Mâconnais

Damien has produced a 2017 which is more immediate than the 2016 was at the same stage, with open defined nose of classic Maconnais white flowers, easy fruit in the mouth and a nice fresh length.

A long time favourite at L&S. Unwooded for clean lifted refreshment but with a nice weight of pear and solid peach fruit to keep it very food friendly.

Young Damien Martin is making wines of such great quality it is remarkable how very affordable they are. This has lovely rich fruit lines pepped up with intense citrus notes and softer shades of...(more info)

Fresh, with nice tension. The flavours are ripe, verging on exotic but with a natural restraint. Almost passion fruit, then pears and peaches - all held together in a juicy expressive brightness...(more info)

Christophe and Dominique Lafon share the fruit of this fabulous vineyard in the heart of the Maconnais. On the nose a lovely and intense, firm, yellow fruit hit jumps out. There is a lovely tensi...(more info)

Good clean sweeping attack. This is clean cut yet broad and enveloping. Weighted but bright. Interesting. I really like the spice hit of ginger, the soft 'pain d'epice' note. This does does fan o...(more info)

The 2016 Viré-Clessé Quintaine is showing very well, offering up a pretty bouquet of orange blossom, honeycomb and white flowers. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, supple a...(more info)

As usual the class if this vineyard on the slopes of the rock of Vergisson itself shows through in a concentrated and mineral wine. There's a core of creamy almond, lovely richness and freshness...(more info)

Aged in a 50-50 mix of foudres and demi-muids. Prelude is an assemblage of four plots in the communes of Prissé and Chasselas, with vines up to fifty years old. All these are the first to...(more info)

The oldest vines of the domaine, in Chasselas. A good pale gold. Usually the most concentrated wine of the domaine, says Frantz 'magnifcent soils, calcareous rubble on the surface, but 30cm down...(more info)

The 2013 Viré-Clessé Cuvée E. J. Thevenet is another beautiful rendition of this consistently superb cuvée, wafting from the glass with a complex bouquet of orange zes...(more info)