Recent additions to our fine wine list

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2022 Chardonnay, Pyramid Valley, Canterbury Dry | White | Still

A vibrant, fresh Chardonnay with notes of yellow flowers, acacia and butterscotch. A rounded and creamy feel on the palate there are intense flavours of peach and stone fruits. This is a fun, effortless Chardonnay with plenty of ripe stone fruit and accents of oak for complexity.

Ready: 2025 - 2028
2021 Pinot Noir, Pyramid Valley, Canterbury Dry | Red | Still

An enticing nose of dark cherry fruit, a hint of earthiness, violets and a little of festive spice lifts from the glass. There is great balance and energy here with a lovely ripe cherry fruit to balance. Showing so well now, this has found its peak.

Ready: 2025 - 2029
2017 Moulin de la Lagune, Haut-Médoc (2025 Ex-Château release) Dry | Red | Still | 13%

A deliciously approachable claret that opens with fleshy bramble and hedgerow fruit with a little savoury accent of tobacco and wild herbs. Mid-weight and bright, this is soft and supple on the palate with an easy charm. Excellent value.

Ready: 2020 - 2028
2021 Chianti Classico Riserva, Querciabella, Tuscany Dry | Red | Still | 14%

A superbly elegant and intense Chianti Classico Riserva from this much-lauded vintage, the wine opens with beautiful aromatics of violets, wild herbs and hedgerow fruit. There is a sleekness and elegance through the palate with a core of wild cherry, a little white pepper and a sense of salinity behind the fruit. The tannins finely frame the fruit with a lovely tension and the finish builds through the palate with accents of raspberry and liquorice.

Ready: 2025 - 2036
2014 Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut, Taittinger Dry | White | Sparkling | 12.5%

The 2014 Comtes is a vibrant, tense and crystalline wine full of complexity. A cooler vintage with a sense of linearity and focus matched with a creamy palate offering notes of orchard fruit, lemongrass and chamomile. There is a breath of sea spray, subtle brioche notes and ginger biscuit crumb. There is refinement and elegance to this Blanc de Blancs that will age so beautifully in the coming years.

Ready: 2025 - 2040
2014 Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut, Taittinger White | Sparkling | 12.5%

The 2014 Comtes is a vibrant, tense and crystalline wine full of complexity. A cooler vintage with a sense of linearity and focus matched with a creamy palate offering notes of orchard fruit, lemongrass and chamomile. There is a breath of sea spray, subtle brioche notes and ginger biscuit crumb. There is refinement and elegance to this Blanc de Blancs that will age so beautifully in the coming years.

Ready: 2025 - 2040
2020 Les Orizeaux, Champagne Chartogne-Taillet White | Sparkling

This parcel of Pinot Noir vines sits just above Alexandre's Les Barres vineyard. It has been a longstanding favourite among the family. The soil here is an unusual mix of sandy topsoil and chalky limestone bedrock, giving the wine both a plump volume and a taut refinement. Good ageing potential.

Ready: 2025 - 2037
2017 Le Grain de Beauté, Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature, Jacques Lassaigne (Disgorged March 2024) Dry | White | Sparkling | 12%

This comes from a single plot called Les Paluets, where old vines thrive in the chalky soils. Fermentation in oak barrels gives the wine a fullness and depth

Ready: 2025 - 2035
N/V Grand Cru, Brut Nature, Benoît Lahaye (Base 2020, disgorged December 2023) Dry | White | Sparkling | 12%

90% Pinot Noir, 10% Chardonnay. Just 4.8 hectares in the spectacularly well-named village of Bouzy, as well as in Ambonnay. They converted to biodynamic viticulture in the early 2000s, and their low yields and wonderful maturity produce wines with exceptional concentration and balance. Oak ageing adds to their complexity. They carry out malolactic fermentation and disgorge without the addition of dosage. This comes from Grand Cru parcels of wines with an average age of 30 years. The blend contains 55% wines from the 2014 vintage and reserve wine from the 2013 vintage and earlier. It spent two and a half years ageing in bottle before disgorgement.

Drink to: 2035
N/V Rosé d`Emmanuel(le), Brut Nature, Jacques Lassaigne (Base 2019, disgorged March 2023) Dry | White | Sparkling | 12%

A rare rosé from Emmanuel Lassaigne. A lighthearted and delicious approach.

Ready: 2025 - 2030

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