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.
Adobe Malbec 2016
£8.99
Deep ruby-red in colour with vibrant aromas of redcurrant and blackberries, elegantly combined with mild notes of white pepper. Medium-bodied on the palate with silky ripe tannins and a long, broad finish. An elegant wine that is easy to drink.
Adobe Malbec 2017
£8.99
Deep ruby-red in colour with vibrant aromas of redcurrant and blackberries, elegantly combined with mild notes of white pepper. Medium-bodied on the palate with silky ripe tannins and a long, broad finish. An elegant wine that is easy to drink.
Alasia, Moscato, D'Asti, 2017
£8.49
Country: Italy.
Area: Piedmont.
Grape: Moscato.
A sweet, white wine with quite intense aromas of honey, flowers and fresh grapes. On the palate the wine reveals further fresh grape and citrus notes. A clean wine with refreshing acidity on the finish to balance the sweetness.
Alcohol: 5%.
Alianca Bairrada Reserva 2016
£8.75
Intense berry aromas with spice and rich earthy notes. Vibrant plum and red cherry on the palate with savoury hints, grippy tannins, and finely poised acidity.
BAGA 70%, TINTA RORIZ 20%, TOURIGA NACIONAL 10%
Alianca Dao 2016
£8.75
Aromas of plum, black fruit, mocha and a hint of dark chocolate. Ripe and full-flavoured on the palate with supple tannins, notes of blackberry and wild plum, which follow through to a long and juicy finish.
Food match
Goes well with grilled beef or lamb or robust stew. For a veggie alternative try with spinach and lentil casserole.
TOURIGA NACIONAL 40%, TINTA RORIZ 30%, JAEN 30%
Artesa Organic Rioja 2016
£9.99
Vibrant plum and cherry aromas combine with woody, herbal notes. The palate is complex with juicy bramble fruit, black pepper, and lifted, savoury characters.
Food match:
Drink with casseroles, red meat or manchego cheese.
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.
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.
Big Top Chardonnay 2015
£8.49
Big on flavour and freshness. Bright and aromatic Chardonnay with clean citrus notes, layered with riper, tropical fruits. The palate is clean with a pure fruit driven expression. Mango and pineapple combine with green apple and lemon to give a fantastically fruit driven style of Californian Chardonnay which is not masked by ugly oak.
Big Top Chardonnay 2016
£8.49
Big on flavour and freshness. Bright and aromatic Chardonnay with clean citrus notes, layered with riper, tropical fruits. The palate is clean with a pure fruit driven expression. Mango and pineapple combine with green apple and lemon to give a fantastically fruit driven style of Californian Chardonnay which is not masked by ugly oak.
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
Borsao Rosado 2017
£6.99
13.5%
From 100% Garnacha grown on poor, stony soils in the foothills of the Moncayo mountain.
Delicate pink colour, with aromas of strawberry jam. The style is dry yet commercial with some mid-palate sweetness.
Borsao Selection Tinto 2017
£8.99
GARNACHA 85%, SYRAH 10%, TEMPRANILLO 5%
Rich, plum and red berry fruit with a touch of spice on the nose. Balanced yet concentrated red fruit mingle with darker spice and chocolate characters to give weight and layers to the palate. Plump ripe tannins add grip to this classic style of Garnacha.
Food match
A perfect accompaniment to chicken dishes, paella or chorizo.
2016 Vintage
Borsao Tinto Garnacha 2017
£6.99
Bright juicy plum and blackberry aromas. The palate is soft and approachable with cassis, plum, bramble and cherry characters. Supple tannins create an appealing finish.
Food match
Drink with slow-cooked belly pork, or perhaps chorizo with chickpeas (as recommended by Sommelier Wine Awards judge Martin Lam).
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.
