European Red Wines
France
Rhone
Gigondas 2003
Domaine du Grand Montmirail
Made from the old wine Grenache with small amounts of Syraz and Mouvedre. This powerful and heady wine is bursting with warmth and flavours of blackberries, chocolate and coffee bean. Unfiltered and aged in underground cellars, the wine is then bottled at the estate.
£27.95
Côtes du Ventoux Rouge Reserve 2007
Domaine Perrin
This is a ripely-fruited red with sweet, spiced berries supported by smooth tannins. An excellent all-rounder, it has real southern Rhône character.
£17.95
Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve 2006
Chareau Beauchene
The tiny production of these ancient and gnarled vines makes for a spectacular concentrated wine. Wonderfully ripe, spicey and silky.
£39.95
Loire
Saumur-Champigny 2006
Domaine Les Terres Rouges
An excellent alternative to expensive Beaujolais, this resembles crushed soft berries, laced with pepper.
£19.95
Sancerre Rouge 2006
Henri Bourgeois
Created from the Pinot Noir grapes, the wine is deep purple with aromas of Morello cherry and plum. Light and round on the palate with ripe red fruit and a hint of oak spice.
£31.95
Château La Courolle 2006
Montagne St Emilion
A typical wine from the St Emilion region - wonderfully supple, sappy cherry-rich blend which coats the palate with a sensual, silky texture.
£25.00
Château de Lamarque 2001
Cru Bourgeois, Haut-Médoc
Spectacular pureed blackcurrants, tobacco leaf & spices leap from the glass. Sweet blackfruit laced with toasty oak coat the mouth whilst smooth, ripe tannin & minerals underpin the voluptuousness to bring an air of elegance to this delicious wine.
£35.00
Chateau Manoir de Gay,2003
Pomerol
Situated in the best Pomerol area - Cheateau de Gay is surrounded by Petrus, La Fleur and Vieux Certan. The wine has complex aromas of blackberry, olives and cinnamon and are followed by a long silky palate.
£60.00
Chateau Kirwan 2005
3eme Cru Classe Margaux
This great estate started producing superb wines again by the mid 1990's. Muscular and rich in style, this well extracted wine exhibits ripe cassis, spiced new and oak aromas followed by a concentrated dense palate of richly endowded fruit with great length
£85.00
Chateau Leoville Barton 1994
2eme Cru Classé St Julien
An outstanding wine now beginning to drink very well. Classic scents of cassis, vanilla, cedar and spice are followed by a palate medium to full bodied, which is packed with elegant and concentrated pure fruit - wonderful!
£125.00
Chateau Tertre Rotebouef 1999
Grand Cru St Emilion
This stellar estate produced one of the greatest wines in 1999, being both exotically opulent and unctuously textured. Masively endowed with full blowen aromas of bacon fat, sweet fruit and a palate that seems to go on forever. Simply stunning.
£185.00
Burgundy
Chorey-les-Beaune 2006
Joseph Drouhin
Dark red with a powerful nose. Good structure, rich, elegant and well balanced with a very fine finish picking up flavours of liquorice. Perfect with red meat and game.
£29.95
Gevrey Chambertin 2001
Domaine Rossignol Trapet
Now nicely mature, this red fruit and violet scented wine yields up a concentrated, weighty, well structured palate of complex berried fruits and light spice.
£55.00
Nuits-St-Georges Les Vallerots 2004
Domaine Machard De Gramont
The complex nose reveals layers of plump black cherries, spice and crystallised violets allied to a very marked minerality. The palate is much more controlled but remains perfumed throughout. This is the younger of Bertrand's premier cru sites with wines of around 20 years in age, their yield limited by severe pruning.
£59.50
Echezeaux Grand Cru 2007
Domaine Jacques Cacheux
It's not often we silence Hamish outside Bordeaux but we did with this intense, truffle, red & black cherry with a savoury, creamy finish. Outstanding length and intensity.
£135.00
Italy
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo 2008
Casal Thaulero
Soft forest fruits with vivid touches of local herbs and wild flowers complete this easy drinking wine.
£16.95
Barbera d'Alba Superoire 2006
This wine comes from several vineyards. Ruby-red, complex and fruity to start, it developes elegant, ethereal and spicy notes. Dry, intense, medium to full bodied. A beautiful balance of red cherry fruit alongside herby savoury notes.
£25.00
Barolo Riserva Cannubi 2003
Fratelli Sergio
Full bodied with plenty of fascinating aromas, including dark berries, plum and dried flowers. The tannins are silky and it has an amazingly refined long finish.
£52.50
Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 'Il Carlo Magno' 2003
Marchesato Degli Aleramici
The prestigious son of Tuscany, Brunello displays bold, upfront fruit and tenacious structure. Ripe cherries, raisins, liquorice and smoky tobacco comlement a firm body and excellent length.
£55.95
Sassicaia 1999
Marchesi Incisa della Rochetta, Tuscany
One of the great super Tuscan's. The bouquet is packed with aromas of smoky vanilla and blackcurrants, while the rich, concentrated palate is packed with fruit of excellent purity, but elegantly restrained by a light tannic backbone. One of Italy's finest wines.
£140.00
Spain
Solar de Samaniego Rioja Crianza 2005
Bodegas Alavesas, Spain
92% Tempranillo, 8% Graciano. Garnet in colour, this presents a blend of autumnal fruit, leather notes and vanilla cream.
£23.50
Bodegas Benito Urbina Reserva Especial 1997
Roija Alta
A brilliant quality Rioja from this top draw Bodegas. Urbina regularly supply British Airways with this wine for their first class passengers. Not a heavy wine, but elegant and sophisticated.
£38.95
CORSICA
Calvi, Clos Columbu 2007
Etienne Suzzani
A blend of Wiellucio, Sciaccarello, Syraz and Grenache the wine has a deep purple colour, a complex nose of red fruits, spiced jam and liquorice. It fills the mouth with rich fruit flavours and reveals good tannic structure.
£35.00
Austria
Pinot Noir Reserva 2007
Willi Opitz
Beautifully made Pinot Nior, much admired by all who taste it. Relatively light in colour, but full of wonderful centred fruits. A joy to drink!
£55.00
Lebanon
Chateau Musar Rouge 2001
Serge Hochar, Lebanon
This is the great wine of the Lebanon, produced by the equally great Bordeaux trained Serge Hochar. Predominantly produced from Cabernet Sauvignon, this is a big, full-bodied, spicy alcholic wine, ideally suited to rich game.
£35.00
