Enjoy 5 wines from Rioja, Languedoc-Roussillon, Bordeaux, Heathcote and Ningxia with your delicious weekend roasts.
*Award winning wines are selected from 2014 and 2015 Decanter World Wine Awards and Decanter Asia Wine Awards.
5 Award-winning wines to go with roast beef and lamb
Wines
Helan Mountain, Special Reserve Merlot, Ningxia, China 2010
An elegant, shy nose that hints at capsicum and black pepper. A more generous palate of juicy, red plums and maraschino cherries. Complex and attractive.
Brown Brothers , 18 Eighty Nine Shiraz, Heathcote, Victoria, Australia 2013
Floral nose with a touch of black pepper followed by a finely textured, soft, persistent palate with ripe, rounded flavoursome notes of juicy blackberry and sweet beetroot.
Château les Carmes Haut-Brion, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux, France 2011
Serious Pessac, with fine, fresh aromas of black fruits and tea. More rich, dark fruit on the palate, firm, with a classic savoury aspect. Underlying freshness, fine supporting tannins, and a mint-lifted, lingering finish.
Gérard Bertrand, Le Viala, Minervois La Livinière, Languedoc-Roussillon, France 2013
Discreet and delicate, with aromas of dark, brooding, blackberry fruit, precise minerality and smoked meat coated in cracked black pepper. Firm but suave with waves and waves of flavour, the ripe fruit is couched in velvety, grainy and high quality tannins, then a complex, very long finish. A delicious paradox.
La Rioja Alta, 904, Rioja Gran Reserva, Mainland Spain, Spain 2005
Intense and complex on the nose with ripe red fruit, rich, sweet oak and savoury spice. Notes of animal maturity and mushrooms in a very traditional style. Supple yet firm tannin, fine acidity with a crisp, mineral backbone. Lashings of flavour on the long finish.