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There’s always one grower who upsets the applecart: Didier Dagueneau, François Chidaine, Olivier Lamy, Jean-Marie Guffens, Robert Plageoles, Josh Jensen to name a few. There’s gold in them hills, you just need to take the leap. We often say that tasting is believing. Even a few years ago, we wouldn’t have thought that the humble region of Touraine was capable of matching the best wines of Sancerre or Saumur...

With its green, shire-like landscape studded with extinct volcanoes, the tiny, remote appellation of the Côtes du Forez is another of France’s hidden gems. Although technically part of the Loire department, we tend to associate it more closely with Beaujolais. The drive from Lyon to La Madone takes roughly an hour and a half...

A great year for Bannockburn naturally means a great year for 1314. “I’m more excited about this vintage than any in recent memory,” says Gus Pollard. And that goes for the 1314 wines as much as it does for the Estate wines currently resting in the cellar...

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it’s hard to overstate how far the wines of this producer have come over the years. Aurélien Laherte’s terroir-centric wines are at a level that compares with the best Grower wines in Champagne...

Sadly, the sun has set on Macedon’s mercurial Animus Distillery. Fortunately, its lovely hand-filled, artisanal baubles live to shine another day. Beautifully packaged in bespoke glass globes, these handmade, high-proof gins...

Elevating the reputation of a relatively untapped Burgundy appellation is a rare thing. To do it as an outsider, from scratch, and on a modest budget is a whole other story. Tasting the new wines from this driven young grower, it is easy to forget that it was not long ago that Camille Thiriet vinified her first wines in a bootstrapped garage owned by her parents.

There were many happy faces in Mornington as the 2025 vintage drew to a close. The quality of the fruit was one thing: perhaps even more importantly, after a string of cooler, low yielding years, yields were heading in the right direction. 

There’s a common saying in London town: you wait ages for one, then two buses turn up at the same time. So, we’re delighted to offer a second exciting new addition to our Rhône portfolio in as many weeks. Before hanging up his corkscrew in 2017, Jean-François Malsert owned the hippest wine bar in Tournon-sur-Rhône...

Although greatness is often not easy to define, this Domaine makes it easier than most. There’s the legendary quality of the Domaine’s terroirs and their strict, certified biodynamic management. There are the low yields (typically less than 35 hl/ha) and the rigorous selection at harvest time. Then there is the classic, minimalist practice in the cellars...

Raphaël Bérêche gets more meticulous with every vintage. As an obvious beneficiary, his Brut Réserve has never tasted finer. “I used to want to shock a little bit,” he says, referring to the buzzing, nervous texture and punchy phenolic character of earlier versions. Today, the wine is considerably more seamless and elegant...

Jean-Baptiste Souillard is a hidden gem in the northern Rhône Valley. We’ve been visiting his cellar on and off since 2018, and it has always been one of the most memorable and insightful visits we make in France.

If Bannockburn’s spring releases are any indication—and they typically are—2025 is poised to be another excellent vintage for Matt Holmes and Co. But don’t just take our word for it. “These new releases,” says Gus Pollard, “are some of the most expressive and precise examples we’ve made of these varieties, each carrying a real sense of the season’s character.”...