Naturally Exceptional Organic Red Wines Under $50 - 6 Pack Value

Discover the best of organic winemaking with this curated selection of six exceptional bottles, each crafted with care for both the environment and your palate. From vibrant whites to robust reds, these wines showcase the purity and authenticity of organic vineyards worldwide. Perfect for those who value sustainability without compromising on taste, this collection offers incredible value under $50 per bottle. Savor the natural elegance and impeccable craftsmanship of these organic gems.

1 x Chateau Moulin Saint Louis "MO" (Organic) 2019  ~ Bordeaux, France

Gold Concours des Feminalise
Silver Concours des Feminalise (2020 vintage)
Silver Concours des Grands Vins de France Macon (2020 vintage)
Gold Concours des Grands Vins de France Macon (2018 vintage)
Gold Concours des Feminalise (2018 vintage)
Bronze Concours des Grands Vins de France Macon (2018 vintage)
Silver Concours des Feminalise (2017 vintage)
Gold Concours des Grands Vins de France Macon (2016 vintage)
Gold Concours des Grands Vins de France Macon (2015 vintage)
Gold Concours des Feminalise (2015 vintage)

Tasting Notes: Beautiful dark garnet red color. On the nose, aromas of candied fruit, strawberries and cherries are revealed.

Château Moulin Saint Louis is located in the commune of Braud, near Blaye, famous for its citadel. The estate covers 50 hectares, including 19 hectares of vines. Family property for four generations, Christophe Chapron manages the vineyard since 1992. He developed the structure especially with the cellars expansion in 2011 and with the Organic farming conversion.

Blaye-Côtes de Bordeaux is the appellation title for Côtes de Bordeaux wines made specifically in the Blaye district, just across the Gironde from the Médoc. The wines are both red and white (any rosé produced here is sold under the generic Bordeaux appellation). Wines once made under the Premières Côtes de Blaye appellation are now sold under this newer title.

Bordeaux, in the southwest of France, needs little introduction as one of the world's most famous, prestigious and prolific wine regions. Its three trump cards are diversity, quality and quantity. The majority of Bordeaux wines (nearly 90 percent of production volume) are the dry, medium- and full-bodied red Bordeaux Blends that established its reputation. The finest (and most expensive) of these come from the great châteaux of the Haut-Médoc and the Right Bank appellations Saint-Émilion and Pomerol. The legendary reds are complemented by high-quality white wines, both dry styles (particularly from Pessac-Léognan) and the sweet, botrytized nectars of Sauternes.

The Bordeaux Blend reds are made predominantly from Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc with approximately 5200 hectares (12,850 acres) of vineyards within the appellation. For the CHÂTEAU MOULIN SAINT LOUIS, it is crafted from a beautiful selection of 95% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.

1 x Corymbia Tempranillo Malbec Cabernet Sauvignon (Organic) 2016 - Swan Valley, Western Australia

95/100 Mike Bennie, The Wine Front
92/100 Wine Advocate

Organic

Mike Bernie (The Wine Front) "It is pitch-perfect, medium weight, highly perfumed, and shaped with beautifully ripe tannins. It’s delicious, but there is also a sense of detail and interest. The wine offers layers of red and blue fruits in perfume and palate, underpinned by savouriness."

Joe Czerwinski (Wine Advocate) "...it's a fruit-forward, mouthwatering bowl of mixed berries, including hints of blueberry, mulberry and raspberry. Yet while this medium to the full-bodied effort is open and soft, it's not unstructured, showing a core of resilient, ripe tannins and a long, juicy finish."

The Winemaker "A beautifully expressive aroma of Satsuma plums, black olives, rosewater and with a hint of aniseed. The wine tastes fresh and lively of pomegranate, cocoa, maraschino cherries and is complimented by Tempranillo’s characteristic coal dust tannin structure."

Gourmet Traveller Wine "The wines under the Corymbia label have been outstanding."

