WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine de la Rochette Mâcon-Bussières Mont Sard, Burgundy, France
£12.50, The Wine Society This is a stunning white Burgundy at the price and a great achievement for a first vintage in new hands....
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- Oct 5, 2018
Château Lafon-Rochet 2006-2016: coming full circle
Ten years after returning to Saint-Estèphe to take the helm at the family's fourth-growth estate, Basile Tesseron showed the results at a...
- Sep 13, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Famille Bougrier La Grande Réserve Touraine Chenonceaux 2017, Loire, France
£11.99, in any 6-bottle mix, Majestic Touraine Chenonceaux is a small appellation on the River Cher east of Tours, created as recently as...
- Sep 6, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Taste the Difference Saint-Chinian Syrah Grenache 2016, Saint-Chinian, France
£9 (or £8 on offer), Sainsbury's This is the new vintage of a generous, warm-hearted red blend that's one of the best wines in...
- Aug 30, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château de Cruzeau Blanc 2015, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux, France
£17.99, Waitrose It may seem unlikely that any sort of Bordeaux wine is underrated or not as well known as it should be, but white...
- Aug 16, 2018
Peerless Provence: the rosés of Sacha Lichine at D'Esclans
As I said in my Around the world in rosé blog, I'm a great admirer of the wines from Sacha Lichine's d'Esclans estate in Côtes de...
- Aug 2, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Jeroboams White Burgundy 2016, Bourgogne, France
£17.95, Jeroboams This is one of a handful of wines Jeroboams launched under its own label for the first time this year. It's made in the...
- Jul 12, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine de Mourchon Loubié Rosé 2017, Séguret Côtes du Rhône Villages, France
£10.95–£13.99, The Wine Society, Exel Wines, The Black Dog Wine Co (UK), Averys of Bristol The McKinlay family's Loubié rosé, is always...
- Jul 5, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Maison Dominique Piron Fleurie 2017, France
£14.49/£12.99, Laithwaites There are other summer reds, but few hit the spot as well as a good Beaujolais and I'm especially pleased to...
- Jun 28, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Haut les Mains 2017, Pays d'Oc, Languedoc, France
£6.49, Waitrose and waitrosecellar.com An aromatic dry white from the south of France with the freshness and lusciousness of a perfectly...
- Apr 26, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Cauhapé Geyser Jurançon Sec 2016, Jurançon, France
£13.95, The Wine Society Dry Jurançon has been one of my desert-island dry whites since I first tasted a Sec from Domaine Cauhapé, back...
- Apr 19, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Chemin de la Pinède Merlot 2016, Pays d’Oc, France
£7.95/£7.25, Lea & Sandeman There were lots of excellent wines and new finds at Lea & Sandeman’s spring tasting (brilliant Condrieu and...
- Apr 12, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Champ Divin Cuvée Castor Chardonnay Savagnin 2016, Côtes du Jura, France
£19.50, Tanners Wines From a region favoured by sommeliers looking for wines that are versatile with food, this white is a mouthwatering...
- Apr 5, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Eschaffins Cairanne Côtes du Rhône Villages 2015, Rhône, France
£13.50, Yapp Bros I haven’t seen the label of the follow-on vintage of this generous, warm-hearted southern Rhône, but for the first time...
- Mar 29, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Arthur Metz Crémant d’Alsace Brut 2015, Alsace, France
£14.99, Ocado One taste of this and you understand why Crémant d’Alsace is the most popular sparkling wine in France (aside from...
- Mar 14, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Bouchard Père et Fils Bourgogne Chardonnay La Vignée 2014, Burgundy, France
£13.69–£14.50, Penistone Wine Cellars, Just in Cases, TheDrinkShop.com, Sandhams Wine, Hailsham Cellars This is just the kind of thing I...
- Mar 6, 2018
Expanding wine drinkers' horizons: The Daily Drinker
As it was so hard choosing between the five Daily Drinker wines for my Wine of the Week, I'm writing up the other four here (and looking...
- Feb 22, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château Recougne 2015, Bordeaux Supérieur, France
£9.99, or £8.99 in any mix of six bottles, Majestic Bordeaux Supérieur – everyday claret – doesn't come much better than this, and...
- Feb 8, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Le Grand Prébois Châteauneuf-du-Pape Les Quatres Terrroirs 2016, Rhône, France
£17.99, Waitrose Knowing that a lot of wine drinkers raid their wine racks for Châteauneuf-du-Pape over Christmas, I’ve found a...
- Jan 12, 2018
La Conseillante: freshness, clarity and grace 1982–2011
The text of this article originally appeared in The World of Fine Wine, issue 53 A seated tasting of nine vintages of La Conseillante...
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