17^th October, 2011

The UK wine industry owes much to the popularity of Rioja. The last few years have been a challenge for wine producers and merchants alike, but the wines of Rioja have bucked every trend to enjoy record success.

Rioja enjoys preeminence in Spain's vinous reputation, but in recent years, other parts of Spain have begun to produce some fascinating, full-bodied, oak-aged reds in a similar style to Rioja, and at much keener prices.

Our most recent discovery is Casa del Valle Hacienda Syrah 2007, from the Castilla La Mancha region. It won awards at both the International Wine Challenge and Decanter World Wine Awards in 2009 and 2010.

At only £7.49 per bottle, Hacienda Syrah beats any Rioja on sale at a comparable price!

Or for those for whom only Rioja will do, the 2005 vintage of our Bodegas Ondarre Rioja Reserva won Silver Medals at both the International Wine Challenge and International Wine and Spirit Competition this year!

Casa del Valle Hacienda Syrah 2007

Only £7.49 per bottle!
 

Aged for three months in new oak barrels, this rich, intense red is deep in colour, with spicy plum aromas and hints of mocha and chocolate. On the palate, ripe tannins and a full body give the wine impressive length.

With a few years’ bottle age, Hacienda Syrah 2007 is drinking at its peak. Think “Rioja meets the Northern Rhône”!

We have also launched our trial “A Taste of the Unexpected” mixed case: a selection of 6 idiosyncratic wines from countries like Greece, Portugal, Germany and Lebanon! Our aim is to showcase delicious wines from over-performing estates from regions that deserve to be better known.

5^th October, 2011

The brand new 2011 vintage of Bishops Leap Sauvignon Blanc has now arrived, and we think it is possibly even better than the 2009 or the 2010! And still only £7.99 per bottle!

Following last week’s Portuguese bin end deal, we also have a little stock of Carpene Malvolti Viognier Spumante NV. This is essentially a Prosecco Spumante made with the Viognier grape. An unusual idea, the early picked Viognier grapes give a rich, aromatic bubbly with a firm backbone of fresh acidity. The wine is delicious, but the concept has proved a little left field for some, so we have reduced the wine from its price of £10.99 to £8.99, to clear stocks.

We are pleased with our new range of German wines. For those who appreciate nervy Riesling, Villa Gutenberg’s Riesling Kabinett 2009, from the Rheingau, is the finest for under £10 that we have tasted this year. And for those in search of a real treat, the dry Gewurztraminer made by Weingut Weegmuller is simply breathtaking!

But for sheer value for money, we think that some of the best wines on offer today come from Portugal, and we are proud of our new range from the Santo Isidro de Pegoes winery.

Fontanario de Pegoes Palmela White 2010

Only £6.79 per bottle!

From the coastal region of Palmela, south of Lisbon, this is a fantastic value, dry aromatic white, made from the local Fernao Pires and Arinto grapes.

Fresh and unoaked, this indigenous Portuguese blend resembles a subtle white from France's Rhone Valley, with flavours of peach, minerals and a hint of spice.

There is also still a small quantity of our exclusive limited parcel of Prazo de Roriz Douro 2008, reduced from £13.99 to £8.79, while stocks last!

8^th August, 2011

The whirlwind success of Sancerre over the last thirty years has sent prices rocketing! Supermarkets still manage to bottle bulk liquid for about a tenner, but a decent bottle might set you back nearer £15.

Whilst Sauvignon fanatics debated the justification for Sancerre’s elevated prices, Touraine Sauvignon Blanc began to fill the void left at lower price points. But as exchange rates added further pressure to inflation and tax rises, not to mention a few small vintages, even bog standard TSB began to weigh in at about £8 a bottle. At this price, Touraine goes head-to-head with New Zealand’s Marlborough region – and doesn’t always come off best!

The answer for those looking for a similar style of wine at a keener price is the Comté Tolosan area, Toulouse’s local vineyard, in southwest France. The influence of the Atlantic Ocean makes this a cooler region than the Languedoc to the south east, and is therefore better suited to growing Sauvignon Blanc. The Sauvignons made here can be every bit as fresh, zingy and mineral as a fine Touraine Sauvignon Blanc, but you needn’t compromise on quality to find one at a good price...

Domaine Le Pin Sauvignon Blanc 2010

Reduced from £7.99 to only £6.99 per bottle!

Domaine Le Pin makes this fresh, grassy Sauvignon Blanc, with ripe lemon aromas and a delicious, rich minerality on the palate.

