Wine List
| The Purple Goose Signature Cocktail Your choice of Gin or Vodka mixed with a blend of blue curacao and grenadine topped up with Lanson Champagne. We also offer a wide selection of bottled lagers, ales, spirits and soft drinks, just ask a member of staff. |
7.5 |
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| Champagne and Sparkling Wines | ||||
| Bin | Wine | 125ml flute |
Bottle |
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| 1 | Veuve Cliquot Champagne NV 12.5% (France) A consistently impressive non-vintage fizz which has touches of ‘biscuit’ and citrusy depth. This is a special champagne for special occasions and perfect with lighter dishes. |
12.5 |
55 |
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| 2 | Lanson Black Label Champagne NV 12.5% (France) This wine has improved in recent years and offers a burst of racy lemony bubbles. Ideal as an aperitif or as an accompaniment to lighter starters and fish or seafood. |
8.5 |
39 |
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| 3 | Sparkling Limoux 2007 11.5% (France) If you don’t want to push the boat out but do want a decent sparkler this creamy tasting and rounded wine is ideal. A very attractive alternative to more expensive champers and great with fish. |
5.5 |
24 |
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| 4 | Prosecco Beato Bartolomeo 12% (Italy) A charming fizz with beautiful soft nutty, creamy notes. Not too dry and good value. |
6 |
26 |
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| 5 | Moutard Prestige Rose Champagne NV 12% (France) This delicate wine has a fruity pleasing taste and while being delicate has enough body to cope with food, especially lighter dishes. |
8.5 |
39 |
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| 6 | Don Perignon Champagne 2002 12.5% (France) This is something special and for that special occasion, it really makes a huge statement. This wine is truly elegant and subtle with complex layers of simply gorgeous style. |
n/a |
145 |
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| White Wines | ||||
| Bin | Wine | 175ml |
250ml |
Bottle |
| 7 | Pinot Grigio Malandrino 2010 12% (Italy) An easy drinking wine, fairly crisp and an ideal partner with lighter pasta dishes, chicken and fish. |
5 |
6.5 |
17 |
| 8 | Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc 2011 13% (New Zealand) This classy ‘So Blo’ has a definite extra layer of body among the fragrant cut grass freshness and many say they can detect gooseberries and nettles! A truly sound wine. Great with goat's cheese and fish dishes. A Purple Goose favourite. |
8 |
11 |
31 |
| 9 | Sancerre Vignerons à Crézancy 2010 13% (France) A classic French Sauvignon, typically very fruity and fresh in the mouth. Nice acidity and plenty of slate overtone, works perfectly with shellfish, goat's cheese and other earthy flavours. |
7 |
9.5 |
27 |
| 10 | Chablis William Fevre Champs Royaux 2009 12.5% (France) This Chablis is something of a steal and represents a classic dry flinty Old World favourite with enough body to cope with richer dishes. Perfect for fish and seafood. |
9 |
12.5 |
35 |
| 11 | Vina Edmara Viognier 2010 14.5% (Chile) A fantastic fresh and full bodied white with plenty of tropical fruit flavours and soft floral hints. |
6 |
8 |
21 |
| 12 | Riesling Willy Gisselbrecht Schieffferberg 2007 12% (France) This is an impressive single vineyard beauty grown on slatey subsoil in Alsace. It has dry fruity crispness and is an example of a well priced high quality Riesling. Nice with lighter dishes. |
8 |
11 |
31 |
| 13 | Macon-Chardonnay Les Beluses 2008/09 13% (France) Great single vineyard Chardonnay with stone fruit and tropical notes, creamy texture and great acidity. Lovely to drink on its own, but pairs well with smoked fish and chicken dishes. |
6.5 |
9 |
25 |
| 14 | Foundstone Unoaked Chardonnay 200914% (Australia) This makes a change from the very oaky, buttery Aussie chardonnays and instead offers a really fruity but quite subtle high quality white. You will pick up hints of melon and even lime all melding into a crisp and clean and satisfying mouthful. We recommend this excellent value wine with light starters, poultry and fish. |
