Wines

Whites

House Dry

Marche Bianco (ITALY) £2.40    £4.60    £12.95
A crisp, clean apple-fresh Italian with great body

House Medium

Sauterel (FRANCE) £2.40    £4.60    £12.95
A soft French fruity number

Crisp & Dry

Pinot Grigio Ardesia (ITALY) £3.00    £5.90    £14.95
Only softened by a hint of nuttiness, as clean as my conscience!
Sancerre Dom. Brochard (FRANCE) £4.80    £9.50    £26.95
Award winning sauvignon maker- A classic dry!
Muscadet Sur lie Domaines Fief de la Brie (FRANCE) £3.30    £6.50    £18.95
Drink this and you’ll know why Muscadet is so popular – it’s refreshing
with good weight and a  hint of pepper – goodbye dreary day, hello happy night.

Clean but Rounded

Ladera Verde Sauvignon (CHILE) £2.70    £5.30    £14.95
Mouth-watering and very gluggable, with well-balanced tropical fruit. Fantastic value.

La Delizia Friulano (ITALY) £2.40    £4.60    £12.95
A pinot grigio wannabe, no surprises it’s from the centre of the region- easy drinking…

Aromatic Or Tropical

Vouvray Demi-Sec Chateau Gaudrelle (FRANCE) £25.95
Made with just the right amount of residual sugar to balance out the
racy acidity of the Chenin blanc grape. Fish leap at the chance to be consumed by its side

Lurton Pinot Gris (ARGENTINA) £3.80    £7.50    £21.95
“Peaches” frankly, as I believe The Stranglers said.

Alto Pampas Viognier (ARGENTINA) £2.70    £5.30    £14.95
Apricots & honey drift lightly from this easy quaffer

Les Chantes des Fleurs Sauvignon (FRANCE) £3.10    £6.10    £17.95
Okay this is made slap bang next door to Sancerre- same ground and
everything but doesn’t cost a million pounds I call it baby Sancerre meets sunsnogged new world.

Dream Bay Sauvignon (NEW ZEALAND) £4.80    £9.50    £25.95
Classic Kiwi kit, gooseberries and nettles, with lots of elegant tropical fruit that
just keeps going and going. This is mouth-wateringly moreish!

Pouilly Fume Jean Paboit (FRANCE) £31.95

Everything you’ve ever wanted from Pouilly Fume: smokey, grassy,
flinty asparagus with a hint of lime. A beautifully poised, elegant wine.
Kaesler Old Vine Reisling £22.95
Arguably the finest grape variety this is off-dry with juicy pineapple fruit and a touch of spice.

Rich & Full

Macon Villages Dom, de Burdines (FRANCE) £3.30    £6.50    £18.95
This is a serious white Burgundy with refreshing lemon fruit flavours cut
through by a complex mineralic streak, with a deliciously long finish.

Chablis Emile Petit (FRANCE) £4.80    £9.50    £26.95

Old style Chablis with pronounced buttery characteristics and lots of vanilla oak.

Los Vilos Chardonnay (CHILE) £2.70    £5.30    £14.95
A soft buttery chardonnay that’s mellow enough to be hoofed down your face
or supped elegantly with a spot of nosh!

Pudding Wines

Aresti Late Harvest Gewurztraminer (CHILE) 37.5cl        £13.95
Toffee nosed and well balanced sugar make for easy drinking!
Tokaji Aszu (HUNGARY) 25cl        £20.95

Noble dessert nectar served in a very tiny bottle!
Sauternes (FRANCE) 50cl        £26.95
Classic retro sweet stuff- actually this bottles not massive either!

Fizzy stuff

Boizel (FRANCE) £35.00
Creamy stuff you’ll not have heard of but pleasantly surprising and not bone dry!
Veuve Cliquot (FRANCE) £45.00
That orange one they never drink in Ab Fab!
Laurent Perrier Rose (FRANCE) £60.00
To my mind the best champagne known to me!
Prosecco (ITALY) £3.00        £16.95
Dry fizz for any occasion

Pink stuff

Slow wine Rose Merlot (SOUTH AFRICA) £2.80    £5.50    £15.95
Strawberry fruits championed by the slow food cause!

Tanners Rose (FRANCE) £3.10    £6.10    £17.95

Juicy & vibrant- the taste of Wimbledon?

