Pefect Pinot Noi fom the wondeful Cuico Valley Valle Cental is one of the wold's GREAT wine egions! County: Chile Valle Cental The Long Way Round Reseve Pinot Noi 2016 Winemake s wods... "I found my second home when I finally settled in Chile, via many winemaking destinations, fom my native New Zealand. I fell in love with its divesity and then I fell in love, so I ve been making wine hee eve since on the hills." Pinot Noi Now End 2018 Bett Jackson, Winemake Soft and Juicy Reds Light Full-bodied ABV: 13% Nomal pice: 9.99 Whee's it fom? Chile s Cental Valley is a patchwok of vineyads, lage and small, planted with a wide vaiety of gape types. Thee ae a numbe of mico climates and planting the ight vaiety in the ight place is the key. Ou take... "Chile is without doubt the best place in the wold fo geat value Pinot Noi, punching well above its pice point. It is a notoiously fussy vaiety but evey winemake wants a cack at making some. The job fo us is to find the ight winemake, who can hit the sweet spot in the style we want. Afte a thoough seach we found ou man and teamed up with winemake Bett Jackson at Vina Valdivieso." Geat with... thee s enough sweet juicy fuit hee to suppot a wide vaiety of dishes but stee clea of ed meat. Meatie fish and gilled chicken ae a sue fie winne.
Fleshy numbe that sets the Melot standad at the money County: South Afica Westen Cape Billy Bosch Westen Cape Reseve Melot 2016 Winemake s wods... "The Cape is now a place not only of geat wine, but also of geat cultue. Not only is it the gaden of South Afica, but it's also the most cultually advanced and balanced egion in the county without doubt." Melot Now End 2019 Mainda Kuge-Van Eck, Winemake Soft and Juicy Reds Light Full-bodied ABV: 14.5% Nomal pice: 8.99 Whee's it fom? Fom the Westen Cape, this Melot benefits fom the confluence of the oceans and univalled conditions fo biodivesity. It's geat fo vines and means that the Cape has moe biodivesity that Westen Euope! Ou take... "A fesh vintage of what is now an established classic. Being quite honest, Melot can be quite dull. And it can also be eally fabulous (look at the wines out of Pomeol and St Emilion!). But the pefect climate of the Cape bings out the best in it, deliveing vibancy and fuit. The vines havested to make this cacke ae picked ow-by-ow to make sue only the finest gapes ae used." Geat with... the flesh offeed up by this juice demands fivolous and fun food. Stat with good pizza and wok though all options to zippy, tomato-based sauces.
A classic Aussie Shiaz, full of dak fuit and savouy spice County: Austalia South Austalia The Sail Shiaz 2015 Winemake s wods... "I gew up in the McLaen suounded by vines and wineies so it's hadly supising I now have my own set up. Ove the yeas I ve built a lage netwok of gowes and with my team make wines with exceptional chaacte." Shiaz Now End 2020 Fuse Winemaking Team, Winemakes Huge Reds Light Full-bodied ABV: 14% Nomal pice: 10.99 Whee's it fom? South Oz has cetain viticultual advantages, the least of which isn t an abundance of sunshine. The wines eflect this, being full in fuit and ich in chaacte. And like the Aussie's who make them, they e supe-accessible. Ou take... "The Sail Shiaz fuses pacels of top-quality fuit fom wold enowned South Austalian egions such as the Baossa and Clae Valley s and the coole Adelaide Hills. Winemake Steve Gimley and his dedicated team pull all these togethe at thei set up in the McLaen Vale to stunning effect. A wine full of dak fuit flavous with exceptional chaacte and intensity." Geat with... the pefect accompaniment to this sonoous Shiaz is a well stocked cheeseboad. It isn t fussy so stong cheddas, ipe bies and stinky blues ae good to go.
Pope, gown-up, pefectly matue Spanish Gan Reseva. County: Spain Caiñena Las Colinas Roja Gan Reseva 2009 Cabenet Sauvignon, Tempanillo, Ganacha Rioja Style Now End 2018 Light Full-bodied ABV: 13.5% Nomal pice: 9.99 Winemake s wods... "Only the best wines can stand the test of time and gow into something special. So it s vital I select the ight wines that have plenty of ipe fuit intensity and tannins that need time to soften and lend stuctue." Antonio Seano Antonio Seanno, Winemake Whee's it fom? Caiñena nea Zaagoza in Spain is an aea we ae excited about. The wines fuse tadition with the moden day dinkes equiements and the wines ae a lovely combination of fuit fowad punch and just a hint of usticity. Ou take... "What bette setting could thee be to souce a delicious Vigin Wines Gan Reseva than fom a vineyad hugged by the Siea de la Vigen mountains of Aagon! If that geogaphy means little to you, est assued that the geat aay of flavous in this Spanish ed will. Deep vanilla waps up a geneous scoop of ed beies and spice thanks to the pefect blend of Cabenet, Ganacha and Tempanillo." Geat with... a wine with such a soft coe is pefectly suited to slow cooked meals. A ich bolognese o a shoulde of pok, timmings and ich gavy make ideal choices.
