Last Parcel: 2008 CHÂTEAU LAURIOL – Côtes de Francs
By Ed H-B on 07/09/2014
Selected by Victoria Moore for her 2012 Christmas wine list, we’ve only 7 cases left of this very drinkable yet pleasingly priced claret worth snapping up.
Red Wine
A cracking new find for us
By Ed H-B on 06/09/2014
2011 MUNIA TORO 'Roble 6 Meses' - Bodegas Viñaguarena 'A new find for us is always exciting and this cracking red delivers at every level! Supple and smoothly satisfying this is aged for just six months in oak to give a polish and complexity.
Last few cases of the seductive 2012 Dolcetto D’Alba ‘Serraboella’ – Cigliuti
By Ed H-B on 04/09/2014
Our introduction to the wines of Cigliuti was a bottle (followed over the ensuing months by several more) of their ‘Briccoserra, a 50/50 Barbera and Nebbiolo blend, many years back in Giuseppe Turi’s Putney restaurant ‘Enotecal Turi’.
A perfectly balanced Vermentino from Fattoria di Magliano
By Ed H-B on 29/08/2014
This is simply delicious. Achieving that perfect balance between weight and brightness that results in immense drinkability. An ideal drinks party wine or a partner to a summer lunch in the garden.
Last small parcel of 2011 Côtes de Rhone ‘La Dame Rousse’ Domaine de la Mordorée
By Ed H-B on 27/08/2014
Perhaps testament to the early autumnal weather or just to great affordable wines from the Rhone valley, we’ve still a small remaining parcel of this sumptuous Côtes de Rhone from top organic producer Christophe Delorme at Domaine de la la Mordorée before we move onto the 2012 vintage
Making the best wines in Givry? 2009 GIVRY 1er Cru à Vigne Rouge – Domaine François Lumpp
By Ed H-B on 26/08/2014
François and Isabelle Lumpp own this impeccable 16 hectare estate in Givry, a region which is so often over looked by Burgundy lovers and yet which is capable of producing wines of exceptional quality as well as value.
The beautifully crafted Mainqué Merlot from Bodega Chacra
By Andrew Hooper on 21/08/2014
You may have noticed us making quite a fuss over the years about the fantastically good Pinot Noirs from Bodegas Chacra in Patagonia. But, planted alongside the 1955 vineyard is a block of Merlot vines and we haven’t made nearly enough noise about them. Here is the noise.
Wine of the Week:2011 Rosso di Montalcino Collemattoni
By Andrew Hooper on 31/07/2014
Of course, that makes Brunello di Montalcino a more expensive option, but for more of an everyday wine, Montalcino gives us Rosso di Montalcino
A subtle old world summer white: 2013 ZUANI ‘Vigne’ Bianco Collio
By Ed H-B on 22/07/2014
Patrizia is certainly at home when it comes to wine making. Her father Marco Felluga has been making quality white wine in Friuli-Venezia-Giulia for decades. In fact the family has been producing wine, generation after generation, for over 120 years. Twelve years ago Patrizia left the family business and brought her own seven hectare vineyard in the heart of Collio.
Lustau ‘En Rama’ a fabulous new arrival on the Sherry Scene
By David Porter on 15/07/2014
As advocates of 'En Rama' style sherries we were very pleased to discover that Lustau were joining in and releasing a range of their own unfiltered sherries. A fino from each town in the sherry triangle, Jerez, Sanlúcar and El Puerto Santa María. For us the Fino from El Puerto is the stand-out.
2012 RÉGNIÉ ‘Cuvée des Braves’ Domaine Rochette
By Andrew Hooper on 10/07/2014
In July 1395, Philippe the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, made a suitably bold statement declaring the bountiful Gamay to be a “very bad and disloyal plant”, outlawing it on the noble slopes of Burgundy where Pinot Noir should, did and does rule supreme. Read on –>
In the Press – Victoria Moore’s “Best wines on offer this summer” in The Telegraph
By Andrew Hooper on 03/07/2014
Recommended in last weekend’s Telegraph were Victoria Moore’s “Best wines on offer this summer” and a fine trio of these came from the shelves of LEA & SANDEMAN.