New BBX
Keenly priced big-name wines are what BBX does best. Below is a list of all BBX wines listed over the past 7 days.
H/Bottle 12 x 37.5cl 1cs
Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
Our best-selling wine for many decades, GOC, as it is known, brilliantly highlights the sheer drinkability of modern red Bordeaux. Bright, medium ruby in colour, with a siren-like nose of black cherries, bramble fruit and wood smoke, it is instantly appealing. The palate follows through with delicious, juicy, black fruit and a long, velvety finish. Equally at home with a weekday supper or a grand Sunday roast, it is the perfect wine for all occasions.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Since its first vintage in 2002, “EOC”, as it is known, has become one of our best-selling wines. The fruit for this Claret comes from a beautiful Graves estate belonging to the JM Cazes family, one of the great names in Bordeaux. Merlot dominates the nose, with heady, cherry-laden fruit and sweet, dark chocolate aromas. Cabernet comes through more on the palate, with blackcurrant and cedar wood much more to the fore. There is structure and weight here, but all wrapped in a very drinkable, traditional style. Drink now, with roast lamb, beef and mature hard cheeses.
D. Magnum 1 x 300cl 1cs
Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate. 30th December 2016.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Edwin Dublin, Champagne & Sparkling Wine Specialist
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer
Monsieur Sorrel compares 2011 to 2000 and advises that it has produced the highest crop since 2001. The modestly temperate and relatively lengthy growing season has produced wines of real clarity and definition, highlighting the personalities of the individual vineyards involved. He is especially proud of the wines from Crozes, for which he has hitherto been less famous.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Katherine Dart MW - Wine Buyer, June 2017
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
A member of the Alliance des Crus Bourgeois du Medoc.
Robert Parker- Wine Advocate- Feb 2013
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Drink 2016-2024.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Max Lalondrelle - Fine Wine Buying Director
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
When the energetic Nicolas Potel finds time to sleep we don't know! Not satisfied by running a successful négociant business with an excellent and wide range of wines, he has turned his eye to some personal vineyard holdings under the name "Domaine de Bellene".
All of his 2009 wines were extremely impressive and his St Romain Blanc from Bellene is no exception. Lovely, ripe, tropical fruits fill the glass, which brims with red apples and mangoes. A fleshy body is backed up by grippy acidity and a delicious earthy minerality. Great aromatics, charming structure, excellent price - my best buy of the vintage.
Fine Wine Team
The delicious juicy bouquet is followed by fresh yellow plum and lemon fruit, along with impressive body. There's no trace of any new wood, such is the concentration of fruit – it’s very intense. Stimulating, with plenty of body - muscle rather than fat – it also has a lovely finish
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Thalabert has become synonymous with great value, age-worthy wines that are superior to most growers’ Hermitages. This is an incredibly well made and high quality wine at an almost criminally low price.
For many years Jaboulet was run by Gérard Jaboulet, who was one of the great ambassadors for Rhône wines, tirelessly travelling the world and promoting the virtues of Hermitage. He died suddenly in 1997 and the firm was then run by Philippe & Jacques Jaboulet, until 2006 when the real-estate entrepreneur Jean- Jacques Frey purchased the company.
The Frey family has large holdings in the Champagne house Billecart-Salmon and also owns Château La Lagune in Bordeaux so their credentials for taking over this illustrious estate could hardly be better.
Jacques and Nicolas Frey are now involved in the day-to-day running of Maison Jaboulet, while Caroline Frey, the eldest daughter, is at the helm of the wine-making team that also draws on the expertise of well-known wine consultant Denis Dubordieu. Under Caroline’s leadership, in 2006, the vineyards earned Sustainable Farming status and winegrowing is on course for conversion to biodynamic certification.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
Magnum 3 x 150cl 1cs
This has a bright cherry perfume with a sweet core that persists on the finish; wild berries and herbs give additional complexity and interest. The tannins are quite firm, but the juicy concentration helps soften their appearance. Drink now to 2022.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Álvaro Palacios, whose family owns the prestigious Rioja Bodega, Palacios Remondo, spent two years at Château Pétrus before setting up on his own in Priorat in 1989. From the very beginning, he set out to produce world-class wines by using fruit from extremely low-yielding old vines and by applying ultramodern winemaking techniques. The cream of the crop is the single vineyard wine L'Ermita, which was first produced in 1993. Arguably the most individual red wine in Spain, it is certainly now the most expensive.
Bottle 3 x 75cl 4cs
Bottle 3 x 75cl 3cs
Ben Upjohn - Fine Wine Sales Manager Brilliantly aromatic, and distinctively Marlborough! ‘Intense’ is over-used in wine tasting notes, but it’s needed when describing this Sauvignon. Heaps of gooseberries, pepper, and herbaceous notes on the nose, gooseberry, passion fruit and elderflower all mingle beautifully on the palate. This is superbly refreshing and wonderfully balanced, this will hit all the right spots on one of those UK summer days.
Ben Grosvenor, Private Account Manager
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Magnum 4 x 150cl 1cs
Magnum 4 x 150cl 1cs
Domaine Montirius is an impeccable biodynamic estate that produces wines of brilliant richness and depth with the characteristic notes of Provençal herb and personality. This is really great quality at a really great price.
(Stuart Rae, BBR Fine Wine)
More elegant than previously, this cuvée, which is made up of 80% old-vine Grenache and 20% Mourvèdre, still boasts astonishing concentration and very powerful tannins, so fear not those who love robust Gigondas with their game dishes. I think the tannin management is better than ever this year and beyond all the power and glory there is a purity and focus which is extremely impressive!
