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Another cracking find, following an exhaustive tasting of Petit Chateau Bordeaux. This showed such lovely intensity and precision, with classic blackcurrant, plum, tobacco and smoked tea. The pal...(read more)

This new find is an absolute humdinger. Brilliant Bordeaux at a very sensible price. From the highest point at the heart of the Côtes de Bourg. This has all the breadth and richness you'd hope fo...(read more)

Bright and clean Soave that totally delivers. Crisp but with no hard edges - no brisk acidity, just a great texture and clean mineral flow. There is no wood used here - but the juice stays on the...(read more)

Before being reclaimed from the sea in the 1950s the 'Paglie di Battifarano' was damp marshland - but now is the heart of the family's white wine vineyards. This pure Greco is fantastic. Brightly...(read more)

Carefully fermented at low temperatures in steel tanks, to avoid too much extraction, this perky juice then spends 6 months in oldish barrels which really helps smooth this out and gives the supe...(read more)

This is a brilliant new arrival from Basilicata and our first ever Primitivo from the Matera DOC, It jumps out of the glass at you with some complex spices and nice note of evolution on the nose,...(read more)

Only the top casks are selected to be bottled 'en rama' each year and in 2019 the cellar master, Antonio Flores, found 67 barrels that were worthy out of 21,000! So the quantities are limited but...(read more)

This is one of the two Sauvignons that Fabio Alessandria makes at Burlotto, but here you have 100% stainless steel ageing. This gives a wine with a pure fruit intensity. Pungent gooseberry, guava...(read more)

Deeper grippier style here, pithy with a saturated citrus fruit, garpefruit and peach, concentrated with lovely depth and zip, zesty and bright.

Fresh, with nice tension. The flavours are ripe, verging on exotic but with a natural restraint. Almost passion fruit, then pears and peaches - all held together in a juicy expressive brightness...(read more)

Fresh as can be from the barrel and full of Sanlucar sunshine - this fine Manzanilla En Rama is brilliant sherry - straight from the cask, with no fining nor filtration. A little more gold in col...(read more)