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This wine hails from sleepy Roero, 15 miles from Barolo, with a softer climate and sandy soils. Sandrone’s Valmaggiore vineyard is serene and, in places, very steep; the wine is made naturally and gently. It is stylistically adjacent to Pinot Noir.
Crunchy & refreshing.
100% Nebbiolo.

A crisp, mineral, and textured Lugana from one of Italy’s smallest DOCs near to lake Garda, made form indigenous grape Turbiana

Il Poggione is one of the stars of Brunello di Montalcino, perfectly combining lovely modern-style fruit with freshness and verve. Lovely and fleshy on the nose with that quintessential, tell-tale Sangiovese meatiness, underpinned with notes of redcurrants.

Supple and fleshy on the palate too, spicy red and black fruit notes, mouth-watering acidity and fine, well-integrated tannins. Very good and tempting to drink now, but it will repay a few years in the cellar with more harmony and roundness. Drink 2018-2023.
Chris Pollington, Private Account Manager

Il Poggione is a winery steeped in history with its origins dating back to the late 1800s. Owned by Leopoldo and Livia Franceschi , it is situated below the beautiful hilltop town of Sant’Angelo in Colle, a part of the Brunello di Montalcino appellation characterised by a temperate, yet well-ventilated micro-climate. This benefits the grapes by maintaining refreshing acidity levels and extending their ripening time.

Father and son winemaking team Fabrizio and Alessandro Bindocci coax the best from these privileged vineyard sites; they are also proponents of a traditional wine-making style which includes submerging the cap with frequent pump overs (for more colour and tannin extraction), and ageing in large casks (so that wood flavours remain subtle and do not interfere with the natural expression of the Sangiovese and the Sant’Angelo terroir).

In the best vintages the wines demonstrate extraordinary development in bottle. Even better, prices have remained very reasonable, considering the superb quality of the wine. Poggione’s straight Brunello is one of the most fairly-priced, cellar worthy wines of the appellation. This is a benchmark property for fine, traditionally made Brunello capable of ageing superbly.
Chris Pollington- Private Account Manager

One-third Gamay, two-thirds Pinot, this has a brilliant dark colour with purple rim, a hedonistic, seductive nose: yes, please. Very pretty fruit that marries the two grapes perfectly; it’s absolutely beautiful. Drink 2018-2021.
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer

With prices in Burgundy still rising, even if often for understandable reasons, the appellations Bourgogne Blanc and Bourgogne Rouge are great places to look for affordable wines. You get the opportunity to drink wine from a top winemaker, from vines which are adjacent to the famous villages, and which will be accessible earlier. The 2005 Bourgognes Rouges are still delicious and youthful more than 10 years later, but most wines have been drinking well for a few years now. 

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Il Poggione have done it yet again with a wine of such great quality at such a great price point.  Yet another vintage that confirms this wines quality and status as one of the best in Montalcino.   The wine has a glossy appearance in the glass, almost opaque.  The 2013 has a more svelte quality than maybe the likes of the dark and powerful 2011 – this is a wine full of cherry, cranberry, red fruit on the nose with hints of thyme, coffee/mocha notes. Complex and enticing.  The palate is medium bodied, the acidity is crisp and cooling almost hiding the true depths of the fruit beneath.  Tannins beautifully integrated with a pepper , anise like length.  Very high quality. Resist the temptation to drink early, look at tucking in 2023 – 2030.
Stuart Rae, Private Account Manager

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The nose is surprisingly opulent and weighty, verging on the exotic even. The palate is succulent, not overly full bodied by any means – there is an intrinsic sense of balance here. Going back to the glass this is remarkably drinkable such is the balance and poise. The volume and weight of fruit is remarkable – plump, overt and fabulously moreish! Ideally try to give this 2 or 3 years in the cellar, but if not a quick decant will sufice! Now to late 2020s.
Gary Owen, Private Account Manager

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Mostly made from old vines from Les Cornières and a little bit of Les Charmes, the rich black-purple of the vintage is evident. There is a faint whiff of new oak at first (on account of the one third new barrels) but then the fruit takes over. Great density of flavour, rounded, generous and long.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director

We have been buying from David Moreau since his first vintage in 2009 and are delighted to have found such a class act at the southern end of the Côte de Beaune. There were little bits of hail in 2012 here but nothing very serious compared to other appellations. David chose to harvest relatively late, around 27th September, with yields between 18 and 33 hl/ha.
 

A new release in 2015, this superb dry Riesling is produced from Schoelhammer, a tiny historic vineyard of the Hugel family, ideally located in the heart of Schoeneberg. A renowned source of fine, ageworthy Rieslings, the 2007 Schoelhammer is no exception, an expression of the marl-rich terroir, complex and suave in style, released after ageing in famille Hugel's cellars. Starting to reveal its personality now, but with great potential for the long term.

A very classical style of Riesling which is coming into its own and I suspect, given time and patience, will give even more. Fresh and lively with clean citrus notes of verbena and gooseberry that bounce around on the palate. Perfectly balanced and leaves the palate feeling refreshed. One of the most amazingly long finishes that just goes on and on. Drink now or leave it for another ten years or so.
Ben Upjohn, Fine Wine Sales Manager

With the customer in mind, Hugel have redesigned their range to reflect the different levels of quality in very simple and International terms.
Hugel first and foremost is an advocate of the dry style of Alsace wine. Hugel wines are tight, structured, mineral and dry – unless they’re sweet.
The “Grossi Laüe" range is made from their top Grand Crus vineyards (Riesling from the Schoenenbourg and Gewurztraminer from the Sporen).

Finally, the crème de la crème “Schoelhammer” which is on par with the great Trimbach Clos St Hune. The tiny production of this single vineyard called “Schoelhammer” is proudly sitting at the top of the their range, made from only 30 rows of vines and with a mere 4,288 bottle production.