light starters like burrata and olives. It sits firmly in, if not at the very summit of, the unbeatable-value midweek bottle category. If you are in one of those households where someone likes Sauvignon but someone has gone off it, and you can't agree on what to drink then try this.
Alphabox & Dice Golden Mullet Fury Semillon Viognier 2015
£17.99
Arousana Luzada Albarino 2017
£10.99
From the mecca of Albarino production, Rias Baixas in Galicia, this wine is just delicious! Dry and crisp with saline minerality apparent from the close proximity to the Atlantic ocean, and buckets of ripe stoned fruit. A real peach!
Artesa Viura Rioja Branco 2017
£9.49
A fresh, unoaked Viura with lifted floral and citrus notes on the nose. The palate has orchard fruits, ripe melon and zesty acidity on the finish.
Food match
Delicious on its own or with pizza, pasta or tortilla.
Artisan Vignoble du Reveur 2016, Orange Wine
£22.99
A blend of Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer with 10 days of skin contact, making an orange wine. Artisan brings us to a different universe of flavours! It is definitely spicy and exotic, slightly hoppy and freshly grounded white pepper, pink grapefruits, mandarin as well and mango skin and lychee flavours. Fresh and flavoursome as we like it, this wine is original and addictive. To be consumed slightly chilled.
Au Bon Climat Wild Boy Chardonnay 2016
£27.50
This is made by Jim "Wild Boy "Clendenen who established his winery Au Bon Climat in 1982. He wanted to make Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs to the same level as top red and white Burgundies. The label is a picture of himself, and is possibly his most well know wine. This is an opulent style of Chardonnay, very well balanced, aged in old oak.
Au Bon Climat Wild Boy Chardonnay 2017
£27.50
This is made by Jim "Wild Boy "Clendenen who established his winery Au Bon Climat in 1982. He wanted to make Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs to the same level as top red and white Burgundies. The label is a picture of himself, and is possibly his most well know wine. This is an opulent style of Chardonnay, very well balanced, aged in old oak.
Baccolo Appassimento 2017
£8.49
An intriguing blend of Garganega and Sauvignon Blanc with partial maceration and cold fermentation to enhance fruitiness and its elegant aromatic notes. It’s fresh and elegant with lovely aromatics.
Badenhorst Papegaai White Blend 2017
£11.99
Grown up doesn't mean boring! The 2017 rendition of our favourite Papegaai has more depth and layers - a crunchy poached and dried pear, quince, and lemon biscuit number. For those not familiar with bushvine Palomino (and when it's not made in to sherry,) it offers stunning subtle aromas of salted green apples - very fine and nuanced.
Barbuntin Albarino 2017
£11.99
Ultra fresh Albarino from the region Rias Baixas on the Spanish/Portuguese border. Lovely minerality and fragrance, with piercing freshness and concentration. This is regarded as one of the best Albarino’s around.
Rias Baixas is a region, in Spain, north of Portugal. The region is known for making wine from the Albarino grape. ALbarino can be fat and tropical, this one is more citrusy and elegant in style. Decanter magazine voted this as one of the best Albarino in the world. The vineyard used to be owned by monks, but has been in private ownership for the last 40 years.
BK Wines Skin n Bones White 2016
£25.49
A new arrival from our favourite Adelaide Hills winery! This wine is 98% Savagnin (not to be confused with Sauvignon!), a lesser-seen variety whose best expression in its native France can be found in the Jura. The juice sits on its skins for one month before going into barrel for natural malolactic fermentation to occur. It retains wonderful freshness while delivering a fanfare of baked apples, honey-roast pears, camomile, dried apricots, orange peel, peaches and cream, and a decidedly herbal perfume of fresh oregano, sage and a hint of fennel. An uplifting, singing acidity adds brightness to the otherwise soft and round palate, making for a lip-smackingly good, dangerously gluggable summer gem. Resist the temptation to drink it all at once though - this wine demands good company and at leat one full evening of deep contemplation.
BK Wines Swaby Chardonnay, Piccadilly Valley, Adelaide Hills 2013
£32.95
This is stunning Chardonnay. " Acts a lot like a wine from Ramonet (the great Burgundy producer)" 93pts, Stephen Tanzer. Minuscule quantities.