Pinot Grigio Ardesia blush  (ITALY) £2.70    £5.30    £14.95
Pinot but pink. Xmas and birthday all at once!

Reds

House Red

Marche Sangiovese (ITALY) £2.40    £4.60    £12.95
A soft and fruity yet typically flirty Italian red with good mouth grip.

Elegant And Less Weighty

Cantina di Custoza Bardolino DOC (ITALY) £3.10    £6.00    £17.95
Hot summer’s day wine- rich fragrant and damson fruit on the nose, ideal
quaffing or with fish- yup, red with fish, bringing down the boundaries, us!
Chateau du Grand Moulas Cotes du Rhone (FRANCE) £3.80    £7.50    £21.95
Quaffing Rhone for all occasions- dry, consistent and dependable!

Smooth And Earthy

Torre Abalde (SPAIN) £2.60    £5.30    £14.95
Spanish Tempranillo- a house wine alternative for quiet alcoholism at the bar.
Vina Real Rioja Reserva (SPAIN) £35.00
Rather good vanilla jam, Stunning Rioja!
Chateau Talbot 1978 (FRANCE) £75.00
A classic claret cigar box, cedar wood, green pepper nose with plenty of
Cassis fruit and delicious toasty oak. Class.
Tanners Claret, Bordeaux (FRANCE) £3.30    £6.50    £18.95
Much inexpensive Bordeaux can be dried out, hollow and dusty, but not this juicy,
rounded little number which displays a proper, grown-up farmyard character.
Fleurie, Andre Collonge (FRANCE) £35.00
A floral, pretty nose is followed by a lush, ample palate with very juicy,
strawberry fruit lifted by pleasant peppery notes.

Warm And Spicy

Vega real Roble £3.80    £7.50    £21.95
Pump action Tempranillo- smooth, weighty and delicious- It Rioj’s your average Rioja (I’m sorry!)
Lurton Malbec Reserva (ARGENTINA) £28.95
Smokey, spicy, black fruits, damson & Morello cherry!
Antonini Ceresa Primitivo (ITALY) £2.80    £5.50    £15.95
Rich full berry fruits with a hint of liquorice and good weight- it’s half way to a baby Barolo…
Chateauneuf Du Pape (FRANCE) £40.00
I’m sorry dad but if the blood of Christ is half as good as this then I am a believer!
It’s expensive but It’s a classic!
House of Certain Views Shiraz, Orange (AUSTRALIA) £3.50    £6.90    £19.95
This baby delivers blackberry fruit flavours with an elegant smokiness- unfiltered for
extra flavour so go easy on the last swig! Contains a no hangover guarantee. (allegedly)
Bottle Tree shiraz cabernet (AUSTRALIA) £2.70    £5.30    £14.95
Quite simply quaffing Shiraz- plums, liqorice and light oaking- Pint please!
Remi Et Jerome Merlot, France (FRANCE) £2.80    £5.50    £15.95
A plummy easy-drinking style with hints of caramel. Cries out for a second bottle.

Rich And Plummy

Rucahue Merlot (CHILE) £2.80    £5.50    £15.95
Merlot in full cry – soft and smooth, with rich, soft tannins and a long finish -
it does things to your taste buds that would be considered slightly rude in some countries.
Aresti Cabernet Sauvignon (CHILE) £2.80    £5.50    £15.95
A substantial Cabernet with a rich, ripe fruit character – it’s a real friend of anything
that’s wandered in off the green pastures for an appointment with the fiery Mr Grill.
Cloudy Bay Pinot Noir 2005 (NEW ZEALAND) £35.00
Ripe cherries & black plums (sounds painful) This stuff is like rocking
horse dung- hard to get hold of!

Dark And Satanic

Ripassa Valpolicella, Zenato (ITALY) £29.95
A rich dark-baked Christmas cake of a wine with a nose of sun-dried raisins,
Barolo-ish don’t operate heavy equipment (door knobs, knife and fork, etc.) after consumption.
Chateau Musar (LEBANON) £45.00
Legendary Lebanese estate that has a 6,000 year old wine producing history started by
The Phoenicians.Ripe, spicy fruit with lashings of leather.

Prices and vintages may vary but servings are 125ml, 250ml and bottles.