Recent additions to our fine wine list

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2023 Crozes-Hermitage, Alain Graillot Dry | Red | Still

As always using 100% whole bunch, the Graillot 2023 Crozes shimmers with bright purple fruit, violets, black pepper and garrigue. The palate is vibrant and supple with fleshy hedgerow fruit, with a spicy grip on ripe rounded tannins on the finish. Another classic from the Graillot family.

Ready: 2023 - 2035
2023 Crozes-Hermitage, Alain Graillot Dry | Red | Still

As always using 100% whole bunch, the Graillot 2023 Crozes shimmers with bright purple fruit, violets, black pepper and garrigue. The palate is vibrant and supple with fleshy hedgerow fruit, with a spicy grip on ripe rounded tannins on the finish. Another classic from the Graillot family.

Ready: 2025 - 2033
2020 Brunello di Montalcino, Gianni Brunelli Dry | Red | Still | 14%

The 2020 Brunello from Laura Brunelli is joy in a glass. The nose is so detailed and perfumed with notes of wild herbs, violets, and fennel seed. The palate is seamless and vibrant with a bright, ripe core of cherry fruit which clothes the web of supple tannins, and a fine hint of liquorice and iris root emerges towards the finish. A fine and effortlessly pure Brunello that shows the charm of this vintage.

Ready: 2025 - 2040
2022 Oude Nektar Cabernet Sauvignon, Stark-Condé, Stellenbosch Dry | Red | Still | 14.5%

This is a dense and muscular wine built for the long term. There are lashings of oak spice on the nose with aromas of cocoa and dark chocolate. The palate is compact and intense with dark bramble fruit framed by ripe, supple tannins. Something impressive about the build and intensity on the finish.

Ready: 2025 - 2040
2022 Three Pines Cabernet Sauvignon, Stark-Condé, Stellenbosch Dry | Red | Still | 14.5%

Just 3146 bottles of the Three Pines Cabernet was made this year. This is a dense and brooding style of Cabernet with notes of black tea, fresh earth, cocoa dusted cherry and roasted coffee bean. The palate is sinewy and lively, etched with detailed cherry and hedgerow fruit and an unmistakable core of Cabernet tension running through to the finish.

Ready: 2025 - 2040
2022 Cabernet Sauvignon, Stark-Condé, Stellenbosch Dry | Red | Still | 14%

A delicious and fleshy style of Cabernet, with more immediate charm than the 2021 right now. On the palate this opens with red cherry and bramble fruit with lots of vibrance and energy. Notes of violets and pomegranate lift on the sappy and fresh finish.

Ready: 2025 - 2032
2023 Reserve Chardonnay, Lismore Estate Vineyards, Greyton Dry | White | Still | 13%

The Lismore Reserve Chardonnay is a brilliant, vibrant Chardonnay of immense complexity and tension. Subtle oak spice on the nose leads to a palate brimming with intensity and saline freshness. Flavours of white grapefruit, white peach, apricot and tangerine open on the palate with subtle ginger and lemongrass on the finish. Another great wine from Sam O’Keefe!

Ready: 2025 - 2038
2023 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc, Domaine de la Solitude Dry | White | Still | 13%

The Solitude White is a blend of 30% Grenache Blanc, 30% Clairette, 25% Roussanne and 15% Bourboulenc. The Roussanne element was vinified in barrel and malolactic fermentation was completed. The other varieties were vinified in tank with the malo blocked. The wine sees around 10% new oak ageing, some older barrels and foudres and tank. This is a beautiful white, with notes of white flowers, white peach and quince. There is a nod towards flavours of green mango but the palate is kept in check with a bright and pure beam of freshness. The finish is very long and fresh with flavours of white grapefruit and fennel. A very fine white Châteauneuf this year.

Ready: 2025 - 2032
2023 Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Domaine de la Solitude Dry | Red | Still | 15%

The Solitude Red is a beautiful, seamless and very finessed style. The wine is largely aged in cement and the rest in older barrels which helps to preserve the aromatic intensity. Aromas of wild cherry, blood orange flow across the palate with a hint of violets and aniseed. The tannins are very fine and well clothed by the fruit. A feeling of salted liquorice and red hedgerow fruit infuses the long finish.

Young: 2027 - 2040

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Lay & Wheeler was founded in 1854, and remains one of Britain’s longest standing fine wine merchants. Today, our dynamic team works with over 600 wine producers in fine wine regions around the world to bring their latest releases and library stock to our beloved customers. Our buying team spends half the year on the road, tasting these wines and discovering new ones.

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