Wines of the Year 2025 | Christmas Selection Gift Hamper

Fleurie is one of Beaujolais's most well known regions and for good reason. It delivers excellent quality, fruit-forward wines. This one has added layers of spice and...

Fleurie is one of Beaujolais's most well known regions and for good reason. It delivers excellent quality, fruit-forward wines. This one has added layers of spice and savoury hints, coming from the pink granite soils. It's delicious.  Trenel is everything I love about Beaujolais—pure, juicy Gamay with real soul. This is a family-run producer that’s been doing things properly for generations, making wines that are all about freshness, vibrancy, and drinkability. Their focus is on terroir, and it shows—each bottle feels like a little postcard from the rolling hills of southern Burgundy. Whether it’s their silky Beaujolais-Villages or something a bit more serious from Morgon or Fleurie, Trénel always brings the goods. Delicious with a chill, dangerously easy to drink, and absolutely what you want on your table right now.

A classic Rioja, sourced from the finest vineyard parcels in the Sonsierra sub-zone of Rioja Alta. This blend of Tempranillo and Garnacha, with an average vine age of...

A classic Rioja, sourced from the finest vineyard parcels in the Sonsierra sub-zone of Rioja Alta. This blend of Tempranillo and Garnacha, with an average vine age of 30 years, delivers a wine of subtle charm. With its bright cherry colour, this Rioja offers a harmonious combination of aromas, featuring ripe strawberries and gentle vanilla, complemented by nuanced hints of tobacco and cocoa. It's a refined expression of Rioja winemaking, and the best part is, it's available at an unbeatable price.

This is a serious Valpolicella, vibrant, generous, and full of character. Pietro Zardini’s Valpolicella Classico pours a lively ruby red with just a flicker of garnet...

This is a serious Valpolicella, vibrant, generous, and full of character. Pietro Zardini’s Valpolicella Classico pours a lively ruby red with just a flicker of garnet at the rim. On the nose, it’s velvety and elegant, laced with hints of dried fruits, a touch of spice, and a subtle rustic charm. On the palate, it’s smooth, full-bodied, and supple, with that lovely Italian food-friendliness.  This is proper Valpolicella, grown in the heart of a region that’s been producing wine for over 2,000 years. Today, Valpolicella is one of Italy’s most important wine zones, with over 8,000 hectares under vine, producing more than 60 million bottles a year. Remarkably, Pietro Zardini is still doing it the old-fashioned way. His family has worked these red and brown soils since the 1600s, and every bottle tells a piece of that story. The grapes are hand-harvested, gently macerated on their skins, and aged for up to 10 months in oak to bring out texture and spice, followed by time in steel for freshness.

This is Sauvignon Blanc at its finest - a wine that captures the power, precision, and elegance of Marlborough’s coastal terroir. Aromas of guava, passionfruit, and ci...

This is Sauvignon Blanc at its finest - a wine that captures the power, precision, and elegance of Marlborough’s coastal terroir. Aromas of guava, passionfruit, and citrus leap from the glass, layered with a distinctive oyster shell minerality. Aged on its lees, this wine has a silky, creamy texture that adds depth and complexity, balancing its bright acidity and saline edge. The result? A class act—focused, structured, and deeply expressive, with a long, lingering finish that sets a benchmark for New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. Blank Canvas, founded by Master of Wine Sophie Parker-Thomson and winemaking consultant Matt Thomson, is all about single-vineyard precision and minimal intervention winemaking. The Holdaway Vineyard, farmed by the same family for generations, sits on the coastal fringe of the Wairau Valley, where deep alluvial silts and regenerative viticulture create a Sauvignon Blanc of exceptional balance and purity. Harvested at night to preserve freshness, cool-fermented and aged on lees, this wine is a true expression of its site—refined, textural, and seriously sophisticated.

This vibrant, electric Albarino is a benchmark for Rias Baixas and one of our new favourite white wines. Bursting with apricot, peach, pink grapefruit, and zesty lemo...

This vibrant, electric Albarino is a benchmark for Rias Baixas and one of our new favourite white wines. Bursting with apricot, peach, pink grapefruit, and zesty lemon, it’s layered with hints of sage, bay leaf, and a delicate minerality. The palate is bright, fresh, and creamy, with a silky texture and beautifully balanced acidity that leads to a long, mouth-watering finish. It’s exciting, delicious, and the kind of wine that makes you wonder why you don’t drink Albariño all the time. Terras Gauda is one of Galicia’s most respected producers, and while this is their entry-level wine, it punches well above its weight. A key reason for its consistency and quality is that the winery owns over two-thirds of the vineyards they source from—rare in a region where vineyard ownership is incredibly fragmented. This allows them to control every step of the process, ensuring that every vintage delivers the same lively, aromatic, and utterly delicious Albariño that fans have come to love.

This single-vineyard Pinot Grigio is in a league of its own—bright, textured, and packed with gorgeous fruit. Aromas of ripe pear, citrus zest, and warm bread crust l...

This single-vineyard Pinot Grigio is in a league of its own—bright, textured, and packed with gorgeous fruit. Aromas of ripe pear, citrus zest, and warm bread crust leap from the glass, giving way to a palate that’s all about silky elegance and subtle complexity. There’s a gorgeous weight to this wine, with hints of dried herbs and a touch of saline minerality adding depth. A zesty acidity keeps it fresh and vibrant, leading to a long, dry, beautifully refined finish. If you love New Zealand Pinot Gris, this Italian beauty will be right up your street. Crafted by Matt Thomson in partnership with local growers, this Pinot Grigio is sourced from a single, high-quality vineyard in Veneto, where the combination of cool nights and mineral-rich soils gives the fruit its intensity. Hand-harvested and gently pressed at low temperatures, the winemaking process preserves the wine’s pure aromatics and silky texture without the need for harsh fining. The result? A beautifully expressive Pinot Grigio that’s bursting with flavour, finesse, and an unmistakable sense of place. A must-try for fans of seriously good Italian whites.