The vineyards of the Comté Tolosan are now producing some of the most exciting examples of this style of wine.

Enjoy with salads, fresh fish and goat’s cheese.

25^th July, 2011

Once upon a time, rosé wine carried something of a gender stigma. Although even the most red-blooded of males might find themselves gingerly quaffing a glass at a summer lunch party, heaven forbid that such behaviour continue at the pub or in a restaurant!

The increase in sales of rosé in the last few years, however, suggests that many of us, whatever our sex, are now going pink. From a tiny base, rosé has steadily made ground against its rival colours, and now represents 12% of the UK wine market.

Most rosé is relatively cheap and cheerful, and frequently contains a degree of residual sugar, but the purest, most refreshing examples are fresh, full-flavoured and bone dry.

We work with Burgundy négociant Badet Clément, who select the best grapes from the south of France, to make the dry, Provence-style rosé that is our new vintage Cuvée Le Bosq 2010. We hope that wines like this have helped neutralise popular assumptions about the sugar content of rosé wines, if not all of the gender prejudices. Long may the summer last!

Cuvée Le Bosq Rosé 2010 - only £6.49 per bottle!

Cuvée Le Bosq Rosé is a delicious southern French rosé, made from a blend based on the local Grenache grape.

Vibrant summer fruits and herb aromas leap from the glass and refresh the palate on warm summer days.

Delicious with barbecues!

Or for those who prefer something with a little more body (but no more sugar!), Dario Bove’s delicious Cerasuolo Rosé 2010 was commended at both the Decanter World Wine Awards and the International Wine Challenge this year!

7^th July, 2011

The question “which vintage should I drink?” is probably asked more frequently than any other in wine circles. When investing in wine, it is of course essential to buy the vintage that has been praised by the most eminent journalists. Thereafter, the success of the investment follows the usual economic rules, with the added uncertainty of how the wines from the vintage in question will evolve.

Outside of the investment model, the picture is more complex. A “good vintage” might be defined as one in which it is relatively easy to make decent wines, and the best wines have a long ageing potential. But a good winemaker will not make a bad wine in a difficult vintage; it might be lighter, more forward-drinking, but many winemakers – especially in cooler climate regions – regard vintage variation as a virtue, rather than an inconvenience.

Yesterday, I received a phone call from a customer who wanted the 2008 vintage of our Côtes-du-Rhône ‘Les Vignes du Prince’. She was aware that the 2009 is a bigger, more structured wine from a more highly praised vintage, but she preferred the lighter, more elegant style of the 2008. And who was I to argue? Sadly, the 2008 sold out last month!

As a general guide, however, most wines in the sub-£9 bracket, especially whites, are best drunk whilst young and fresh. Our best-selling Bishop’s Leap Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, for example, is the recently bottled 2010 vintage! And I wouldn’t advise drinking anything older.

For claret lovers, we have recently made some rather special editions to our range, including the spectacularly good Château Dasvin-Bel-Air Haut-Médoc Cru Bourgeois 2008, a subtle, elegant, delicately spiced claret from a little-known yet over-performing estate. Also, see below for our spectacular value Château Les Sapins de Gaillou Bordeaux Rouge 2009 – from what was rated by many as the “best vintage in living memory”... whatever that means!

Château Les Sapins de Gaillou Bordeaux 2009 

Reduced to only £6.99 per bottle!

This is a structured, ripe claret from a vintage that provoked more hysteria than any since 2005!

A blend of 45% Cabernets Franc and Sauvignon, with 55% Merlot, gives a wine with earthy, slightly smoky aromas of blackcurrant and plum. The wine is unoaked, to preserve its primary fruit character.

As ever, please don’t hesitate to contact us for any advice on vintages, wine styles, producers, or how best to store your wines.

23^rd June, 2011

I have just arrived back in the UK following an extended trip to the south of France, a journey which began in Rivesaltes, in the Roussillon, and progressed east through the Languedoc to Nimes.

I visited Cazal Viel, our grower in St-Chinian, one of the first producers in the region to focus on the Syrah and Viognier grapes. Whilst in the Roussillon, I also caught up with the winemaking team at Domaine Treloar, which makes richly intense reds and aromatic whites. The Roussillon is currently one of the most exciting corners of France, one which Jancis Robinson MW has compared enthusiastically with Priorat, across the border in northern Spain.

