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The 2021 vintage in New Zealand was of exceptional quality but very low quantity. So, we are delighted to have secured this wine, made for us by the inspiring Jeremy McKenzie of Isabel Estate. Refreshing green apple and ripe gooseberry dominate the nose. The palate is invigorating, with a lemon-sherbet zippiness and wet-pebble minerality. The wine has a wonderful cleansing purity about it, whilst a sea-salt twist lingers on the elegant finish.

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This delectable Riesling is one of the most thirst-quenching wines that you could ever wish to taste. Made for us by the brilliant Johannes Selbach, it has fresh green apple and apricot aromas, lifted by the scent of meadow wildflowers. The flavours are invigorating, with bright apple freshness persisting alongside more tropical notes of kaffir lime leaves and a twist of white pepper. There’s a hint of sweetness on the otherwise palate-cleansing finish, making this a perfect match for Vietnamese dishes or a Gorgonzola salad.

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{region}Germany{region}
{color}White{color}
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{maturity-text}Drink now{maturity-text}
{vintage}2019{vintage}
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The talented team at Pulenta Estate always bring a sense of class to our Malbec, so we’re delighted to be working with them once again. The nose exudes lifted, floral aromas of sweet, ripe blackberries which overlay a hint of chargrilled meat. Waves of wild blueberries caress the palate with a touch of sage. The tannins, although plentiful, are extremely gentle. The wine is fresh but has an overriding sensation of softness, and all is underpinned by a long, concentrated blackberry finish. Drink now to 2023.

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{region}Mendoza{region}
{color}Red{color}                {maturity}drink-now{maturity} {maturity-text}Drink now{maturity-text}
{vintage}2020{vintage}{***}

Our 2020 Pinot Noir is once again made specially for us by the excellent Greystone. This wine is full of rich, sour red cherry fruit mingling with sweet, fragrant red berries, and a herbal top-note of raspberry tea. The palate is as fine, fresh and elegant as ever, with fine tannins leaving a slight grip on the tongue. Notes of autumn leaves, toast and cured meat add complexity. The enticing finish is savoury, mineral and long.

{***}{region} New Zealand{region}
{color}Red{color}                          {maturity}ready-keep{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will keep{maturity-text}
{vintage}2020{vintage}
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The always-impressive team at De Martino have made our 2021 Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon for us. Its intense aromas of blackcurrants and raspberries are balanced by savoury hints of earth, leaves, nutmeg and gravel. The palate is brimming with fresh, ripe black cherries. A mineral note of graphite runs underneath, subtly drawing in a character that is reminiscent of the Old World. Sophisticated and classy, this a refreshing, appealing and generous wine.

{***}{region}Chile{region}
{color} Red{color}                                                               {maturity}drink-now{maturity} {maturity-text}Drink now{maturity-text}
{vintage}2021{vintage}
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We’ve once again worked with the wonderful Dean Hewitson to bring you this characterful Shiraz. The nose exhibits a warm depth of red-and-black bramble fruit, with a note of pure blackcurrant coulis. That rich black fruit continues on the palate, framed by an almost old-vine richness behind. This is a succulent, generous and rewarding wine which would make for a marvellous midweek pairing with sausages.

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{region}Australia{region}
{color}Red{color}
{maturity}drink-now{maturity}
{maturity-text}Drink Now{maturity-text}
{vintage}2020{vintage}
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The Ockfen 2019 Bockstein Riesling GG opens with an intense, dense and elegant, flinty and slightly iron-scented bouquet that displays perfectly ripe and healthy, somewhat flinty Riesling fruit with lemon chutney notes. Intense, ripe and very elegant on the densely textured and a bit more creamy than crystalline palate, this is a full-bodied, lush and round yet very fine and sustainably salty and tensioned Bockstein. It has highly delicate tannins on the complex and sustainable finish that again shows generous, perfectly ripe Riesling fruit with lingering lemon juice notes. Tasted from AP 35 20 in March 2021.

Drink 2021 - 2037

{***}{region} Germany{region}
{color} White {color}                                                              

 {maturity}ready-improve{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will keep{maturity-text}
{vintage}2019{vintage}
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[] Wine Advocate:: 94/100{ratings}
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The 2017 Wiltinger Braune Kupp Spätlese (AP #4) is coolish, pure and stony on the crunchy and concentrated nose. Lush, sweet and round on the palate, with piquant, racy acidity and pervasive minerality, this is a complex and intense, lush and concentrated Spätlese with a lingering salinity and a long, precise finish. A fabulous and promising Spätlese. 

Drink 2030-2060

Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate (June 2019)

Müller's 2019 Wiltinger Braune Kupp Riesling Kabinett opens with a bright, ripe and finely slatey bouquet. Round and lush on the palate, this is a medium-bodied, mouth-filling, charming and balanced Kupp Kabinett with ripe, elegant, crystalline and salty acidity and fine grip on the aromatic, well-structured finish. The 2019 already drinks dangerously well as an aperitif, but it is made to be cellared and then served with food in about 15-20 years. 9.5% alcohol. Tasted from AP 2-20 in June 2020. - Wine Advocate

This dry wine tingles with life and is somehow reminiscent of wild flowers. A great tightrope of tingly fruit and acidity that is nicely judged. And this is her entry-level bottling …
Jancis Robinson, 2020 festive recommendations  Ewhites, Jancisrobinson.com & Financial Times (December 2020)

This Riesling displays the elegance and purity that Eva’s wines consistently produce. The jasmine floral aromas are wonderfully supported by a peachy juiciness on the palate, while a citrus and nervy acidity provides the backbone to this delicious, fine, dry wine. This is a standout vintage for Eva, and although this wine is a treat to drink in its youth, it will certainly benefit from one or two years in bottle. Drink now to 2028.
Fiona Hayes, Wine Buyer (April 2020)

An off-dry riesling beauty with very attractive white-flower and white-fruit aromas, a hint of green-apple freshness lifting the medium-bodied palate. Precise balance at the long, clean finish. Drink or hold. - James Suckling

The “Volz Ewas a single layer until 1971, which now forms part of the Wiltinger Braunfels. In the Prussian classification of vine locations in 1868, this vineyard, bordering the Scharzhofberg, was classified as a Grand Cru, in the privileged location class. The 60-year-old vines of this glorious slate slope create an exciting firework display of mineral expressiveness and the finest fruity elegance.

