Press Reviews: August

by Eve-Marie Letondel

Press Review August

Our latest press reviews: The Telegraph, The Times & The Guardian.

Benefit from our case price discount in red by buying any 12 bottles from this selection – in a mixed case of your design or simply by the dozen.

The best wines from Languedoc-Roussillon, The Times, Jane MacQuitty 26/08/2022:

2020 FIGURE LIBRE Cabernet Franc Domaine Gayda

2020 L’ÉTRANGER 120 Year Old Vine Domaine des Trinités
£18.95 | £17.50
Review: ‘Domaine Gayda’s delicious, polished, perfumed, raspberry and redcurrant-laden 2020 Figure Libre Cabernet Franc mouthful.’

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Five underrated French wines – and the overrated to avoid, The Guardian, Fiona Beckett 19/08/2022:

 2020 L'ÉTRANGER 120 Year Old Vine Domaine des Trinités

2020 L’ÉTRANGER 120 Year Old Vine Domaine des Trinités
£14.95 | £13.50
Review: ‘Lipsmackingly delicious Languedoc red made from 120-year-old vines. I’m thinking steak frîtes.’

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The top wines to pair with succulent summer melon, The Telegraph, Victoria Moore 19/08/2022:

2021 MOSCATO D'ASTI Azienda Agricola G.D. Vajra

2021 MOSCATO D’ASTI Azienda Agricola G.D. Vajra
£16.95 | £15.95
Review: ‘If you’re just eating melon slices with a glass of wine as a pre-barbecue late-afternoon snack or as a pudding, then a Moscato d’Asti is a great pick with perfumed melons such as galia or cantaloupe. This Italian sparkling white wine is low in alcohol and sweet without being cloying. The grape variety is, as the name suggests, moscato, which is pretty much the only grape whose wine actually tastes, well, grapey. […] a favourite is the peachy, herbal GD Vajra Moscato d’Asti.’

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The best wines from the Loire Valley, The Times, Will Lyons 10/08/2022:

 2019 CHINON Domaine Bernard Baudry

2019 CHINON Domaine Bernard Baudry
£18.95 | £16.95
Review: ‘As in Beaujolais and the Languedoc, a younger, savvy generation of winemakers is generating keen interest, fuelled by organic viticulture and warmer summers. You can snap up fine-wine quality for great prices — try the sappy, savoury 2019 Chinon Domaine Bernard Baudry. Ideal for this time of year.’

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Wines that are a holiday in a glass, The Guardian, David Williams 07/08/2022

2021 MALVASIA Festigia Vina Laguna

2021 MALVASIA Festigia Vina Laguna
£12.50 | £10.95
Review: ‘For those dreaming of summer holidays on the eastern side of southern Europe, Vina Laguna Malvasia 2021 is a lively example of the fresh, aromatic malvasia (or malvazija) grape variety from Croatia.’

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