We are delighted to announce that we have also found some new estates, making excellent value, even more delicious wines. Domaine des Pourthié is situated near the Mediterranean coast, near Agde, where it makes modern yet authentic Languedoc wines. We particularly like the estate’s ripe, herby 2010 Chardonnay. Plus, we have taken on fantastic new Picpoul de Pinet ‘L’Enfant Terrible’, from Domaine la Grangette.

Domaine des Pourthié Chardonnay 2010 

Introductory Discount - £6.99 per bottle!

This pure, unoaked Chardonnay shows a mouth-watering mix of fresh exotic fruit with hints of the dried herbs that grow wild in the Languedoc. On the palate, it is rich and buttery, with fresh acidity, the result of cool Mediterranean breezes.

Domaine des Pourthié is a 60 hectare estate, situated near Agde, a few kilometres from the Mediterranean. It is now in the hands of the fourth generation of the Pourthié family.

We also have several offers on our fine burgundies, some of which are bin ends, so stocks are limited. Most exciting are the Bourgogne Chardonnay 2009 and Meursault Les Casse Tetes 2009, from Domaine Chavy-Chouet. The latter represents a saving of £60 on a case of 12!

5^th May, 2011

Summer seems to be upon us – for the moment at least – so we have been flooded with enquiries about which rosés are available from the new 2010 vintage.

With a few distinguished exceptions, rosés are best drunk in the summer following the vintage. We have just received the new vintage of Cuvée Le Bosq Rosé 2010, Château de l'Aumerade Côtes de Provence Cru Classé Rosé 2010, Cerasuolo 'Avegiano' Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Rosé 2010, from Cantina Bove, and Saint Clair Marlborough Pinot Rosé 2010.

Just click the links to find the wines!

For those looking for something juicy, ripe and red to go with their barbecues, we have a couple of great offers, including our new Luccarreli Negroamaro 2010, from Apulia, on Italy’s southern heel – reduced from £8.99 to only £7.49 per bottle!

From the same winery, comes Ampelo Verdeca 2010, from Apulia’s native white Verdeca grape variety. The wine shows complex aromas of citrus, peach and kiwi fruit, all for only £7.99 per bottle!

Our long search for a new, great value claret has also been rewarded, by a wonderful, unoaked Côtes de Castillon 2008, from Château Beynat.

Château Beynat Côtes de Castillon 2008 reduced from £8.99 to only £7.99 per bottle.

A pure, unoaked blend of 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc, this is, quite simply, the best value claret we have tasted this year!

Côtes de Castillon is a satellite of the Saint-Emilion appellation, making great value alternatives to its neighbour’s prestigious wines.

Château Beynat has a history that stretches back more than a century. Since 2008, the estate has been converting its vineyards to organic viticulture, a fact that is evident in the purity of its wines, which show delicate cassis, herb and spice aromas, with ripe, yet subtle flavours!

13^th April, 2011

As Easter and the bank holiday weekends approach, the same question enters the minds of retailers, publicans and restaurateurs: how do we find a 'creative' excuse to link the royal wedding with our own products? Perhaps Kate can’t resist Pinot Grigio? Is Will more of an ale man? Surely Harry wouldn’t turn his nose up at a good bottle of Trockenbeerenauslese!

Fortunately, we wouldn’t dream of such a thing, especially with a far more exciting event on the horizon: May 2011 is National Wine Month!

We are, however, offering a deal on one of Italy’s best value ‘Super-Tuscans’: Dogajolo Rosso 2009. Known by many of its fanatics as “the wine with the most beautiful label,” Dogajolo Rosso is a delicious blend of Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon, plus a secret mix of "other varieties"!

Dogajolo Rosso IGT Toscana 2009 reduced from £10.99 to only £9.79 per bottle.

The Carpineto estate affectionately refers to Dogajolo as its "baby Super-Tuscan".

Made with 70% Sangiovese, and 30% Cabernet plus a proportion of other grape varieties know only to the estate, Dogajolo is aged in small wooden barrels to give a structured, ripe, earthy wine with hints of tanned leather.

31^st March, 2011

In the past year, I have received many requests for something interesting and red and Spanish that won’t break the bank. I’m pleased to say that we now have the answer! From the small coastal enclave of Penèdes, near Barcelona, we have found Clos de Torribas Crianza 2006, an oak aged blend of Tempranillo (85%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (15%). And it’s not just we who think it’s the best...

