Red Wine
2007 Chambolle Musigny 'La Combe D'orveau' Domaine Anne Gros
Anne is a member of the legendary Burgundian Gros dynasty, and is based in Clos Vougeot, Her vineyard work is dictated by her deep respect for the soil, her land and the greater environment, so ploughing and tilling are the order of the day. Her custom-built barrel cellar is immaculate, and has more in common with a top Bordeaux château?s than with the average Burgundy cellar. Her wines, which are equally immaculate have the ability to age with exceptional grace and elegance. (read more)
Our Price: £56.00
2007 Clos Vougeot 'Le Grand Maupertui' Domaine Anne Gros
Anne is a member of the legendary Burgundian Gros dynasty, and is based in Clos Vougeot, Her vineyard work is dictated by her deep respect for the soil, her land and the greater environment, so ploughing and tilling are the order of the day. Her custom-built barrel cellar is immaculate, and has more in common with a top Bordeaux château?s than with the average Burgundy cellar. Her wines, which are equally immaculate have the ability to age with exceptional grace and elegance. (read more)
Our Price: £85.00
2007 Echezeaux 'Les Loachausses' Domaine Anne Gros
Anne is a member of the legendary Burgundian Gros dynasty, and is based in Clos Vougeot, Her vineyard work is dictated by her deep respect for the soil, her land and the greater environment, so ploughing and tilling are the order of the day. Her custom-built barrel cellar is immaculate, and has more in common with a top Bordeaux château?s than with the average Burgundy cellar. Her wines, which are equally immaculate have the ability to age with exceptional grace and elegance. (read more)
Our Price: £85.00
2007 Richebourg, Domaine Anne Gros
Anne is a member of the legendary Burgundian Gros dynasty, and is based in Clos Vougeot, Her vineyard work is dictated by her deep respect for the soil, her land and the greater environment, so ploughing and tilling are the order of the day. Her custom-built barrel cellar is immaculate, and has more in common with a top Bordeaux château?s than with the average Burgundy cellar. Her wines, which are equally immaculate have the ability to age with exceptional grace and elegance. (read more)
Our Price: £240.00
2007 Gevrey Chambertin Villages, Domaine Armand Rousseau
A blistering hot April, was followed by a pretty dull summer, culminating in a beautiful late August throught to September. Charles Rousseau's wines show classic raspberyy and red fruit tones, with decent structure - for early drinking. His 07s will charm and please, whilst your 05 and 06s continue to evolve. (read more)
Our Price: £45.00
2004 Un, Deux, Trois, Seidelberg Estate
New Seidelberg winemaker Cerina De Jongh's CV reads encouragingly: top of her year at Elsenburg College, hired by high-profile Grangehurst and veteran of vintages the world over. She's thriving at this idyllic estate, founded in 1680 on the Paarlberg's southern slopes, whose rust-hued soils produce big reds with intense colour and up-front fruit. Very much the case here: a vivid Cabernet Sauvignon-Cabernet Franc-Merlot blend, with near Port-rich sweet, spicy plum and blackberry flavours. (read more)
Our Price: £10.00
2008 Cuvee 2, Minervois, Hegarty Chamans
Red meat wine, with grip and power: big, dense baked fruit flavours, pepper and spice. Burgundian winemaker Samuel Berger had a baptism of fire in his first vintage at advertising mogul John Hegarty's Carcassonne estate, a state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly amphitheatre of vines facing the Montagne Noire. This succulent Grenache-Syrah- Carignan blend is aged in huge oak foudres. (read more)
Our Price: £11.00
2008 Marques De Borba Red, Jao Portugal Ramos, Alentejo
Jao Portugal Ramos is a one man dynamo who has created a substantial winery, some 250 hectare of his own vineyards with even more under contract, in the Alentejo that is one of the benchmarks of Portuguese wines. Innovative yet mindful of good traditions his winery is a place where curiously novel methods of getting more colour into his wines stand alongside old fashioned foot treading lagars. (read more)
Our Price: £8.00
2008 Valpolicella 'Corte Del Pozzo' Fasoli Gino, Veneto
Natalino Gino's father went 'green' twice over. First the herbicides he'd been advised to spray on his vineyards (planted by patriarch Amadio Gino in 1925) to the west of the Veneto's Soave region made him unwell. As a result, in 1980 he set out to achieve organic certification, finally succeeding ten years later. The Corte del Pozzo range is sourced from neighbouring vineyards which conform to the Fasoli's organic standards. (read more)
Our Price: £10.00
2008 Crasto Tinto, Douro
This has all the intensity of a Port - rich, spicy, black fruit flavours, hints of muscovado sugar - without the weight and substantial alcohol. (read more)
Our Price: £8.00
2008 Les Bastions Rouge, Cotes De St Mont