Ca di Ponti Catarratto 2017
£6.99
A ripe, versatile and approachable dry white from western Sicily. Attractive aromatics of floral peach, tropical fruit and a hint of fennel. The rounded and gently honeyed flavours on the palate are balanced by lemony acidity. Catarratto is the most planted white grape in western Sicily, producing both Marsala and dry white wines.Catarratto is the most planted white grape in western Sicily, producing both Marsala and dry white wines.
Food match
Ideal as an aperitif or to accompany seafood, grilled fish, salads and cold white meats.
Ca di Ponti Nero d'Avola 2016
£7.49
A deeply coloured, full-flavoured, spicy red with aromas of wild plum and black cherry accentuating savoury, liquorice characters. The palate combines dark fruit flavours with lightly smoky notes, a hint of bitter chocolate and structured tannins.
Food match
Drink with juicy home-made burgers with a slab of mozarella, or charred lamb steaks.
Castano Organic Macabeo 2017
£9.49
A bright, fresh and fruity wine made for drinking young. It is fragrant on the nose with notes of white fruits, apple and citrus. On the palate it is soft and fruity with a lifted finish.
Castano Organic Monastrell 2017
£8.99
Intense and shiny ruby red. Morello cherry perfumes compliment notes of stewed fruit and sweet spice. On the palate, the Monastrell is structured but silky and bursting with fruit.
Ciconia Tinto 2016
£9.99
Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Aragonez, Syrah
Constantly picking up gongs for brilliant value for money (Wine Spectator and others), Ciconia Tinto combines approachability with Alentejo's most likeable features of rich, soft fruit, with a bit of roast and dried fruit notes.
Conviviale Montepulciano 2016
£7.99
An intense wine with cherry, ripe plum fruit aromas and warm, earthy spice. The palate is densely packed with morello cherry, cassis and bramble fruit flavours. Tannins are ripe, giving structure to a substantial wine with a fresh sappy finish.
Cotes du Rhone Rose, Cerisier Boutinot 2017
£9.99
An elegant, truly gastronomic rosé from our home in the Rhône. A classic salmon pink rosé with delicate perfumed aromas of rosehip syrup, wild berry blossoms and cherries on the nose. Full flavoured, ripe and beautifully balanced with acidity, there’s elegant textured berry fruit on the palate with a twist of raspberry freshness to lift the finish. Deliciously balanced and moreish.
Serve with light lunches, grilled fish, vegetable antipasti or as a delicious summer aperitif in the garden.
Dao Branco, Duque de Viseu 2016
£9.99
Bright lemon yellow in colour with greenish tints. It shows elegant and intense aromas of fresh citrus and stone fruits and some minerality, which gives it great freshness and complexity. The palate is elegant and balanced, with fresh fruit flavours and crisp acidity lasting for a long time on the finish.
Durello Spumante Brut 'Palladiano'
£9.99
A lesser-known, yet great alternative to Prosecco - the sparkling wine of choice in Verona bars! Citrus and gently floral aromas lead to a very fresh and zippy palate with crisp green apple and lightly honeyed characters. A refreshing and approachable style of fizz - yet with texture and depth underlying the bright fruit.
El Infiernillo Pinot Noir 2016
£9.99
Vibrant raspberry and red cherry fruit lifts effortlessly out of the glass. The palate is rich yet delicate, with a supple finish. This is a wine which has plenty of hand crafted charm.
Food match:
Goose and duck immediately spring to mind… but also great with mushroom based dishes, BBQ meats and foie gras.
El Viejo del Valle Sauvignon Gris 2016
£8.99
Emile Balland le Balbuzard Sauvignon Blanc 2016
£9.99
Emile Balland started his domaine in 1999 and today has just 5ha of vineyard, though his family have been making wine in the Loire since 1650. The vast majority of his holdings are in the Coteaux du Giennois in separate sites around the villages of Bonny sur Loire and Beaulieu which are neighbouring villages either side of the Loire with both chalky and flinty soils allowing Emile to blend to create inexpensive wines that deliver surprising amounts of complexity and concentration for a relatively humble appellation.
