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shades of red

André Goichot, Fleurie Villa Maria, Cellar Ricossa, Barolo 2012 Finca Labarca, Reserva
2016 Selection Pinot Noir 2015 * 14%, €24.99 Rioja 2011
13%, €19.99 13.5%, €19.99 13.5%, €15.99

France New Zealand Italy Spain
Fleurie is the best known of the Pinot Noir is a notoriously difficult If ever a wine could be described as Rioja is one of the ‘friendliest’ wines,
Beaujolais Crus, the 10 principal and grape to grow, even in its Burgundian ‘pale but strong’ it’s Barolo. Even the charming the palate by way of soft,
most highly rated appellations where, homeland, yet the Kiwis have done name suggests grandeur and the rounded flavours that caress rather
in skilled hands, the Gamay grape it with a remarkable degree of palate echoes that, replete with deep, than pound the taste buds. The colour
reaches its apogee. The cherry red success. It’s never deep in colour but brooding flavours. Yet the colour is fits this character, for it’s usually a
colour, vivid and bright, is matched by is bountifully flavoured, as this fruity, bright crimson, with no hint of the warm crimson-garnet and not a
equally vivid flavours on the palate. succulent example shows. Stygian depths often sported by the strident purple.
* At selected stores only. most celebrated reds.

White grapes are sometimes added to red
to leaven robust characters.

Boschendal, The Rémy Ferbras, Doña Paula, Los Cardos Nugan Estate, Alcira
Pavillion Shiraz Viognier Châteauneuf-du-Pape Malbec 2016 Vineyard Cabernet
2014 2015 13.5%, €11.49 Sauvignon 2014 *
14%, €10.99 13.5%, €29.99 14% , €15.99
South Africa France Argentina Australia
A welcome trend in recent years Châteauneuf is one of the vinous glories Though originally an import from Serious depth of colour, perhaps the
has been the addition of a small of France, a sumptuous wine of richness France, Malbec is now considered densest and most impenetrable of
proportion of Viognier to Shiraz to and savour for which the term ‘Baroque’ the signature grape of Argentina, as this octet, presages a wine with equal
leaven the latter’s robust character is not too ambitious a descriptor. Sweet genuinely Argentinean as the Pampas depth and intensity on the palate.
and add some perfumed notes to the fruit from Grenache and spice from and hearty steaks. Sometimes its wine It hails from Coonawarra, which is
finished wine. Though white, Viognier Syrah constitute the twin poles of its is on the over-hearty side, but not generally regarded as one of the best
has little effect on the colour, which flavour and the colour is a full, deep red here, as the good fruit and balance regions to grow Cabernet in Australia.
remains full and strong. rather than dark purple. see to that. *At selected stores only.

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