Wine Spectator includes Clos de Torribas Crianza in their Top 100 Wines of the World (February 2010 edition)! At only £7.79, this wine is more complex than any Rioja you can buy for under £10!

Clos de Torribas Crianza 2006 Penèdes reduced from £8.99 to only £7.79 per bottle!

A rich blend of Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon, aged in oak barricas for 10 months, and in bottle for 6, before release, this 2006 is drinking at its complex peak!

With intense aromas of coffee bean, ripe plum, balsamic and vanilla spice, the palate is rich, velvety and long.

15^th February, 2011

It has been a busy month for the wine trade, as merchants feverishly do deals for the coming year, taste hundreds of wines, battle exchange rates, and generally forego the holiday we should all be having after the Christmas rush!

We have had many requests for interesting affordable wines from Chile, so I am pleased to say we have come up with the goods. Viña Edmara Carmenère 2009 is the newest edition to our range, an oak aged wonder that we are offering for only £6.79 a bottle (a quid more than a Chilean supermarket deal perhaps, but a lot more wine!)

The red Carmenère variety is native to Bordeaux, where it is now extremely rare, but it made a home for itself in Chile in the 19th Century, and has since become that country’s signature grape. Chile’s boast is that its Carmenère vines, unlike those of Bordeaux, use their own natural rootstocks, as the Phylloxera vine disease never reached Chile.

And for something completely different, eccentric and truly mind-blowing, we have a small quantity of Penny's Hill 'The Veteran' Very Old Fortified Shiraz, which we are able to offer at a substantial discount. It was love at first taste when we tried this wine earlier in the month – for details, please see below.

Penny's Hill 'The Veteran' Very Old Fortified Shiraz reduced from £19.99 to only £13.49 per bottle!

Penny's Hill 'The Veteran' Very Old Fortified Shiraz is a fortified Australian Tawny, made in tiny quantities from over-ripe Shiraz berries.

The wine is aged in oak for 10 years, giving an amber colour and extremely complex developed aromas of coffee bean, orange peel, fresh fruit and sultanas. Its flavours are equally complex, with a deliciously silky texture.

Think Amontillado Sherry meets Tawny Port meets Italian Vinsanto: pure decadence!

3^rd February, 2011

Once again the Arab World is in the news spotlight, as social unrest sweeps through North Africa to Egypt, Jordan and beyond. Only recently, Lebanon also hit the headlines, as its Christian community complained of persecution from the country’s Muslim majority.

Christians have co-existed with Muslims in Lebanon for centuries, and at least since Roman times, the country has enjoyed a thriving wine industry. Today, the wines of Lebanon, like the châteaux that produce them, are unashamedly French in style, like ripe, full-bodied country cousins of the wines from Bordeaux and the Rhône.

The most famous Lebanese wines are made at Château Musar, by the now famous Hochar family. But there are excellent vineyards the length of the war-torn Bekaa Valley, near the Israeli border; their continued productivity is a testament to the resilience of the Lebanese people.

One such winery is Château Ksara. The estate’s wine cellar was a grotto discovered by the Romans, who dug tunnels into the surrounding chalk, where wine could be protected from the fearsome summer heat. These tunnels were enlarged during The First World War when the Jesuit Fathers sought to alleviate famine in Lebanon by creating employment.

Today, Château Ksara is increasing in renown, and for those who are looking for something French in style with an exotic touch, its wines deserve to be tried!

Château Ksara Reserve du Couvent, Bekaa Valley 2008 reduced from £9.99 to only £8.79 per bottle!

Wine writer Fiona Beckett described this wine as such, in The Guardian, Saturday 8th January:

"An intensely fruity blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah that would be great with Middle Eastern or Moorish lamb stews".

Winner of a Gold Medal at the Berlin Wine Trophy 2010

18^th January, 2011

Well, the answer is, there is little logical reason for it. The cloudiness in wheat beer is a mixture of natural plant extract and dead yeast cells - or ‘lees’: both of which are also present in wine after it has fermented.

Instead, the answer lies in market expectations. A good wheat beer producer would never remove the natural ‘goodness’ from his beer before bottling, but commercial wine producers are forced to filter out many of the natural ingredients from their bottles to fulfil consumer demands. Partly as a result of this, sulphur must be added to the wine to replace the natural preservatives that have been removed by fining, filtration and flash cooling.