Whilst his holdings in Sancerre, just 0.8ha of them planted with Sauvignon, are on steep (up to 50% gradient!) clay soils. These were not replanted after Phylloxera because of the difficulty in working them, until Emile came along determined to do something special in Sancerre following on from his parents domaine.
Emile meticulously works his vineyards with a view to continually improving biodiversity and the organic life of the soil itself and to this end he only uses natural products in the vineyard believing that healthy soil will help to impart a sense of place in his wines (a view that makes sense given the need for healthy soil biology to allow nutrients to be absorbed by roots).
Of the wines on offer Balbuzard offers a really pocket friendly Sauvignon Blanc that is refined, fresh and mineral
We import this wine so its not available on many places and superb value and quality for the price. Also a wine made biodynamically and naturally.
Emile Balland le Balbuzard Sauvignon Blanc 2017
£9.99
Emile Balland started his domaine in 1999 and today has just 5ha of vineyard, though his family have been making wine in the Loire since 1650. The vast majority of his holdings are in the Coteaux du Giennois in separate sites around the villages of Bonny sur Loire and Beaulieu which are neighbouring villages either side of the Loire with both chalky and flinty soils allowing Emile to blend to create inexpensive wines that deliver surprising amounts of complexity and concentration for a relatively humble appellation.
Whilst his holdings in Sancerre, just 0.8ha of them planted with Sauvignon, are on steep (up to 50% gradient!) clay soils. These were not replanted after Phylloxera because of the difficulty in working them, until Emile came along determined to do something special in Sancerre following on from his parents domaine.
Emile meticulously works his vineyards with a view to continually improving biodiversity and the organic life of the soil itself and to this end he only uses natural products in the vineyard believing that healthy soil will help to impart a sense of place in his wines (a view that makes sense given the need for healthy soil biology to allow nutrients to be absorbed by roots).
Of the wines on offer Balbuzard offers a really pocket friendly Sauvignon Blanc that is refined, fresh and mineral
We import this wine so its not available on many places and superb value and quality for the price. Also a wine made biodynamically and naturally.
Emilin Moscatel Solera Reserva (Lustau) 37.5cl
£9.99
Fruity, marmalade tang ith a balancing sweetness.
Falerio, Saladini Pilastri 2017
£8.99
False Bay Chenin Blanc 2017
£7.99
False Bay Rose 2018
£7.99
Old bush vine Cinsault forms the backbone of this 'proper' rosé. A pale, spicy and textural Rosé mostly sourced from bush-vine Cinsault with summer fruits on the palate and a lovely clean, savoury, dry finish.
There is almost no food that fails to work with this wine. Perfect with Mediterranean dishes especially juicy pan-fried garlic prawns... or drink chilled on its own
CINSAULT 90%, MOURVÈDRE 10%
False Bay, Old School Syrah, 2017
£7.99
Very smart varietal Shiraz, savoury but polished and seriously appealing. Dark garnet with a violet rim. Fresh lifted berry fruit that draws you in! Full yet elegant with bramble aromas and cream, cassis and black cherry flavours on the palate with structure provided by fine tannins with a long rich, ripe finish.
False Bay is a winemaking project in South Africa. The winery is in an area know for it's complex biodiversity, so they have to be respectful of the surrounding environment. They adopt a hands off approach to wine making, everything is done very naturally.
vegetarian/vegan/ low sulphur
False Bay, Rose 2017
£7.99
Old bush vine Cinsault forms the backbone of this 'proper' rosé. A pale, spicy and textural Rosé mostly sourced from bush-vine Cinsault with summer fruits on the palate and a lovely clean, dry and finish.
Food match:
Perfect with Mediterranean dishes especially juicy pan-fried garlic prawns... or drink chilled on its own.
CINSAULT 90%, MOURVÈDRE 10%
vegetarian/vegan/ low sulphur
Alc 12.5%
