They say Barbera is the most food friendly variety in the world. With its plush fruit characters of currants and blackberries and its soft, supple tannins this is a wine that is dangerously more-ish.
Barbera is a versatile partner with food, it is great with pizza, but also with all manner of meat sauces and grilled meats. Savoury flavours and medium bodied with fine soft tannins.
The wine is vivid purple in its youth with lifted aromas of red fruits - raspberry, cherry and red currant. The palate has savoury bramble berry and fresh mulberry notes. Touches of spicy star anise add extra interest and the tannins are soft and silky.
Sangiovese is one of the oldest known varieties in the world. This Sangiovese is a perfect example of this accessible, ready to drink style; perfectly medium bodied with red fruit flavours and a deliciously savoury finish.
Originating from France, Petit Verdot is a late ripening variety that suits Australia’s dry, sunny climate perfectly. Although it has long been used as a blending component, it is increasingly being given the chance show its true colours as a varietal wine.
Continuing his love of Italian varietals this is a new arrival from David Hook. A bouquet of dark brooding red fruits and earth, sweet and savoury, firm but smooth. The perfect antipasto wine.
The Le Fauve wines allow Kiwi winemaker PJ Charteris to roam free with his twin heartlands of the Hunter Valley and Central Otago. The addition of Shiraz to the Tempranillo and Pinot Noir creates a wine of approachability on an almost intoxicating level.
The incredible 2019 vintage resulted in only the second release of Sangiovese under the Little Gem label. Beautiful aromas of plum and cherry with an intensity not normally seen in Hunter Sangiovese.
Nebbiolo is responsible for some of the finest wines of Italy and has now found a natural home in Australia on the red volcanic soils of the cool-climate Hilltops region of NSW. Light in colour but intense flavours of dried cherries, violets and roses.
Montepulciano is a red wine grape variety originating in Italy but it has taken off like a rocket in Australia in recent years. This great release has rich, dark boysenberry and dried herb aromas with textured mint chocolate fruit characters.
