Best Red Wines To Gift Everyone!
Your year-end gifting headaches end with this blog, where we’re assembled some of our best red wines to please beginners and enthusiasts, every budget and every taste. Happy gifting, these splendid reds. Cheers!
Best Value for Money Red
Di Majo Norante, Ramitello Rosso 2020
Now this is a quintessentially exotic wine, made from the lesser known grapes of Montepulciano and Aglianico in the Italian region of Molise that you’ve probably never heard of. And its organic and rare to find locally so yeah this must be premium. No, it’s incredible value, especially when you consider the wine’s lush red fruit palate, soft tannins and great length.
MRP ₹ 2,995
Best Red Wine For New Wine Drinkers:
Matias Riccitelli, Hey Malbec 2022
If you want to make someone love wine, this bottle is a good place to start. Argentine Malbec is adore for its generous fruit and ripe character and this vintage style crafted by Matias Riccitelli is almost as good as they come. The dexterous winemaker has allowed the fruit to stretch its expression to the furthest and yielding a balance of dark fruit, spice, firm texture and oak mature finesse that lingers long on the palate and in the memory.
MRP ₹ 2,995
Best Affordable Red Wine
Famille Fabre, L’ Instant Rouge 2024
Languedoc is a vast region teeming with liberal and creative wine estates but it Famille Fabre that leads the charge on high quality organic winemaking. This elegant Syrah led blend is a prime example of the estate’s capacity to create an approachable wine with unique character, brimming with Mediterranean charm. This delightful blend of Malbec and Syrah from the estate’s Pays d’Oc vineyard is full bodied with a palate of red fruit and spice, finishing long.
MRP ₹ 1,895
Best Red Wine to Splurge On
Produttori del Barbaresco, Barbaresco 2020
If you’re going to break the bank to gift a wine, a bold and full bodied Piedmontese red is as good a choice as any. This beautifully aged and balanced Barbaresco is the labour of love of a bunch of families that work as a cooperative to make superlative reds. Rated 95 points by Robert Parker, this Nebbiolo expression shines with floral notes and generous tones of cherry, and raspberry tempered by cedar and mint, superb structure and long, supple tannins. By all means, splurge away.
MRP ₹ 9,995
Best Red Wine for Geeks
Domaine Guiberteau, Saumur Rouge “Les Moulins” 2023
Cabernet France has never been rated as high as its Bordeaux peers of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot but in the Loire Valley, this wine is top of the lot and a favourite with wine geeks. Domaine
Guiberteau’s ace winemaker Romain Guiberteau is recognised for his bold ‘Cab Franc’ turn in the Saumur appellation. His Brézé vineyard yield grapes that make a sumptuous gourmet red that shows a perfumed nose and palate of succulent cherries and herbs with polished tannins tapering towards a long smokey finish.
MRP ₹ 5,995
Best Red Wine for Food Pairings
The Chocolate Block 2023
Just the name itself is enough to convince anyone that this wine is the quintessential gift of the season. But hold on, this opulent red red blend is also a superb gourmet wine. Created by genius South African winemaker Marc Kent, this deeply flavoured red wine is loved for its luscious tones of black fruit and signature dark chocolate. This red blend of five noble French grapes undeniably belongs at the head of the festive dinner table.
MRP ₹ 6,995
Best Red Wine to Impress
Casanova di Neri, Brunello di Montalcino, Tenuta Nuova 2017
Is this Italian red likely to impress? You bet! It will do a lot more than that. This Brunello Di Montalcino will make a vinous memory. Produced in Tuscany’s most illustrious appellation, that sits at the very top of the pecking order that includes Chianti Classico and the Super Tuscans, this wine is considered to be the gold standard of long-aged Sangiovese. This vintage effort from the traditional house of Casanova di Neri hits all the high notes with a palate of dark plum, spice and herbs as well a touch of smoke from generous barrel ageing complimented by deliciously supple tannins.
MRP ₹ 29,495
Best Out of the Box Red Wine
Le Galouchey Vin de France 2020
Our out of the box red wine gifting pick literally has an out of the box back story. Picture one of the world’s most acclaimed sommeliers choosing to make a high quality single vineyard wine in Bordeaux and not call it Bordeaux. Yeah, that’s Le Galouchey for you, a Vin de Jardin blend made by Marco Pelletier, teeming with wholesome black fruit, cherry and touch of spice, tapering towards a long tannic finish.
MRP ₹ 6,995
