Sadly, I haven’t had the chance to taste these wines from the trio of Châteaux owned by the Wertheimers (owners of Chanel) – and very few journalists or wine critics have either. I have been increasingly impressed by the calibre of the wines made under Nicolas Audebert’s direction at both Châteaux Canon and Rauzan-S...
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This morning 2019 Château Haut-Bailly has released at a very compelling price, particularly given the quality of this vintage that has received unanimous praise. We are pleased to offer here at £420 per 6 bottle case in bond. I tasted the Grand Vin and the second wine as we have worked closely with the Château for many years an...
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I sadly haven’t tasted Château Brane-Cantenac 2019 – I wish I had. This Château has been delivering a far greater consistency of quality in the last years – always refined, always detailed and always good value. It hasn’t been swayed by fashion; not to produce a bolder, more extracted style in the later 2000s,...
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“Establishing new, direct relationships is possibly the most enjoyable and rewarding aspect of what we do at Atlas; that feeling is intensified when the estate in question is a Burgundian domaine that we have been tracking for several vintages. It suffices to say that we are very pleased to be adding the wines of Domaine Latour-Giraud to o...
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Château Grand Puy Lacoste was just released onto the market this morning.
I haven’t tasted the wine this vintage, but I think the price is remarkably fair – indeed the Borie family at Grand Puy Lacoste have never become carried away with ambitious release pricing, so one could easily argue that there was no n...
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Here is one of the first en primeur releases to make me sit up, take note and get genuinely excited; Château Figeac, which has been riding high in recent vintages, has released this morning at £756 per 6 bottle case in bond.
I am pleased to see Figeac release at a favourable price; its release price is down 31% on ...
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