50 products
Argentina - Mendoza
Type | Bodega Marco Zunino (Vegan-Friendly) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Red | Bodega Marco Zunino Estancia Argentina Malbec 2019 | 12 x 750ml | $20.95 |
Type | Matías Riccitelli (Sustainable, Vegan-Friendly) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Red | Matias Riccitelli Cabernet Sauvignon Gualtallary Valle de Uco 2018 LCBO Vintages | 6 x 750ml | $34.95 |
Red | Matias Riccitelli The Party Malbec Argentina 2020 LCBO Vintages | 12 x 750ml | $23.95 |
Red | Matías Riccitelli Hey Malbec! 2020 LCBO Vintages | 12 x 750ml | $20.95 |
White | Matías Riccitelli Old Vines from Patagonia Torrontés 2019 | 5 x 750ml | $54.95 |
Red | Matías Riccitelli This Is Not Another Lovely Malbec 2021 LCBO Vintages | 12 x 750ml | $31.95 |
Austria - Burgenland
Type | Markus Altenburger (Biodynamic, Natural, Organic) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Red | Markus Altenburger Blaufränkisch Vom Kalk 2021 | 12 x 750ml | $28.95 |
White | Markus Altenburger Chardonnay Vom Kalk 2021 | 12 x 750ml | $28.95 |
Austria - Kamptal
Type | Matthias Hager (Biodynamic, Natural, Organic, Vegan-Friendly) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Hager Matthias Gruner Veltliner Loess Natural 2018 Destination Collection | 12 x 750ml | $30.95 |
Red | Hager Matthias Zweigelt Blauburger 2021 Destination Collection | 12 x 750ml | $24.95 |
White | Matthias Hager Grüner Veltliner Mollands 2022 | 12 x 750ml | $27.95 |
White | Matthias Hager Riesling Alte Reben Steinleiten 2018 | 6 x 750ml | $46.95 |
Chile - Maule Valley
Type | Baettig ( Old Vines, Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Red | Baettig Cabernet Sauvignon Maule Los Compadres 2022 LCBO Vmail Offer | 12 x 750ml | $50.95 |
Chile - Secano Interior - Portezuelo
Type | Garage Wine Co. (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Red | Garage Co Renacido Vineyard Maule Valley Lot 114 2020 LCBO Vintages | 6 x 750ml | $51.00 |
Chile - Traiguén
Type | Baettig (Sustainable, Volcanic) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Baettig Selección de Parcelas Los Primos Chardonnay D.O. Traiguén 2020 LCBO Vmail Offer | 6 x 750ml | $98.95 |
White | Baettig Selección de Parcelas Los Primos Chardonnay D.O. Traiguén 2021 LCBO Vmail Offer | 6 x 750ml | $98.95 |
Red | Baettig Selección de Parcelas Los Primos Pinot Noir D.O. Traiguén 2020 LCBO Vmail Offer | 6 x 750ml | $98.95 |
Red | Baettig Selección de Parcelas Los Primos Pinot Noir D.O. Traiguén 2021 LCBO Vmail Offer | 6 x 750ml | $98.95 |
White | Baettig Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes Chardonnay D.O. Traiguén 2021 LCBO Vmail Offer | 12 x 750ml | $40.95 |
Red | Baettig Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes Pinot Noir D.O. Traiguén 2021 LCBO Vmail Offer | 12 x 750ml | $40.95 |
Red | Baettig Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes Pinot Noir D.O. Traiguén 2022 LCBO Vmail Offer | 12 x 750ml | $40.95 |
Type | Nicholas Pearce Wines Inc (Sustainable, Volcanic) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Discover Baettig - Mixed Case | 6 x 750ml |
Chile - Valle del Maule
Type | Garage Wine Co. (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Garage Wine Co Revival 2021 | 12 x 750ml | $23.95 |
Type | Nicholas Pearce Wines Inc (Sustainable, Volcanic) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Discover Baettig - Mixed Case | 6 x 750ml |
Germany - Nahe
Type | Christian Bamberger Weingut | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Christian Bamberger Merlot Blanc de Noir Trocken 2021 Destination Collection | 12 x 750ml | $26.95 |
White | Christian Bamberger Scheurebe Trocken Don't be Shy 2021 Destination Collection | 12 x 750ml | $27.10 |
White | Christian Bamberger Silvaner Blanc trocken Nahe 2021 Destination Collection | 12 x 750ml | $27.10 |
Red | Christian Bamberger Spätburgunder Trocken 2020 Destination Collection | 12 x 750ml | $29.35 |
Greece - Santorini
Type | Vassaltis (Volcanic) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Vassaltis Assyrtiko Barrel Aged Santorini PDO 2021 LCBO Classics | 6 x 750ml | $88.00 |