Cassis- rich black fruit aromas and a firm palate. Made by the ultra-reliable team at the Plaimont winery who have an admirable focus on polishing the finer characters of the region's local grapes, bringing intriguing styles to a wide audience. Tannat, great grape of robust southern red Madiran, is the main variety here, along with Cabernet Sauvignon and rare Pinenc. (read more)
Our Price: £6.00
2009 Beaujolais, Domaine Milhomme
One of those reds you can serve slightly cool - perfect summer drinking. The ripe summer fruit flavours excel with delicatessen meats. The Perrin family have been making wine for four centuries at their rural idyll near Ternand in southern Beaujolais. Their vineyards (scene of a medieval conflict involving 1000 men) spread out in a south-facing amphitheatre of flaking granite. Bernard Perrin remains modest despite his wines often being voted 'Best of the Vintage'. (read more)
Our Price: £7.00
2004 Grenache,'Gsm' Mitchell Estate, Clare Valley
If you're partial to the rich reds of Châteauneuf-du-Pape (or need a really big wine for hearty fare) -you might want to upgrade to this. 'GSM' stands for 'Grenache-Sangiovese-Mourvèdre', Australian shorthand for the classic blend of Châteauneuf. The Mitchells of South Australia's prestigious Clare Valley used fruit sunbaked to super-ripeness to make this surpassingly rich, spicy gem. Pace yourself. (read more)
Our Price: £10.00
2009 Chiroubles, Desmures, Beaujolais
Chiroubles. The very name evokes romance and charm. This is one of the most fragrant, appealing Beaujolais wines on our list, made at a family-run domaine in one of the ten 'cru' villages in rolling hills to the north of the region. Enjoy the array of delicate summer fruit flavours cellar cool, with soft cheeses, chicken or charcuterie. (read more)
Our Price: £9.00
2009 Fleurie 'Les Bataillons', Domaine Des Deux Lys
Of all the great Beaujolais villages Fleurie deliveres a particular lively and fruity style of wine that has depth and charm. The Domaine des Deux Lys makes a delightfully friendly version that epitomises the appellation for us. (read more)
Our Price: £11.00
2009 St Amour, Domaine Le Carjot
Voluptuous and mouthfilling, with juicy red fruit flavours and an appetisingly dry finish, this charming Beaujolais encapsulates the finer qualities of wines from the 'cru' village of Saint-Amour (one of ten quality enclaves to the north of the region). The locals would pair it with regional speciality the 'andouillette', which, to the uninitiated, might appear alarming; springy fermented offal squeezed into innocuous sausage skins.Regular gourmet sausages will do just as well. (read more)
Our Price: £10.00
2009 Malbec 'El Dominio', The Adnams Selection
Susanah Balbo is Argentina's winemaking guru and Pedro Marchevsky its pre-eminent viticulturalist so when the decided to get married and start their own domaine it seemed to Adnams that this was the perfect place to source a Malbec worthy of our own label. Although they have several sources of vineyards around the Mendoza region the majority of the Malbec for this wine comes from their 'Dominio del Plata' vineyard in the Lujan de Coyo district. At 980m altitude and composed of well drained, deep loam/clay soils, it produces wines of notable concentration. (read more)
Our Price: £7.00
2008 Bourgogne Rouge, Domaine Rossignol Trappet, En Primeur 12 Bottles Per Case
Nicholas Rossignol found that the 2008 vintage did not pose too many problems apart from some botrytis which was dealt with by rigorous triage of the grapes in the vineyard and on arrival at the cellars. The domaine Rossignol-Trappet has, for several years now, been farmed bio-dynamically and we are convinced that it is this that keeps their vines producing fruit of a quality and health far superior to many of their neighbours. Their '08 reds have a concentration that others struggle to rival. (read more)
Our Price: £157.00
2008 Chambertin, Domaine Rossignol Trappet, En Primeur 12 Bottles Per Case
Nicholas Rossignol found that the 2008 vintage did not pose too many problems apart from some botrytis which was dealt with by rigorous triage of the grapes in the vineyard and on arrival at the cellars. The domaine Rossignol-Trappet has, for several years now, been farmed bio-dynamically and we are convinced that it is this that keeps their vines producing fruit of a quality and health far superior to many of their neighbours. Their '08 reds have a concentration that others struggle to rival. (read more)
Our Price: £956.00
2008 Gevrey Chambertin Villages, Domaine Rossignol Trappet, En Primeur
Nicholas Rossignol found that the 2008 vintage did not pose too many problems apart from some botrytis which was dealt with by rigorous triage of the grapes in the vineyard and on arrival at the cellars. The domaine Rossignol-Trappet has, for several years now, been farmed bio-dynamically and we are convinced that it is this that keeps their vines producing fruit of a quality and health far superior to many of their neighbours. Their '08 reds have a concentration that others struggle to rival. (read more)
