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This red has such an open and inviting personality, it is hard not to fall for it from the first sniff. There is pungency of ripe red and black fruits, glossy and warming, it is filled with sunshine. But the palate plays...(read more)

We ended up tasting these wines after quite some line up of new wines and wowsers did they stand up well. Macabeo can sometimes be a little, shall we say, dull, but this version is nothing of the sort. Fresh and with gre...(read more)

Youthful, perhaps, but this is ready to go and an absolute delight a the price, with deep colour, and an inviting spicy fruit nose. The most remarkable element of the tasting at this stage is the suppleness of the cool w...(read more)

We are delighted to have met the Artner family who make this brilliant, bright Grüner in the easterly region of Carnuntum. Delicious, pithy green citrus notes hold forth on the attack - and are echoed with a gentle...(read more)

To say we are excited about having our very own Greek white is an understatement, we are beside ourselves about this beauty. Fragrant with notes of grapefruit, lime and honeysuckle. In the mouth there is a delicious pith...(read more)

'The Ugly Duckling' provides the name. Southern white Rhône, made of Grenache Gris, so definitely different - and officially just 'Vin de France'. Pale and green-tinged colour, fresh hay on the nose, subtle and del...(read more)

This is the first release of a still 100% Chardonnay from Langham and comes from the outstanding and sunny 2018 vintage. Made thanks to spontaneous fermentation the wine is unfined and unfiltered. On the nose it has arom...(read more)

The most immediate of the reds from Escaravailles, beautifully upholstered with plush plum, blackberry and ripe damson fruit. In the mouth the wines is so shapely, gorgeous concentration of woodland fruits, herbs, ground...(read more)

Such delicious Chenin, giving plenty of peach, honey and warm straw notes. The weight is superb and this is made in a slightly easier going style, the fruit is more open, fleshy, but backed by Chenin's tell-tale fresh li...(read more)

We could hardly contain ourselves when we first tasted this sumptuous, pretty and delicately perfumed red. The perfect balance between ornate high-toned complexity and delightfully pleasing, soft red-fruit flesh is perfe...(read more)

Manni's Grüner Veltliner is a pure joy to taste. His fruit comes from his high vineyards at between 660-700 metres of altitude in the beautiful Eisaktaler Valley. More Austria and 'The Sound of Music' than what you...(read more)

The name Ronceray refers to the abbey that once owned Quarts de Chaume, and it has become a name that all producers making dry wine here intend to use on a communal basis, at least until Quarts de Chaume can legally exis...(read more)