Herbal nose with a restrained minerality character. Juicy palate filled with ripe yellow plums and peaches. Concentrated and expressive.

Marien Rodriguez, Fine Wine Junior Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd (March 2023)

The 2019 Art Series Chardonnay is rich and savory but pure and saline too. There is white peach, red apples, curry leaf and brine. The way the flavor moves across the palate is testament to the phenolics that course through the wine; it’s all at a perfect intersect of fruit power, tannin and perfectly judged acidity. The flavor stains the palate and lingers in an unravelling spool of thread in the mouth long after the wine has gone. A stupendously good wine.

Drink 2022 - 2037

{***}{region}Margaret River, Australia{region}
{color}White{color}                                                                                                {maturity}ready-keep{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will keep{maturity-text}
{vintage}2013{vintage}
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[]James Halliday:: 98/100    
[]Wine Spectatorl:: 96/100 
[]James Suckling:: 94/100 
[]The Wine Advocate:: 93/100
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The truly excellent 2016 Sea could very well be the finest wine produced at this estate that started as a joint venture between Robert Mondavi and Eduardo Chadwick and now continues under the guidance of Chadwick and the excellent hand of winemaker Francisco Pancho Baettig. The grapes were picked later in 2016, and the final blend is 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Malbec, 12% Petit Verdot, 8% Carmenere and 5% Cabernet Franc, with more Malbec and considerably less Carmenere than in the past. This is only 13.5% alcohol and has remarkable acidity and freshness, as well as overall balance and elegance that surpasses all previous vintages. Twelve percent of the volume matured in oak foudres, while the rest was aged in barrique (73% new) for 22 months. Even so, the wine is not oaky and comes through as harmonious and elegant within the house style. It's serious, dry and elegant, with zero concessions to sweetness. A mineral and profound red blend. 72,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in February 2018.
Luis Gutirrez - 31/10/2018

{***}{region}Chile{region}
{color} Red{color}                                                             

  {maturity}laying-down{maturity} {maturity-text}For laying down{maturity-text}
{vintage}2016{vintage}
{ratings} []Wine Advocate:: 97/100
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Balanced, intense, raspberry, bilberry, balsamic, dill, tar, grilled cedar and sandalwood. Welcoming and confident, classic Seña swagger, the balance and savoury spice notes arrive if you allow it to sit in the glass. This was a hot and dry vintage, very little rain over the winter before the season began, and the main challenge throughout was water availability. There are wells at the Seña vineyard, and their location closer to the Pacific helps moderate tempatures, but they also picked one week earlier than 2019, and upped the Malbec in the blend because it kept freshness and acidity, and helped with the aromatics. The result is more powerful and opulent than recent vinages, with an emphasis on cocoa bean and dark mint chocolate on the finish. A wine of layers that absolutely delivers on the house style, not easy to maintain in such dry vintages. 10% 2,500l oak casks for ageing, with 70% new French oak, biodynamic farming. Francisco Baettig winemaker.

Pure, fresh and reductive on the nose, with red berry and fresh lemon aromas intertwined with flinty and spicy notes, the 2019 Pinot Noir is a full-bodied, pure, refined and intense, generously juicy and sustainable Pinot with beautiful tannins and very delicate mineral acidity. 

The finish is very intense, sweet and sustainably salty. This vintage pairs the generosity of 2018 or 2012 with the tensioned, crystalline purity and finesse of 2016 and 2014. Impressive, especially in this context (2012 - 2020).

Drink 2022 - 2040

Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate (June 2022)

{***}{region} Switzerland{region}
{color} Red {color}                                                              

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{vintage}2019{vintage}
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[] Wine Advocate:: 94/100{ratings}
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The 2021 Chardonnay is deep, pure, clear and fresh on the nose that, is as slatey as chalky as well as floral and reveals a fine concentration of ripe fruits. Full-bodied, intense and elegant on the palate, this is a pure yet rich, concentrated, enormously saline and finely tannic Chardonnay with a long, intense, complex finish. 

A great wine that already drinks with great pleasure but can also hold for about two decades. 13.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork.

Drink 2023 - 2040

Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate (June 2023)

{***}{region} Switzerland{region}
{color} White {color}                                                              

 {maturity}ready-improve{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will keep{maturity-text}
{vintage}2021{vintage}
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[] Wine Advocate:: 96/100{ratings}
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The 2016 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Sptlese (AP 23 17) is still discreet, floral and finely mineral rather than fruity on the nose compared to the other 2016 Sptlesen. Lush, piquant and juicy on the palate, this is a firm but sensual Sonnenuhr with remarkable finesse, lightness and lingering salinity. Tasted March 2018.
Stephan Reinhardt - 27/04/2018

{***}{region} Germany{region}
{color} White {color}                                                              

 {maturity}ready-improve{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will improve{maturity-text}
{vintage}2016{vintage}
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[] Wine Advocate:: 94/100{ratings}
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