Southern Rhône

Blackberries, graphite, new leather, and assorted peppery notes all emerge from the 2017 Côtes du Rhône La Dame Rousse. Medium-bodied, fleshy, and ready to go, with notable purity of fruit, it's...(read more)

Always a stellar wine for a standard Cotes du Rhone, plush and filled with gently spiced, blackberry and damson fruit, notes of garrigue and dark chocolate. Earthy rich and very satisfying.

Unclassified fruit from Jean Royer's Côtes du Rhône Vineyards and a percentage of fruit from the young vines in his Châteauneuf du Pape vineyards. All in all, a breathtakingly good wine for the m...(read more)

65% Grenache, 25% Syrah and 10% Carignan. Deep dark colour. All in finesse here, the Syrah bringing a cool sophistication. Big in volume, the silk velvet cushioned palate we have come to expect f...(read more)

Fabulous nose - rich and open fruit. Palate is dry and fresh, full of deep concentrated fruit and amazing spice, there is great feel and frame, which is luxuriously wrapped and softened by supple...(read more)

Hand harvested, 85% Grenache and 15% Carignan, from the vineyard that is over 100 years old. It's a mixed terrain, some red clay like the plain, and some of the greyer more limestone clay from hi...(read more)

Some of this is aged in one to three-year-old barrels. Again this is a very black fruit expression, and only the subtlest notes of wood. Silky fine tannins are present, but not at all aggressive....(read more)

85% Grenache, 5% Syrah, 5% Mourvèdre, with 5% Cinsault from La Crau. Deep colour. Both rich and restrained, a subtle dry fruit with a truffly, garrigue element. Wild berries and summer hedgerow....(read more)

Vivid ruby. Expansive, mineral-accented red berry liqueur and floral pastille scents are complicated by suggestions of potpourri and star anise. Juicy, focused and pure, displaying excellent focu...(read more)

Very Grenache expression; quite rich and full of fine tannins giving a volume and feeling of thickness on the palate. The fruit develops nicely and it never feels heavy. Gorgeous richness and length. A...(read more)

Nose full of sumptuous dark berry fruit and sweet spice. In the depths there are hints of cured meat and leather, with top notes notes of garrigue herbs and floral lift. Despite all the richness,...(read more)