Half-bottles

We love this prime estate in the heart of Fronton - about half an hour north of Toulouse in the rustique South West. There is nothing rustic about this smart red though! Deep ruby in colour. Fresh bouquet with intense ar...(read more)

Light, pale, fresh, crisp, a delightful summer aperitif, and like the Inocente, should be tried with fish, which it accompanies much better than many of the classic matches (Chablis, Sancerre etc...).

Ruby Dum and Tawny Dee - the Niepoort 'twins' as reflected on the bottles. These wines come from the same lot, but over a five year period are aged differently so that the one is rich and ruby in style, while the other b...(read more)

Ruby Dum and Tawny Dee - the Niepoort 'twins' as reflected on the bottles. These wines come from the same lot, but over a five year period are aged differently so that the one is rich and ruby in style, while the other b...(read more)

Graziana Grassini is the oenologist for Sassicaia but also here at Fattoria di Magliano and has been making the wine since their first harvest back in 2001. Heba is a beautiful 'Morellino di Scansano' the local name for...(read more)

Les Granges is a fruity, agreeable wine that should be drunk young. It is an example of easy-going and round Chinon from sandy gravelly soil.

Crop levels were down 50% because of the fire damage on the Simonsberg in 2016, a year when Rustenberg made no Peter Barlow, but this is still an impressive Bordeaux blend with notes of mint, cassis and forest floor, a t...(read more)

The Maremma Vermentino Pagliatura ’19 combines intense aromas of a light touch of hay and citrus sensations, with a lively and continuous evolution on the palate that returns to herb memories, characterised by a particul...(read more)

The best PX available. So rich, so sweet and yet so moreish. (Must be tried poured over ice cream with raisins soaked overnight in PX)

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)

From the master of Fleurie, Alain Coudert, another stunning wine of sheer beauty and drinkability. Deeply fruited with damson, black cherry and raspberry fruits, backed by gentle spice, mocha and dried herb. In the mouth...(read more)

95% Malbec and 5% Merlot. 20% aged in French oak barrels for 16 Months. One of the new classics of the appellation, Pascal Verhaeghe's flagship is modern in style, full of well-defined black fruit and velvet tannins - re...(read more)