Pinot Noir
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£13.77
Bottle 12 x 75cl 2cs
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£15.95
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£15.96
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Catriona Felstead MW – Wine Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd
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£17.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 355cs
Oliver Barton, Wine Buyer
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£18.45
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£19.25
Adam Bruntlett, Wine Buyer
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£19.25
Bottle 12 x 75cl 16cs
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£19.50
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£19.50
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£19.50
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Adam Bruntlett, Wine Buyer
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£19.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 124cs
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£19.95
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£20.76
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£21.95
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“Those who did the work in the vineyards will find it paid off in 2014”, opines Laurent Fournier. There is no problem with concentration if the yields were reasonable. He went through the vineyards twice, at the end of August and again just before picking, to remove any bunches he was not happy with. Even then he discarded two small plots of Clos du Roy so as to ensure that what made it to barrel, and then bottle, was first-rate. As indeed it is.
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£22.50
Bottle 6 x 75cl 14cs
Their village Pinot Noir is no exception. Here, punnets of sweet ripe strawberries are balanced by herbal aromatics and fine-grained tannins.
Katherine Dart MW, Wine Buyer
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£22.75
Bottle 12 x 75cl 3cs
Tasting with David Croix at Camille Giroud is always a pleasure, especially so this year as the range of 2014s is delicious. David feels that the wines are all about drinkability and balance rather than exceptional power. His theory is that the great start to the growing season kept the vines healthy through the cool, damp summer.
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£22.80
Jasper Morris MW, Wine Buyer
Laurent Fournier has made beautiful wines in 2015, keeping him cheerful during the trickier 2016 growing season. He began with his whites on 8th September before attacking the reds, finishing by 16th September. There was no need for sorting the completely healthy grapes nor for extraction because all came out naturally. The wines have been matured in a mix of bigger and normal-sized barrels. There is also an excellent Bourgogne Rouge Le Chapitre.
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£22.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 153cs
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£23.50
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£23.95
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Adam Bruntlett, Burgundy Buyer
David Moreau took over part of his octogenerian grandfather’s domaine in Santenay in 2009. Prior to that, he worked with Olivier Lamy, Domaine de la RomanéeConti, and at Neudorf in New Zealand. David now has seven hectares in production and has made significant changes in both viticulture and vinification. The vineyards were almost all planted in the 1960s, so David has old vines to work with. He will soon become president of the local vine-growers syndicat a measure of the regard in which he is held. Once again, David is very happy with this year’s results. There was very little frost damage this far south and all his wines performed well in our barrel tastings. There is a confidence in David’s winemaking that raises expectations for some outperforming wines from this lesser-known part of Burgundy. The purity and transparency of 2016 suits his range very well.
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£23.95
Bottle 6 x 75cl 52cs
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£25.00
Bottle 12 x 75cl 4cs
Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate. 31st December 2015.
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£25.00
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£25.00
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£25.00
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£25.00
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Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer
Harvest began during the last week in September and finished just before the storm. There was less whole bunch vinification for the wines affected by hail, but Volnay Taillepieds, Pommard Rugiens, Corton Clos du Roi and the wines from the Côte de Nuits were all predominantly vinified with their stems.
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£26.50
Bottle 12 x 75cl 33cs
dominate the nose. The palate combines fresh
acidity with a relatively voluptuous mouth-feel, and
tannins rendered supple by 14 months in one-yearold
oak barrels, then two years in bottle. There’s a
hint of sweet spice on the finish, which is long and
impeccably balanced. Drink now to 2025.
Adam Bruntlett, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£26.95
Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or.
Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.
The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.