Tasting Notes Technical Data Muscat 2024 Nose – Apricot. Nectarine. Jasmine. Alc 14.5% Palate – Intense. Bright. Clean. TA 5.2g/L Drink – over the next 8 years RS 0.1g/L pH 3.73 Harvest date 29.4.24

A dry aromatic Muscat from a cool Gibbston vineyard managed by James. Left hanging late for ripeness and lifted aromatics, wholebunch pressed, wild fermented to dryness, and aged 10 months on gross lees. Hand-bottled unfined and unstabilised—may form natural crystals; best served at room temperature to show texture and aromatics.

Château Cos d’Estournel Les Pagodes de Cos 2018 is the elegant second wine from the historic Château Cos d’Estournel, a Deuxième Cru of Saint-Estèphe founded in 1811 by Louis-Gaspard d’Estournel, famed for his global reach and distinctive pagoda-topped chateau. The vineyards sit on classic left-bank gravel and clay-limestone soils that provide excellent drainage and structure, nurtured for refined ripeness and balanced acidity. Vinification is traditional, with careful sorting, temperature-controlled fermentation and around 12 months in French oak to lend subtle spice and texture. The 2018 blend is 54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot and 3% Cabernet Franc, showing concentrated black- and red-berry fruit, spice and silky tannins with a long, fresh finish — a poised, compelling Saint-Estèphe second wine.

Good cider is about blend and balance.  

The Alchemist is part chemistry and part wizardry; a fruit driven, new world cider that includes a small volume of intensely tannic Fuero Rous for structure.

A modest volume of fresh apple juice was added during blending to provide a freshness to the palate and nose.

5.7% ABV.

Paynter's Cider - Good cider is about blend and balance.  

Succulent pear blended with French cider apples! and walla! you get a medium pear cider that tastes fresh and oh so delicious!

5.7% ABV.

A slightly sweet sparkling session mead made from multi-flora mānuka honey fermented with Ruapehu mountain water. Just the simple natural flavour of Mānuka bush honey - nothing else.

5% abv

The natural sweetness of New Zealand’s bush honey paired with fresh and sour cherry juice.

A slightly sweet sparkling session mead made from multi-flora mānuka honey fermented with Ruapehu mountain water.

5% abv

The familiar flavours of your favourite apple pie. Crisp apple, cinnamon and a hint of ginger.

A slightly sweet sparkling session mead made from multi-flora mānuka honey fermented with Ruapehu mountain water.

5% abv

A slightly sweet sparkling session mead made from multi-flora mānuka honey fermented with fresh pressed ginger in Ruapehu mountain water. Subtle hints of honey with a ginger spicy after-taste. Tastes like the sweet spot between ginger beer and ginger ale.

5% abv

Mix of 1 can each Wild Manuka, Cherry Sour, Spiced Apple Pie and Ginger Manuka

Ethereal, fresh, appealing to both the nose and the palate, Pédesclaux’s second wine is a flower that unfurls as you approach. Thanks to its reliance on a high proportion of Merlot, the wine is soft and gentle, with a delicious, silky texture. It has intense, compelling and savoury fruit aromas and, year after year, beautifully calibrated scents of white flowers, violets and small red berries. Exhibiting a more high-spirited elegance yet nonetheless showing remarkable length, Fleur de Pédesclaux is a delight. In the mouth, it is fresh, subtle, packed with fruit and beautifully smooth tannins, with a long finish. In this more floral expression, the marvellous complexity of our terroir is once again evident, but in a mouth-watering style that is instantly festive.

The Terroirs
Garonne gravel on subsoil of limestone

The Grape Varieties
59 % Cabernet-Sauvignon, 36 % Merlot, 3 % Petit Verdot, 2 % Cabernet franc

Grape Varieties: 100% Viura

Type: White Wine Crianza

Alcohol Content: 12.5% vol.

Serving Temperature: 14º - 16º

Production: 

Made 100% from Viura (Macabeo) grapes. The hand-harvested grapes are selected from old vines sourced from their own vineyards and are made in a very traditional winemaking style.

It has spent 4 years in oak barrels, been racked twice a year, been fined with fresh egg whites, been bottled unfiltered, and been followed by some ageing in bottle before being released.

Tasting Notes: 

Pale gold in colour. Aromatic and complex-scented nose of mature fruit, some dry honeycomb, and a citrus touch, floral and nutty with hints of oak. The palate is complex and developed, with good acidity that opens out very well and finishes dry.

Notes: With good ageing potential, it will drink well through 2027. It goes well with all kinds of fish, grilled seafood, and white meats, as well as with pasta dishes.

THE WINERY

The family-owned bodega López Heredia, one of Rioja’s oldest and most traditional establishments, was founded in 1913 by Rafael López de Heredia. Three generations later, the Lopez de Heredia family continue to devote themselves to producing exceptional and unique wines. Located in the heart of the Rioja Alta region, Viña Tondonia is a beautiful vineyard and one of the most spectacular in Haro, with over 100 hectares situated in a shell-like depression on the right bank of the river Ebro; the soil is alluvial clay with a high proportion of limestone. The grapes from Viña Tondonia are always used in making their highest-quality wine. 

Summer, the season of the cerveza! Sunshine, slip, slap, slop.
El Niño, we got the antidote.

5.8% ABV

Brewdog Hazy AF non-alcoholic lives up to the hype. All the character and flavour but no alcohol. Notes of tropical fruit, oats and wheat provide a mild and pleasant feeling. Definitely a beer worth trying!

0.5% ABV

Best Before: 2026/06/30