Médoc & Haut Médoc

We're delighted with this very smart Médoc, a steal for the price. With this brilliant wine the balance between ripeness, weight and the fresher, more 'claretty' lines of classic Bordeaux is spot on. There is much...(read more)

60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot. Nicely ripe, a solid mouthful of Médoc from an excellent vintage and it shows - significantly more enjoyable than the 2012 Beaumont itself (this is the second wine). Excellent d...(read more)

Deep colour, full and succulent, stays fresh and with supple mid-palate weight and a fine, direct Médoc character. Some charm to the feel, a nice gentle rich aspect to the fruit with spice and vigour, this is anot...(read more)

This ripe wine offers dark-chocolate flavors over tannins and young black fruit. It is dense, piled with tannins and ripe blackberry flavors.

The 2016 Doyac feels a little basic and lacks cohesion on the nose. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy, red berry fruit, light on its feet and yet it just misses some complexity and grip towards the finish. One of th...(read more)

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 Médoc is super plush.

A yield of 47 hl/ha, 54% new wood. Sampled from a new barrel, but what comes through is the directness and purity of the fruit, on nose and attack, linear cassis and cherry, succulent and lovely. Silkily textured, but th...(read more)

A deep purple-edged black. First scent is incredibly appetising, like blackberry and apple pie. Full and sweet, and also an intense, pointed cassis fruit. Thick dry attack - an amazing combination of freshness of concent...(read more)

The 2019 Pontensac has an open-knit red cherry and crushed strawberry scented nose that conveys joie-de-vivre. The palate is sweet on the entry, fleshier than expected, a little oaky and missing a bit of grip on the fini...(read more)

Curiously green compared with many of its peers, more punch on the start, but less interest and finesse. Decent weight, quite intense and some length, but not much fun.

Yet another wine from the Reich brothers (Aimée, Argenteyre), and with their characteristically engaging supple texture and lightly chewy mid-palate, allied to expressive fruit and spice notes. It's all a very hap...(read more)

Deep colour, rich nose, quite a solid attack, but the chewy texture is satisfyingly full of flavour, and there's spice here too.