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CHAMPAGNE

Claude Cazals GRAND CRU VINTAGE 2001, Champagne  (1-5 years)  £26.00

Owned and run by the Cazals family. Their history dates back over 100 years when Ernst Cazals settled in Le Mesnil sur Oger, a district in Champagne. Three generations later and the quality has never been higher.

100% Grand Cru, drinking well now but with plenty of scope for development

Claude Cazals CUVEE ROSÉ GRAND CRU, Champagne (1-5 years)  £25.00

Wonderful addition to the Cazals range of top class champagnes.

Creamy strawberry mousse underscored with luscious shortbread biscuit flavours with a crisp baked apple finish.

Gosset GRANDE RESERVE, Champagne (1-5 years)    £38.00

Extraordinary richness of flavour with an exceptional mouth-filling mousse makes this a rather special Champagne. A delightful expression of fresh bread and apples with a long, long finish.

Gosset GRAND ROSÉ, Champagne  (1-5 years)    £44.00

One of the best rosé’s on the market. The rich mousse of the Gosset style is very much apparent here, but with that added charm only a rosé can give. Red fruits and rose petals mingle beautifully with yeast aromas and delicate champagne character.

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WHITE & ROSÉ WINES

LIVIO FELLUGA Pinot Grigio, Friuli-Venezia, Italy (1 year)  £18.75

Imagine a cocktail of quince, mangos, wild roses and almonds all wrapped up in a zippy, zesty coating…well, it's just like that!  Seriously - we think this about as good as Pinot Grigio gets.

KIM CRAWFORD Spitfire MKII, Marlborough, New Zealand (1 year) £13.25

From a well-respected winemaker and a region renowned for its Sauvignon Blanc comes this wine with explosive aromas of tropical fruit, melons and passionfruit with a hint of herbaceousness. This follows through on the palate, which is rich and full and a mixture of sweet fruit and zingy acidity. The wine finishes well and has great length.

Thierry Hamelin CHABLIS PREMIER CRU 'BEAUROY', Burgundy (1-5 years)  £14.45

 From one of our favourite Chablis producers. It’s gun-flinty but with a quality edge normally associated with more expensive wines of the region. The elderflower and wet stone notes on the nose are followed by flavours of ripe apricot, toffee apple, bilberry and flinty gunsmoke, backed up by its excellent length.

Jean-Paul Balland SANCERRE ROSÉ, Loire   (1 year)  Sold Out

Vineyards are situated on the hillsides of Bué near Sancerre in the Loire with 20 hectares in Le Grand Chemain and Le Chêne Marchand and produce spectacular Sancerre. A pale pink salmon coloured wine that is elegant and well balanced.

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RED WINES

MORGENHOF Merlot, Stellenbosch, South Africa (1 -5 year)   £12.99

Something of a favourite with us, Morgenhof's Merlot is beautifully smooth but with a powerful core of dark jammy fruit running through the wine. Brilliant stuff

Chateau Haut Marbuzet ST ESTEPHE, Bordeaux (1 – 10 years)  £35.00

Packed with vibrant fruit, its sweetness is backed by a touch of spice, vanilla from new oak, a cigar box nose and good tannins. A long finish complements its weight. Highly regarded, it will age well and develop complexity

Pago De Carrovejas CRIANZA, Ribero del Duero, Spain (5 – 25 years) £27.00

A blend of Tempranillo and Cabernet in a combination of French and American oak. Whole berry fermentation makes very concentrated wine with aspects of spicy redcurrants and blackberries. Very nicely put together indeed

Charles Melton NINE POPES, Barossa Valley, South Australia (5 – 10 years) £21.50

A humorous New World translation of Chateauneuf-du-Pape, with an incredible core of fruit and fine tannins and a hint of subtle oak. Ages brilliantly but also rather accessible now with a few hours breathing.

DESSERT WINE

Chateau Filhot SAUTERNES (1/2 Bottle), Bordeaux  (1 – 25 years) £13.50

This is tremendous stuff. Its full of apricot and marmalade character and even though its certainly got its fair share of sugar it doesn't go over the top on the sweetness front. Complex and rich, its fantastic with rich pates at the beginning of the meal, but just as good with cheese or dessert at the end

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PORTS

GRAHAMS Vintage 2000, Douro, Portugal (5 – 25 years)   £52.00

Blackish-purple colour, aromas of violets fly out the glass. Layers of blackberry and liquorice coat the palate with spicy sweetness and richness on a long finish.

DOW’S Quinta do Bomfim 1998, Douro, Portugal  (1 – 15years)  £25.00

Good hue, deep purple red, no sign of excessive age, with good depth of colour. Pleasing nose, with chocolate and oil of orange edged blueberry fruit. Quite smoothly integrated on the palate, with a rich texture together with stylish, dark, spicy, brambly fruit. Good tannins behind it all.

Hi All and Thanks for helping us get drunk build our wine cellar, we’ll both see you on the big day, and we’ll have a list of contributors, so be generous!

Love & Kisses John & Jackie