White | Vassaltis Santorini Assyrtiko 2022 LCBO Retail | 6 x 750ml | $72.95 |
Hungary - Lake Balaton
Type | Gilvesy Pincészet (Organic, Sustainable, Vegan-Friendly, Volcanic) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Gilvesy Bohem Balatoni Cuvée 2022 | 12 x 750ml | $21.95 |
White | Gilvesy Sauvignon Blanc 2022 ($179.70 per case) | 6 x 750ml | $29.95 |
New Zealand - Central Otago
Type | Blank Canvas (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Red | Blank Canvas Anthem Pinot Noir Gibbston Valley 2018 LCBO Cellar Collection | 6 x 750ml | $68.00 |
New Zealand - Gisborne
Type | Invivo | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Invivo Chardonnay Gisborne 2020 LCBO Vintages | 12 x 750ml | $21.95 |
New Zealand - Marlborough
Type | Blank Canvas (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Red | Blank Canvas Escaroth Pinot Noir Marlborough 2019 | 6 x 750ml | $58.00 |
White | Blank Canvas Sauvignon Blanc Abstract Marlborough 2019 | 6 x 750ml | $47.00 |
Red | Blank Canvas Settlement Vineyard Pinot Noir 2019 | 6 x 750ml | $58.00 |
Type | Hans Herzog (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Red | Hans Herzog Pinot Noir Marlborough 2018 LCBO Cellar Collection | 6 x 750ml | $65.00 |
White | Hans Herzog Sauvignon Blanc Sur Lie Marlborough 2019 LCBO Classics | 12 x 750ml | $57.00 |
Type | Invivo (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Graham Norton's Own Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough 2022 LCBO Vintages | 12 x 750ml | $24.95 |
White | Invivo Marlborough Pinot Gris 2021 LCBO Vintages | 12 x 750ml | $21.95 |
New Zealand - Wairarapa
Type | Paddy Borthwick (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Red | Paddy Borthwick Left Hand Pinot Noir Wairarapa 2019 LCBO Classics | 6 x 750ml | $48.00 |
Red | Paddy Borthwick Pinot Noir Paper Road Wairarapa 2021 LCBO Vintages | 12 x 750ml | $27.95 |
Red | Paddy Borthwick Right Hand Pinot Noir Wairarapa 2020 LCBO Cellar Collection | 6 x 750ml | $65.00 |
Type | The Crater Rim (Sustainable) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | The Crater Rim Waipara Sauvignon Blanc 2020 Vintages Frontline | 12 x 750ml | $31.95 |
Portugal - Alentejo
Type | Paulo Laureano | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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White | Paulo Laureano Vinhas Velhas Branco 2021 | 12 x 750ml | $22.95 |
Red | Paulo Laureano Vinhas Velhas Tinto 2020 | 12 x 750ml | $23.95 |
Slovenia - Goriška Brda
Type | Štekar (Biodynamic, Natural, Organic, Vegan-Friendly) | Case Size | Bottle Price |
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Orange | Štekar Rebula 2022 | 12 x 750ml | $34.95 |
- White Wine
- Grüner Veltliner
- Biodynamic, Natural, Organic, Vegan-Friendly
- Dry
- 750ml
- 11.5% alc./vol
About the Winery
Matthias Hager
The Hager Matthias winery is located in the small village of Mollands in the Kamptal area of Lower Austria. Matthias took over the 12-hectare land and the family business at an early age. He aims to produce the best quality wine possible and to focus on being in balance with nature. The lands are cultivated according to biodynamic principles and are certified Demeter. Matthias has a vast knowledge about plants and insects, and about keeping the flora and fauna in harmony with the vines. Matthias Hager is one of the most experimental winemakers in the Kamptal region, Austria. He understood early how to work with different soil types from loess to clay. He established different product lines to highlight these differences: the blue one representing fresh, lively wines including Grüner Veltliner and Sauvignon Blanc; and the brown line gravitating towards more earthy, flavourful produce and the red line stands for no sulphites!
Press Reviews
Wine Align
91 points - Michael Godel
Review from 2019 vintage:
From one of the globe’s biodynamic gurus, non-dogmatic, he farms like we breath. Really sharp and equally earthy grüner of reaction, action and depth. Citrus is variegated and texture is for real. Really, really long. Great intensity forever here. Drink 2019-2025. Tasted November 2019.
