Premium Pack of French Wines

Freshness abounds with this organically produced Nozay. Zippy, grapefruit tang and flinty minerality on the nose along with ripe passion fruit and lemon curd.  It all flows onto a palate; it’s quite mouth filling and luscious but retains a fresh crunchy acid kick. Electric Sancerre that just keeps giving.

100% Shiraz. It opens to reveal a touch of rusticity on the nose. Dark spices, chocolate, graphite, dark plums and woody herbs. The palate is muscular, not over the top, it’s dark and chewy but there’s elegance here. Dark plums and spices interwoven with cured meats, dark chocolate and that graphite-like tannin grip makes for excellent structure all the way to the end. Excellent value Crozes.

I drank this wine over 2 nights and loved the nuanced differences it showed on each night. Night one - it was so bright and lush. Loads of red fruits, blueberry, cherries, florally so expressive and polished; I loved it. Night 2 - once the fruit had dropped away a touch, it showed more structure but the fruit was still beaming through. It lost nothing...it showed spice, savoury sappy tannins...it's a cracking entry level Bourgogne Rouge.

The 2015 L'Estevenas is a blend of 55% Syrah & 45% old-vine Grenache. This too is beautifully lifted and perfectly ripe and balanced with spices and tannic grip.

"Tank sample. High toned and sleek. A little drying on the end. Syrah definitely dominate" (RH) - Jancis Robinson - 16+ points out of 20.

A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot & Cabernet Franc from AOC Margaux. This is Chateau Rauzan-Segla's 2nd wine.

90 points, Tim Atkin MW - "Attractive Margaux made in a very approachable style, even for a 2009, with sweet cassis fruit and stylish oak integration. The wine has good acidity for the vintage, with elegant, fine-grained tannins and good palate length."

Jancis Robinson - 16.5/20 - "More than half of production (of Rauzan-Segla) is this second wine at this property. Minerally. Fine and dense and upright. Real structure here. Bravo!"

92 points, James Suckling - "Black cherry and fresh mushroom, with hints of currants and sweet tobacco. Full- bodied, with chewy, yet polished tannins. Lovely berry and cherry. Racy and pretty. So delicious now."

Perfectly formed Chablis is a sublime drinking experience. Nathalie and Gilles have nailed it again with this wine. It's taut, racy, crisply fresh on the palate showing melon, apples, citrus & crunchy chalk-like mouthfeel. Excellent work yet again.