×
Sale
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.70 $17.50
The effusive violet and blackcurrant-pastille aromas draw you into this elegant and silky, mid-weight Brouilly with...
WA
90
JS
90
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $41.94
12 bottles: $41.10
Needs a moment in the glass for the forest-berry aromas to open up. Very minerally and smoky with plenty of...
12 FREE
JS
96
Sale
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.75 $18.00
This structured wine gives concentration as well as broad and ripe black fruits. The wine is full, rich, and can age...
WE
93
WA
90
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $27.90
12 bottles: $27.34
12 FREE
Rapid Ship
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $13.99
And if you don’t, you need to know. Our Fine Tawny has fervent fans around the world who love it for its...
Sale
Rapid Ship
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $14.93 $15.84
Aromas of fig, dried red berries, and burnt sugar are bright and focused. The deep flavors carry the sweetness well...
UBC
93
Sale
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.93 $16.76
12 bottles: $15.92
Sleek and elegant, this Barbera boasts rose, cherry, raspberry and iron flavors. Linear and bracing, with fine...
WS
92
JS
91
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $13.99
Offering up aromas of sweet red berries, orange oil, spices and vine smoke, the 2021 Beaujolais-Villages Le Perréon...
WA
91
JS
91
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
This small-batch Brouilly leads with delicious black fruit. The wine has a nose of pencil shavings, black plum, dried...
12 FREE
WE
91
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $19.94
12 bottles: $19.54
What an attractive nose of violets this Fleurie has. A firmly structured wine for this appellation with serious...
12 FREE
JS
93
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $18.75
12 bottles: $18.38
Deep purple in color, this wine has an aromatic nose of blackberry, blueberry and hints of hibiscus. This vintage...
12 FREE
WE
92
Sale
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $35.18 $40.20
Silky texture and long finish.
Sale
Rapid Ship
Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $15.99 $17.94
Made with wild blueberries which are small, concentrated and brimming with flavor. Blueberries are slowly fermented...
Rapid Ship
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $83.94
The 2017 Vintage Port, not quite bottled when seen but the final blend, is a field blend (with typical grapes like...
12 FREE
WA
98
WE
98
Rapid Ship
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $15.99
Very deep colour with compote of red berries, ripe concentration on the nose with aguardiente following onto the...
DC
95
W&S
90
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93
Plum and cherry aromas are ripe and rich with intense fruitiness. Sleek attack, quite concentrated and assertive, but...
DC
92
WA
90
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.90
12 bottles: $30.28
An outstanding example of Barbera from old vines, some dating back to 1949. Strained, deeply rooted plants produce...
12 FREE
Sale
Rapid Ship
Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $12.61 $15.01
Ripe and opulent plummy fruit on the nose, big and bold. Well extracted deep fruits on the palate framed by well...
DC
95
W&S
91
Sale
Rapid Ship
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $19.89 $21.62
Ripe and opulent plummy fruit on the nose, big and bold. Well extracted deep fruits on the palate framed by well...
DC
95
W&S
91
Sale
Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.90 $29.60
The 2021 Fleurie comes from vines on granitic soil located at 470m altitude, 1.7-hectares split over two parcels. The...
VM
92
JS
91

Barbera Gamay Port Blend Red Bordeaux Rapid Ship Wine

For centuries now, the beautiful red grapes of the Barbera varietal have been grown in Italy, where they are prized for their unusual high acid content and low tannins, brought about by their thin skins. The Barbera grape varietal thrives in warmer climates, and has had some success overseas in the new world, where its strongly aromatic flavors of intense hedgerow fruits make it a favorite with wineries and wine drinkers looking for a grape which offers plenty of interesting characteristics. Interestingly, the differences between young and aged wines made from this varietal are quite significant, with younger bottles holding a plethora of berry flavors, including blueberry and raspberry notes, and oak aged wines made from the Barbera grape being much loved for their ability to become extremely complex and spicy, and picking up vanilla flavors from the wood they are barreled in.

The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.


The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.

Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.


Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.