Champagne  France

Tasted 'blind' in a line-up of inexpensive champagnes (as well as one Grande Marque) this showed remarkably well, coming out as a clear winner. Bright...

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Loire  France

The Seguin wines are so easy going and deliver such drinking pleasure. This is textbook with gun-flint, gooseberry and freshly mown grass with an undercut...

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Chablis  Burgundy  France

Again the ripeness which they so regularly achieve here yields a wine which has a yellow-fruit profile and a sleek and gentle harmony, all sweeping along...

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Chablis  Burgundy  France

Lots of fruit aroma: apple and citrus, as well as a light creamy/mealy aroma suggesting richness. Good fruit depth for a generic Chablis balanced by mouth-watering...

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Northern Rhône  Rhône  France

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South West  France

90% Malbec, 5% Merlot and 5% Tannat. 20% aged in French oak barrels for 16 Months. One of the new classics of the appellation, Pascal Verhaeghe's flagship...

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Bordeaux  France

The 2019 Clos Manou is superb. Dense, plush and explosive, the 2019 is packed with inky dark fruit, chocolate, spices, new leather and licorice. This extroverted...

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Left Bank  Bordeaux  France

Mid-weight and classical in style. This is a little restrained on the nose but there is pretty dark berry fruit and a cool graphite core. Perhaps not as...

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Piedmont  Italy

Andrea Oberto's Langhe Nebbiolo is a brilliant window on to the quality of his Barolo wines. Charming as ever from this cellar but with the classic feel...

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Alba  Piedmont  Italy

Nice aromatic blackberry, dark cherry, touch of mocha, maybe even floral nose. Slick and bright, lovely supple dark fruit, cherries and blackberry, delicious...

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Montepulciano  Tuscany  Italy

After a slight delay in ripening, grapes benefitted from the warm, sunny days in mid-September and harvest of the estate’s five dispersed plots occurred...

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