The proof is, of course, that if you open a classed growth claret with a few years’ bottle age, you should find a deposit, or sediment, in the bottle. This is because it is generally accepted that fine wines, like wheat beer, are not subjected to such a rigorous filtration process, so that more of their delicate flavours are preserved.

Last week, I received call from another wine merchant with some spare stock of one of my favourite Chablis: Chablis Terroir de Chichée 2008 from Patrick Piuze. The wine had developed a deposit of tartrate crystals in bottle: harmless white crystals that can form as a result of the wine’s high natural mineral content – which is what you expect from good Chablis. Primarily a restaurant supplier, this merchant couldn’t sell the wine to his customers, who feared that the bottles might be sent back by diners, so he sold it to me at cost!

And here it is...

Chablis ‘Terroir de Chichée’ 2008 Patrick Piuze reduced from £13.99 to only £10.99 per bottle!

One of the foremost stars of a new generation of Chablis winemakers, Patrick Piuze worked for the great Jean-Marc Brocard before setting up his own estate in 2008. From the best vineyards in the village of Chichée, this is an intensely mineral Chablis, made in the most natural way possible, using indigenous yeast strains.

This offer is available while stocks last, so please hurry if you would like an allocation of the wine. 

6^th January, 2011 

We wish you a very Happy New Year and hope you had a great Christmas. No sooner has the Christmas rush subsided than the mayhem of January sales is upon us. Was it just me who found those Boxing Day scenes of the scrum at Selfridges alarming?!

Although we do not encourage camping outside our warehouse (!) this is a good time of year for canny buyers to root out merchants with overstocks of some excellent wines, which we can snap up and offer our customers at a substantial discount.

We have secured a parcel of Côtes du Rhône 'Font de Blanche' 2006 from the prestigious Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate Clos du Mont Olivet. We have reduced the wine from £9.99 to only £7.99 per bottle while stocks last!

Of course, this is no ordinary Côtes du Rhône, just as Clos du Mont Olivet is no ordinary Châteauneuf-du-Pape estate. The estate’s top wine, Cuvée du Papet, is one of the region’s finest – and most expensive – wines. Robert Parker, of The Wine Advocate, rated the estate’s 2007 blend a dizzying 96 points out of 100, an almost unprecedented score.

Clos du Mont Olivet make their Côtes du Rhône from 15 hectares of prime vineyard to the north of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation, and lavish on it the same winemaking care as for their top cuvées. This really is a bargain price for a wine of this calibre – snap it up while you can!

Clos du Mont Olivet Côtes du Rhône 2006 reduced from £9.99 to only £7.99 per bottle!

From one of Châteauneuf-du-Pape’s top estate’s, Clos du Mont Olivet Côtes du Rhône ‘Font de Blanche’ comes from the 2006 vintage, one of the ripest of the last decade. It shows aromas of wild herbs and rich bramble spice. The palate is silky smooth, with a delicious, long finish. This wine is perfect to drink now!

Although the much-heralded VAT hike is now upon us, we will hold all prices for the following regions until 17th January: Champagne, Italy, Spain, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, Chile and South Africa. 

24^th October, 2010
The results of the International Wine Challenge and Decanter World Wine Awards were recently announced, and just as car dealers fall over themselves to let you know about their official ‘cars of the year’, so wine merchants are equally proud of the awards that their wines manage to scoop.

We will shortly publish a complete list of our wines that received awards from these two prestigious competitions, but for now I would like to focus on one that represents perhaps the best value, Andeluna Malbec 2009, from Argentina’s Mendoza region.

This wine won the International Trophy for the Best Red Single Varietal Wine under £10 at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2010.

Andeluna Malbec 2009, Uco Valley – only £8.99!

We simply love this wine, described by Decanter Magazine with the following recommendation:

“Best Single Red Varietal Under £10! Very good attack: smoky, black cherry that gives a vibrant expression of ripeness, good length with layers of vanilla flavour, and the acidity to hold it. Moreish!”

For most UK wine buyers, South America’s most important wine producing country is Chile. But on the eastern slopes of the Andes, Argentina’s vineyards are if anything better suited to quality viticulture, and the country’s winemaking potential still more exciting.

From its home in the small Cahors appellation in south west France, the Malbec grape has become Argentina’s signature variety, producing wines that combine New World ripeness with Old World complexity. And for £8.99 per bottle, the Old World might have some catching up to do!

15^th October, 2010
In recent years, the market for sparkling wine has polarised into champagne at the top end and cut-price cava at the bottom. Question is, does this leave any room for anything interesting, new and off-the-wall?

