Now all our en primeur wines have been released I thought I should get back to recommending a few of my current favourites, drinking now and providing both quality and value in the less rarefied air away from Bordeaux. So, if you’re mixing a case do try the following. I’ve deliberately chosen ‘interesting’ wines which [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
First Growths, Yquem, Las Cases, Pavie
Friday 20 June 2008 – 14:15
Our final release of the campaign reads like a ‘who’s who’ of Bordeaux’s leading names, including first growths Latour, Lafite, Mouton and Haut-Brion plus the highly demanded Yquem. Aside from these superstars we have a pair of highly successful St-Juliens from Ducru-Beaucaillou and Léoville-Las-Cases, the latter being the highest scored wine of the vintage by [...]
Margaux, Palmer, Poyferré, Cos, Domaine de Chevalier…
Wednesday 11 June 2008 – 18:09
Margaux’s top two properties feature today. From the eponymous Margaux we have the sought-after grand vin at 21% less than our initial offer last year. Also released are the well-priced Pavillon Rouge and, for the first time, we have a small allocation of their hugely demanded white wine, Pavillon Blanc. Alter Ego de Palmer is [...]
Rethinking Soave
Tuesday 10 June 2008 – 8:55
Soave is a wine with an image problem. In the bad old days for Italian wines, mass-produced Soave lurked on the bottom shelf of supermarket Italian wine fixtures at very low prices, and correspondingly low quality levels. For such wines, neutrality was an asset. But just as regions such as Chianti and Valpolicella have enjoyed [...]
Léoville-Barton, Lynch Bages, Pontet Canet, Forts de Latour and more…
Wednesday 4 June 2008 – 11:15
Finally things are moving and we have a flood of new releases for you. We’ve passed on a lot of wines this year, so we can focus on the truly desirable wines that we’re confident in offering en primeur. All our favourite mid-priced châteaux are here: the hugely popular Léoville-Barton; an extremely impressive Pontet Canet; [...]
Majestic
Richard Weaver
Gary Bates
Jeremy Palmer
Clayton Smith
Nick Dagley
Bethany Guard
Becky Leach
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William James
