Category Archives: Wine Reviews
2017 Cent Visages, Touraine Côt, Jean-François Merieau
A couple of years ago I wrote six columns for the short-lived, highbrow, erotic magazine [...]
2018 Ritou Syrah, Vin de France, Domaine Vallet
Domaine Vallet Ritou Syrah 2018 Vin de France is a gleaming syrah, with a plume [...]
2018 Ritou Viognier, Vin de France, Domaine
When it comes to white I naturally incline to dry, focused wines with a clean [...]
2018 Chiroubles, Domaine de la Grosse Pierre
Chiroubles is one of my favourite Beaujolais Crus (the 10 jewels in the Beaujolais crown [...]
2018 Lagrein, Kellerei Kurtatsch, Alto Adige
A wonderful example of northern Italy’s Lagrein grape – deep coloured and bathed in black [...]
Coates & Seely Rosé Brut NV
This sophisticated pink fizz has emerged as one of England’s finest. Its tantalising aromas of [...]
2018 Quincy Villalin, Domaine Jacques Rouzé
Quincy is one of the Sancerre satellites and typically a step above Touraine sauvignon but [...]
2018 Mas Bres Pinot Noir, Cévennes
Holiday pinot noir that seems to have a faint waft of lavender and blowsy florals [...]
2018 Domaine Pique Roque Rosé, Côtes de Provence
I hadn’t tasted this palest pink wine when I wrote my recent top rosés list [...]
2018 Domaine Pique Roque Rosé, Côtes de Provence
I was lucky to see a very early sample of this wine and it is [...]
2017 Pleno Tempranillo, Navarra
Tempranillo is the rioja grape, but this is from the northern Spanish region of Navarra. [...]
2017 Basa Blanco, Rueda, Telmo Rodriguez
It’s the streamlined shape of this elegant wine that makes it such a pleasure. It’s [...]
2017 Touraine Sauvignon, Domaine de la Bergerie
…this is altogether sleeker and more refined – a real mini sancerre. Very finely delineated, [...]
2017 Chianti Colli Senesi, Campriano
…I knew that ’17 Campriano was special and, of course, it is. This is one [...]
2017 Ritou Syrah, Vin de France, Domaine Vallet
Made from vines that grow outside St-Joseph in the northern Rhône, this opens with a [...]