£20-50 per bottle

There's a Pinot Noir character on the nose of the 2019 Roc de Cambes, with dark cherries, and lots of floral notes. There's a sweetness to the fruit, and such a delicacy to the tannins. This is beautifully balanced, and incredibly refined: such a good wine, it's not to be missed.

The value pick from master winemaker François Mitjavile, this is a stunner in 2019. It’s almost Pinot Noir like in its character, with wild berries and plenty of freshly picked herbs. So silky and elegant, it’s a real beauty of a wine.

This is a great site for Grenache, which loves its sandy, pebbly soils. The vines have an average age of 75 years, and the wine is concentrated but poised, with spice, floral notes, and fresh focus. Forget about it for a few years to enjoy at its best.

From a vineyard in Serralunga, this shows incredible poise and lift in 2018. There’s notes of blood orange and a floral lift, alongside plenty of cool fruit, and an incredible density on the finish. This is such a charming, juicy, energetic wine.

From the Ginestra cru, there’s a salinity here, with beautiful tannins that are powdery and refined. There’s brilliant elegance here, but also a coolness and a sense of balance. A hint of bitterness on the finish makes it savoury, mouth watering, and moreish.

Tasted April 2023. Bursting with aromatic fruit like black cherry, damson and bramble. Opulent and rounded on the palate, it nevertheless remains elegant and lifted with a saline finish.

Bright, expressive and perfumed with precise dark berry fruit, black plum, dark chocolate, and savoury spice. More lifted floral notes and sappier fruit character create a refreshing feel on the palate. Well balanced, with fresh acidity cutting through concentrated fruit flavours, and an appetising spicy note on the finish.

This elegant, ethereal Pinot Noir is sourced from the Ferguson vineyard in the Woori Yallock sub-region of the Yarra Valley. It’s the plot for which Mac has become best known. In 2020, strawberry, redcurrant, and red cherry aromas leap from the glass, while the finely grained tannins provide grip and structure. The breadth and depth of flavour belie its modest 11% alcohol, and this is unquestionably among the Yarra Valley’s finest Pinots.

This is a bold yet refined Chianti with notes of wild herbs, dark cherry and liquorice spice. There is vibrant acidity, with a sense of refinement and detail here. Quite aromatic too, with aromas of violets and lavender this is a delicious Chianti with a delicious dark fruited finish.

A beautifully vibrant wine, this Roussanne has enticing aromatics of verbena, white grapefruit and quince. The palate is zesty with some wet stone minerality and subtle lemon peel bitterness. A very fine, charming white Rhone to enjoy in the next few years.

Sybarine comes from the vines that surround the Garon cellar, nestled at the bottom of the Côte Blonde. Its granite soils make for an open, refined, and silky Côte-Rôtie. This was bottled before the other Côte-Rôties, and is easily the most approachable of the four cuvées, drinking well from early on. No new oak is used, with the emphasis on Syrah’s peppery and sappy style.

Sybarine comes from vines very close to the Garon cellar on the Côte Blonde. Its granite soils make for an open, refined, and silky Côte-Rôtie, and is the earliest drinking of the four Garon cuvées. No new oak is used here, and the 2020 has 10% whole bunch fruit. It is peppery and sappy, it is an upfront and bold style of Syrah with black fruit character and savoury length.

With fresh mountain strawberry notes, silky tannins, and so much minerality, the 2014 Ravera is simply stunning. The palate is so full of life, and there's a gorgeous coolness to the fruit. This is long and fine, with such excellent balance and drive. Brilliant.

There is something magical here: it is at once aromatically precise, and energised with a wildness, reminiscent of garrigue herbs. As usual, it is a blend of 15 different parcels around Cornas, which Stéphane vinified separately, only blending at the final moment before bottling. Great freshness and balance.

This comes from a selection of 100-year-old vines in some of Stéphane’s best parcels, Champelrose, Eygats, and Combe. It follows in the same vein as the Cornas, but with greater presence of tannins and drive. It will therefore need longer in bottle to reach its peak. Hugely elegant, mouth-coating, and intense.

Neblina is the flagship Pinot Noir for Radio Coteau, founded by Eric Sussman in 2002 after vintages in Bordeaux and at Comte Armand in Burgundy. They picked their 2020 before the wildfires. This is perfumed, mineral and complex, and is made from two organic vineyards in the west Sonoma Coast. There's crunchy red berry fruit flavours but a softness on the palate, complemented by rose petals and leather notes. Old World sensibilities with New World fruit.

