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93 POINTS & 5 STARS: Sam Kim, Wine Orbit93 POINTS: Cameron Douglas MS"This is instantly appealing on the nose showing dark berry, rich floral, clove and hazelnut aromas, leading to a flavoursome palate that's filled with ripe fruit flavours together with elegant savoury nuances. Supple and silky, ma...

The Southern Rhône is one of France’s great wine regions, producing reds that combine generous sun-ripened fruit, fragrant herbs, spice and genuine French character. Our Quality Côtes du Rhône Collection 3-Pack brings together three bottles that show just how good this region can be — from de...

Chardonnay is one of the world’s most versatile and celebrated grape varieties, capable of producing everything from taut, mineral-driven wines to rich, complex and beautifully textured expressions.Our Global Chardonnay Extravaganza brings together a carefully selected collection from France, New...

93 POINTS & 5 STARS: Sam Kim; The Wine Orbit92 POINTS: Cameron Douglas MS"Aromas and flavours of fresh red and dark red plums, some white pepper spice and raspberry then scents of stones and a gentle oak and lees quality. Violets and crushed stone. Refreshing, fruity and dry on the palate with flavo...

94 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team"This wine reveals a lovely freshness. It combines ripe white orchard fruit with vibrant freshness and minerality over a faintly saline background. An exotic nose of white flowers, peach and other stonefruit, full-bodied mouthfeel with a lovely drying, mineral fini...

93 POINTS: International Wine Challenge (IWC)94 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team91 POINTS: Cameron Douglas MS70% Grenache, 25% Syrah and 5% Mourvèdre, sourced from selected vines at average age of around 40 years old."Great colour and a bouquet of earth and stone, with a mix of smoke, clove, vanill...

93 POINTS: Wine Direct91 POINTS: Wine Enthusiast91 POINTS: James Suckling90 POINTS: Jeb Dunnuck"Based on 60% Grenache, 30% Syrah, 5% Carignan, and 5% Mourvèdre, the 2024 Côtes Du Rhône Parallèle 45 is aged for six months in stainless steel vats on fine lees. Deep purple-hued, it offers lots of b...

97 POINTS: Luca MaroniClassic blend of 80% Negroamaro & 20% Primitivo.Appassimento is the key to the style. The grapes are allowed to dry naturally on the vine, concentrating the fruit and sugars before fermentation. The result is a wine with plenty of weight and intensity without needing huge tanni...

98 POIINTS: Luca Maroni96 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team1,271 Vivino Ratings, putting it in the top 6% of wines worldwide!Puglia's famous Primitivo meets one of its lesser-known native grapes, Susumaniello — a rich, polished and deliciously generous southern Italian red."A generous, full-flavour...

Usually $39.99 now only $25.67 while stocks last! 94 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team93 POINTS: TerroirSense Wine Review100% Cinsault from old vines in Costières de Nîmes.Cinsault is one of the Southern Rhône’s best-kept secrets, and this cracking little number from Mas des Bressades is a terri...

94 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team"Medium ruby/plum-colored, the 2016 Chteau Ad Francos offers a classic, balanced, medium-bodied profile to go with notes of black cherries, balsam, and graphite. It picks up slightly more spice and floral notes with time in the glass and offers good acidity as well...

Usually $29.99 now only $19.77 90 POINTS: Wine Direct90 POINTS: Wine EnthusiastA little Italian history. A lot of character.Nero di Troia is one of Puglia’s lesser-known red grape varieties, and all the more interesting for it.Named after the town of Troia in northern Puglia, the grape comes with...

GOLD MEDAL: Le Selezione del SindacoBEST BUY: Wine Enthusiast Magazine94 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team"This is a spectacular Fiano. Made from 40 year old vines Zin Fiano is lively & zesty with lovely aromas of white nectarines, sliced lemons, orchid blossom and crushed stones. Tangy and medium bo...

93 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team"Another winner from Produtori di Manduria. Lovely pale straw colour. On first sniff it shows lovely fresh notes of white flowers mixed with citrus and a hint of pear. On the palate it is refeshingly dry but has a ton of lovely white fleshed fruit. Full bodied, wit...

92 POINTS: James Suckling93 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team91 POINTS: Wine Enthusiast"Bright aromas of flowers, angelica and apricots with an undertone of sulphur smoke. Silky attack, light to medium body and graceful, refreshing acidity. Drink now."- James Suckling"The wine is bright and lively an...

3 BICCHIERI: Gambero Rosso GuideGOLD MEDAL: Mundus Vini91 POINTS: Wine Enthusiast90 POINTS: James SucklingPrimitivo is one of Italy's greatest grapes. It is thought to have arrived in Puglia, the heel of Italy, in the 18th century from across the Adriatic Sea via the Croatian coast. Its Italian name...

99 POINTS: Sam Kim; Wine Orbit97 POINTS: James Suckling96 POINTS: Vinous Media - Angus Hughson95 POINTS: James Halliday Wine CompanionOnly 1000 bottles were produced with each bottle individually numbered wooden boxes.New Zealand Allocation - 3 bottles in Individual Wooden Boxes."It’s totally sedu...

A Taste of the Languedoc – Six Delicious Southern French RedsThere’s something irresistible about the wines of the Languedoc. Think sun-baked vineyards, old vines, rugged Mediterranean landscapes and generous, flavour-filled reds that seem to capture a little of the South of France in every glas...

Three different tiny parcels harvested between 23.3 and 24°Brix 7th April 2025. The fruit was destemmed, but not crushed, into opentop, stainless steel fermenter. No whole bunch was used in this cuvée.This is the inaugural release of this Pinot Noir from the Waikerikeri Valley in Alexandra, Centra...

A classic version of the DOC Prosecco. The origin of this Prosecco Extra Dry is well identified in the province of Treviso and more precisely in the common of Valdobbiadene. It is the ideal companion for every moment, immediate in its aromatic hints, authentic in its olfactory cleanliness."Attractiv...

90 POINTS: Cameron Douglas MSThe driest version of the Valdobbiadene DOCG line where saltiness blends in complete harmony with the low sugar residual giving a sensation of olfactory finesse and gustative fullness. In your tasting, look for the fruity hints of peach and green apple and the floral hin...

Ombra means shadow in Italian and the story goes that if you ask any venetian tavern-keeper for “dame do ombre" (“two shadows"), they will know exactly what you mean; two small chalice-glasses of fine prosecco. You’ll never ask for just one Ombra, because it is always to be shared with a frien...

WAS $32.99, NOW $24.76 GOLD MEDAL & BEST US RED WINE IN SHOW: Mundus ViniGOLD MEDAL: Mundus Vini Summer TastingBEST BUY: Wine Enthusiast Magazine"This wine is fresh, with aromas of blackberry, cassis, allspice, toasty oak and violets on the nose. The flavors on the palate are pomegranate, dark plum...

92 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team"Deep purple in colour, with an expressive nose of ripe blackcurrant, blackberry and dark plum, backed by subtle violet and Mediterranean spice. The palate is generous and rounded, with plush dark-fruit flavours, soft integrated tannins and a touch of savoury spice...