Top Prosecco producer Carpenè Malvolti believes so. A few years ago the estate released its sparkling Viognier Spumante, from a grape that is native to the tiny Condrieu and Château Grillet appellations in France’s northern Rhône. The Viognier grape has become increasingly popular in wines from the south of France and the New World, but like so many of France’s best grapes, it has also found a happy – and slightly eccentric – home in northern Italy.

Carpenè Malvolti Viognier Spumante – Reduced from £11.49 to £9.99 per bottle

Described by Sally Easton MW as “Clean, fresh, balanced, with a creamy texture”, this sparkler shows all the exotic peach and apricot aromas so characteristic of the Viognier, combined with minerals and fresh nutmeg. On the palate it has good body, with a combination of fresh mineral and subtly exotic flavours.

The latest addition to our range, Carpenè Malvolti Viognier Spumante is neither pricey champagne nor cheap cava. It isn’t even anything in between. It is something deliciously daring and refreshingly new. And as usual, Strictly Wine is offering it at the lowest price of any UK merchant.

1st October, 2010

“It is almost impossible to find a decent Burgundy these days for less than £30.”

Or so says philosopher and wine critic Roger Scruton in his book I Drink, Therefore I am.

But we are pleased to report that we have found one, from the beautiful Mâconnais area of southern Burgundy: Domaine Botti Mâcon-Villages.

This sometimes overlooked area of Burgundy is dominated by co-operative cellars, but a number of quality conscious small producers, of which Domaine Botti is a fine example, make wines to rival many of the more expensive burgundies from the Côte d’Or.

Domaine Botti Mâcon-Villages 2008 – Reduced from £10.99 to £9.79 per bottle

Pierre and Véronique Janny bought an abandoned vineyard in Burgundy's Mâconnais district in 1982, and settled in the region. Pierre also runs the world-renowned oenological laboratory in Mâcon.

The estate’s Mâcon-Villages is an elegant, fresh white Burgundy. On the nose it shows delicate honeysuckle aromas with buttery hints; on the palate, there is lovely fresh acidity, pure Chardonnay flavours and good weight.

17th September, 2010
In recent years the once hip region of Beaujolais has become about as fashionable as a pebble dash clad Rolls Royce. And the word through the grape vine is that if you're looking to buy a good value vineyard in France, Beaujolais is now a hot prospect!

But the near perfect growing conditions of the 2009 vintage have provided a much needed injection of enthusiasm into this region. The press hailed 2009 as the vintage of the decade, but winemakers I have spoken to believe that this is the best vintage they have seen in their lifetimes!

Chateau de Souzy Beaujolais Villages 2009 - Only £8.49 per bottle

Chateau de Souzy was built in 1765, and overlooks the Ardieres Valley, near the historic capital of Beaujolais, Beaujeu. The estate's 10 hectares of vines boast an average vine age of 48 years, giving fresh, concentrated cherry-scented wines.

The 2009 is a true once in a lifetime vintage, giving a wine of more substance than many crus in a lesser year!

Bishops Leap Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2009 - £7.99 bottle

Since we took on Bishops Leap Sauvignon earlier this year, it has quickly become one of our best sellers! Made at the muti-award-winning Saint Clair winery, its ripe grassy, mineral flavours are a genuine match for anything from France.

So if you haven't tried it yet, this is definitely one to stock up on!

28th August, 2010
With the bank holiday upon us and the sun occasionally peeping through the clouds (at least where I am!), I thought I'd take this opportunity to reintroduce our popular monthly mixed case - the Summer Mixed Discovery Case of 12 - reduced to only £69.99 (or just £5.83 per bottle)!

Plus, the 2009 vintage of Domaine Tabordet's limited availability Sancerre Rosé has now arrived, and is available for £12.99 per bottle!

Summer Mixed Discovery Case - Only £69.99

Whether you enjoy drinking Spain's finest Rioja Crianza, top Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough, New Zealand, or a traditional Côtes du Rhône, this summer mixed case offers you the chance to try a range of delicious summer favourites, alongside some more eclectic discoveries.

Domaine Tabordet Sancerre Rosé 2009 - £12.99 bottle

Domaine Tabordet Sancerre Rosé is a fresh, crisp summer wine made with 100% Pinot Noir grapes. The grapes undergo a short maceration before fermentation, giving the wine delicious raspberry and redcurrant aromas, with crisp acidity and good body.