58% Tempranillo, 30% Malbec and 12% Cabernet Sauvignon

Gourmet Traveller Wine "Corymbia is one of the most exciting wine projects to emerge from Western Australia in a decade. The combination of a distinguished winemaking family, the reinvention of a much-maligned wine region, the unlocking of the potential of a mature vineyard and a general sense of creativity, have all contributed to a strong currency.

Organic wines are made from grapes grown without pesticides, following strict organic standards. Organic wines are produced in vineyards that do not use synthetic chemicals.Certified organic wines have been certified by Australian Certified Organic Standard (ACOS). 

Corymbia is the newish project of Rob and Genevieve Mann. The Mann family, of course, are generational wine producers in WA, with a history of iconic wines and vineyards. Rob, formerly working with Hardys, Cape Mentelle and Newton Vineyard in Napa Valley, has returned home and made a mark.

The family vineyard in Swan Valley is dry grown and organically farmed. While winemaking draws on the Manns’ suite of expertise and diversity of influences, it has been pared back for Corymbia, letting the fruit and character of the wines take the spotlight.

That Swan Valley has been put on a pedestal is wonderful, and a celebration of older vineyards, unique soil profile and a general sense of generational endeavor is exciting for the region. There’s an undercurrent of winemakers amplifying the region’s potential, but arguably Corymbia is the current totem."

Huon Hooke "The Mann family are winemaking royalty in Western Australia."

Corymbia is a new winery launched by one of the founding families of Western Australian wine. The Manns have grown grapes and made wine in the Swan Valley, Western Australia's oldest wine-growing region for over a century. Corymbia wines are critically acclaimed, organically-farmed, single-vineyard wines. Founder, Rob Mann is considered one of Australia's best contemporary winemakers. He was the senior winemaker at Hardy’s Tintara, and Cape Mentelle, where during his ten-year tenure the winery was twice awarded 'Australia's Producer of the Year' and Rob 'Australian Winemaker of the Year'. Prior to founding Corymbia he was Senior Winemaker at LVMH’s Newton Vineyard in the Napa Valley.

Swan Valley is a sub-region of the Swan District wine region just north of Perth, in Western Australia. The Swan District is Western Australia’s oldest wine region, having been planted by English settlers soon after their arrival in 1829. For almost 150 years it was the only significant wine-producing region in Western Australia and today it's also home to the state's largest winery. Some of Western Australia's finest wines are produced in the Swan Valley.

1 x Michel Chavarin Cairanne “Les Garrigues”s (Organic) 2018 - Rhone Valley, France

90/100 Jeb Dunnuck

Jeb Dunnuck "Coming from the red clay soils of the Les Garrigues lieu-dit, the 2016 Cairanne was aged all in concrete tanks. It has a lovely perfume of seet cherries and raspberry fruits, lavender, pepper and earthly garrigue and it's medium-bodied, rounded and incredibly charming on the palate. Drink this forward, fleshy pleasure bent beauty anytime over the coming 4-5 years." (2016 Vintage)

Clos des Centenaires was founded Luc Baudet of Chateau Mas-Neuf fame, and Californian wine industry veteran, Jack Edwards who both share a passion for artisan wines and the terroir of France’s Southern Rhone.

Clos des Centenaires is a historic vineyard situated in Costieres de Nimes, close to the Mediterranean Sea. The vineyard boasts 70-year-old Grenache vines which are deeply rooted in the pebble stones overlooking the picturesque lakes of Petite Camargue. The vineyard also features Cabernet Sauvignon, Petite Verdot, and Cinsault, and is known for producing unique, high-end, elegant wines of excellent value.

The vineyard soils are cultivated amongst natural grassland using shallow tillage methods and special attention is paid to the revitalization of vines (using annually prepared biodynamic compost). Inputs are limited to organically approved natural products.

