Sweeter Wine (all sizes)

From the kings of Roussillon dessert wines, candied peel of orange and lemon, some floral touches, honey and barley sugar. Good acidity, lots of rich fruit, zesty, pithy, with lots of character and richness.

A very attractive vintage of this excellent value 'second wine' of Rieussec. A lighter Sauternes, but it has all the classic waxy honey and dried apricot, with a fresh edge of pineapple and mango.

Made in the classical Mas Amiel manner, 'muté sur grain', aged a year in 'bon-bons' (prodigiously large glass jars which are left out in the sun and snow on the foothills of the Pyrenees) for a year, then aged in...(read more)

The 2015 is the current vintage, released in 2019, as while the ageing is short compared to Gilette, it still spends two years in vat and one year in bottle before making its way to market. Unoaked, from 8.5ha of vines t...(read more)

Delicious, rich but balanced an intense style of White Port beautifully made this makes a wonderful aperitif - As featured by Kate Goodman on the BBC Food and Drink programme Monday, 11th March, 2013.

From the Bilancinis, but without that much nose. Nice combination of tanginess (Muscadelle?) and a light sugary syrupiness but it's not that refreshing nor that rich. Betwixt and between methinks.

The 2017 Carmes de Rieussec is dazzling. Here, too, the winemaking team captured a striking balance of richness and energy. Most second wines from Sauternes these days are light and floral. The Carmes has plenty of those...(read more)

Mas Amiel are rightly famous for their Vin doux naturel wines, where they arrest the fermentation with the addition of some grape spirit, leaving a wine akin to young port. This has distinct prune, molasses, woodland fru...(read more)

90% Semillon, 5% Sauvignon Blanc and 5% Muscadelle; barrel-fermented and aged for 18 months. Cerons sits next to Sauternes and shares much in common (apart from the fame and the price tags) but this has a lighter touch,...(read more)

Pale to golden yellow. The heady intensity of wild flowers and fresh fruits (peach, plum, citrus, honey) abound in the bouquet. Velvety and deliciously rounded, the Disznókő Tokaji Late Harvest retains its vivacit...(read more)

'Sélection de Grains Nobles' from Chenin Blanc harvested at the peak of botrytisation. The Papin family's vineyards are picked over several weeks and fermented long and slow to produce some of the world's great sw...(read more)