Category Archives: Wine Reviews
2019 Domaine Pique Roque Rosé, Côtes de Provence
An extremely good, shimmeringly pale pink made up in the hills of the Var department [...]
2019 Quincy Villalin, Domaine Jacques Rouzé
This is scintillating Sauvignon Blanc comes from a village called Quincy, which is just down [...]
Matthew Jukes’ Recommendations on SheerLuxe’s Podcast
A superb trio of recommendations from Matthew Jukes on SheerLuxe’s podcast: I have a £100 [...]
2019 La Petite Muraille, Le Champ des Murailles, Corbières Rosé
Corbières, in the south-west of France, is famous for its hearty red wines, but this [...]
2016 Château La Guérinières, Saint-Emilion
…Haynes Hanson & Clark have long worked harder than most at sniffing out the bordeaux [...]
2016 Château Barreyre, Bordeaux
I taste up to 40,000 wines a year and I can tell you that it [...]
2018 Saumur-Champigny Les Poyeux, Domaine des Sanzay
Cabernet franc grown in the south-west facing vineyard of Les Poyeux: ample and plump like [...]
2016 Château Paret, Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux
A superb specimen of an unassuming red bordeaux. Fresh, clean and unoaked, it is built [...]
2019 Racine Picpoul de Pinet, Bruno Lafon & François Chamboissier
Haynes, Hanson & Clark is a London-based wine merchant whose buyers favour wines that are [...]
2019 La Fruitière Vignes Blanches, Val de Loire IGP, Famille Lieubeau
Well-integrated ingredients make a most attractive whole with a bit more body than the simplest [...]
2016 Château Paret, Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux
80% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon. Close to the border with St-Émilion. Unoaked. Straightforward crimson. Very [...]
2015 Clos Sainte Anne, Côtes de Bordeaux
From Marie and Sylvie Courselle, ‘vigneronnes épicuriennes’, daughters of Francis Courselle of Ch Thieuley. This [...]
2019 Domaine Pique Roque Rosé, Côtes de Provence
Very pale, distinctly orangey, salmon Provençal colour. Lightly smoky nose. Saline and fresh with some [...]
2017 Château Roc de Levraut, Bordeaux
There is one merchant in the UK whose innate understanding of inexpensive red Bordeaux (as [...]
2019 Domaine Pique Roque Rosé, Côtes de Provence
I have written up and also bought this wine every vintage for well over a [...]