4.5 |
6 |
15 |
| 15 | Marques de Calado Carinena 2010 13% (Spain) An easy drinking wine with crisp and fruity characteristics and touches of apple and citrus typical of the Macabeo grape. Makes a change from the usual suspects! |
4.5 |
6 |
15 |
| 16 | Gewurztraminer Willy Gisselbrecht 2008 13% (France) This grape has a perfumed nose with a taste of lychee, apricots and spice. More subtle than some examples this wine goes well with spicy and rich foods, strong cheese and many desserts. |
6.5 |
9 |
26 |
| 17 | Chassagne Montrachet Premier Cru Louis Latour 2004 13.5% (France) This is a very subtle high quality wine from the Cote D’Or and is drinking beautifully. A true Burgundy classic: dry but soft, powerful but rounded and long on the finish. Great with fish, seafood and chicken. |
n/a |
22 |
59 |
| Rosé Wines | ||||
| Bin | Wine | 175ml |
250ml |
Bottle |
| 18 | Pinot Grigio Blush Delle Venezie 2010 12% (Italy) This is a good quality dry blush wine but retains a rose-petal almost sweet scent. Perfect summer dining as an aperitif or with lighter dishes. |
5 |
6.5 |
18 |
| 19 | Turkey Flat Barossa Valley 2010 13% (Australia) Don’t be fooled by this one – it is a full on 13% serious wine yet still giving a light and fruity mouthful. Served cool. |
6.5 |
9 |
26 |
| 20 | Broken Shackle Rosé 2010 12.5% (Australia) This is an easy drinking medium bodied rosé made mostly of Shiraz and Barbera grapes. Displaying sweet red berry fruits; think cranberries and cherries which are nicely balanced by a fresh acidity. |
5.5 |
7.5 |
20 |
| Wine Specials for the Winter | ||||
| Nussbaumer Gwertztraminer 2007 15% (Italy) This is a simply stunning Gwertztraminer and is considered by many independent judges to be one of the world's best. Think lychees, subtle rose petals and Turkish Delight. Great by the glass with spicier starters or mains and excellent with hard cheeses and desserts. |
13 |
17.5 |
48 |
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| Foundstone Merlot 2008 14.5% (Australia) Violets and smoky oak on the nose with a rich mouthful leading to soft raspberry on the palate. Fine soft tannins complement the berry flavours resulting in a pleasantly long finish. |
4.5 |
6 |
15 |
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| Red Wines | ||||
| Bin | Wine | 175ml |
250ml |
Bottle |
| 21 | Marques de Calado Carinena Tempranillo 2010 13% (Spain) An easy to drink flexible red with lots of gluggable ripe fruits with touches of blackcurrant and cherry. |
5 |
6.5 |
17 |
| 22 | Nostros Pinot Noir Reserva 2010 13.5% (Chile) Although quite alcoholic this is a fragrant wine with obvious strawberry and raspberry notes. Great value and good with most non fish dishes. |
6.5 |
8.5 |
24 |
| 23 | Les Fontenelles Bergerac Rouge 2004 12.5% (France) A country style red from France which represents outstanding value. This wine needs food to match the fruity tannins, think robust flavours and grilled meats. This earthy, robust red will take you back to your French holiday! |
4.5 |
6 |
15 |
| 24 | Chateau La Clotte 2008 14% (France) This is a truly outstanding St. Emillion which just gets better and better. This needs robust food to enhance its powerful but subtle tanins and is ideal with a char grilled steak or lamb. Only very small quantities are made of La Clotte and even less finds its way to the UK. |
n/a |
22 |
59 |
| 25 | Nostros Carménère Reserva 2010 14.5% (Chile) A great value medium bodied wine, soft with hints of cherries and a nice warm finish. Great with beef and lamb. |
5 |
6.5 |
18 |
| 26 | Chateau Tayac Margaux Cru Bourgeois 2007 12.5% (France) A beautifully mature claret drinking really well. Good tannins but ripe and full and round. Just right with our lamb and beef dishes. A truly memorable classic red wine. Enjoy! |
12 |
17 |
49 |
| 27 | Dona Paula Malbec 2009 14% (Argentina) An impressive and majestic wine with power and subtlety. You will pick up complex vanilla and a rush of red fruits. Powerful but quite soft it shouts out for beef and lamb. |
7.5 |
10.5 |
29.5 |
