This lot love good pinot noir from Australia or New Zealand and this, grown close to Melbourne, is excellent. Victoria Moore, www.telegraph.co.uk, 18th Nov 2023

A calm but also bright and crystalline white, this blends the grassy freshness of sauvignon blanc (40%) with a lithe chardonnay. From a family producer, it unusually comes from muscadet-country – the western part of the Loire, near the city of Nantes. Victoria Moore, www.telegraph.co.uk, 18th Nov 2023

Gloriously lush, four-year-old chateauneuf that’s worth paying extra for. An ideal roast turkey wine. Fiona Beckett, www.theguardian.com, 10th Nov 2023

Two Paddocks makes beautiful pinot noir in one of the world’s best pinot noir regions. Picnic is a joy; fragrant like red cherries and peonies then vibrant and silky to drink, with a touch of spice. Needs pouring into a jug to air a bit before drinking. Score: 9.5/10 Victoria Moore, www.telegraph.co.uk, 19th Oct 2023

I have just returned from my annual pilgrimage to Piemonte, in North-West Italy, to taste every elite bottle I could find to finish my 2023 Piemonte Report. The weather was unseasonably warm, so every red wine I ordered in restaurants would have been ruined at 35C air temperature were it not for the ever-excellent bar […]

Bone dry, a pinkish cherry-blossom colour and with a faintly floral smell that is suggestive of distant raspberry canes and lavender fields, this is a rosé to buy by the case and drink all summer long. Victoria Moore, www.telegraph.co.uk, 8th Jul 2023

Our Buying Director, Siobhán Astbury reports: Offering good value is an essential element of our business – a quality that was recognised in spades by Fiona Beckett of The Guardian on Friday 9th June. To quote from her article: Just because supermarkets have a monopoly on sub-£7 wines doesn’t mean they are cheapest for everything. […]

Ch Coustolle 2016 Canon-Fronsac Full bottle just 1,203 g. 70% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Malbec. Fronsac owner Alain Roux’s flagship property. Pale garnet. Some attractive evolution on the nose. Gentle (in terms of structure) but not simple and still with admirable Fronsac freshness. Not a blockbuster but really beautifully fresh. You want more! Quite […]

I have been buying this wine every year since it first landed on our shores back in 2006. It’s funny how brands come and go; some skyrocket, then fizzle, and others ghost off, never to be seen again. Powerhouse rosés like Mirabeau and Whispering Angel forge forwards with ever-increasing volumes and, to my mind, quality. […]

Full bottle 1,327 g. Certified organic. From vines planted between 2011 and 2015. Unoaked and aged for 12 months on fine lees. Unfined. Light nose – more discreet than the 2021 Mâcon-Chaintré. Excellent acidity that’s already well integrated with the ripe-enough fruit. I’d hold this for a few months before enjoying it but it’s very […]

Full bottle 1,326 g. Certified organic. From vines planted between 1968 and 1985. Unoaked and aged for 12 months on fine lees. Unfined. Broad, ripe on the palate with some green notes but quite high toned. Already approachable. 16 Jancis Robinson, www.jancisrobinson.com, 25th May 2023

Matthew Jukes’ tasting notes on a selection of our 2023 spring shipments from Bordeaux. 2019 Château Frontenac, Bordeaux Superieur Made from 40% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Cabernet Franc, this is a gluggable little beauty, and the first thing I wrote in my notes was ‘Parisian brasserie classic’! It reminds me of the youthful, […]

Full bottle just 1,268 g. 40% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Cabernet Franc grown on a 35-ha estate in Pineuilh on a hillside overlooking the Dordogne. After a four-week maceration it’s aged for two years in concrete. Transparent garnet. Fully ripe fruit with fully ripe tannins and no great complexity but an attractive mix of […]

Full bottle just 1,249 g. 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot grown by the Listrac vignerons Gobinaud. 30% of the wine is aged in French oak barrels for 18 months. Dark garnet. Intense nose. Attractively mineral, ‘stony’ impression on the palate. Good to see an Haut-Médoc that’s majority Cabernet Sauvignon … Really sappy and interesting. Dry […]

Full bottle just 1,203 g. 70% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Malbec. Fronsac owner Alain Roux’s flagship property. Pale garnet. Some attractive evolution on the nose. Gentle (in terms of structure) but not simple and still with admirable Fronsac freshness. Not a blockbuster but really beautifully fresh. You want more! Quite long too. A six-and-a-half-year-old […]