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer, February 2012)
Christine and Eric Saurel own 60 hectares mostly on the Plateau des Garrigues which overlooks the villages of Vacqueyras and Sarrains, all of which they have farmed on biodynamic principles for an incredible 16 years. Blue and monmorate ‘petrus’ clay soils contribute to the astonishing flavours coaxed from these old vines. Christine describes her goals in terms of ‘luminosité’, an intangible and almost ethereal term yet one which seems strangely appropriate and which can only be properly explained by tasting the wines themselves, which are a far cry from traditional styles from these villages.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer
Michel Chapoutier’s somewhat idiosyncratic etymological dissection of the word ‘biodynamic’ (life and dynamics) neatly summarises his hyperactive and life-enhancing approach to virtually everything, not to mention his favoured approach to viticulture. Time in the presence of the great man is far from dull; his behaviour, indeed, is far from predictable. One can only predict that his wines will be fantastic year-in, year-out – which is quite an achievement.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 3cs
Under the gifted management of Gilles Marguet, Le Mesnil is making stunning Grand Cru Champagnes from Chardonnay. With an unrivalled provenance and over two years’ bottle-ageing, our own-label Blanc de Blancs has a generous floral nose, a deliciously refreshing, yet rich palate and a clean, satisfying finish. The perfect apéritif for festivities, this Champagne is an absolute winner every time.
Under the gifted management of Gilles Marguet, Le Mesnil is making stunning Grands Crus Champagnes from Chardonnay. With an unrivalled provenance and over two years’ bottle-ageing, the wine has a generous floral nose, a deliciously refreshing, yet rich palate and a clean, satisfying finish. The perfect apéritif for festivities, this Champagne is an absolute winner every time.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director
Olivier Lamy began harvesting early for certain plots (on 16th September) and then took the time to pick individual vineyards as they ripened. It proved to be a small but perfectly healthy vintage in St Aubin, with superbly concentrated wines. Olivier has decided to use very little new oak; 20% for his red wines and none for the white. The reds didn’t need much sorting and the colours and fruit extract came out very quickly in the fermenting vat. A great vintage chez Lamy but, alas, a very small one, though it is enhanced by the addition of one or two new vineyards.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Director
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
This is an especially fine and pretty kirsch red fruited example of the the Cannubi vineyard in the village of Barolo, as made by the Borgogno family at the vineyard's heart, from the sunny, earlier drinking 2011 vintage: a blend of three different parcels of Cannubi, 'Cane' (named after the previous owenr), 'Nuova' and 'Battista' (the most favoured, south facing), vinified by owner Marco, his daughter Emanuela and their new enologo Luca, this particular bottling comes from one single 50hl slavonian botte (barrel) # 19, selected by me.
Pale strawberry red in colour, the nose sings with delicate strawberry and tea leaf notes, refined and persistent; to taste meanwhile, it's generously fleshy, with sumptuous summer fruit, fresh and lively. Indeed it possesses an almost glass slipper quality, with porcelain cassis fruit and immense charm. Bottled mid December 2014, having been fermented in large oak before being racked to botte #19, the three years' wood ageing has meant that no stabilising, clarifying or filtering has been required, so retaining the wine's intrinsic, stripping nothing away.
David Berry GreenBottle 6 x 75cl 4cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer
Benoît began harvesting on 26th September so almost everything was picked before the rain. Supply is down 30 percent because of the flowering but there was very little rot. It all passed off without problem during vinification and in the cellar.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Chris Pollington – Private Account Manager
Located in Sicily ’s south-eastern Val di Noto province, the landscape of which is dominated by the red-loam-over-whitelimestone soils and dry-stone walls of the Iblei Mountain plateau, and by such beautiful towns such as Siracusa, Vittoria and Modica; this is a world away from Etna, which looms on the horizon. The Occhipinti family is synonymous with the Frappato grape that underpins Siciliy’s only DOCG: Cerasuolo di Vittoria. Arianna kicked off in 2004, making wines in a family farmhouse, before transferring, in 2013, to a purposebuilt winery, where her 22 hectares of Frappato and Nero d’Avola, along with 1.5 hectares of intense Albanello and Zibibbo white grapes, are vinified using cement and Stockinger barrels (made of Slavonian, German and Austrian oak)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 2cs
Chris Pollington - Private Account Manager
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Dense, firm fruit is complemented by soft, bountiful tannins and refreshing acidity. As with many wines in 2011 low alcohol prevails and this will make for a beautiful lunch or picnic wine from 2014 onwards.
Gary Owen, Private Account Manager
This cuvée has developed an amazing following over the last few vintages. It has real energy with notes of violets and dark raspberries and good acidity. The 80-year-old vines could well be the reason for its success. This is not to be missed.
Jasper Morris MW, Berrys' Burgundy Director These are brilliant wines once again from David Croix and his team at Camille Giroud and fortunately they were able to make a little more wine this year than last. Alhough the white selection is small, the wines are just as fine as the reds. David has made some inspirational wines from less fancied appellations such as Maranges and Santenay, as well as majoring on the Grands Crus of Corton and the Chambertins. Almost all of the wines are from purchased grapes, but somehow Camille Giroud feels to us much more like a domaine.
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Our best-selling wine for many decades, GOC, as it is known, brilliantly highlights the sheer drinkability of modern red Bordeaux. The wine is made for us by Dourthe, which owns several leading châteaux, but most importantly is brilliant at blending fruit from around the region to create undeniably classic styles of red and white Bordeaux.
Bright, medium ruby in colour, with a siren-like nose of black cherries, bramble fruit and wood smoke, it is instantly appealing. The palate follows through with delicious, juicy, black fruit and a long, velvety finish. Equally at home with a weekday supper or a grand Sunday roast, it is the perfect wine for all occasions.