Red Bordeaux

Just what you would hope for from this lovely vintage in Bordeaux, good line and length - a touch of lifted perkiness, but good ripe fruit at its core. A well defined, shapely Claret at a stupend...(read more)

Some lovely grip and texture here, with classic cassis, tobacco leaf, tea and coffee notes. As you would expect some nice structure from the ripe tannins, decent dark fruit core and then nice len...(read more)

2014 is another fabulous vintage of our now well known and much loved Lea & Sandeman Bordeaux, which offers such great value. In 2014 this superb house claret sports the more accurate designation...(read more)

Great stuff, particularly considering this is from the tricky 2013 vintage. Many poor winemakers were caught out by the tricky conditions during the growing season, but the canny team here have m...(read more)

60% Cabernet, 40% Merlot, quite an oaky initial nose, but under that the fruit is dense and there is fat and a satisfying middle - not the last word in subtlety but for the price a bit of a barga...(read more)

50% Merlot and 50% Cabernet, from the Médoc gravels. Twenty year-old vines. Aged a year in wood, with 30% new barrels. Supple and rounded, with good brightness of fruit and definition, a true Méd...(read more)

Another fabulous effort in 2012 from the Duprat family. Deep in colour, scented with rich berry fruit. This is relatively full and persistent in the mouth with very fine tannin and suave length. A sedu...(read more)

Chateau La Pervenche is arguably a more romantic name than the translation into English - it is hard to know how seriously people would take Chateau Blue Periwinkle - but this is a super Bordeaux...(read more)

Super refined and classic, cassis, tea, tobacco and plum on the nose, whilst the palate delivers a lovely svelte dark fruit core, rich structured tannins and a delicious tobacco flow to the finis...(read more)

We have admired this property in Saint Christoly for some time and their 2012 is the best we've tasted yet. There is an impressively 'grown-up' nose here followed on the palate by fresh, dry, cru...(read more)

From Pierre Taix (maker of 'La Mauriane', which comes from the steepest slopes of this same property). Deep nose of forest floor and ripe fruit, it is expansive and generous on the palate, withou...(read more)