Wine

The 2022 Chardonnay VGW opens with alluring tones of flint and matchstick that give way to golden apples quince lemongrass toast and allspice. The medium-bodied palate is satiny and expansive with concentrated savory flint-laced... Read More

With the same Eola-Amity Hills sourcing as the Richard Hermann bottling the Freya Hermann Cuvée spends additional time in elévage spending two full years in barrel. Reductive yet unctuous with a stunning texture owing to the... Read More

The 2022 Chardonnay Kathryn Hermann Cuvée is fantastically spicy offering layers of peach graham cracker matchstick and coriander seed on the nose. The medium-bodied palate has a luxuriously silky texture and highly concentrated... Read More

The 2022 Pinot Noir VGR is youthfully flinty to begin requiring plenty of air to reveal blackberry rhubarb cinnamon stick and woodsy undertones. The medium-bodied palate offers expansive layered flavors. It’s balanced by juicy... Read More

The 00 Chardonnay is made with a heavy pressing and allowed to oxidise before fermentation an old Burgundian method from the last century referred to as Black Chardonnay. The wines then sit with the heavy lees in the barrel with... Read More

The 2022 Chardonnay Seven Springs is dynamic and expressive! White peach lemongrass and panna cotta are underpinned by wafts of flint allspice honey and almonds on the nose and as it opens in the glass it reveals soaring floral... Read More

The NV Brut Blanc de Blancs Solera is made from Chardonnay picked in Fèrebrianges Etoges Congy and Sézanne based half on the 2020 vintage and half on a perpetual reserve started in 2013. Serene aromas of creaminess and golden... Read More

From 65-year-old vines and vinified in fuders until mid-April this year the 2019 Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Trocken is concentrated and flinty on the detailed complex highly aromatic yet refined and slatey nose. Crystalline and... Read More

The floral perfumed and expressive 2019 Cardia Pombeiras was produced with Mencía from 40-year-old vines on slate soils 0.16 hectares. It fermented with some 30% full clusters and indigenous yeasts and matured in used French... Read More

The grapes for the 2019 Cardia Seoane Baja come from the middle of the slope of this vineyard in Doade in the Amandi subzone of Ribeira Sacra. It is a blend of 80% Mencía and 20% Garnacha Tintorera and matured in French barriques... Read More

The 2019 Cazoga Cepas Centenarias comes from a steep slope planted in 1910 on shallow granite soils. The vines deliver very low yields (less than 2000 kilos per hectare) and it fermented with 25% full clusters and indigenous yeasts... Read More

The 2019 Champagne Elevage Long is entirely Pinot Noir and is the most robust wine in the range with the base wine aged for two years in barrel. Revealing notes of fresh baked bread licorice wet stone and Amarena black cherries... Read More

The NV Extra Brut Le Cépage Grand Cru Verzy is a pure Pinot Noir. The mellow creaminess of oak is im

Sourced from 25 small plots of vines spread across the village of Verzy Renoir's latest NV Verzy Grand Cru Le Terroir (2021 base) is a blend of equal parts Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Based on the 2021 vintage and complemented... Read More

Based on the 2020 vintage, and incorporating some 5% still red wine, Renoir's debut NV Extra-Brut Rosé d'Assemblage Les 2 Terroirs bursts with notes of orange zest, cherries and plums. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy... Read More

Cask sample. Spicy oak on the nose creamy texture around sour-citrus freshness. Much the best of the Alain Chavy wines tasted today in terms of balancing fruit and acidity. Dry insistent tension on the finish. (JH) (Drink between... Read More

The 2021 Puligny-Montrachet Les Quatre Climats is a multi-climat blend mandated due to the frost. It has a well-defined quite minerally nose focused and gaining complexity with aeration. The palate is well balanced with a brisk... Read More