The Collection 245 is a blend of 41% Chardonnay, 35% Pinot Noir, and 24% Meunier, and is 55% based on the 2020 harvest. The rest is reserve wines, with 10% vinified in wood. It’s a complex, chiselled Champagne, with lovely generosity in the palate. Apricot, white flowers, spice, white pepper and citrus oil unfurl in the glass.Delicious now, don’t be afraid to stash a few bottles away for the future.

An intense, bold style of Chenin this offers real intensity of apricot and stone fruits on the palate, notes of salted almonds, acacia and peach skin. The soils is very shallow shale soils in the Paardeberg, which gives the wine a real mineral focus.

This single vineyard expression of Merlot from Steve and Jill Matthiasson is elegant and perfectly balanced, with dark cherry notes and a herbal lift. The Ashes & Diamonds vineyard was planted on silty loam and alluvial gravel in the 1980s and the mature vines are now showing a stunnning purity of fruit. This is an absolute delight.

Wild aeroplane' as Domenico was named by his father, this wine reflects his adventurous and wild streak by finding a vineyard outside of his beloved Monforte and into Serralunga. This wine is so floral and so charming in its profile with blood orange and pomegranite at the forefront.

As always, the Boekenhoutskloof Semillon is made with some of the oldest vines in the Cape with the two parcels from 1902 and 1942, and just a little dash of Muscat d'Alexandrie also from a 1902 plot to add aromatic lift. The wine is fermented in barrique and concrete egg with ageing in 70% new oak and the remainder in concrete eggs for texture. The 2022 Semillon is quite simply brilliant and idiosyncratic. A spicy nose of ginger, tangerine, white peach and lemon balm the palate opens out to reveal a certain creaminess from the oak yet still with a fine bead of acidity. The finish is bright and complex, this will age beautifully over the coming years.

An elevated site with slate soils giving a compact wine full of citrus zest, bright orchard fruit with accents of verbena. A real purity here on the finish.

This is in-keeping with the Clusel Roch style, with high-toned red fruit and a lithe body. It’s a fairly new addition to their range, having first separated out the parcel in 2018. It sits high up on the slope, facing eastwards, on limestone and schiste soils. It’s got more muscle than the Viallière, but remains more forward than the Grandes Places.

Having tasted this wine at the winery in Spring 2023, I was very impressed with its focus and energy. This is a cool site and open to westerly winds on a south east exposition. Jasmine, white blossom notes are supported by white stone fruits and citrus. The core is so focused, with a saline profile and hint of reduction, incredibly delicious and concentrated.

Tasted April 2022. Good balance of ripe, dark fruit and sappier red fruits. Medium-bodied with fine tannins, it's a really charming, poised wine. There's a chalky texture and mineral flavours on the finish.

The Dellchen are the hollows that sit between cliffs that lift up from the Nahe, and this south-facing vineyard creates a wine that has astonishing intensity and complexity, with notes of ginger and more exotic spices. It benefits from an incredibly long hang time on the vines, and the resulting wine is brilliant.

A blend of 65% Grenache and 35% Syrah, the grapes are hand-harvested then undergo a long, slow maceration to gently extract flavours and aromas. Ageing takes place separately, during a period of 18 months - in vats for the Grenache and in large foudres for the Syrah, after which the final cuvée is assembled. The result is a wine packed full of expressive dark and red fruit and garrigue herb aromas. The palate is rich and concentrated with silky, ripe tannins and a long, spicy finish.

Orange blossom, fresh and dried apricots, honey and ginger are all displayed in the glass. The palate is juicy and the acidity is racy and provides the perfect tension to the sweetness and rich core.

Really pure fruit, feel the sweetness here, but it’s so well balanced, with amazing tannic purity. There’s amazing length here, with strawberry fruit and then also that salinity on the finish, and then lots of grip. With time this will be outtsanding.

La Viallière is one of the great sites of the Côte Brune. Its mid-slope position and high proportion of gravelly stones aid drainage and produce wines of great finesse and voluptuous depth. This was the highlight of the Clusel Roch cellar in 2021 - lovely notes of torrefaction give the sweet fruit a toasty charm. It is a warm site, and usually produces the roundest, richest wine here. In 2021 it is on song: the freshness and elegant balance of the vintage showing it at its best.

BodegasTamerán was set up in 2019 by footballer and Canary Islands native, David Silva after a much sought after 6 hectare vineyard became available on the island. He asked friend Jonathan García (owner and winemaker at Suertes del Marqués) to run the project and the wines have since gained much praise. This exceptional white wine comes from the volcanic archipelago of Gran Canaria. Vines are planted on their own roots at altitudes of 600-700 metres on mountainous plots benefitting from a cooling Atlantic influence and volcanic soils. There is a lot of citrus and ginger spice combined with fleshy stone fruit aromas with an incredible waxy texture.