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From sand and gravel soils this pure Cabernet Franc is superb. Loaded with crunchy dark berries and peppy red juice but there is a sheen of lovely polished black fruit too, lifted by spice and an...(read more)

Just arrived from one of the kings of Chinon, always supple and sleek, this has mulberry, dark cherry and violet notes with an undercut of tobacco leaf.

Organic. Red-berried and ripe on the nose. Summer strawberries. Mouth-watering red fruit, light and angular with a lightly granular lace of tannins. Earthy with a wild-mint leafiness.

Yannick's serious Les Malgagnes is from a low yielding plot of vines, some dating back to 1936, the most recent planted in the mid-1990's. Hand harvested, with wild fermentation in oak before age...(read more)