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LOIRE
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Tasting
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Best Drinking
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Where available, tasting scores and notes are by
the
Wine Spectator (WS) from www.winespectator.com
Or any other wine review source indicated. |
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ANJOU |
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CHATEAU de la ROULERIE
This is a good
domaine (owned by top estate Chateau de Fels), making very full and
round wines, with plenty of substance and fruit. Great value! |
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140
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75cl
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Anjou Rouge
100% Cabernet Franc grapes are hand-picked; wines is
matured 2-4months in stainless steel tanks, with a further 6 months in
bottle before being released. |
2006 |
£ 7.00 |
A good vintage in the Loire, providing
freshness and purity. |
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47
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75cl
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Anjou Rouge
100% Cabernet Franc grapes are hand-picked; wines is
matured 2-4months in stainless steel tanks, with a further 6 months in
bottle before being released. |
2005 |
£ 6.00 |
A TOP vintage in the Loire, with
great depth and body - wonderful food wine.
Very Full Bodied |
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BOURGEUIL/
St NICOLAS de BOURGEUIL |
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DOMAINE de la GAUCHERIE
This is an
excellent source for good 'easy drinking' Bourgeuil.
Excellent value! |
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4
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75cl
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Bourgeuil Rouge Gaucherie |
2002 |
£ 7.00 |
Classic vintage; firm and well structured.
Will keep. |
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CENTRAL REGION |
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DOMAINE
ALPHONSE MELLOT
This is an
excellent source for TOP Sancerre Red! |
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16
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75cl
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Sancerre Rouge Generation XIX
Wine Spectator -
Offers up a healthy layer of
suave toast, but there's a load of perfumed black cherry and blackberry
fruit here, along with dark chocolate and bramble flavours.
Mouth-watering acidity is embedded on the finish. |
2002 |
£28.00 |
WS90
2006-11A wonderful
wine, warm, soft and round; we can highly recommend this! |
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DOMAINE
OLGA RAFFAULT, SAVIGNY-en-VERON
This is a top domaine that
has been making very pure CHINON wines for 4 generations;
in fact Olga Raffault was the first female vigneron in France!.
The red wines are soft but firm, and can be cellared 20+years in good
vintages.We
recently tasted the 1990 Les Picasses - it was wonderful, but needed to
be decanted as it was still quite young - that says something about the
potential of these wines! |
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We
import these wines direct from the Domaine and have UK exclusivity. |
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93
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75cl
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CHINON ROSÉ |
2006 |
£ 7.00 |
A lovely refreshing wine for those hot summer
days.
Great by itself or with light meals. |
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71
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75cl
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CHINON Rouge Les Barnabés |
2005 |
£ 8.00 |
A younger, more fruity style of wine; will drink well
now till about 2012. |
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6
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75cl
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CHINON Rouge Les Barnabés |
2004 |
£ 7.00 |
Drinking well now, fully mature. |
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122
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75cl
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CHINON Rouge Les Picasses |
2002 |
£12.00 |
Les Picasses is the
TOP wine of the domaine.
It spends 12-14months in oak barrels; resulting in a powerful yet
aromatic wine.
Will provide great pleasure 2008-25. |
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84
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75cl
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CHINON Rouge Les Picasses |
1998 |
£13.00 |
A lovely drink now; aromatic and
multi-dimensional.
Will last another 10 years. |
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45
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75cl
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CHINON Rouge Les Picasses |
1990 |
£25.00 |
Wow, what a great
wine, from an excellent vintage!
Still tastes young, so decant at least half an hour before drinking.
Will easily last another 10-25 years! |
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SAUMUR |
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CHATEAU de la DURANDIERE
This is a good
address for well made but inexpensive Saumur Rouge wines.
The vineyards are situated just inside and outside the walls of Chateau
Montreuil Bellay, which is about
15 kms from Saumur. |
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36 |
75cl
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Saumur Rouge
Goes very well with sliced cold meat,
poultry and cheese. |
2005 |
£7.00 |
2007-2012 |
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36 |
75cl
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Saumur Rouge Vieilles Vignes
More structured than the above wine,
so it goes very well with red meat and more powerful cheeses. |
2005 |
£8.00 |
2007-2016 |
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DOMAINE
FOUCAULT
This is
generally regarded as the best Saumur-Champigny producer by the
French wine press.
Try it a see if you
agree! |
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According to Jancis Robinson
this is "..a seriously great producer of seriously great wine
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SOLD
OUT |
75cl |
Saumur-Champigny
'Les Poyeaux'
Clos Rougeard
RP -
The Clos Rougeard
2003 Saumur-Champigny Les Poyeux certainly reflects its vintage.
The creamy-textured, nut paste and black fruit
preserve-flavoured palate exhibits less abrasiveness and
considerably more sheer juiciness than many an ‘03. Lovely
inner-mouth floral, high-toned cherry almond, and piquant
nuttiness of finish draw attention away from the tannins and
inform an impressively long finish.
The long finish
echoes with elegant fruit and floral notes. |
2003 |
£29.00 |
RP90
2008-14 |
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DOMAINE
DES ROCHES NEUVES
This is a
top biodynamic domaine run by Thierry Germain - of the Chateau
des Fesles, Bernard Germain family.
The reds are elegant but powerful; with a round full fruit taste
with a long lasting finish.
The 'Terres Chaudes' is full and round with lovely red
fruit taste, whereas the 'Marginale' is a really
wonderful powerhouse of a wine that needs at least 5 years
of cellaring to be at its best.
These wines are best consumed with red meat dishes. |
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These wines are very
popular in France; so are very difficult to obtain for export to
the UK. The
Revue du Vin de France (issue 513), considers this one of
the best domaine's in the Loire.
No wonder they are sought after, especially as they are
constantly sold-out as only small quantities are made. |
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33 |
75cl |
Saumur-Champigny
Terres Chaudes
Wine Spectator -
Dark, ripe and
driven, with plum cake, tobacco, tapenade and violet notes that
are finished off with an alluring kiss of cocoa. The long finish
echoes with elegant fruit and floral notes. |
2005 |
£17.00 |
WS92
2008-14
Top Vintage |
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29 |
75cl |
Saumur-Champigny
La Marginale
This is the TOP wine of the domaine;
it is drinking well now as it mature, but has another 10years at
least of life left in it - this wine only get better with time! |
2001 |
£20.00 |
2008-19
Recommended. |
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CHATEAU YVONNE
This domaine produces excellent wine using organic methods from some 12 different
vineyard plots; wines are aged in oak for 12-18 months after
vinification resulting in very full bodied tasty wines with plenty of
fruit, body and structure. |
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Highly Recommended Domaine
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48 |
75cl
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Saumur Champigny |
2006 |
£19.00 |
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