A strong line up from Noval this time, and a few wines you’ll want to grab.  The 2024 Vintage Port comes from a season of near perfect weather, with Touriga Nacional and Touriga Francesa the clear stars, and it shows remarkable purity and clear ageing potential. If you’re after something to pour now, the unfiltered 2019 LBV is made like a Vintage Port, from a terrific year, and over delivers at the price...

Make no mistake, Benjamin Leroux has fashioned a stunning set of wines in 2024, in both colours. No one will be surprised to hear the whites are more than outstanding (the vintage is rightly garnering more and more of a reputation for its whites), but the quality of his reds was the biggest surprise, and it speaks to his quality as a grower and maker to have produced such even, and frankly, superb quality, in such a challenging year...

Croix, of Domaine des Croix in Beaune, and Damien Courbet, of Domaine Courbet in the Jura. David and Damien are best mates who met as oenology students in Dijon. They’ve been wanting to do something together ever since...

Twenty years on from the debut that redefined Sherry for the fine wine world, we have our latest shipment from Eduardo Ojeda and Jesús Barquín of Equipo Navazos. Selected and bottled by two of the most knowledgeable Sherry people on the planet (Ojeda the master blender of Grupo Estévez and Barquín the world's most respected Sherry critic), we have, as always, a range of insanely good, otherworldly Sherries...

Three new delicious releases from the great Bryan Martin have landed, namely the Estate Chard and two fascinating, single clone Sangiovese. Followers of Ravensworth (and Canberra wine in general) will know that frost devastated most of Bryan's production in 2024, but in 2025 the vines bounced back and Bryan finally had enough Sangiovese to bottle two single clone batches (something he was itching to do). MAT7 & VCR23 may sound like two Star Wars characters, but they've produced a couple of fascinating and delicious expressions of this under-utilised grape variety (under-utilised in Australia that is)...

Located on the steep slopes of the Val di Pesa (between Florence and Siena), Corzano e Paterno is a picturesque organic farm on the very edge of the Chianti Classico area. Here the Goldschmidt and Gelpke families produce not only the beautiful Chianti we import, but also outstanding olive oil and Pecorino cheese that they sell to many top Italian restaurants...