Recent years have seen the rosé category lift its game, with serious producers making seriously good wines. At its best, rosé should be textural, pristine, pure and beguilingly complex with, most importantly, off-the-chart drinkability...
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Raphaël Bérêche gets more meticulous with every vintage. As an obvious beneficiary, his Brut Réserve has never tasted finer. “I used to want to shock a little bit,” he says, referring to the buzzing, nervous texture and punchy phenolic character of earlier versions. Today, the wine is considerably more seamless and elegant...
“It seems to vibrate fundamentally, and the interplay of lightness and delicacy with darkness and depth must be tasted to be believed.” Stuart Pigott’s note on the Schlossberg Sainte Catherine sums up the brilliance of the Faller family’s 2023 release. Intensity, as always, comes as standard; yet the new vintage has a racier, airier and more mineral feel than the...
Jean-Baptiste Souillard is a hidden gem in the northern Rhône Valley. We’ve been visiting his cellar on and off since 2018, and it has always been one of the most memorable and insightful visits we make in France...
As the weather turns bright and the seafood counters start calling, we’re thrilled to present a focused Chablis offer from two Estates that deliver translucent terroir expressions at every step of the ladder: Moreau-Naudet and Bernard Defaix...
It comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with this elite grower that the Bachelet brothers have produced an outstanding collection of 2023 Burgundies. Despite the talk about harvest volumes, their white grape yields were slightly lower than in 2022. Marc Bachelet suggested that their organic farming practices led...
Ray Nadeson has that unique ability of being damn good at every style he turns his hand to. Not many could weave a micro-pick of Victorian Savagnin into a brilliant homage to Vin Jaune – but that’s the magic of Lethbridge. Rumour has it that the Lethbridge project was originally...
In a wine world where The Story seems to have become more important than The Wine, it’s refreshing to sit down and taste with a winemaker who gets straight down to brass tacks. “It was a great year, but we had to struggle for it,” said Huw Kinch, a winemaker all too familiar with the perils of growing grapes in a marginal climate. Pyramid’s Waikari yields were wincingly small...
You may have seen Bondar’s name splashed across the pages of Halliday recently. In the 2026 guide, they took home the award for “Best Value Winery.” When we asked Andre and Selina about the award, they were quite pleased, “when you look at the other nominees, those are the wines we drink,” Andre told us. Yet, despite the accolade, Bondar offers much more than a “value” option for wine-lovers...
It’s no secret that the team behind Place of Changing Winds are a tough bunch to please, so it speaks volumes that the team are particularly excited with their 2023 Grower wines. And it’s easy to see why. The latest releases have a gorgeous level of purity and vibrancy...
Let’s start with the conclusion. Swinney has a brilliant set of 2024 reds on its hands. It is a perfumed, textural vintage full of vibrant pleasures and appetising freshness; wines that will grace any table, at any time. In some ways, the immediately charismatic style sets the wines apart from the more saturated, spicier reds of 2023...
We had a terrific introduction to Beaujolais’ 2023 vintage earlier this year. Visiting our growers, and many others, it was clear that most producers enjoyed the semi-luxury of making the style of wine they wanted to. Those who preferred pep and freshness started harvesting in the first days of September...