£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.

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.

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 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.