- Red Wine
- Malbec
- Vegan-Friendly
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.5% alc./vol
About the Winery
Bodega Marco Zunino
The dream of 4 French partners in Argentina's Mendoza region can be found 200 kilometers from the district capital, in the South of the region, in the town of San Rafael. It's an oasis surrounded by large canyons and crossed by two rivers, Diamante and Atuel, vital for agriculture and tourism in the region.The arid climate, rugged landscape coupled with the plane trees located along the country roads and weeping willows bordering its rivers that makes the area reminiscent of the midi region in the South of France.
The thirty-hectare vineyard boasts an exceptional site and an idyllic regional climate for wine producing. The low rainfall, vineyard altitude (670m) and high temperature variations are key to the diversity and quality of San Rafael’s terroir and offers the ideal setting for a truly exceptional quality of grape.
Press Reviews
Wine Align
90 points - Sara d'Amato
A bright and cheery malbec made with finesse. The palate is cut and refreshed with a salty component, zesty acidity and mildly sinewy tannins. Sleek with notes of earth, new leather and blackberry. Impressively complex with a memorable finish. Drink now or hold until 2023. Tasted July 2020.
90 points - David Lawrason
This is a very generous, open knit, dense and just slightly sweet malbec with classic aromas of mulberry/raspberry, thyme, a touch of meatiness and oak vanillin. It is very smooth, almost slippery and dense with fine tannin and warm. The length is very good to excellent. Lots here for $20. Tasted June 2021
- Red Wine
- Alicante Bouschet, Aragonez, Trincadeira
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.5% alc./vol
About the Winery
Paulo Laureano
Paulo Laureano is one of the most respected Portuguese winemakers and a reference for wines in the Alentejo.
Agronomist, winemaker trained between Portugal, Australia and Spain, after teaching at the University of Évora for 10 years, decided to dedicate himself, exclusively, to what has moved him since 1993: designing wines. Especially in the company he created with his family in 1999 and which has become increasingly important in his life.
Paulo Laureano defines himself as a minimalist winemaker, for whom designing wines is a passion, unveiling their aromas and flavors, evaluating and optimizing the reasons for his identity and personality, promoting them as true sources of pleasure.
His exclusive bet on Portuguese varieties reflects his way of being and looking at wine as a factor of culture and civilization.
Press Reviews
Wine Align
90 points - David Lawrason
This is a blend of three varieties from the sunny south of Portugal. It shows a generous, rounded nose of brambly/blackberry jam, perfumed florality, some oak vanilla and nutmeg. It is medium-full bodied, soft, genteel and warming with fine chalk tannin. Some minerality on the finish. The length is very good to excellent. Tasted March 2022
- País
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13% alc./vol
About the Winery
Garage Wine Co.
Garage Wine was literally started in a garage in 2001, by Etobicoke expat Derek Mossman and his wife Pilar Miranda. Since then, the dynamic duo handcraft wines from a series of individual vineyards located in the Maule and Itata Valleys, in the south of Santiago, Chile.
Garage Wine Co makes wines from a series of individual parcels, small lots / bottlings of 8-22 barrels that include a series of dry-farmed field-blends of Carignan, Garnacha, Monastrell, País, Cinsault and Cab Franc grown on pre-phylloxera rootstock with small farmers in the Maule and Itata. Each wine is from a 1-2 hectare parcel in a different place.
Over the years working in the community they have raised a veritable posse of vineyard hands whose skills are working the vineyards the old way / the traditional way– originario. The vineyards are on the old coastal range of mountains closer to the Pacific and have granitic soils with cracks for roots to get deep down into.
When GWCo. speaks of the provenance of these wines they mean more than just the geological terroir. Derek and Pilar think the farming practices that have evolved over generations have as much to do with the wines’ personalities as the soils. All the wines are made by hand with native yeasts in small tanks, punched down manually and pressed out in a small basket press. GWCo is still very much a DIY operation and we still tow much of the crop back to the winery in trailers behind trusty pickup trucks 2,000 kilos at a time.
