Wildes Wine Bar

Pea purée, black pudding

Carrot purée, scottish girolles, sautéed bok choi

Sage mash, spinach, balsamic jus

Pea and black truffle risotto (v)

Fennel salad, lemon and herb butter

Lemon mascarpone, lemon curd

Viennese shortbread

Celery and apple remoulade

Potato rösti, green beans, cherry sauce

Shortbread

Quail egg, tabasco sauce

Bordelaise sauce, dauphinoise potato, petit pois à la française

Béarnaise sauce, garlic stuffed mushrooms

We are more than happy to be judged on this simple but stylish colombard: lovely apple fruitiness and superbly balanced acidity, plus a long crisp finish.

A‌ fresh and lively blend of north east italy’s two classic varieties to combine fruit and roundness with minerality and complexity. But check out the superb pinot grigio puiattini below …

The montgras state-of-the-art winery in chile’s colchagua valley was singled it by decanter as one of the best and most innovative in chile. Dry, medium bodied and clean as a whistle.

We’re one of the first in the UK to stock this exciting new wine which is both organic and biodynamic. It has all the vibrant acidity you expect from a kiwi sauvignon but with extra richness from 10% barrel fermentation. Wine guru matthew jukes really rates this, and so do we.

For those of us who gave up on oz chardonnay a few years ago, here’s the best reason we’ve found to return. On the nose, there are complex green melon and citrus peel aromas with some floral notes and very subtle vanilla oak, and the creamy melon fruit continues on the palate with some delicious floral, citrus notes.

An old wilde’s favourite. Grown in the cooler maçonnais region (the vineyards overlook fuissé) , only a third of the wine goes into oak before bottling. So it has some of the richness of its cote d’or cousins, but a great deal of minerality and racy acidity.

Her royal highness jancis robinson mw made this her wine of the week a while ago. Here’s what she said: “this one is really exciting. It starts very rich and heady with that classic blossomy, dried apricot nose of fully ripe viognier, is very full-bodied and vibrato but then finishes dry and very firm. Much more exciting than the average condrieu, and a much better price.” here’s to you, mrs robinson

With an attractive pale pink colour, this is a light and refreshing rosé from the languedoc region of southern france. Cinsault lends itself particularly well to the production of rosés, and this dry, un-oaked example can be enjoyed as an aperitif or with a wide range of salads and light dishes.

A proper pink fizz from warwick’s twin town. Red english summer fruits on the nose with a crunchy apple flavour on the palate and red fruits on the finish. Not sickly sweet at all but beautifully generous and dry.

A delicious soft and slightly spicy sangiovese from the heel of italy. Modern, forward and easy drinking, with red berries on the nose, and a hint of peppery spice on the palate.

A cracking wine and cracking value. Jammed full of fruit and spice with soft tannins and great acidity. Immensely drinkable.

Another ‘new wave’ wine from southern france which emphasizes the up-front juicy black fruit flavours of proper malbec. Forget argentina – this is the famous original!

A full flavoured easy-drinking classic of the languedoc. Lovely cherry/ruby-red colour, intense fruit from old vines and a hint of vanilla on the nose plus a soft, round palate with properly integrated tannins. Great value.

From pont st esprit, where provence meets the rhone. It’s fresher and livelier, with higher acidity, than its more northerly cote du rhone siblings. Made by the julien family, who traditionally sell the majority of their grapes at a premium price to guigal, this is an exemplary blend of syrah and grenache.

Well-made burgundian pinot noir at a reasonable cost is something of a holy grail for compilers of wine lists. This is benchmark village red burgundy – with classic pinot fruit flavours and pleasantly astringent tannins. Alternatively, check out the haut cotes de nuits or the new world option below ….

It may sound like the name of a torquay bed-and-breakfast, but this is exemplary aussie shiraz - sweet, rich and dense, dense but restrained. It defines the new style of australian winemaking – subtler and more nuanced but true to the character of the country and the terroir. And check out the chardonnay, made by another “favourite son” on page 5.

This is the crianza from marqués de riscal. A modern rioja with a delicious smokiness. This is the best-selling restaurant wine in spain, a benchmark for style, polish and elegance.

From matthew jukes: “this incredible wine... doesn't need any barrel flavours to prop i up, preferring to use the inbuilt complexity of fruit and spice and its extraordinary grapes to do the job admirably … it might just be the most impressive, summery, top-end red i have tasted in years.”

15% cabernet sauvignon and 85% merlot, this is a softer, more modern style of everyday claret – mid-weight, versatile and with good structure. Designed to drink young, without the need for long ageing.

The second wine of chateau rouget, one of the great names of pomerol. Rich and intense, with smooth, silky tannins, this is merlot dominant, with 15% cabernet franc, and benefits from michel rolland’s fruit and finesse, creating earthy black cherry and liquorice flavours that are ready to drink now.

An‌ old-established and recently revitalised vineyard. It has red fruits, green peppers and herbs on the nose; on the palate, it is rounded with fully integrated tannins. Drinking now.

A great wine from a great year. Pontensac is owned by the delon family (of léoville las cas) and regularly makes wines of classed growth quality. In 2005, they excelled themselves: classic, firm, structured – with almost equal amounts of cabernet and merlot.

Gorgeous. Crunchy fruit with a dried-plum, dried-cranberry character, along with a little green peppercorn on the nose, with nuances of tobacco and hot, smoky pencil shavings too. On the palate, to quote wine doctor chris kissack, “a restrained texture to match that crunchy style of fruit, a very gentle extract, with evolving liquorice and charcoal elements rubbed on the fruit, with just little suggestions of graves”.

From robert parker, marking it 88-90: "a sweet, fruity, medium-bodied, surprisingly forward effort, the deep plum/purple-colored (sic) 2002 gruaud larose exhibits ripe aromas revealing herbaceous as well as spice notes.”

From warwick’s twin town. Red english summer fruits on the nose with a crunchy apple flavour on the palate and red fruits on the finish. Generous and dry.

Cristal may be the favourite of rappers and racing car drivers, but it is brut premier which is the embodiment of the louis roederer style. A blend of pinot noir, chardonnay and pinot meunier, it includes 10% of reserve wines from three former harvests so it combines all the fruitiness and freshness of youth with the vinosity of a fully mature wine.

When‌ only the very best will do. The golden hue with glints of silver and green. The delicate, numerous and vivacious bubbles that form an unbroken ring in the glass. The bright, concentrated flavour of the best vintage for a generation. It doesn’t get much better.