Bordeaux 2021

G de Guiraud from Château Guiraud is one of our favourite dry whites from Bordeaux and it is made exclusively from organically farmed vineyards. Fresh and fine on the nose with delicate wild flowers and citrus. Zesty on the palate with fresh lemon, a lovely richness and a long finish.

Tasted April 2022. This is an excellent vintage for white wines, and La Garde Blanc is full to the brim with ripe, pure, bright pineapple, grapefruit, and juicy lemon. There's a broadness and lip-smacking quality on the palate from the time on lees. The acidity is incredibly fine, persistent and electric. Ripe and juicy but with great tension and freshness.

Rich and opulent with concentrated flavours of marmalade and candied peel. This is really unctuous but remains fresh thanks to very bright acidity cutting through the richness of the palate.

Beautifully aromatic with crystalline purity. This elegant white is full of ripe apple, crisp lemon, light herbal notes and jasmine. Clean, bright acidity cuts through the palate and carries the wine to a incredible finish with considerable finesse. A complete bargain.

Full of zesty citrus fruit, light floral notes and confit lemon. There's real drive and persistence here, with a seam of fresh acidity that leads on to a very long finish.

The 2021 Doisy-Daëne L'Extravagant is phenomenal. Full of complex fruits, fresh and candied. Grilled pineapple, marmalade, citrus peel and gingery spice are just some of the flavours developing on the palate. There is freshness on the finsih to balance what is a seriously concentrated, intense, unctuous wine. Seriously good.

The 2021 from Sigalas-Rabaud manages to be incredibly rich and dense, but electrically fresh and vibrant at the same time. The incredible acidity really marks this out as something capable of long ageing, and the flavours of bright citrus, rounder stone fruit and gingery spice are tightly coiled at this early stage in their development.

Tasted April 2022. The 2021 from Coutet shows plenty of the property's characteristic exotic fruit on the nose with gingerbread complexity as the wine opens up on the palate. Honeyed and rich, it remains vivacious and crisp thanks to a seam of very fresh acidity. Well balanced with good tension at this early stage.

Tasted April 2022. The team at Margaux consider this to be the best Pavillon they've made, better even than the incredible 2017. It has incredible length and persistence, with a very pure citrus, both sharp and juicy, with a more tropical edge as the wine develops in the glass. There's a bit of a grip on the palate and a lip-smacking sensation from careful handling of the lees in barrel. There's a long, salty, pineapple finish.

Tasted April 2022. Potentially the white wine of the vintage, and certainly one of the finest Bordeaux whites we've ever tasting. This is electric, full of energy, exuberant and full of bright and ripe citrus, mango, pineapple. It manages to be broad and rich, but full of tension at the same time. Truly world class.

A delicious sweet wine, full of tension and focus at this early stage. On the palate there's orange, citrus, passionfruit, honey and light floral notes. There's a seam of fresh acid running through the wine, preventing it from ever becoming cloying.

Tasted April 2022. Absolutely electric this year, one of our favourite wine this vintage. Intense and concentrated, and incredibly pure citrus and stone fruit flavours. Juicy and full in in texture, but with incredible zingy freshness cutting through like a knife. Taut and delicious, this will age beautifully.

The 2021 Lune d’Argent from the Bernard family of Domaine de Chevalier is a refreshing, mineral wine driven by fresh citrus, pineapple and subtle floral notes. An absolute bargain.