New Wines

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 black fruit and a long, velvety finish.
Max Lalondrelle - Wine Buyer 

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This excellent Chardonnay combines tropical fruit aromas with mouth-watering freshness, symptomatic of the cooling effect of the Humboldt Current – an Antarctic air flow that caresses Chile’s Pacific coast, just 50 kilometres from Javiera’s vineyards. This wine is food-friendly and fun.
Will Heslop, Buyer. Berry Bros. & Rudd

This has aromas of citrus, peach and stone fruit with a subtle marmalade nuance. The palate is ripe with citrus vibrancy, peach and nectarine. It has a rounded mouth-feel and smooth texture, displaying a good core of fruit and yet a creamy breadth too. Drink now to 2018.
Katherine Dart MW - Wine Buyer, June 2017

Fontarèche is one of the oldest vineyards of the Languedoc, with some of the plantings dating back as far as 1350. In 1682, the Mignard family purchased Château Fontarèche. Today, nine generations on, the family Lamy own and run the estate, with chief winemaker Vincent Dubernet at their side. The 160 hectares of vineyards have a wide range of soil types, making it possible to grow a diverse number of grape varieties.

This old-vine Corbières is ripe and generous in fruit, with a serious backbone of supple tannin and sweet spice. The nose is warming with red and blackberry fruit, rich and slightly jammy with an elegant floral lift. The palate is fleshy and juicy, with soft ripe tannins and a finish expressing soft liquorice and herbs. This is a wine made to marry red meat dishes, preferably smoked or grilled.

One of Alsace’s noble and lowest profile white grape varieties, but here raised on a plinth by the experienced hand of Pierre Gassmann, their calcareous Rorschwihr vineyards and the excellent, intense 2010 vintage. Pale lemon in colour, the nose sings with citrussy, sunny, hay-like aromas, with understated elegance. The medium bodied, off-dry palate is very pretty, with white currant – gooseberry even – crunchy fruit and freshness. Noble indeed. 
David Berry Green

A fruit forward style of Cahors, surprisingly soft and fleshy with notes of black current, blueberry and wood smoke on the nose. The palate is full of dark berry fruit  flavours and a small amount of Merlot added to the blend brings extra plummy notes. The tannins are soft and delicate and the finish longs for hearty south western cuisine such as confit de canard or Toulouse sausages.
Oliver Barton - Wine Buyer

Powdered sour cherries, cough mixture, ground cloves. A nose that reminds me of digestifs and Italian cocktails, a delicious apothecary nose. Gorgeous Italian tang, so packed with Morello cherry and fennel and lovage and caraway that my spine tingles. So bracingly fresh that I could almost convince myself that this is the wine to start the day with. Who wants to fill their bloodstream with unhealthy caffeine anyway?
Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com. 19th May 2017.

An unusual and hugely enjoyable wine from one of our favourite Petits Châteaux. L’Allouette is a blend of Sauvignon Gris (40%), Semillon (40%) and Sauvignon Blanc (20%), which is aged for six months in used barrels, with frequent stirring of the lees. Although recognisable as white Bordeaux, its tropical and stone fruit aromas, and seductive texture point to the New World – something winemaker Jérôme Bibey, who has worked in Margaret River, is happy to acknowledge.
A splendid accompaniment to fish pie.
Will Heslop, Buyer. Berry Bros. & Rudd.

Situated on one of the steeper hills of the property, this single vineyard cuvee comes from 55 year old vines that add concentration and complexity. Tropical and pineapple aromas have floral and citrus notes that run through the palate. The citrus core provides wonderful freshness and balance.
Fiona Hayes - Buyer

This comes from Spain’s surprisingly verdant and damp region of Galicia, in the northwest of the country. Bodega Sucesores de Benito San is among the most successful Galician producers of the hugely modish Albariño grape. Albariño is a relatively thick-skinned variety; in its best manifestations, such as this, the wine is rich, fullish of colour and gently spicy, with a generous and pleasing texture.

Albariño, with its thick skins, is well suited to the local climate, making wines high in both alcohol and acidity. This example has a lovely ripe peach character as well. 

A fraction paler than last year and lighter than one might expect of Bordeaux Rosé but this is very much fruit forward with spicy raspberry and strawberry flooding the palate. Generous in every sense.  Good acidity and so there’s plenty of freshness with some spice at the back of the palate.  Vibrant and easy to enjoy.  As ever I’m unshakeable in my belief that a wonderful Spring and Summer awaits, this 2016 will go down very well indeed.
Martyn Rolph, Private Account Sales Manager.

A fashionably pale Cinsault rosé but no pale imitation of its Provençal counterparts. Nowhere is Cinsault more highly prized by growers than Chile's Secano Interior DO and this illustrates why. As well as the expected red fruit aromas, there's a delicate floral note to the nose - appropriate, since Gallardía takes its name from a variety of South American daisy. The palate is bone dry, with a little more weight than its colour might suggest, but plenty of acidity.

The finish is not long or particularly complex but to dwell on that is to miss the point, like complaining that a summer dress isn't waterproof. Gallardía is refreshing, balanced, characterful and a versatile match for food. I will be drinking lots of it this summer whatever the weather.
Will Heslop - Buyer The 2014 Gallardía de Itata Cinsault Rosé is a super-pale pink, almost a blanc de noirs. Although the grapes are grown in Itata, the name of the valley cannot be used on the label -- as only 'noble' grapes are allowed under the name; so, it's sold under the appellation Secano Interior. They found a vineyard close to the sea, a fresh place to compensate Cinsault's low natural acidity and the grapes are harvested early. It's a delicate, fresh Rosé, very dry and with good acidity.

This could pass as a blanc de noirs, and the nose is almost of a white wine, floral with white fruit. The palate is lively, with good acidity; it is clean and fresh, and pert for the summer. Perfect now. Drink 2016-2017

De Martino offers an exciting portfolio of fresh, gastronomy-oriented wines. All the wines are produced with indigenous yeasts and without the help of any chemicals and only minimal amounts of sulphur. 2014 is a good vintage, fresh and with naturally limited yields.
90/100 Luis Gutierrez eRobertParker.com #222 Dec 2015

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Ch. Coutet is one of the largest Barsac properties and has been owned by the Baly family since 1977. Classified as a Sauternes Premier Cru Classé, Coutetis located in the south of the appellation. The wines are aromatically complex and lusciously concentrated.

Ch. Coutet is really pretty in 2013. It is rather light and more floral than many from this vintage and shows lots of engaging acidity. Focused, showing signs of dried apricots and even a little mango, this is very tasty wine indeed.