The Rhone Valley is one of France's key wine regions and is divided neatly by a gap of about 25 miles (40km). Wines from the northern part of the valley tend to be Syrah-dominant (Hermitage and Cote Rotie being the most notable examples), while wines from the southern Rhone are more commonly blends, with Grenache playing a more dominant role. Chateauneuf-du-Pape is the most famous example of a southern Rhone blend, but similar blends are found in wines from Gigondas, Vacqueyras, and the regional Cotes du Rhone title.

Initially part of the Côtes-du-Rhône Villages AOC, Cairanne vineyards produced some of the best grapes and wines in the region. It is due to this supremacy that most of the Cairanne vineyards have been provisionally elevated to AOC status in February 2016, and definitively given the AOC status in 2018. Today, Cairanne red wines are known for being full-bodied, fruity, spicy with a smooth finish.

Southern Rhone Red Blend refers to a wide range of grape varieties often blended together to make wines in the southern reaches of the Rhone Valley in the south of France. While the blend could theoretically consist of any of a wide range of grape varieties, it is usually made up of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre, in varying proportions, typically with Grenache and Syrah as the dominant partners.

1 x Mas de Lavail Tradition 2021 - Côtes du Roussillon Villages, France

17/20 Hamburg Wine Side (2018 vintage)
11/20 Bettane et Desseauve (2016 vintage)

3 Stars - Le Guide Hachette des Vins (2018 vintage)

Organic

David William - An aromatic and concentrated Southern French blend bursting with ripe red berried fruit and spicy overtones. Silky and smooth on the palate with fine tannins and a hint of liquorice on the finish.

Hamburg Wine Side "Liquorice on the nose, undergrowth, garrigue aromas, plums. Long and authentic." (2018 vintage)

Le Guide Hachette des Vins "Subtle tiled reflections appear in the intense garnet, almost black colour. This is the sign of a beginning of evolution towards complexity. Such is also the impression left by the aromas of undergrowth, olive, Zan and the few toasted notes that nuance the intense fruitiness. The fleshy mouth takes advantage of tight tannins to develop with fullness, while prolonging the aromatic expression. Elegance." (2018 vintage)

Bettane et Desseauve "With a fine and floral nose.................." (2016 vintage)

40% Carignan, 40% Syrah, 20% Grenache Noir

Organic wines are made from grapes grown without pesticides, following strict organic standards. Organic wines are produced in vineyards that do not use synthetic chemicals.

Mas de Lavail is a family-owned estate in the heart of the Maury Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée, one of the oldest Appellations in the area of Roussillon, which was designated in 1936. The winery, Mas de Lavail was founded in 1999 with the purchase of the property by the Batlle family. The estate is situated in the heart of the MAURY Appellation, surrounded by the two ranges of the Corbières, on clay-limestone soil.

Part of their land stretches beneath the Cathar castle of Quéribus, resting on black schist soils. The name "Maury" derives from these black lands, known for their unique ability to retain the Sun's heat and release it to the vines during the cooler evenings. As a result, the Grenache and Carignan grapes show the estate's devotion to their terroir and winemaking craft which is evident in the exceptional wines they produce.

Organic agricultural practices are now at the forefront of the wine-growing approach to achieve full organic certification, alongside the preservation of existing biodiversity. Clearly, Grenache is the star here, as per the requirement of the Maury and newly designated Maury Sec AOCs, however, Syrah and Carignan (both Blanc and Noir) are far from just supporting acts, in fact producing stunning examples. Cropping is averaged at 29 HL per hectare across the domain, with the estate ranges at far less, and production levels of less than 10,000 cases annually point to grapes with exceptional concentration.

Côtes du Roussillon Villages is an appellation for dry red wines from the Roussillon wine region of southern France. It represents wines which are a step up in quality from the more generic Côtes du Roussillon appellation. The grapes most commonly used in Côtes du Roussillon Villages wines are Carignan, Grenache and Syrah.Côtes du Roussillon-Villages is a sub-appellation in the northern half of the appellation in the valley of the river Agly, from the best slopes around the valley. The appellation is in the foothills of the Pyrenees and the better wines are normally produced from vines on the slopes, not in the valley floors. It is purely for red wines, with stricter appellation regulations than regular Côtes du Roussillon.