Press Reviews
WineAlign
91 points - Michael Godel
The 2018 país was, and I quote Garage Wine Company founder (and Oakvillean) Derek Mossman Knapp ”A wine that rose from the 2017 bush fires, quickly having ascended out of the ashes as something resurrected and reinvented.” The method is pressing whole clusters with stems and a co-fermented (2018) collection of país, stacked with carinena, one on top of the other. Now in 2021 it’s all about the mission grape, survivor and revivalist, the stacks of fruit like lyrics, on repeat. If you say the mantra often enough it becomes bible and this grape made in this way is the lifeblood and soul of Chile’s Secano Interior Cauquenes. A very instrumental red wine, comfortable, of relaxed warmth and lack of pressure that you would only expect at home, with people you love. “People can you feel it? Love is everywhere.” Drink 2023-2026. Tasted February 2023.
90 points - Megha Jandhyala
Born during the pandemic, the Garage Wine Company’s old-vine project is devoted to reviving previously-neglected old vines and supporting local farming communities. Founded by Mossman Knapp and Pilar Miranda, it is based in Maule, home to many dry-farmed, family-owned, old vineyards. Only about 5000 bottles of this old-vine país were made using traditional methods, including traditional dry-farming and hand-harvesting in the vineyards, and manual punchdowns and native yeast in the winery. It is a fresh, light, cheerfully fruity, wine, clean and uncluttered, with a down-to-earth, guileless charm. Red berries and herbs are joined by notes of pepper and wildflowers. The palate is medium-bodied and soft, with fine tannins, tart acids, and very good length.
- Orange Wine
- Ribolla Gialla
- Biodynamic, Natural, Organic, Vegan-Friendly
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 12% alc./vol
About the Winery
Štekar
The Štekar family has been growing grapes in Goriska Brda since 1985. With 6 acres of vines planted in the stunning hills of western Slovenia, along with cherry orchards, Jure Štekar has committed to make wine the way his grandfather Emil taught his father: respecting tradition and avoiding invasive technologies.
Certified organic since 2006, Jure likes to play with long macerations, spontaneous fermentations and tiny SO2 amounts. His goal is to produce genuine wines that tell the story of his land and family.
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Sustainable, Volcanic
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2.00 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.00% alc./vol
About the Winery
Vinos Baettig
Francisco Baettig and Carlos de Carlos have been friends for more than 20 years and share a passion for high-quality wines that are genuine and connected to the land where they are made.
"A promising project in a wine region that is the future of high-quality Chilean wines" - Patricio Tapia, Descorchados
Press Reviews
Robert Parker
93+ Points
The 2021 Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes Pinot Noir was produced with some 10% full clusters and indigenous yeasts followed by nine months in barrel, 13% of them new 300-liter oak barrels and the rest used 228-liter ones. It has 13.5% alcohol and is direct, aromatic, with red fruit and notes of rosehip. The colour and the nose keep the youth and primary aromas but with good ripeness and development of flavours; there's nothing herbal or green about it. 13,416 bottles were filled in December 2021.
James Suckling
93 Points
There is a melted chocolate-crust character that binds well with the wild strawberries, plums, roses, wild herbs, white pepper and stemmy accents. This is bright and muscular, charged with seamless tannins. Very unique and powerful pinot, but juicy and caressing, too. Drink after 2024.
Vinous
93 Points - Joaquín Hidalgo
The 2021 Pinot Noir Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes from Malleco, Traiguén, was aged for 9 months in 13% new barrels. Intense purple in the glass. The clear, full, alluring aromas include sweetbriar, red fruit, sour cherry, elderberry and hints of earth and mushrooms. Fluid with a terse texture, fine-grained tannins that keep things compact, and a little grip; the base is formed by the elegant freshness before the lengthy finish and elderberry aftertaste. A pure, delicate wine.
- White Wine
- Merlot
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 7.00 g/l
- Light Bodied
- 750ml
- 12.50% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Falstaff
90 Points - Ulrich Sautter
A hint of pink in the colour. Sweet cherry, herbal and savoury aromas, some liquorice. On the palate the wine is dense, juicy and fresh, with aromas coherent with the fragrance, very well balanced, fruity in the finish, with a clear tactile mineral background. Convincing style, very good extract.
- White Wine
- Scheurebe
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 7.00 g/l
- Light Bodied
- 750ml
- 12.50% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Falstaff
89 Points
Initial notes of ripe yellow gooseberries within a powerful, savoury bouquet, then notes of apricot and dried mango. An intense juicy acidity, compact, with a lean texture, a fine fruit sweetness, and savoury undertones. An elated wine, not at all shy.
- White Wine
- Sylvaner
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 4.00 g/l
- Light Bodied
- 750ml
- 12.50% alc./vol
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.5% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Decanter World Wine Awards
95 Points
Savoury and mineral nose with notes of rich berry, dark cherry and spiced plum. Firm, structured tannins, well-textured with a very persistent toasty finish. Value.
