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Tasted April 2022. A great Pomerol from Guillaume Thienpont. This has lovely floral notes and aromas of truffle. It's broad and expansive on the palate, almost velvety, but then has a slight chalky bite at the end and some saline, mineral notes. Really intense and delicious.

From 70 to 80 year old vines, this is a blend of 60% lampia and 40% michet, and sees 40% whole bunch. The nose on this is spectacular, while the purity and density on the palate are utterly stunning. This is so long, and so fine. A truly special iteration of this wine.

Tasted April 2023. 13.5%. 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot. Fantastic this year, an excellent wine from the Rothschild team. Classical, yet opulent. Exuberant, aromatic nose with fragrant red berries and petals. Pure, blackberry, cherry and plum on the palate, with mouthwatering freshness, delineated stony tannins and hints of graphite. Delicious to drink, fresh and appetising with a core of pure fruit.

Located in the cru of Rive di Santa Maria in the village of La Morra, the old vine fruit and the La Morra location give this Barolo an edgier and darker profile. Bramble fruits and garrigue aromas are evident on this wine, with hints of truffle giving additional layers. Tannins are firm and chalky and need a couple of years to resolve, but when ready, this wine will be outstanding.

From a single plot of the celebrated Bricco Boschis vineyard, the San Giuseppe is rightfully revered as one of Piedmont's greatest wines. This is so intense and concentrated, with grippy tannins, yet the elegance and refinement that marks out a truly great wine. Complex, long, and detailed, this has to be tried.

Tasted April 2022. The 2021 Tertre de la Mouleyre is very fine, with pretty, bright fruits and floral notes. It's very elegant, and has plenty of depth to the dark fruit flavours. The texture is silky and there's an appetising, crushed rock sensation on the finish. Another brilliant vintage from a true gem of St-Emilion.

Tasted February 2025 with Alfio Cavallotto at the cantina in Castiglione Falletto. This flagship riserva delivers an elegant and lifted bouquet of fresh strawberries and lilac. Well structured and immaculately balanced. Entering its drinking window now though will continue to improve for decades to come.

72 year old vines. Lovely freshness here, dark fruit, tension, power, salinity and nervous energy. This is intense and powerful, with loads of salinity: so mineral, but also lots of burnt orange peel, and some almond kernal. It’s so complex and very well balanced: an astonishing Barolo from a real magician.

Tasted April 2023. 82% Merlot, 17.5% Cabernet Franc and 0.5% Cabernet Sauvignon. 14.5%. Precise and savoury-tinged black berry fruit, some softer black plum. Lots of tight structure now, ripe, gravelly tannins. Ripe and full bodied, but not overly opulent or creamy. Sapid, mineral with a slight appetising bitterness on the finish. Stony freshness and subtle peppermint notes. 15% amphora, 10% foudre, the remainder in barrique.

Tasted 2022. Yields reduced by 60% this year. Savoury, full of tension and a minerally lip-smacking quality. Fleshy red fruit and black berry fruit dominate the palate, with abundant fine tannins. Classic and elegant, with a lovely fresh finish.

Cabutti & Baudana from Serralunga, Mosconi x 3 vineyards, Ravera di Monforte, Liste, Terlo, Paiagallo. This smells amazing: so much perfume and delicacy, there’s wild berries, hedgerow fruit, and lots of freshness on the palate. This is so complex, with amazing length and finesse. And a hint of pepper on the finish completes the picture.

There’s lots of creamy merlot character on the 2020 Evangile, a Pomerol which gets better every year we taste it. Lovely silkiness to the tannins, that build through and coat the palate. Very detailed and feel that slight savoury cabernet franc on the finish. Very pure and insanely long. Gets better and better.

This is Grand Cru in every sense: its perfume is intoxicating with graceful and persistent energy. It sits at the high point of the Tawse cellar, a culmination of the seriously good winemaking going on here, and a reason why the domaine is singled out year-after-year for critical acclaim. Where the Tawse Mazoyères is broad and dense, this is long and fine, with a vibrant energy. The domaine owns three parcels in this wonderful Gevrey-Chambertin Grand Cru, including one where the vines are well over 75 years old. It is hard to overstate the quality on display here, especially in 2023 with its spicy red fruit aromatics, fragrant finesse, and intricate tannins. Wow.

Tasted April 2022. Full of perfume, energy and juicy black fruits. Velvety texture and plenty of ethereal, cooling, savoury Cabernet Franc character sending you back for another sip. The acidity is fresh and clean and the finish is seriously long. 13.1%.

The 2021 at La Conseillante is a continuation of a development in their style, the result in this cooler year is an ethereal, elegant and pure wine with velvety, aromatic berry fruits and subtle earthy complexity. Without doubt one of the most elegant Pomerol wines this year.

From a vineyard that sits within a stone's throw of Bricco Boschis, the 2017 Vignolo is slightly more savoury and broader than the wines from its more famous brother. There's such intensity and concentration here, but there's also a sense of balance and refinement. The mineral, saline finish, seems to go on for minutes.

From a one hectare site in Baudana, in Serralunga d’Alba, and you immediately feel the difference in tannic structure. There’s saline, limestone texture, lots of purity of fruit, and a red strawberry wash across the palate. Very not, with a tonic-like note on the finish.

Blagny sits high up, 400m above the heart of the Meursault commune. This altitude brings a focused freshness to the wines. It has notes of ripe citrus, with a richly mineral seashell note - not unlike Chablis - on the nose. The soil is white limestone up here, and this makes for a scintillating palate. It feels straighter than the Grands Charrons, in many ways, more like a Puligny in profile than a Meursault. Saline, mineral, elegant and powerful.

2017 was a warm vintage and the wine displays a richness and concentration with cranberries, blackberries and hints of purple fruits. Tannins are firm yet there is a juiciness and concentration on the palate to balance them rather nicely.

Weingut Bründlmayer has a reputation for creating some of the most pure, terroir-driven, wines of Austria, and those from the old vine parcel in the famous Heiligenstein vineyard are always mineral, crystalline, and powerful. With huge drama and intensity, this is a must-have for any Riesling fan.

Querciabella’s Super Tuscan, the 2017 Camartina is 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Sangiovese. The trick here is the estate’s high-altitude vineyards, bringing freshness and poise alongside astonishing depth of flavour and complexity. One of Italy’s greatest wines, this shouldn’t be missed.

Tasted April 2022. Cascading fresh red and black berry fruit, with a distinct aroma of fresh raspberries. More lifted aromas of mint make this really delicious and fresh. There's a lovely soft fruit middle giving a velvet texture on the palate, and there's balanced fresh acidity and very fine tannins.

Only 1,000 bottles made. From 45 year old vineyard. This is very pure and mineral on the nose. There’s dark fruit, and there’s a core of wild herbs and lot of minerality. There’s also an almost citrus, pomegranate character. This is nicely complex and very finely judged.

William Fèvre owns half of the Bougros lieu-dit, so it’s no wonder theirs is the best example you will find. Its clay soils make a flattering, comparatively early-drinking grand cru, which will show well from early on. The nose is brimming with the scent of freshly cut grass, white peach, and the palate has an open, broad texture culminating in a mineral finish. Every year we remark what good value this is, and 2023 is no different.

Brambles and rich dark berried fruits combine with savoury spice and crushed stone and hints of black olive and rosemary. There is an intensity and concentration that is supported beautifully with fine grained but firm tannins.