Wine for Laying down, 5-10 Years

Departing chef de caves Richard Geoffroy says that 2008 is his best DP vintage since 1990. The first half of the growing season was dull and sunless, but good weather returned in mid-September an br...

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 br...

In July more serious than the Maréchaudes, with density and tightness. Vigourous and powerful, very energetic and good acidity giving a real shine to the fruit. By September rich sweet fruit, mix br...

Thibault described this as being 'a bit on the back foot' the day I was there. The nose was subdued; when found it is almost fleshy with rich fruit pulp. Palate carries that and more - supple min br...

Slightly jammy fruit nose. Very soft and easy. Slight edge of stewed starwberry, lots of ripe fruit flavour initially seems a bit simple. Picks up a bit of energy mid-palate, and finishes well. W br...

Dark purple. Highly expressive blackberry, potpourri and licorice aromas show outstanding clarity and minerally lift. Palate-staining, expansive dark berry, floral pastille and fruitcake flavors br...

Roasted meat, spice, blackberry, lovely aromatics on the palate with spice, ripe blackberry, cherry fruitiness, great acidity, ripe full tannins with mineral grip on the finish.

Sandy soils, and planted in 1997, 26 months in cask (‘we do it much longer than the disciplinary demands’). Only large oak cask. Lustrous ruby! Gorgeous cool raspberry nose and fine raspberry a br...

For far too long, Valbuena has been incorrectly viewed as the second wine of Vega Sicilia. Not so any more: the 2014 vintage is incredible with power, depth and longevity. In the words of winemak br...

Shiraz. 100% new oak. Deeply coloured, intense dark fruit entwined with oak sweetness. Peppery too. Fabulous texture – refined dry tannins are now rounded but they take away any excess sweetness br...

Tasted at the European Release seminar, with Will Harlan. Impressive stuff. On the nose this is richer and warmer scented than the 2011 or 2010. - and it gets close to the warm, spiced, almost Zi br...

Green highlighted gold. Rather a cool, fat but dry expression. It grows, quite a fibrous feel, then softens. There's lots here but it's not that expressive. The sweetness really comes through on br...