Our Price: £310.00
2008 Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru 'Petite Chapelle', Domaine Rossignol Trappet, En Primeur
Nicholas Rossignol found that the 2008 vintage did not pose too many problems apart from some botrytis which was dealt with by rigorous triage of the grapes in the vineyard and on arrival at the cellars. The domaine Rossignol-Trappet has, for several years now, been farmed bio-dynamically and we are convinced that it is this that keeps their vines producing fruit of a quality and health far superior to many of their neighbours. Their '08 reds have a concentration that others struggle to rival. (read more)
Our Price: £504.00
2008 Latricieres Chambertin, Domaine Rossignol Trappet, En Primeur
Nicholas Rossignol found that the 2008 vintage did not pose too many problems apart from some botrytis which was dealt with by rigorous triage of the grapes in the vineyard and on arrival at the cellars. The domaine Rossignol-Trappet has, for several years now, been farmed bio-dynamically and we are convinced that it is this that keeps their vines producing fruit of a quality and health far superior to many of their neighbours. Their '08 reds have a concentration that others struggle to rival. (read more)
Our Price: £751.00
2008 Santenay 'Charme', Domaine Bachelet Monnot, En Primeur 12 Bottles Per Case
The Bachelet brothers own 6 hectares of the 1er cru vineyard 'La Fussiere' in Maranges, which probably makes them the biggest land owners in this appellation. Their sons, Marc and Alix, have set out to rival them and rent vineyards from their fathers as well as others. They distinguish themselves by adding their mother's maiden name, Monnot, to their label. They started with 7 hectares in 2005 and now farm 13, including some of Madame Monnot's well-sited Puligny vineyards. (read more)
Our Price: £204.00
2008 Morellino Di Scansano, Serpaia, Maremma, Endrizzi
Subjects of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Endrici (Endrizzi in local dialect) family arrived in northern Italy in 1885 and established a formidable estate at the foot of the Dolomites. More recently, the Endrizzis descended from lofty Trentino to purchase Tuscan estate Serpaia. Application of biodynamic techniques has resulted in impressive wines like this. "A very appealing and straightforward wine. Good acidity and plenty of jammy fruit with a Wine & Spirit, May 2008 (read more)
Our Price: £9.00
2008 Valpolicella 'Corte Del Pozzo', Fasoli Gino,
Natalino Gino's father went 'green' twice over. First the herbicides he'd been advised to spray on his vineyards (planted by patriarch Amadio Gino in 1925) to the west of the Veneto's Soave region made him unwell. As a result, in 1980 he set out to achieve organic certification, finally succeeding ten years later. The Corte del Pozzo range is sourced from neighbouring vineyards which conform to the Fasoli's organic standards. (read more)
Our Price: £10.00
2007 Chassagne Montrachet, Domaine Henri Germain
Roast duck (save the fat for roasting potatoes) is a winner with this ripe, pungent, raspberry, redcurrant and woodsmoke-scented Pinot Noir. Henri Germain acquired winemaking skills at his family's Château de Chorey-les-Beaune before setting up independently in 1973. Based in Meursault, he also owns vineyards further south having wed astutely (his wife is a Pillot of Chassagne) - and an able successor in son Jean-François (now running the estate). (read more)
Our Price: £24.00
2009 Chenas, Domaine Champagnon, Beaujolais
The lush, green, rolling hills of Beaujolais are home to many different styles, with surprising degrees of variation given the near complete domination of the Gamay grape. Ten 'cru' villages on granite hills to the north of the region are home to the most substantial wines, and Chénas is renowned for producing some of the longest-lived wines. This is youthful yet sturdy, with plenty of vibrant raspberry fruit. Lovely drinking with roast poultry or soft cheeses. (read more)
Our Price: £9.00
2006 Volnay Villages, Domaine Joseph Voillot
Jean-Pierre Charlot fashions this Côtes de Beaune Pinot with loving care. This is a vintage for enjoying now, with lively, fresh red fruit, with a touch of red cherry astringency - a great match for casseroled partridge. (read more)
Our Price: £19.00
2006 Gevrey Chambertin, Domaine Rossignol Trapet
It is always a pleasure to visit this estate. They are so careful, nay meticulous, in their vineyard management (biodynamic) and cellar work that the wines are always nothing but well made and characterful. (read more)
Our Price: £18.00
2006 Chorey Les Beaune 'Piece Du Chapitre', Domaine Tollot Beaut
The vineyards lie immediately to the north of Beaune and opposite the hill of Aloxe Corton. Family owned, and run on organic principles, this has a hint of creamy oak wrapped around attractive black-fruit and strawberry tones. (read more)
Our Price: £16.00