- Red Wine
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2.00 g/l
- Full Bodied
- 750ml
- 14.00% alc./vol
About the Winery
Vinos Baettig
Francisco Baettig and Carlos de Carlos have been friends for more than 20 years and share a passion for high-quality wines that are genuine and connected to the land where they are made.
"A promising project in a wine region that is the future of high-quality Chilean wines" - Patricio Tapia, Descorchados
Press Reviews
Robert Parker
94 Points
The very young 2022 Vino de Viñedo Los Compadres Cabernet Sauvignon, which has a majority of grapes from a vineyard they finally purchased in Coronel de Maule that has 60-year-old head-pruned, dry-farmed and ungrafted Cabernet Sauvignon, a rarity for the variety, because it was grafted onto 100-year-old País vines. It has 13.8% alcohol with a pH of 3.35, which is extremely low, and very high acidity, 7.12. They used 15% new oak, and part of the wine fermented in barrel. It has the structured tannins from Maule but with amazing tension, lots of fruit, some notes of tobacco and tea leaves, textbook blackcurrant and with balsamic and minty, subtle, juicy, very good complexity, harmony and elegance with grip, serious and a little à la Saint-Estéphe. 17,000 bottles produced. A single-plot selection of Cabernet Sauvignon from the Coronel de Maule Vineyard will be released later, as it's not yet bottled.
Vinous
94 Point - Joaquin Hidalgo
From the secano interior dry farming region in Maule was made with grapes from 80-year-old Pais vines grafted with Cabernet and aged for 10 months in 20% new oak. Purple with a ruby sheen. The expressive nose offers fresh black currant and plum plus hints of spice, gentle notes from the aging process, cigar box and hints of violet. In the mouth, it is delicate and energetic with refined tannins and precise, characterful grip. The juicy, rich flavours are shored up by the freshness. A nuanced, energetic wine. Drinking window 2022-2030
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Sustainable, Volcanic
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2.00 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.00% alc./vol
About the Winery
Vinos Baettig
Francisco Baettig and Carlos de Carlos have been friends for more than 20 years and share a passion for high-quality wines that are genuine and connected to the land where they are made.
"A promising project in a wine region that is the future of high-quality Chilean wines" - Patricio Tapia, Descorchados
Press Reviews
James Suckling
94 Points - Zekun Shuai, Senior Editor
Brown stems with a hint of blackcurrants, mulberries, violets, rose hips and a hint of licorice. Medium- to full-bodied on the palate with a fleshy mid-palate and fine tannins. Quite intense yet vibrant. Great drinkability. Drink now.
Robert Parker
93 Points - Luis Gutiérrez
2022 was a milder year, and the 2022 Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes Pinot Noir shows quite similar to the 2021 (there are more noticeable differences in the white); the parameters are similar (and so was the enology, with 10% full clusters, indigenous fermentation and small percentage of new barrels with a little less time in barrel, eight months here). Perhaps there is an earthier touch here; there's more finesse in the 2021 and a little more rusticity in this 2022. It's very open in the nose and very attractive, with fine tannins and nice balance. 8,539 bottles were filled in November 2022.
Vinous
93 Points - Joaquín Hidalgo
The 2022 Pinot Noir Vino de Viñedo Los Parientes from Traiguén, Malleco, was aged for 8 months in 10% new barrels. Vivid ruby red in the glass. The alluring, expressive aromas include sour cherry and elderberry alongside hints of earth, mushroom and a little haystack. Fluid with finely-grained, slightly grippy tannins that keep the palate compact. The elegant freshness ensures the flow is nimble before the lengthy, fruity finish.
- White Wine
- Chardonnay
- Sustainable, Volcanic
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2.00 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.00% alc./vol
About the Winery
Vinos Baettig
Francisco Baettig and Carlos de Carlos have been friends for more than 20 years and share a passion for high-quality wines that are genuine and connected to the land where they are made.
"A promising project in a wine region that is the future of high-quality Chilean wines" - Patricio Tapia, Descorchados
Press Reviews
James Suckling
96 Points
Complexity and lots of stamina and verve here! Smoky lemons, nougat, ginger and flint provide a very flavourful palate. Intense and substantial on the palate, but still elegant and nuanced, with a hint of phenolics at the end. Long, focused finish. Think fine Meursault. Drink or hold.
