The Mimic Shiraz
Jumilla, Spain
2 x 75cl Bottles
This is a cracking little wine – one you wouldn’t expect – Shiraz from Spain, right? Wrong! The Mimic Shiraz is unashamedly a wine which takes its style and inspiration from its Aussie counterparts and definitely sticks it to them with its big smooth, fruity style.
Made in the South Eastern Spanish region of Jumilla, the Mimic Shiraz grapes are carefully harvested at the moment of optimum ripeness before undergoing pressing to extract all the juice. The must then spends an extended period of time on its skins and temperature controlled fermentation to extract the maximum fruit freshness from the grapes. After fermentation, 80% of the wine spends 3 months in French oak, before blending with the unoaked wine and bottling. The result is a great value bottle of red wine full of black plums, damsons, blackberry and licorice flavours with a touch of vanilla spice on the finish.
Bodegas Navajas Crianza Casa del Marques
Rioja, Spain
2 x 75cl Bottles
This punches way above its weight and is a wine fit for a president! Navajas believes that the quality of the wine begins in the vineyards and for this reason they monitor and control the vineyards which belong to their growers in the Rioja Alta and Rioja Baja. This smooth, plump Rioja wins pride of place as one of our members' favourite reds vintage after vintage. We love its combination of vanilla-infused flavour from high-quality oak ageing and vibrant red-fruit notes.
Tenute del Pojo Merlot
PoggioFiorito, Italy
2 x 75cl Bottles
This is premium Italian Merlot, luscious and exceptional, from a small family owned winery in Poggiofiorito. Intense, tasty well balanced Merlot with cherry and clove flavours. It is a really meaty wine with great length and long juicy succulent mouthfilling flavours. Perfect with Cheese and game courses - it is well rounded and full of appealing fruit, ahead of secondary oak or wood flavour. It is finished in Slovenian Oak Barrels for 8 months to intensify and integrate the wine. Really well balanced
Palazzo delle Mare Nero d'Avola
Sicily, Italy
2 x 75cl Bottles
Nero d'Avola proves here that it's a grape capable of making top-class, eminently drinkable red.The grapes are from sun-drenched Sicilian plots, precisely picked before baking point to retain freshness.Create a superb homemade pizza or whip up a massive bowl of pasta with any sauce of your choice and enjoy with this Palazzo del Mare!
Monsable Pinot Noir
Languedoc, France
2 x 75cl Bottles
The wines of Montsablé are inspired by the desire to craft elegant Burgundian varietals from Southern France. Working with growers in cooler sites of the St Chinian area of Languedoc that have lower vigour, they seek out fruit that delivers pure flavours and great balance.
In the winery, the fruit is handled carefully to build texture and mouthfeel, with oak only ever used to add just the most subtle of seasoning. The result is a Pinot that positively sings with lifted cherry and wild strawberry fruit.
Morning mists and spring frosts, often associated with the Napa Valley and Bordeaux are brought from the west coast by the Humboldt current. Special Pinot Noir Indeed, seriously.
Chateau Roc de Levraut Bordeaux Superieur
Bordeaux, France
2 x 75cl Bottles
A Monumental Bordeaux from third generation winemaker Remy Ballerin. The 2016 is in the classic structured style that shows red and black fruit, a touch of cassis, that mixture of dark berry and sage-like herbal musk so prevalent in Bordeaux reds, and a lovely plump blueberry from the Cabernet Franc. The tannins are noticeable, but don't dominate the wine, suggesting instead that there will likely be a few years of ageing capacity here.
This is a remarkably tasty Bordeaux made in the classic mould. Delicious for drinking now but capable of cellaring for up to five years or more .
Total RRP: €220.00
Mixed Case Price: €189.00
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*From time to time vintages/wines may become unavailable, it is rare but in this instance we will replace the wine with a similar wine of equal or greater value.