Blank Bottle Epileptic Inspiration , Semillon 2016
£22.95
"So the story has nothing to do with the wine - a straight Semillon from Elgin. I am not a fan of greener wines and therefore concentrate on picking the grapes when it is ripe. The juice gets no sulphur before fermentation, no acid, enzymes etc. It settles overnight and goes to old wood, spontaneously ferments and stays a year in barrel on the lees and then to bottle.
For those of you who don't know this: I have epilepsy which the doctors control with medication. But I absolutely hate taking pills. So I was relieved when the dr said I could leave my medication a while back. Then, in November 2013, while not on medication, I had a huge epileptic fit. So the Dr booked me off driving and surfing, yet again. Now when this happens to me, at first, I forget everything. My long term memory returns quite soon but the short term analytical memory takes about 2-3 months to return - if at all. But I discovered a huge upside to this: financial pressures and other stress factors disappeared together with the rest of my short term memory! So when I couldn't remember what to stress about, it blew my creative side right open."
100% Semillon, barrel aged for a couple of years: fat, creamy and hazelnutty, taut and exciting. Now-2020
Blank Bottle Im Hinterhofkabuff Elgin 2016
£18.99
If it's one of Pieter Walser's BLANKbottle wines then you can bet ya there's a story attached to it. Well for this one it's all in the name. Hinterhofkabuff means backyard shack in Afrikaans. This wine was inspired by an interviewer who described Pieter Walser's office as that exact phrase - a shack! Not wanting to draw attention to this faux pas Pieter named a wine after it ... The wine itself is made from Riesling and has an incredibly pretty floral nose with a more savoury stone fruit and spiced citrus palate. Like the man himself, this is an eccentric wine which has very little resemblance to any other Riesling. But is definitely one to try. It has a beautiful oily texture and a palate full of spice and white fruit concentration. It is quite bold for a Riesling with a nice, long and zingy finish. One for the adventurous wine lover!
Blank Bottle Kortpad Kaaptoe Swartland 2016
£20.00
Smells like luscious turkish delight and crystallised pineapple bashed with quartzy stones. Tangerine fruited with juicy white peaches, honey blossom, with a lifted spiced finish reminiscent of the steep hillsides of Condrieu. Though not, it's not Viognier. 100% Fernao Pires from one 51 year old vineyard planted in sandy soils on the Darling side of the Swartland.
Blank Bottle Moment of Silence 2017
£16.99
Blank Bottle Rabbitsfoot White 2017
£20.99
Full and ripe Sauvignon Blanc because as Pieter said 'I hate green Sauvignon Blanc', made from only 5 rows of vineyards that are usually eaten by the babboons. (Swig website).
Borsao Blanco Macabeo 2017
£6.99
Delicately fruity and floral nose with ripe peach and lemon. Nutty stone fruit characters are matched by a textural palate and clean, fruity finish.
Food match
Grilled white fish, pizza and pasta
Boutinot Cotes du Rhone Le Fleur Solitaire 2017
£9.99
The southern Rhone offers a huge selection of grapes to blend from and this is no exception, however the core elements of Grenache Blanc (Bringing acidity along with apple, citrus and greener notes) goes in with a good dose of Viognier (Bringing nutmeggy, spiced aromatics and body) and a touch of Roussanne to finish (Body, texture and further aroma). Mid weight and very food friendly.
Branco Fitapreta, Alentejano 2017
£15.50
The ripening months in Southern Portugal’s Alentejo region are hot and dry with cold nights. The vines grow on infertile rocky schist soils naturally producing low yields of concentrated fruit. Grape quality is assured by restricting yield to below 7000kg/ha and employing careful canopy management practices. At harvest the grapes are selectively hand-picked into small boxes at their peak of maturity. All bunches are inspected for quality on a sorting table before they are gently whole-cluster pressed at low temperature. Suspended solids are allowed to settle naturally before fermenting the juice at 12ºC in stainless steel tanks.
Grape Varieties:
Antão Vaz, Roupeiro, Arinto
Tasting Notes:
Pale lemon yellow color with an intense aroma of citrus and a refreshing mineral edge. The mouth-feel has volume that builds in the mid-palate, ending with an impressive freshness and a persistent fruit aroma on the finish.
Food Pairing:
Goes well with grilled fish, fresh seafood and chicken salad.
Bruno Sorg Gewurztraminer 2015
£15.75
Their gewurztraminer is especially richly textured with just the right amount of spice. It is also extremely good value. Renée and Bruno’s son François Sorg is now in charge, making lovely gewurz, all tropical fruit flavours with a little sweetness and some freshness too.
