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2024 MIP* Classic Rosé Domaine des Diables
Provence France 12.5% Rosé
Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault.
Citrus, hawthorn, peach and pear, quite boldly aromatic. Sleek ripe and flavour filled, red fruits, citrus and stone fruits, textured bright and with great acid push. Cinsault-based for a classic anytime super-pale aroma...(read more)
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FRANCIACORTA Brut Corteaura
Lombardy Italy 12.5% White
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir.
Clean, luminous, refreshing and super-professional, this is a tremendous wine with uncommon value for money from a region where average bottles of wine seem to cost the earth!
Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com
2024 ROSE BONBON Côtes de Provence Sainte Victoire Domaine des Diables
Provence France 13% Rosé
Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault.
Whether it's the old vine effect or that it has 10% more Syrah than the normal MiP* cuvée, this wine has a character all of its own, coming across as the slightly drier and more mineral of Guillaume's 2024s. It's...(read more)
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2024 POUILLY FUMÉ Domaine Hervé Séguin
Loire France 13% White
Sauvignon Blanc.
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 of something a little more tropical. Supple and fresh in the mout...(read more)
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2024 DOLCETTO DOGLIANI Papà Celso Marziano Abbona
Piedmont Italy 14.0% Red
Dolcetto.
This really is the calling card for this impressive estate. Grandpa Celso planted these beautiful vines 65 years ago and every year it is a real highlight. The soil here in the single vineyard (Doriolo) is calcareous ove...(read more)
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2020 L'ÉTOILE Lalande de Pomerol Château L'Étoile
Bordeaux France 14% Red
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.
Cherries, plums, chocolate, flowers and wet earth nuances fill the perfume. On the palate, the wine is medium-bodied, fresh, forward, soft, and loaded with all the chocolate-coated plums with a touch of licorice that you...(read more)
Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
2022 BOURGOGNE ROUGE Les Grands Chaillots Thibault Liger-Belair Successeurs
Côte d'Or Burgundy France 13% Red
Pinot Noir.
From 4 hectares of vines, split between Nuits, Chambolle and the Hautes Cotes. Only three pigeage across its two week maceration. Very well structured for Bourgogne Rouge with lovely freshness and dense savoury fruit.
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2021 SIN AZUFRE Pinot Noir Bodega Chacra
Rio Negro Patagonia Argentina 12% Red
Pinot Noir.
Made without added sulphur (azufre) – although the back label still says 'Contains sulfites'. Organic and biodynamic grapes from vines planted in 1955. Fermented in concrete with indigenous yeasts for 15 days and 60% mat...(read more)
Jancis Robinson OBE MW
2017 BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO Padelletti
Tuscany Italy 14.5% Red
Sangiovese Grosso.
Full-bodied and enveloping, the 2017 Padelletti is still young and holding up beautifully. It opens with heady aromas of camphor, dried rose, underbrush, tobacco and black-skinned fruit that carry over to the palate alon...(read more)
Kerin O'Keefe, kerinokeefe.com
2023 MAINQUÉ Chardonnay Bodega Chacra
Rio Negro Patagonia Argentina 13% White
Chardonnay.
Apple, brioche, flint, pear and slate aromas with hints of apple tart follow through to a full body with gorgeous richness and depth, yet it grows on the palate. Very vertical and goes deep. Best ever. Drink or hold.
James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.comORDER
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