‘Our House’ Rouge, Rise & Vine

One of the challenges for today’s independent wine merchants: decent wine for a tenner. Here’s ours… 

Make Our House Your House – that’s the idea. It’s labelled with the image of a single bay fronted Victorian house which, if you live in our manor, there’s something like an 80% chance looks just like your house. The idea is that you can make this your ‘Tuesday night wine’ – your house wine that you always have on standby for midweek kitchen suppers; an impromptu glass with a mate who just dropped in; or Tuesday night in front of the telly. (Bake Off wine?)

A classic southern Rhône red with ample rich fruit and an appealing herbal freshness. The palate is lusciously textured with plum, strawberry and a touch of spice. Deliciously drinkable yet serious enough to accompany food.

Not made by our own hands, obviously, but winemakers that we work with very closley have blended this superb – excellent value – red wine from the Rhone valley. Made predominantly from a blend of Grenache and Syrah. Traditional Rhône-based viticulture is used with part manual/part machine harvest. Grapes are put in fermentation vats and cooled in order to slow the fermentation process and gain immediate fruit flavours. Maceration between 5 to 10 days before pneumatic pressing.