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Wine Culture A fiercely independent wine store located in Sydney, Australia. Proudly supporting the best wine pro

We have a passion for boutique wines, and are constantly searching for the best of the new and old to bring to our customers.

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NYE ready 🍾 We are open until 6pm for all your NYE needs! 🎉
31/12/2024

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30/12/2024

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28/12/2024

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Great turn out for our Xmas Eve Tasting 🍾🍷
24/12/2024

Great turn out for our Xmas Eve Tasting 🍾🍷

Christmas Eve Tasting today 12-5pm! 🍷Christmas & New Years Trading Hours!Monday 23/12 10:00 - 18:00 Tuesday 24/12 *Xmas ...
23/12/2024

Christmas Eve Tasting today 12-5pm! 🍷

Christmas & New Years Trading Hours!

Monday 23/12 10:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 24/12 *Xmas Eve* 10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 25/12 *Xmas Day* CLOSED
Thursday 26/12 *Boxing Day* CLOSED
Friday 27/12 10:00 - 19:00
Saturday 28/12 10:00 - 19:00
Sunday 29/12 10:00 - 18:00
Monday 30/12 10:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 31/12 10:00 - 18:00
*New Years Day* CLOSED

2012 Morey Saint Denis, Clos de la Bussière 🍷The 2012 Morey Saint Denis 1er Cru Clos de la Bussieres has a perfumed bou...
20/12/2024

2012 Morey Saint Denis, Clos de la Bussière 🍷

The 2012 Morey Saint Denis 1er Cru Clos de la Bussieres has a perfumed bouquet with a high mineral content: tight at first but unfolding with time, darker berry fruit mingling with incense.

The palate is medium-bodied with entrancing energy and superb structure on the entry. Slightly more masculine than I was expecting, it has a stern but compelling finish that leaves you utterly satisfied.

This has stupendous potential once in bottle.

93/95 points
Neal Martin, Wine Advocate

2011 vintage 🍾At the House of Krug, every vintage is crafted to celebrate the distinctive character of a particular yea...
17/12/2024

2011 vintage 🍾

At the House of Krug, every vintage is crafted to celebrate the distinctive character of a particular year.

2011 is regarded for its opulence and freshness, so distinctive the House’s Tasting Committee nicknamed this Champagne “Spirited Roundness”.

For Krug, the year 2011 gave birth to a surprising Champagne allying finesse and power with a spontaneous, vibrant side born from this fiery year. Pinot Noir comprises 46% of the blend, imparting beautiful structure and magnificent balance, while Chardonnay (37%), most affected by the heat spikes, imbue ripe and juicy fruit aromas. The Pinot Meuniers (17%) add a wonderful freshness with elegant bitters.

Krug 2011 is ample, generous, and assertive. The striking profile of Krug 2011 comes after 13 years in the cellars, gaining in expression, harmony, and finesse.

2022 Tradition White“Mid-light yellow colour, forward for its age, but the bouquet confirms that it’s been wood aged an...
17/12/2024

2022 Tradition White

“Mid-light yellow colour, forward for its age, but the bouquet confirms that it’s been wood aged and this has also added smoky charcuterie, spices and honey to result in a complex nose.

The palate picks up the thread and delivers a rich full-bodied mouthful with roundness and viscosity, well judged phenolics contributing to the structure and texture, the finish rolling long and satisfying. This is a smashing Rhône-style dry white of great character and texture.”

95 points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review

2020 Domaine Didier Dagueneau Blanc etc…Pouilly Fumé and Sancerre are the global benchmarks for Sauvignon Blanc, and the...
15/12/2024

2020 Domaine Didier Dagueneau Blanc etc…

Pouilly Fumé and Sancerre are the global benchmarks for Sauvignon Blanc, and there is no bigger name or more highly regarded producer in the area than Domaine Didier Dagueneau.

Now under the guidance of Didier’s talented son Louis-Benjamin, the wines still follow his ethos that authentic Pouilly Fumé requires healthy fruit from low yielding, old vines to produce the purest, and most intense and vibrantly fresh wine. That’s not to say these wines are typical of the appellation. Given the severely low yields and approach to élevage, Dagueneau wines emphasise a creamy texture rather than bracing acidity, and combine mineral flavours with exotic fruits to supreme effect.

