Red Wines

  • £14.00
  • EL REY VIEJO TINTO, LA MANCHA, SPAIN 2008

  • Made in the warm climate of the La Mancha region to the south of Madrid and full of bright summery fruits.

    gls 175ml £3.45/ gls 250ml £4.95/ btl £14.00

  • £14.50
  • IL BANCHETTO ROSSO, SANGIOVESE RUBICONE, VENETO, ITALY

  • Typically pleasing bright red-fruit wine, eminently drinkable at all times and with all things.

  • £15.50
  • CASA DE PIEDRA CABERNET SAUVIGNON CHILE 2007

  • Soft and smooth with bags of black fruit, this is a wine for pouring and quaffingand ordering another bottle.

    gls 175ml £3.95/ gls 250ml £5.45/ btl £15.50

  • £17.50
  • SAINT ETALON MERLOT, VIN DE PAYS D'OC, FRANCE 2007

  • There's a hint of peppery spice in this adorable wine from the warm winemaking hinterland of France's southern coast.

  • £17.50
  • BRANCH CREEK SHIRAZ, SOUTH AUSTRALIA 2005

  • Rich and fruity with plums and red berries, a nice-juicy-in-the-mouth bag of loveliness - very, friendly and approachable.

    gls 175ml £4.10/ gls 250ml £5.90/ btl £17.50

  • £18.50
  • PRIMITIVO VILLA DEI FIORI PUGLIA, ITALY

  • The ultimate steak or burger red - soft juicy blackberry, blackcurrant and chocolate with sweet spice combined with gentle oak-aging deeeeee-licious!

    gls 175ml £4.60/ gls 250ml £6.50/ btl £18.50

  • £19.50
  • VALDIVIESO MERLOT LONTUE CHILE 2007

  • Ultra smooth, juicy Merlot with jammy plum, blackberry and damson fruit served up with lashings of mocha coffee and chocolate - an awful lot of pleasure per pound.

    gls 175ml £4.60/ gls 250ml £6.50/ btl £19.50

  • £20.50
  • SOLARENA BARREL-AGED TEMPRANILLO DO CARIÑENA, SPAIN

  • Solarena is raspberry-ripe and spicy with enticing brambly fruit in the mouth leading to nice rounded, velvety, vanilla flavours; subtle oak adding an extra richness.

  • £20.50
  • THOMAS MITCHELL CABERNET SAUVIGNON SHIRAZ, SOUTH EASTERN AUSTRALIA 2007

  • A Blackhouse favourite, this delicious, supple red with aromas that invites you to relax into the bosom of its lingering loveliness.

  • £20.50
  • TERRAGENS SANGIOVESE DI ROMAGNA SUPERIORE ITALY 2007

  • Made in the hills south of Imola in Romagna on the eastern side of Bologna - spaghetti country. It's rich, bursting with violet-flower and red fruit and pinned with a hint of oak-vanilla, an enchantingly Italian - juicy-fruit wine.

  • £22.50
  • PINOT NOIR L'HOSPITALET, FRANCE

  • Light but intense red with great redcurrant and spice pinot character on the nose and on the fresh finish.

    gls 175ml £5.50/ gls 250ml £7.75/ btl £22.50

  • £24.00
  • VALPOLICELLA LAMBERTI I FIORI VENETO, ITALY

  • Soft, juicy, very easy to drink and excellent with pasta, white meats and salads.

  • £25.00
  • ARTISANS BLEND BY DEAKIN ESTATE, CABERNET TEMPRANILLO, AUSTRALIA

  • Rich soft and juicy packed with blackberry fruit, deep chocolaty vanilla oak and smooth, ripe tannins all lifted by some tell-tale Aussie eucalyptus character.

  • £25.50
  • ALTAS DE RUESCA GARNACHA CALATAYUD SPAIN 2007

  • Er wow... Awesome wine, this is the essence of high altitude Grenache, sucking in the pure mountain sunlight to produce intense fruit for this stunning wine.

  • £26.50
  • DELICATO OLD VINE ZIN, LODI ZINFANDEL CALIFORNIA

  • Aromas of boysenberry, blueberry, and cedar spice on the nose. The palate has juicy blackberry, dried currant, allspice and bright cherry fruit all reined in by ripe, sweet tannins

  • £28.50
  • CEPPAIANO 'BABY TUSCAN' ALLE VIOLE, TUSCANY, ITALY 2005

  • This is simply thinking person's Chianti, top quality, with great colour, structure and intensity minus the silly price.

  • £29.00
  • CHATEAU DE L'HOSPITALET ROUGE LA CLAPE, FRANCE

  • Syrah and Mouvedre from an amazing vineyard near the coast at Narbonne Plage. Over 3000 hours of sunshine per year, combined with very special soils, create a truly wonderful, deeply flavoured and complex wine.

  • £30.00
  • DINASTIA VIVANCO RIOJA CRIANZA, RIOJA SPAIN 2001

  • Probably the best Rioja Crianza (one that's lightly aged in oak barrels) on the market. Soft, smooth and long.

  • £31.00
  • RIBERA DEL DUERO, DUMANA 5, BODEGAS TABULA, TINTO ROBLE, SPAIN

  • Deep cherry-red with a nose crammed with fresh red fruits and barrel-aged spice. On the palate there is a wealth of fresh, lively berry fruit flavours leading to a soft, sumptuous and stylish finish.

  • £33.00
  • CHATEAU LEZONGARS PREMIERE COTES DE BORDEAUX, FRANCE

  • Full-bodied, round and smooth, it has cassis and green pepper notes with richer, black fruits underneath. A delicious, classically styled Bordeaux.

  • £36.00
  • STONIER PINOT NOIR MORNINGTON PENINSULA AUSTRALIA

  • With a touch of that farmyardy Burgundian nose most of us know and love this is rich with plum and cherry fruit and earthy, savoury spice and ripe tannins too; weight, structure and fruit in perfect harmony.

  • £46.00
  • RIOJA GRAN RISERVA, CASTILLO DI CLAVIJO, RIOJA, SPAIN 2001

  • It's a monster of flavour slightly more juicy modern style with more fruit than hard-edged wood - perfectly balanced classic.

  • £50.00
  • CHATEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE, LES GALETS DU HAUT, LOUIS BERNARD, RHONE FRANCE 2006

  • A stolid, benchmark Southern Rhone classic displaying all the spicy, hearty, intense touches of thirteen different grape varieties.

  • £50.00
  • SYRAH VALPEDUSA CASTILLA-LA MANCHA, SPAIN

  • Complex aromas of jammy blackberries, violets, cassis and freshly ground white pepper. Tremendous fruit intensity and smooth velvety texture. Vibrant and lingering palate due to good underlying acidity and fabulous with big red meats.

  • £55.00
  • ST HALLETT BAROSSA VALLEY OLD BLOCK SHIRAZ, AUSTRALIA

  • Eye-poppingly powerful and pungent: coffee, dark and milk chocolate entwined but with poise and elegance and delicious seamless tannins. An acknowledged icon of the Barossa, widely recognised as world class it's derived purely from low cropping old vines of 60 to over 100 years of age, Old Block Shiraz is by its very nature exclusive.

  • £75.00
  • AMARONE DELLA VALPOLICELLA CLASSICO AMBROSAN, NICOLIS, VENETO, ITALY 2004

  •  Silky smooth but loaded with fruit & spice:, vanilla & liquorice. Rich & jammy with pronounced berry & plum flavours, huge; once sipped never forgotten.