Wine

A young and fruity Malbec from the Porretta family vineyards in Luján de Cuyo. Really soft flavours of cherries, plums, and a pleasing finish.  Recently awarded 90 points from James Suckling!

A rich and complex malbec with plenty of ripe black fruit and a wonderful velvety structure.

No myth or legend here.  Instead, a real big beast of a wine from the Mendoza Valley.  Deep, brooding and dark. Big fruit, big spice, big flavours.

Brand new in from Mauricio Lorca – a perfect example, showing that Argentina has much more to offer than Malbec. This 100% Bonarda from Vista Flores in Mendoza has an abundance of fresh red fruit character; cherry, raspberry, redcurrant and cranberry. Along with good structure, soft tannins and a long finish.  Wonderfully delicious on its own, but pairs really well with lean meats, red meats and dishes with creamy sauces.

Everyone buys the Malbec, and its a wonderful wine, but we think the Cabernet version is even better! 

A really good winemaker like Mauricio Lorca sometimes dots the i’s and crosses the t’s with a little touch of something else. In this case Mauricio has used a little Syrah – powerful, spicy, dark Syrah –  to inject a little extra pizzazz into this already very attractive Malbec. The key to the wine’s huge appeal is, like many good things in life, its simplicity and honesty. Simple, juicy, fresh and delicious; what’s not to like?

Founded in 1940 by Frech & Italian winemaking immigrants, Bodegas Baudron has now been making wines for over 80 years.   This malbec has lots of fruity scents of blackcurrants and blackberries with a fresh red fruit palate, gentle and soft tannins.

The delicate aromatic qualities of the Torrontés (just 5% in the blend) adds an extra, subtly aromatic, floral dimension to the wine. It also adds a dash of refreshing acidity. Malbrontes Red is designed to be soft, simple and delicious

Corbeau Wines is the project of the Rodriguez family and a whole new concept on the creation of products designed to satisfy a young, bold and discoverer audience.  They have used the Ancellotta grape in this blend, a grape bought over by Italian immigrants to make thier wine.  A dense, savoury wine with plenty of structure and fruit flavours of red berries, cherries and plums with notes of vanilla.

Classic Cab Franc notes of fresh capsicum and pencil shavings on the nose, fresh and clean on the palate with delicious red berry fruits. Unoaked.

This wine, which is typically light in colour due to the pinkish colouerd skins, has the potential to blow your mind. Or, at the very least, introduce you a completely ‘new’ grape variety. It looks light but it packs a delicious punch with raunchy acidity and playful, quite pronounced tannins, almost like biting into a delicious red apple. The nose is lovely, almost exotic with charming floral notes, a subtle whiff of Turkish delight and ripe summer fruits.

An intense red colour with ripe red fruits, blackberries and cassis.  Juicy, round with great concentration.

Lightly coloured, juicy, thirst-quenching red wine that displays the Criolla varieties in a whole new light.

Surely one of the best Cabernet Sauvignons in Argentina.  Riglos is a single-estate, high elevation specialist from Valle de Uco, Mendoza. The proximity to the Andes Mountains and high elevation creates sunny, cool growing conditions, the resulting, excellently-structured wines carry layers of fruit and herbal aromatics highlighted by lithe minerality and polished tannins.

Develado means unveiled, on the label, a man parachutes into the unknown.  Solo Contigo have the courage to create adventures in wine.  

Grapes are only ever from De Angeles’ one small vineyard – ‘Viña 1924 Parcel 3’ – and the age of the vines partly explains the stunning concentration here.  Deep ruby red in colour, lovely aromas of plums and sweet red berries, silky-textured in the mouth with incredible length. Elegant yet intense, fresh, complex, superbly balanced and, best of all, very moreish.

This Tinto is actually 100% Bonarda grown at 1,500 metres above sea level at the Maggio Estate vineyard in Calingasta, where the vines are more than 50 years old and look more like small tress than vines. The wine is black in appearance. The nose offers dense meaty notes at first, almost Bovril like, then gives way to a wave of herbaceousness and sweet black fruits. Muscular in texture, this is a chewy, rich red wine with fantastic concentration and amazing length; a wine that people are already talking about as being arguably the best, most honest and impressive ‘Bonarda’ in Argentina. As with all the Cara Sur wines, production is tiny. This is by far the biggest volume wine with a total run of 4,500 bottles!