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Avail.
Btl
Size
LOIRE
 
Year
Price per
Bottle
including
VAT
Tasting
Score/Notes
Best Drinking
    Where available, tasting scores and notes are by the
Wine Spectator (
WS) from www.winespectator.com
Or any other wine review source indicated.
     
    ANJOU      
    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!
     
140
75cl
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.
47
75cl
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
           
    BOURGEUIL/
St NICOLAS de BOURGEUIL
     
    DOMAINE de la GAUCHERIE
This is an excellent source for good 'easy drinking' Bourgeuil.
Excellent value!
     
4
75cl
Bourgeuil Rouge Gaucherie 2002 £ 7.00 Classic vintage; firm and well structured.
Will keep.
           
    CENTRAL REGION      
    DOMAINE
ALPHONSE MELLOT
This is an excellent source for TOP Sancerre Red!
     
16
75cl
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
2006-11

A wonderful wine, warm, soft and round; we can highly recommend this!

           
    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!

    We import these wines direct from the Domaine and have UK exclusivity.
93
75cl
CHINON ROSÉ 2006 £ 7.00 A lovely refreshing wine for those hot summer days.
Great by itself or with light meals.
71
75cl
CHINON Rouge Les Barnabés 2005 £ 8.00 A younger, more fruity style of wine; will drink well now till about 2012.
6
75cl
CHINON Rouge Les Barnabés 2004 £ 7.00 Drinking well now, fully mature.
122
75cl
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.
84
75cl
CHINON Rouge Les Picasses 1998 £13.00 A lovely drink now; aromatic and multi-dimensional.
Will last another 10 years.
45
75cl
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!
           
    SAUMUR      
    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.
     
36
75cl
Saumur Rouge
Goes very well with sliced cold meat, poultry and cheese.
2005 £7.00 2007-2012
36
75cl
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
           
    DOMAINE FOUCAULT
This is generally regarded as the best Saumur-Champigny producer by the French wine press.

Try it a see if you agree!

    According to Jancis Robinson this is "..a seriously great producer of seriously great wine ..."
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
           
    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.
    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.

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

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.

           
    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.
    Highly Recommended Domaine 
48
75cl
Saumur Champigny 2006 £19.00  
           
 

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