Wine for Laying down, 5-10 Years

Pleasingly pale, with a fine bead of soft, well-integrated bubbles that fill the nose with aromas of wild strawberry, some perky red berries and a very gentle, soothingly doughy, autolytic note. In the mouth the fine bri...(read more)

Organic farming. Deeply coloured. Wonderfully pure and intense nose of sweet blackcurrant and black cherry with notes of chalk and clay. There’s even a hint of blackberry jam. The palate shows lovely concentration, with...(read more)

Les Quartiers comes from the pure limestone soils at the top of the estate. The resulting Cabernet Franc fruit has a power and a purity that is unmatched from their other vineyards. Crunchy cassis - crisp and brisk at th...(read more)

Seems quite oaky, but it's really just that the fruit is a little on the back foot. In need of a racking? No doubting the volume; it's as rich and full as it could be. Rich and tense and relaxed and velvety all the the s...(read more)

Very fine fruit, especially fine texture, slinky and sinuous. Quite a dose of tannin on the finish, but this has the fruit to cope.

An 80/20 split of Grenache and Mourvèdre brought up in demi-muids and older barrels, the 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Prestige offers more ripe red and black fruits, peppery garrigue, orange peel, and loamy soil...(read more)

The tiny production 2019 Châteauneuf Du Pape Les Sables De La Crau checks in 100% Grenache from a sandy parcel in the famed La Crau lieu-dit. It was partially destemmed and brought up all in demi-muids. Incredible...(read more)

Bussia is renowned for the deep blue clay soil and a good slug of limestone that lies beneath and so always delivers wines with breadth and structure. The Barale family handle this power with their trademark resteraint....(read more)

The 2017 Barbaresco Cottà is punchy, with terrific freshness and verve. Red toned fruit, flowers, mint and bright acids yield a decidedly delicate expression of Cottà, a Neive vineyard where the wines tend...(read more)

Sottimano's 2013 Barbaresco Riserva, a blend of old vines from Cottà and Pajorè, is off the charts gorgeous, and also one of the best wines I have ever tasted here. Rich, dramatic and sweeping, the 2013 pos...(read more)