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Champagne Marc Chauvet Brut Tradition
Really! Honestly! Go no farther than Marc Chauvet for your Champagne. If you don’t want to spend £27.50, then try Blanquette de Limoux, but please don’t resort to cheap Champagne!
To my mind Clotilde’s latest cuvee is her best yet! Soft, full, biscuity and long-lasting (in the palate, that is – I suspect the bottle will be polished off very quickly!)
o 1/3 each Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier
o 2/3 2015 vintage, 1/3 reserve wine
o Dosage 12gms
o Disgorged in after 3 years sur lattesPrevious years’ accolades;
Top 12 Fizzes for Christmas 2012 Daily Telegraph -“”Warm in style, nicely biscuity, with personality but one that will please a variety of tastes. Very box office.”
A previous cuvee was also in Oz Clarke’s 250 Best Wines of 2011: “a fascinating wine,” and recommended by Victoria Moore in The Daily Telegraph November 2010: “delicious.”
and recommended in The Guardian May 2010: “impressive.”
Mixed Blend
Sparkling
France
750 ml
11%-12.5%£27.50
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Champagne Marc Chauvet Brut Selection
Stunning value for money – Jamie Goode, The Wine Anorak. Made like a vintage champagne, tastes like vintage champagne, price not at all like vintage champagne.
White BlendsSparklingFrance750 ml11%-12.5%£29.50
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Champagne Marc Chauvet Brut Rose
Stunning value for money – Jamie Goode, The Wine Anorak. Compares more than favourably to the biggest seller in the UK, Laurent Perrier Rose, but at about half the price, so go no further…
Pinot NoirSparklingFrance750 ml11%-12.5%£29.50
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Brunelli Amarone Classico
Luigi Brunelli’s Amarone Classico is a perfect example of this wine as defined by Cassiodorus: “drinkable purple of incredible smoothness”. Multiple Gold-medal winner, and for me, the best Amarone I tasted out of over 100 at the Vinitaly Trade Wine Fair in Verona.
Red BlendsBig & Robust RedsItaly
2017750 ml14%+£29.50
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Dunico Primitivo di Manduria
Based on the huge popularity of “Fellone” I thought we should have a closer look at the Primitivo grape. Here’s one of four more, each with a distinct “terroir”. What’s the Italian for “terroir”, I wonder? This one is distinctive due to the sandy soil of the vineyards. Aged for over nine months in French oak it’s a whopping 16% alc but despite that, it’s the most complex of the range, maybe that’s what you expect for nearly £30 a bottle.
PrimitivoBig & Robust RedsItaly2016750 ml14%+£29.50
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Barolo La Fusina
Another top find from a hunting mission at Vinitaly; my favourite Barolo from over 120 tasted. This single vineyard beauty from the Abbona family is, like all Barolos, made from 100% Nebbiolo grapes, the king of Piedmont reds! Aged for 30 mnonths in french oak barrels and then a further 8 months in bottle before release. 2016 is one ot the top vintages of the past decade.
Other Single Varietal RedBig & Robust RedsItaly2016750 ml14%+£29.50
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Miguel Merino Rioja Reserva
Not just like any old Reserva, it’s just what Rioja would taste like in one of your best ever dreams. Served up at official Foreign Ministry Banquets in Madrid….taste why!
Other Single Varietal RedOakey RedsSpain2013750 ml14%+£31.30
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Miguel Merino Blanco
Only 1188 bottles produced in 2016. Miguel Merino Blanco comes from two very special vineyards: La Loma (planted in 1946) and Mingortiz (planted in 1977). In
La Loma vineyard (1,4 hectares at 534 metres of altitude), apart from the red Tempranillo and Garnacha vines we have a little
treasure: a few vines of Garnacha Blanca that give us grapes of floral aromas, great complexity, body and deepness. Mingortiz is
a 0,74 hectare slope facing East; only at the top end of the vineyard there are some Viura vines (0,20 ha). Up there, the soil is
shallow, with great drainage and calcareous and clay composition. Its location, sun exposure and soil make this vineyard ideal to
provide fresh and mineral Viura grapes.The grapes were harvested by hand early in the morning and then taken to the winery in small crates, where they were selected
and pressed. After a 24h settling the must was racked into 4 500-litre barrels of French oak, where they went through the alcoholic
fermentation.Other Single Varietal WhiteOakey WhitesSpain2016750 ml13-13.5%£34.20
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Château d’Or et de Gueules La Noblesa
Top of the range fron Diane’s wonderful estate…
Red BlendsOakey RedsFrance2015750 ml14%+£35.00
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Herbert Zillinger Radikal Gruner Veltliner – Quote of the Year – “Masterful”
I have nothing to add to Jancis Robinson’s tasting note;
“Selection of their oldest vines from the best vineyards of both Ebenthal and Ollersdorf. ‘A wine that combines both the advantages of loess soil and limestone.’ The must runs directly from the press into the large wooden barrel and is aged there on yeast lees for a year. One year in barrel, one year in bottle. ‘For us from the barren year of 2017 probably our most complete and possibly best wine so far.’ Very heady on the nose but lively and fresh on the palate. Lots of energy and intensity. Really bounces around the palate on the finish. So ripe you might think it was going to be a little sweet but it’s not at all. Such excitement. Long and dense but with lift too. Masterful. 13.5% Drink 2020–2028
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Other Single Varietal WhiteUnoaked WhitesAustria2017750 ml13-13.5%£35.00
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Miguel Merino Rioja Gran Reserva
If you thought Miguel’s Reserva was the bees’ knees, then try this beauty! How much better can it get? Only 3,464 bottles produced from the very best bunches.28 months in french oak barrels….how do you spell “salivating” ????
Red BlendsOakey RedsSoft & Smooth RedsSpain2013750 ml14%+£37.50
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Champagne Marc Chauvet Brut Vintage 2013
You would have to spend a lot more money (probably £75-100) to find a wine as good as this with a famous name!
Recommended in the Sunday ExpressMixed BlendSparklingFrance2013750 ml11%-12.5%£39.00
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