Recent tastings, information on our events and our growers, vintage updates, what we have been drinking, where we are eating and of course special offers on our wines!
Download the offer here Burgundy 2019 Vintage Report In our vintage report from last year, titled ‘The times, are they a-changing?’ we wondered if 2018 would be an outlier, or if such warm vintages were the new normal. Having tasted the 2019s and talked a lot about the historically precocious 2020 vintage, we can certainly […]
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Buy the wines in this offer on our online shop Robert and I are as proud of our ‘house’ wines as we are of anything we import. We work especially hard finding wines which offer the right combination of quality (high) and value (lots). I love wines like these, which I can open freely and […]
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Ex-Chateau Magnum Offer We have dug deep in the cellars of our friends at Château Grand Verdus in Bordeaux and unearthed some ready to drink magnums from top vintages. In most cases this is the last stock they had. Quantities are low – grab some today, please don’t delay! The Le Grix de la Salle family, […]
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Can there be a more arresting view for a vigneron than the panorama which greets the Morat family each morning as they throw open the shutters? To the north is the Roc de Vergisson and to the south the equally imposing Roc de Solutre, two massive limestone escarpments which dominate the landscape. On a clear […]
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After last month’s final flush of sunshine we are now into Autumn proper. It’s a brilliant time of year for wine, and food too. We reach for heartier reds and textured whites, they suit the food as well as the mood. Below we have selected six wines which we think will be delicious for drinking […]
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2018 is the best vintage yet for Delphine and Gregory Viennois, the innovative couple behind Irancy’s Maison de la Chapelle. These wines, from the north of Burgundy, not far from Chablis, are brilliantly characterful, offering flavours at once recognisably Burgundian as well as distinctive in their own right. The village Irancy, described as ‘beautifully pure and precise’ by […]
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Buy Domaine Tupinier-Bautista online “Manu Bautista is making some of the most expressive, complex, age-worthy reds in the Côte Chalonnaise right now.”Tim Atkin, Decanter Magazine January 2020 Manu Bautista, based in Mercurey in the Cote Chalonnaise, is an engaging man to taste with. A whirlwind of gestures, snorts, laughter, and general enthusiasm, it is clear […]
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Ice-cold crisp whites, maybe some bubbles for added refreshment, cool fruited reds served from an ice bucket, and of course rosés, versatile food wines as well as garden gluggers. When the sun shines, there is nothing as refreshing, afterall ‘wine is sunlight, held together by water’ in the words of Galileo. So, as the UK […]
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Refreshing wines below £14.00 I’m often asked what we drink at home, so please find a selection of our favourite summer wines below. Crisp, refreshing whites, a perfumed pink and lighter reds perfect for chilling. All coming in at under £14.00 a bottle and ideal for drinking over the next few months. To order simply email […]
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Jean-Paul’s 40th Vintage – Pre-shipment 2018 offer, Domaine focus and recent press reviews Back in February I attended a huge tasting in Paris to meet with growers and taste new vintages and new wines alike. I made several new discoveries, about more of which you will be hearing soon. Some of the very best wines I […]
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New vintages and discoveries from the cellars of our growers Over the last few weeks we have been busily arranging collections from our domaines across France. From Bordeaux we have a pair of wines from Chateau Langlet and the delicious second wine of much loved fifth growth Chateau Cantemerle. Moving south-west we have been lucky […]
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