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!
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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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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The sun is shining and the weather warming up, and that means Rosé. These days the refreshing, pale pink wines of Provence seem to be the favourite. With their light body and elegant fruit, they make perfect ice bucket wines for the summertime. We have shipped the wonderful wines of Domaine St Andre de Figuière […]
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There is something immensely comforting about these names, they are like old friends we know so well but still look forward to meeting; they always teach us something new. I haven’t written yards of purple prose about each bottle, now doesn’t seem the time for soil type and vineyard elevation; rather I have spent my […]
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2018 – The times, are they a-changing? The one word we heard more than any other while tasting the 2018s was ‘solar’, meaning warm, hot, influenced by the sun. Whether the 2018 vintage goes down as an outlier or the new normal remains to be seen, but what we do know is it was the […]
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8th November 2019 Just back in the office today from a visit to Burgundy. Perhaps the most interesting tasting was a three-hour appointment with Pierre-Jean Roty which included an in-depth visit to see the Tres Vieilles Vignes in Charmes-Chambertin, a walk through some of his other sites and a plate of Madame Roty’s epic gougères. […]
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“Those with a penchant for steely Chablis raised without oak should look no further…” Neal Martin, Wine Advocate #232 We are very pleased to have begun working with Domaine Gilbert Picq, a long term favourite of mine and a source of high quality, classical Chablis at excellent prices. Two weeks ago we visited to taste the […]
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When Robert and I visited Burgundy earlier this year one of the most impressive tastings we had was at Domaine Rodolphe Demougeot in Meursault. Having started in the early 1990s with a few vines inherited from his grandparents Rodolphe has now built his domaine to 8ha. Early on he stopped using chemicals, no herbicides, pesticides […]
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