Previously labelled as Blanc Fumé de Pouilly, now reborn as Blanc Etc… and looking better than ever. Generally speaking this is the most approachable wine in the range, and since Louis-Benjamin came aboard the wine is now far closer in quality and class to the other releases. While each of the other wine focus on a single soil type or terroir, Blanc etc… blends some young vine parcels on their Saint-Andelain hill with two parcels planted on flinty clay and limestone white clay soils nearby. It was fermented in a mix of new and three-four year old barrels and then matured in both wood and tank.

The 2020 Blanc etc. is developing into a mellow style with the richness of the vintage showing. It is what the French would call gourmand and, close to three years after being harvested, has entered a delectable stage of its evolution. Yes, it’s still young but has improved and opened up since tasting a year ago. It now offers baked apple, honey and pastry flavors while retaining freshness. It is long and concentrated with a firm sense of structure, doing the mouth equivalent of providing a firm, reassuring handshake, likely due to the clay-flint soils, which make up two-thirds of the blend. Drink 2023-2032.
93 points
Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous

new vintage arrivals
14/12/2024

new vintage arrivals

2004 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Richebourg 🍷Wine Advocate: Slightly deeper colour than RSV. A very expressive nose with...
13/12/2024

2004 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Richebourg 🍷

Wine Advocate: Slightly deeper colour than RSV. A very expressive nose with more fruit intensity.

Cherry, wild strawberry, cigar box and a touch of damp earth. Something slightly Pauillac-like about it! A stern, medium-bodied palate, cohesive and focused, conservative with notes of dried blood, iron amongst the red fruits.

Broody, masculine finish with just a light sprinkle of white pepper. Again, there is a stalky quality in the background

Burghound 93 points
This is in the same stylistic camp as the Grands Echezeaux as it is surprisingly understated and subtle with an intensely floral nose of red and black fruit aromas that are nuanced and beautifully elegant, merging seamlessly into linear, reserved, indeed almost brooding flavors that are as once supple yet precise and detailed, all wrapped in a powerful and muscular finish that delivers striking length.

This is a really interesting wine because it’s a wine of contrasts yet it works because there is a gorgeous combination of finesse and power and again, I really like the sense of drive and energy here as well as the first rate balance. A terrific ‘04.

L’Ouverture 🍾Fred Savart is one of the most engaging and energetic vignerons currently in Champagne. Based in the villa...
12/12/2024

L’Ouverture 🍾

Fred Savart is one of the most engaging and energetic vignerons currently in Champagne. Based in the village of Ecueil where most of his holdings are located, Fred also farms a handful of vines across into Villiers-aux-Noeuds, along with most recently accessing plots in Le Mesnil and Oger.

His wines are largely based on Pinot Noir, with a smaller amount of Chardonnay, and while initially there was a focus on fermentation in stainless steel, more increasingly his wines are raised in barriques and demi-muids.

Each of his wines are born out of inspiration and intuition rather than any sort of set formula, and are routinely some of the best expressions of terroir viewed through the vagaries of vintage.

This is Fred Savart’s entry level Champagne but it is far from one-dimensional. It is 100% Pinot Noir all from the village of Ecueil, half of which was fermented in mostly neutral barrel with the other half is fermented in stainless steel.

The wine only sees partial malolactic fermentation. Fred doesn’t guide the malolactic fermentation, instead it is the inclusion of reserve wine that goes through malolactic fermentation because it has gone more temperature swings. The wine is in equal parts a blend of three successive vintages and aged under cork, not crown cap. Dosage is 7g/L.

Based on the 2019 vintage and disgorged in February 2022, Savart’s NV Brut Premier Cru L’Ouverture offers up expressive aromas of pear, honeyed orchard fruit, baking spices and fresh bread.

Medium-bodied, lively and fine-boned, with a pretty core of fruit, lively acids and a pinpoint mousse, it’s an attractive wine that’s showing well out of the gates.

Drink 2022 - 2032.
91 points
William Kelley - Wine Advocate

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We had a great tasting of on Saturday! 🍷
02/12/2024

We had a great tasting of on Saturday! 🍷

Selosse Millesime, 2005 🍾From a duo of Avize Grand Cru parcels, this has a stunning sense of purity about it and is tru...
27/11/2024

Selosse Millesime, 2005 🍾

From a duo of Avize Grand Cru parcels, this has a stunning sense of purity about it and is truly driven by terroir with gentle complexity to the élevage.

