2016 Rhône
Bottle
£13.95
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Bottle
£13.95
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Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£19.50
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Full of pure fruit with great energy and freshness, this organic, minimal-intervention and low-sulphur red is complex with flavours of red meat, black olive and thyme. Drink now to 2020.
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£21.50
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From a parcel of vineyards planted above the slopes of Côte-Rôtie, this red offers the same quality of winemaking found in Stéphane’s other cuvées at a fraction of the price. Rich in bramble fruit, it has soft gentle tannins with characteristic black pepper and violet notes. Drink now to 2021.
Bottle
£24.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 4cs
Matt Walls, Decanter (autumn 2017)
Bottle
£27.19
Bottle 6 x 75cl 11cs
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£37.50
Bottle 6 x 75cl 10cs
Bottle
£39.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 4cs
Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
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Crau plateau, have gifted this blend which is made up
of 80 percent Grenache, 10 percent Mourvèdre, seven
percent Syrah and three percent Cinsault. Gentle
extraction after a modest cold soak has been followed
by eighteen months ageing, shared between vat and
350 litre casks, none of which are new. Benchmark
Châteauneuf aromas of black olive and the scrub cede
to a dark and savoury palate, hugely textured and
with layers of potential. The 2016 calling cards of pure
acidity and elegant tannins are both present and the
finish is imperious. Drink 2020-2028.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£48.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 6cs
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
and if there was ever an illustration of Grenache
that is richly wrought, powerful and luxuriously
textured, yet still structured and not tipping over into
a decadent over-indulgence, then this would be it. The
herbal hints at the back of the palate ground the wine
magnificently; otherwise it’s an ethereal paean to
Provencal pleasure. Drink 2022-2028.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£60.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 39cs
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
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Case price (Bottle 12 x 75cl)
Bottle 12 x 75cl 58cs
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Magnum 6 x 150cl 4cs
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long cuvaison, gently executed and with minimal
pumping over; all the energy and power from the fruit
itself channelling the nutrients and character of the
vintage. Elevage was mainly in demi-muid, with very
few barriques employed, none of them new; the result
has ripe yet restrained fruit, with subtle aromatics of
violets and forest floor, and beautifully silky tannins
at the back of the mouth. Approachable, yet youthful at
the same time; a child for our time. Drink 2020-2024.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Bottle
£70.00
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Case price (Bottle 6 x 75cl)
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although I infer that the Sabons might vote for the
Chaupin. Hard to choose really. I love the dense, richly
complex, nervously adolescent splendour of this wine,
its strutting potential and plush, unending generosity,
a long and happy future definitively secured. Drink
2023-2030+.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
Matt Walls - Decanter 09/10/17
Case price (Magnum 1 x 150cl)
Magnum 1 x 150cl 9cs
Case price (D. Magnum 1 x 300cl)
D. Magnum 1 x 300cl 1cs
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Grenache, Syrah and 80-year-old Cinsault, the wine
is intense in colour and richly concentrated; savoury
notes and sweet dark cherry fruit join forces, with
pepper, liquorice and spice box in reserve. Plenty of
plush and polish and an almost Burgundian swagger.
A triumphant wine, almost as popular as the senior
wine and always a winner with Berry Bros. & Rudd
staff! Drink 2019-2022.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
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Gary Owen, Fine Wine Dept.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
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with 30 percent of the stems preserved in the
assemblage, this is an outstanding Cornas which
effortlessly combines rich, dark fruit with hints of
pepper, scrub, charcuterie and liquorice. The tannins
are poised and delicate, antithetical to the popular
concept of Cornas, yet gently, quietly persuasive and
running along the boardwalk of the wine’s powerful
and far from pedestrian appeal. Drink 2022-2028.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
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Mourvèdre and 80-year-old Grenache, the
Confidential 2010 is an outstanding effort, its weight
of dense black fruit beautifully complemented by
what Christine describes as salinity – a reference
to the pure minerality which underpins the wine’s
structure. Wonderfully balanced and almost
feminine, despite its power – a word seldom used in
this particular appellation. Drink 2021-2025.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
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might say, all matured in concrete, therefore a pure
and completely unadorned expression of the quality of
the fruit, all the more so as there has been only three
grams of sulphur added here. Astonishingly energising.
Drink 2022-2030.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
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kirsch fruit, supported by notes of ripe plum, Provence
herb and graphite. Half of the vines are located in
the norther and eastern sectors, with sandier soils,
the rest a little further south and west, and with
correspondingly more clay and galets roulés evidenced.
Stéphane feels that the latter soils were better suited to
the 2020-2026.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
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of Grenache, Syrah , Mourvèdre and Cinsault, the
Syrah now nearly achieving parity with the Grenache
(and in terms of taste profile it’s certainly just as
influential). Maturation has been 60 percent in
barrel, 40 percent in foudre and the wine rejoices
in classic ripeness and purity, aromatic and subtle
intensity. An archetype from the modern end of the
spectrum, its modernity is tempered by a robust
respect for provenance and the dexterity of an
extremely gifted winemaker. Drink 2019-2025.
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer
Simon Field MW, Wine Buyer