I had been looking forward to tasting these wines for quite some time, in fact, ever since I saw Stephen Duckett’s beaming smile at the conclusion of the 2018 harvest.
Stephen is the owner and winemaker of Hundred Hills in the Stonor Valley in south-east Oxfordshire, which was founded in 2013. As I have written before, &...
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The last year seems to have flown by, and the Christmas season is nearly upon us. Over the past few months, we have been working hard to improve the gifting service we can offer to clients, and are better equipped than ever before to assist with Christmas gifts this year. Whether you are looking for corporate gifts to send out to your staff and ...
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Sicily keeps surprising me with highly individual wines and this wine is truly outstanding. Qualitatively, it is an absolute bargain, so if you are looking for an interesting red off the beaten track with capacity for mid-term cellarage, you should take a look at this. After all, it is off the beaten track where the greatest value for money can ...
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James Halliday once wrote a line on the topic of Shiraz that has stuck with me. The great critic of Australian wine commented that ‘There are many good judges who see the Heathcote subregion of Bendigo as Australia’s greatest area for Shiraz, notwithstanding the far greater (historic) reputation of the Hunter and Barossa valleys.&rsq...
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To say the Champagnes of de Sousa are avidly followed by Atlas clients might be understatement. Two cuvées in particular have developed something of a cult-like following with our clients, namely the Mycorhize and the 3A – both invariably sell out in a matter of hours, so on your marks…
Those of you waiting...
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The only disappointment with the 2019 releases from Hannes Storm is the quantity.
The 2019 vintage represented the third dry vintage in a row for South Africa’s Hemel-en-Aarde valley and, as Hannes Storm comments, ‘stressed vines to the limit with three years of drought and they focused all their energy...
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