The blend allowed is: Carignan (maximum 60%), Syrah, Mourvèdre (minimum 30% combined), Grenache noir, Lladoner. Note that a minimum of three varieties are allowed in the blend.

Carignan (also known as Mazuelo, Bovale Grande, Cariñena, Carinyena, Samsó, Carignane, and Carignano) is a red grape variety of Spanish origin that is more commonly found in French wine but is widely planted throughout the western Mediterranean and around the globe. 

Syrah is a dark-skinned red wine grape. Its origins have been popularly debated, but its modern viticultural home is unquestionably the northern Rhône Valley of eastern France. In Australia, Syrah is the flagship variety and has developed such a distinct personality that it is essentially regarded as a distinct variety, is commonly known as Shiraz.

Grenache is a red-wine grape grown extensively in France, Spain, Australia and the United States and is one of the most widely distributed grapes in the world. Grenache is the French name for the grape, but it has a number of synonyms. In Spain, where it is one of the country's flagship varieties, it is known as Garnacha, and on the island of Sardinia it has been known for centuries as Cannonau. In France, Grenache is most widely planted in the southern Rhone Valley and throughout both Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon. It is most commonly found alongside Syrah and Mourvedre in the classic Southern Rhone Blend (notably in Cotes du Rhone wines), and is the main grape variety in Chateauneuf-du-Pape.

1 x Les Centenaires La Bergerie Rouge Costières de Nimes (Organic) 2018 - Rhone, France

Organic

Wine Enthusiast "Crisp blackberry and cherry notes sing in this delightfully quaffable red. It's full-bodied and briskly concentrated but zesty and thirst-quenching. The finish is tightened by a firm grip of tannins. Ready now, the wine should hold through 2024"

40% Syrah, 30% Grenache, 20% Mourvèdre, 10% Carignan

Clos des Centenaires was founded Luc Baudet of Chateau Mas-Neuf fame, and Californian wine industry veteran, Jack Edwards who both share a passion for artisan wines and the terroir of France’s Southern Rhone.

Clos des Centenaires is a historic vineyard situated in Costieres de Nimes, close to the Mediterranean Sea. The vineyard boasts 70-year-old Grenache vines which are deeply rooted in the pebble stones overlooking the picturesque lakes of Petite Camargue. The vineyard also features Cabernet Sauvignon, Petite Verdot, and Cinsault, and is known for producing unique, high-end, elegant wines of excellent value.

The vineyard soils are cultivated amongst natural grassland using shallow tillage methods and special attention is paid to the revitalization of vines (using annually prepared biodynamic compost). Inputs are limited to organically approved natural products.

Costieres de Nimes is the most southerly appellation of the Rhone wine region in southeastern France. The wines of the area are reputed to have been consumed by the Ancient Greeks and thus figure among the oldest known wines in the world. The Costieres de Nimes AOC covers an area between the towns of Nimes and Arles.

The Rhone Valley is one of France's key wine regions and is divided neatly by a gap of about 25 miles (40km). Wines from the northern part of the valley tend to be Syrah-dominant (Hermitage and Cote Rotie being the most notable examples), while wines from the southern Rhone are more commonly blends, with Grenache playing a more dominant role. Chateauneuf-du-Pape is the most famous example of a southern Rhone blend, but similar blends are found in wines from Gigondas, Vacqueyras, and the regional Cotes du Rhone title.

Southern Rhone Red Blend refers to a wide range of grape varieties often blended together to make wines in the southern reaches of the Rhone Valley in the south of France. While the blend could theoretically consist of any of a wide range of grape varieties, it is usually made up of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvedre, in varying proportions, typically with Grenache and Syrah as the dominant partners.