Robert Parker
95 Points - Luis Gutiérrez
The 2020 Selección de Parcelas Los Primos Chardonnay was cropped from a warm and dry vintage, but in Traiguén in the south, it is not as warm as in the central valley of Chile. The grapes were harvested the first half of April; they harvested earlier and finished with more alcohol, still a moderate 13.5%, from a year of more body and rounder wines but without heat. The wine kept a pH of 3.16 and 6.9 grams of acidity. This also makes the wine a little more Burgundian, more Meursault than Chablis or Puligny, tasty, spicy with a tad more oak (all the new barrels for white are 400-liter ones, 38% of them new in 2020), because in warmer years there is a little more extraction from the oak. This is the warmest vintage so far, but the wine is still bone dry and there is no ripeness; but there's more weight and width. The wines have to show the differences of the climate conditions each year... 4,069 bottles were filled in July 2021.
- Pinot Noir
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.50% alc./vol
About the Winery
Blank Canvas
Blank Canvas is the personal wine range of husband and wife team, Matt Thomson and Sophie Parker-Thomson.
Having completed over fifty back-to-back vintages in both New Zealand and Europe as an award-winning winemaking consultant, Matt together with Sophie felt it was time to create and build a wine brand together, with their first vintage in 2013. Blank Canvas embodies their own expression of art-meets-science with single-vineyard, small batch wines that push the sensory boundaries and challenge winemaking orthodoxy.
Winemaker Matt Thomson’s science background defines the parameters of his winemaking canvas, allowing creativity to flow within those bounds. Together with business partner, Master of Wine student and wife Sophie Parker-Thomson, Matt is striving to achieve the unique winemaking fusion between art and science, pushing the boundaries to capture a unique expression.
Sophie recently obtained her Master of Wine title, joining 149 women MWs globally with the total number of MWs in the world now 418 in 32 countries.
Press Reviews
Cameron Douglas, MS
95 Points
Ripe, intense, richly scented, varietal and fruity bouquet with aromas of ripe dark cherries and plums. There’s a definitive dried herb, savoury complexity - classic Otago message - then aromas of smoky oak with a quiet clove baking spice suggestion. All the action for this wine is on the palate - it’s delicious with a detailed story of spices and fruits, textures and length, concentration and a sense of place. Tannins are fine and polished, oak has a nut-like quality alongside the toast-wood. The core of fruit finishes with a floral note - a flick forming part of a lengthy youthful finish. Fabulous drinking now and through 2026+. Definitely a wine of discussion
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2.00 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 12.50% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Falstaff
89 Points - Ulrich Sautter
Ripe black cherries and red cherries powerful aromas, some oak, dried thyme and rosemary. Full-bodied and fresh on the palate, ripe, juicy cherries with a vivid acidity, emphatically dry, with intense ripe tannins.
- Red Wine
- Pinot Noir
- Sustainable
- Dry
- Residual Sugar: 2.00 g/l
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 13.50% alc./vol
Press Reviews
Cameron Douglas, MS
95 Points
Aromas of a complex wine with a stony mineral led quality followed by scents of dark cherry and baked plum then sweetness of barrel and a fine smoky wood quality. Dark rose and clove, plum and vanilla, there’s a fine silica and saline quality to the sense of place this wine carries as well. On the palate - taut and youthful, salivating and texture, complex and fine. A delicious wine with velvet textured tannin, plenty of acidity and a core flavours of red berries, plum then wood spices and sense of place with a earthy mineral quality. Lengthy finish with charm and cmplexity. Best drinking from 2023 through 2033.
- White Wine
- Torrontés
- Sustainable, Vegan-Friendly
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- 750ml
- 12.5% alc./vol
About the Winery
Matías Riccitelli
Matías Riccitelli was born in Cafayete, Salta. He identifies as a traveler and a tireless dreamer. After countless harvests throughout the world, he decided to combine everything he has learned and dedicate himself to exploring the excellent terroirs of Mendoza and the teachings of his mentor, and father, Jorge Riccitelli.Matías started his boutique winery in 2009, located in Las Compuertas at 1100 meters above sea level. It is the highest area of Lujan de Cuyo, and here he tends 20 hectares of ungrafted old vineyards. Matías also works with small, independent growers that own their lands at the bottom of the Andes halfway between 1000 and 1700 meters above sea level - in Gualtallary, Chacayes, Altamira and La Carrera.
All harvests are conducted by hand and fermentation takes place in small concrete vats and concrete eggs. Purity and delicacy in winemaking are prized by Matías and great care is taken in preserving the fruit’s singularity in order to obtain vibrant wines.