The lemon, grapefruit, and yellow-nectarine fruits are prevalent and pure on both the nose and palate, while other aromas come along in the chalky, lightly spicy zone.

The palate has flawless build and drive and the acidity is assertive but wrapped in concentrated citrus flavors and underpinned with fine, smooth phenolics.

Fruit flavors run super deep into the finish, which is wrapped in a smooth build of warm, toasted hazelnuts and super-pure chalky notes.

This is brilliant now, but age it through to 2025 to enhance the savory richer side of this superb Champagne.

98 points
James Suckling

Le Terroir Extra Brut Champagne 🍾Adrien Renoir is one the brightest new talents to emerge from Champagne in recent year...
26/11/2024

Le Terroir Extra Brut Champagne 🍾

Adrien Renoir is one the brightest new talents to emerge from Champagne in recent years. Working with his father Vincent for several years at their 7 hectare domaine in Verzy, in 2019 the wines were re-launched under his name, and in quick time has caught the attention of educated Champagne drinkers the world over.

One of the first changes he insisted on was abandoning herbicides completely, and the estate vineyards are certified organic as of 2020. Oak use too has increased, along with more focus on specific parcels for his lieu-dits bottlings. In the cellar fermentations occur with native yeasts, lees stirring is practiced, and there is no sulphur used at bottling.

Le Terroir is a blend of 50% Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from his village in Verzy, and the soil here is chalk with clay topsoil. Starting with a base vintage, this is supplemented with 20% reserve from the previous year. The wine is fermented in neutral oak with native yeasts, undergoes full malolactic, before spending around 11 months in barrel and 24 months on lees in bottle. Dosage is very low, under 2g/L.

Disgorged in April 2021 with 1.6 grams per liter dosage, Renoir’s NV Extra-Brut Grand Cru Le Terroir (2018 base) is showing very well, unfurling in the glass with aromas of nashi pear, crisp yellow orchard fruit, clear honey and freshly baked bread. Medium to full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a layered but tightly wound core of fruit that’s girdled by bright acids and animated by a pinpoint mousse, it will reward at least a year or two on cork with greater range and plenitude, and it will live for a lot longer.

Drink 2021 - 2038.
93+ points
William Kelley - Wine Advocate

2020 Meursault Domaine Roulot was founded in 1830 by Guillaume Roulot near the village of Meursault in the Côte de Beau...
21/11/2024

2020 Meursault

Domaine Roulot was founded in 1830 by Guillaume Roulot near the village of Meursault in the Côte de Beaune. The Meursault appellation is dominated by Chardonnay and is known for its high-quality dry white wines from village and premier cru vineyards, despite having no grand cru sites.

Domaine Roulot established itself in the upper echelon of white Burgundy producers under the late Guy Roulot.

Guy was one of the first producers of the region to bottle single vineyards separately, including village lieux-dits. He died in 1982 and his son Jean-Marc took over in 1989, farming the vineyards organically.

The 2020 Meursault Villages is bright, linear and sculpted. Jean-Marc Roulot did a terrific job in preserving freshness and verve in his village-level Meursault.

Lemon peel, white flowers, mint and crushed rocks are all laced together in this steely, nervy Meursault. The Villages is a blend of several parcels on the lower slopes of town; namely Clos de la Baronne, Gruyaches and Sous la Velle, plus a touch of young-vine fruit from Porusots Dessus.
(Tasted by Antonio Galloni)

2014 Chambolle Musigny Georges Roumier is a Burgundian Estate that is revered by all and almost impossible to find. Fro...
20/11/2024

2014 Chambolle Musigny

Georges Roumier is a Burgundian Estate that is revered by all and almost impossible to find.

From their base in Chambolle they make wines of elegance and grace.

Burghound review:
“This is also quite fresh with its more elegant array of red and blue pinot fruit, rose petal and soft spice nuances.

There is excellent delineation to the vibrant and mineral-inflected medium-bodied flavors that deliver fine length on the saline and linear finale.

Note: contains some premier cru juice from Fuées

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