Pefect 10 Pinot Gigio that hits you thist apido County: Italy Veneto Bio Pinot Gigio 2015 Winemake s wods... "With Pinot Gigio the balance between feshness and ipeness of fuit has to be pefect o it might leave you palate feeling like something is missing, a gap that food often fills. Bio achieves this completeness!" Pinot Gigio Now End 2018 Piepaulo Cielo, Winemake Clean and Cisp Whites Bone Dy Sweet ABV: 12% Nomal pice: 10.99 Whee's it fom? Veneto is best known fo Soave and Posecco, and comes with a hefty pedigee because of it. But the cool climes of the noth ae supe-good fo nutuing the best in zippy whites like Pinot Gigio too. Ou take... "This one was ceated by us fom stat to finish, as you might expect name, label and the wine itself. Bio: liveliness, vivacity, enegy. This is exactly what good nothen Italian Pinot Gigio should be about. This one is pinbight and featues lifted citus and cunchy apple flavous. It s without petence and should be dunk libeally...within eason, of couse!" Geat with... this wine has geat balance with good feshness so is good apeitif wine. But it's also a chicken salad wine. And a chilli pawns wine. And good Chinese wine.
Supe exciting cisp, efeshing, fuit-salad kissed Aussie belte. County: Austalia South Austalia Hummingbid Vedelho 2016 Winemakes wods... "Vedelho has taken eally well to the Aussie sunshine and we ve been using it in blends fo ages. We took a punt some time ago to bottle some solo and it was a ippe. We ve poduced it evey yea since." Vedelho Clean and Cisp Whites ABV: 12.5% Now End 2018 Bone Dy Sweet Nomal pice: 9.99 Fuse Winemaking Team, Winemakes Whee's it fom? This native Potuguese vaietal, found mainly on the islands of Madeia, has wondeful natual feshness. Stick it in selected sites in South Austalia, expeiencing plenty of sun and you ve got some winning gapes to wok with. Ou take... "Band new Aussie white fom a gape with an ancient Potuguese histoy. It's found a home in numeous places aound the globe but none moe exciting than Oz! Shunned by numeous poduces fo its low poductivity in the past, now making a eal comeback. We'e confident upon tasting you'll see why, with Hummingbids acy natual feshness and a tootie-fuity topical quality." Geat with... the topical fuit and cunchy citus intensity make this a geat foil fo spicy Asian dishes. Teiyaki Salmon with some steamed pak choi is a eal winne.
The pefect paty Sauvignon Blanc o ultimate midweek sippe. County: Fance Languedoc Bel Olivie Sauvignon Blanc 2015 Winemake s wods... "My expeiences acoss Fance have shaped me and my wines into how we ae, but being fom the Loie I ve always loved Sauvignon Blanc. I like woking with it hee in the wame south with moe topical fuit chaactes." ABV: 12% Sauvignon Blanc Clean and Cisp Whites Now End 2017 Bone Dy Sweet Nomal pice: 8.99 Isabell Pangault, Winemake Whee's it fom? This stunning Sauvignon hails fom a vey paticula pat of the Languedoc, in Fance. So you won't find a flashy label hee. Just a tuly geat wine whee the juice needs to do the talking because the label can t. Ou take... " The combination of chalky soils and the lovely sunny days of this little spot in the foothills of the Pyenees in Languedoc southen Fance, on the quiet, poduce seiously good Sauvignon Blanc gapes. You could say the finished wine sits between those of Touaine and Malboough. A wine with lovely mineal edges and a good thwack of topical fuit that, when possible, should be enjoyed al fesco." Geat with... Sauvignon loves fish, especially shell fish, and isn t avese to a bit of spice eithe. So cook up a pawn and choizo paella as a pefect food and wine match.
Anothe Cape classic that should be seved up nice and cold! County: South Afica Westen Cape Chapte & Vese Westen Cape Semillon 2016 Ou take... "Wine has fomed pat of the Cape s cultue fo many centuies, but neve befoe has it been quite this fabulous, no been such a hamonising foce. I love being a pat of this and the joy my wines bing to so many." ABV: 13% Semillon Clean and Cisp Whites Now End 2019 Bone Dy Sweet Nomal pice: 9.99 Mainda Kuge-Van Eck, Winemake Whee's it fom? Two vineyads planted with the same vaiety team up hee, one old and gnaled the othe young and viile. Togethe they make a whole that is the pefect combination of expeience and youthful fivolity. Ou take... "Semillon was fist planted in South Afica way back in 1679 and has since become a pilla of the Cape s finest white vaietals. We blended some old bush vine fuit with a little less intense younge kit, both planted on ancient ganite soils, to aive at a wondeful style. Gentle, ipe, honeyed apicots ae balanced by cisp gassy notes and a little gapefuit, a eally lovely dop." Geat with... a chilled white with medium weight and heaps of feshness is eally athe vesatile. Pai with pizza o let it cut though the cheesy sauce of a mac n cheese.