| 28 | Columbia Crest Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 13.5% (USA) A really interesting North American offering from Washington State which is smooth, ripe with notes of cherry and vanilla and a long finish. Great with red meats but gentle tannins make this wine equally good with white meats and cheese. Enjoy! |
7 |
10 |
27 |
| 29 | Rioja Reserva Marques de Murrieta 2003 13% (Spain) A high quality mature Rioja from a famous "house", subtle and silky soft but with enough body to complement lamb, beef, pork and strong cheese. |
8.5 |
12 |
33 |
| 30 | The Black Shiraz 2009/10 14.5% (Australia) A huge, dark and powerful Oz wine with plenty of spice and peppery fruits, a definite staff favourite. Try with a chargrilled steak, lamb or pork. |
6 |
7.5 |
21 |
| 31 | Chateau du Cedre Cahors 2007 13% (France) A fantastic wine not a million miles from the Bin 27 Malbec being the same grape. This Old World star has so much body and complexity and now the tannins are easing off one is left with a fragrant and harmonious mouthful of long ripe richness. Eat with beef and lamb. |
10 |
14 |
39 |
| 32 | Brouilly Louis Latour 2010 13% (France) From Beaujolais in Burgundy this is a big brother to the easy drinking lesser wines of the area. It is still quite light but has an edge of powerful fruit. Rather good with duck and chicken and our lighter dishes. |
7 |
9.5 |
28.5 |
| 33 | Masseria Torre Rossa Primotivo / Puglia 2009 13% (Italy) This is the same grape as Zinfandel and offers a nice medium weight wine with hints of jammy rich fruits and a decent finish. Versatile but great with all meats and hard cheeses. |
5 |
6.5 |
18 |
| Pudding and Cheese Wines | 125ml |
Half Bottle |
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| 34 | Chateau de Myrat Sauternes 2007 13.5% (France) This Sauternes oozes class. Big hits of orange and honey on the first taste followed by dried apricot, pineapple, toasted caramel with a nice but well integrated hit of acidity. A new staff favourite. |
14 |
(full btl) 69 |
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| 35 | Black Muscat Elysium 2008 15% (California) Intensely floral and grapey with a very striking perfume this is a great dessert wine. Again, plenty of richness and sweetness but an extra something that makes it not at all sickly sweet. |
9 |
25 |
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| 36 | Castelnau de Suduiraut Sauternes 2006 14% (France) The second wine of the famous Chateau de Suduiraut and just along the road from Yquem. An extremely rich dessert wine with just a hint of pineapple and coconut. Truly beautiful and a perfect match for rich pates, blue cheese and desserts. |
13 |
37 |
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| 37 | Christoffel Mosel Riesling Spatlese 2007 7.5% (Germany) A lighter style than the French pudding wines and it comes with a slight prickle. A delicate and well balanced wine that still retains enough body to cope with desserts and cheese. |
7 |
(full btl) 35 |
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Why not try our Purple Goose in Flight? We offer a 50ml glass of any three of the above wines for just £12 and this makes a perfect accompaniment to our extensive cheeseboard and home-made desserts. Feel free to sip and share! |
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| Ports | 75ml |
Bottle |
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| 38 | Delaforce 1994 This is a fabulous vintage port. Medium bodied and rich without being overpowering with notes of dried fruit and a touch of spice. |
13 |
89 |
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| 39 | Taylors Vargellas 2001 Another vintage port, elegant and rich with depth of flavour and rounded raisin notes. |
8.5 |
69 |
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We also offer a selection of after dinner Liqueurs and Cognac, just ask a member of staff. Wines are also available in 125ml measures. All spirits and liqueurs are sold in 25ml measures. Sherry and vermouth is sold in 50ml measures. Availabilty of wines and specific vintages may change from time to time at short notice. |
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