Bottle
£25.50
Bottle 12 x 75cl 3cs
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£29.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl 8cs
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£29.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl 2cs
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£35.00
Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
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£39.00
Bottle 12 x 75cl 11cs
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£39.95
Bottle 12 x 75cl 2cs
DeSante is a small grower and their Cabernet comes from the prestigious Oakville area within the Napa Valley, home to some of the most highly regarded and sought-after wines in California. I love this Cabernet: although it displays the typical generosity and power of a Napa Cabernet, there is a purity and elegance that defines the wine and makes it incredibly accessible. Wines of this quality can be rather expensive and unaffordable, but DeSante – who make only 1,000 cases in total – really deliver with this wine, both in terms of price and quality.
Fiona Hayes, Wine Buyer (winter 2018)
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Bottle
£45.50
Bottle 12 x 75cl 11cs
Katharine and David spend a day in the cooperage every vintage, making sure that the toasting is suited to the vintage conditions – just another example of their meticulous attention to detail. This cuvée is aged for 10 months in 50 percent new oak. The fruit comes entirely from Oakville. Despite being a trickier vintage, Desante has managed to obtain balance between the 14.5 percent alcohol, ripe fruit and chalky tannins. The wine offers cassis, liquorice, clove and ripe red-fruit aromas, with warm, spicy notes on the finish.
Fiona Hayes, Wine Buyer
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Bottle
£50.97
Bottle 12 x 75cl 4cs
A blend of Alicante Bouschet and Petite Sirah, only one barrel of this wine is produced. The fruit undergoes whole-cluster fermentation, and if the team feels the wine needs more acidity, they add white varieties. The nose offers red fruits and floral aromatics with a blueberry top-note. The tannins are firm and fine-grained, balanced by a juicy fruit core with a long finsih. This wine defines the style of Desante, offering great concentration and complexity as well as restraint and freshness.
Fiona Hayes, Wine Buyer
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Bottle
£53.97
Bottle 12 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle
£55.00
Bottle
£63.00
Bottle 12 x 75cl 10cs
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£89.00
Bottle 12 x 75cl 2cs
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£115.00
Bottle 12 x 75cl 7cs
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 16cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle
£215.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 12cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 31cs
Bottle
£215.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 70cs
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
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Bottle 3 x 75cl 31cs
The 2013 Cardinale Proprietary Red Wine is dense purple-colored, a big, sweet kiss of crème de cassis as well as licorice, blackberry and espresso are all present in this full-bodied, rather sublime and intense Cabernet Sauvignon that should drink well for 25 or more years. This was aged in about 91% new French oak for 18-20 months prior to bottling. It is certainly one of the finest Cardinales I have tasted in my experience.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - The Wine Advocate, Oct 2015
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 27cs
Bottle
£295.00
The wines from the extremely hot drought year, 2014, were just bottled prior to my visit. The 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon reflects the vintage’s precociousness and front-end loaded, flattering style. It is medium to full-bodied, shows beautiful fruit purity, deep black raspberry and blackcurrant fruit, moving toward blacker berries. There is a floral characteristic, spice, and a full-bodied, lush mouthfeel with silky tannin. Drink it over the next 25 years.
Robert M. Parker, The Wine Advicate (autumn 2016)
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Bottle
£315.00
Bottle 3 x 75cl 17cs
Bottle
£315.00
Bottle 3 x 75cl 82cs
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Bottle 3 x 75cl 10cs
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Magnum 1 x 150cl 12cs
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Magnum 1 x 150cl 1cs
Component lots received an average of 18 days of skin contact during fermentation and maceration before aging in 100% new French oak barrels for 17½ months. The 2013 Opus One is composed of 79% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Cabernet Franc, 6% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot, and 2% Malbec.
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Bottle
£403.00
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Bottle 3 x 75cl 6cs
Bottle
£456.00
Bottle 3 x 75cl 19cs
Bottle
£465.00
Case price (Bottle 3 x 75cl)
Bottle 3 x 75cl 6cs
The nose offers aromas of orange blossom and white stone-fruits, combined with fennel and citrus aromas. There is a saline core to the wine, with nervy acidity and a waxy texture on the palate. Lemon verbena and apricot notes continue on the finish. Drink now to 2020.