1 x McHenry Hohnen Rocky Road Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 ~ Margaret River, Western Australia

Bronze - The Real Review, Gabrielle Poy
Commended - The Real Review, Gabrielle Poy (2018 vintage)
Bronze - The Wine Front (2017 vintage)
Bronze - The Real Review, Huon Hooke (2017 vintage)
91/100 Halliday Wine Companion, Ned Goodwin MW (2015 vintage)
90/100 Campbell Mattinson (2015 vintage)
90/100 The Wine Front (2015 vintage)
Bronze - The Real Review, Huon Hooke (2015 vintage)
16/20 Jancis Robinson (2015 vintage)

5 Stars - McHenry Hohnen Vintners (2018 vintage)
5-Stars winery - James Halliday (2018 vintage)

Silver - International Wine & Spirit Competition 2024
Commended - International Wine Challenge (2010 vintage)

"Halliday Wine Companion - Australian Winery of the Year 2022 & 2023"

International Wine & Spirit Competition "Complex, with enticing aromas of red and blue fruit, intertwined with savoury, meaty tones. Vibrant on the palate, offering more crunchy red fruits, blueberries, and polished tannins. Delicate yet powerful, culminating in a long, pleasing finish. Marvellous!"

The Real Review, Gabrielle Poy "Milk chocolate, blackcurrant and sweet spices on the nose lead to a juicy core of fruit and spice. It's elegantly styled with a welcoming immediacy that's hard to resist. Bitter chocolate tannins peter out on the finish."

The Real Review, Gabrielle Poy "Inky and dusty aromas make way for a ripe core that lacks structure and grip. It's a riper style but needs some more guidance to carry it along the palate." (2018 vintage)

The Real Review, Huon Hooke "Deepish red colour with a good tint of purple and a bouquet that recalls raspberry, redcurrant and crushed fresh herbs. There's a touch of Ribena, or DMS (dimethyl sulfide). The palate is gritty textured and slightly coarse, with a chewy tannin aftertaste. It needs food or time to soften the astringency. A lot of wine for the money." (2017 vintage)

Halliday Wine Companion, Ned Goodwin MW "...Intentionally fruit-forward, this is a classic symphony...A straightforward Bordeaux blend with a vivid beam of cassis, anise, and pastille, supported by finely grained tannins and assuaging pillars of well-handled oak." (2015 vintage)

Campbell Mattinson "It boasts tannin and length, structure well and truly taken care of, but the fruit rushes up to greet you in a fruit-forward way; in other words, it’s designed to drink well in its youth but it will cellar over the medium term, no problems. Cassis, bay leaves, dust, and a sweet balsamic/redcurrant note. Well played." (2015 vintage)

The Real Review, Huon Hooke "Deep red/purple colour, very youthful looking. The bouquet is shy and subdued, with hints of herbs and dark fruits, and a firm and slightly flat palate, with chewy tannins and a seeming lack of fresh fruit and vitality. There is good concentration. It would be better with protein-rich food to sop up those formidable tannins. Be sure to serve it with hearty food." (2015 vintage)

Cabernet Sauvignon (62%), Merlot (20%), Malbec (10%) and Petit Verdot (8%)

Founded by one of the pioneers of the Margaret River winemaking region, David Hohnen and his brother in law, Murray McHenry, an accomplished fine wine retailer. Both have been making wine in Margaret River since the early 1970’s. McHenry Hohnen vineyards are 100% biodynamic. Their three unique vineyards (Burnside, Calgardup and Hazel’s) produce wines that are a reflection of the land. McHenry Hohnen focusses on crafting site-expressive wines and are known for producing some of the region's best wines.

Margaret River is one of the best-known wine regions in Australia, recognized internationally for the quality of its wines and the natural beauty of the region. Although originally renowned for its unusually refined Cabernet Sauvignon and intensely citrusy Chardonnay varieties, the region now produces Semillon Sauvignon Blanc blends and Shiraz.

Located in the south-western corner of Western Australia, it is famous for having a more 'European' wine style than its counterparts across Australia, owing to the regions temperate, coastal location which is very similar to that of Bordeaux.