"More open, slightly darker and more foresty initially, this is a more muscular wine and also a blunter weapon to be unsheathed for meatier dishes and colder nights. Smoky, sylvan and fertile, this is a more traditional style with a shorter, but broader attack, and I like its hearty attack and sense of gusto." 18.5/20 Points, Matthew Jukes

"This is an amazingly floral and earthy wine with pure, rose petal and cherry blossom hints on the nose, bounded by superb rigidity on its flanks. There is a sensationally voluminous palate here, and the experience is amazingly long. Somehow, it maintains control throughout, travelling directly and steadily across the palate, never wavering or changing pace. Relentless, beautiful and resonant,...

Beautifully pure, floral nose. On the palate a racy, energetic feel with nuances of stone fruit, acacia, brioche and underlying minerality. Lovely purity and vitality run like a vein through the wine, which has a long, crisp, slightly nutty finish. Exemplary Blanc de Blancs and great apéritif style. Deliciously precise with high toned citrus fruit providing thrilling focus and definition....

A pretty yet restrained nose. The palate is vibrant and delicate, pure and long.

"Of all Didier Gimonnet's single-village Special Club bottlings, it is Cramant that leaps out with its explosive, toasty lemon and chalky savour, evocative of some of the great vineyards of the village even with a moderate, fresh nut and cream richness just starting to build over some of the year's compact and sweet Mirabelle fruit. With its linear, accelerating palate...

"Appropriately reticent, Sesti’s Riserva gradually reveals the profusion of Mediterranean flora that will blossom with time. Hints of sage and heather intertwine with tangy sundried cherry. The tannins are the texture of fine sand but there are masses of them. It manages to pull off amplitude and density with an unlikely ethereal weightlessness, before trailing off leisurely with a savoury...

A Tausend Rosen, literally “a thousand roses”, is an Austrian expression signifying the highest form of praise. Sourced from over 50-year-old Grüner Veltliner vines in the famed Rosenberg vineyard of Feuersbrunn, this wine is produced only in exceptional vintages: 2003, 2006, 2012, 2018, and 2023. Off-dry, powerful, and irresistibly moreish. “Light golden yellow, silver reflections. Fine nuances of yellow fruit,...

"The Fèlsina 2019 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Colonia is a special wine. This vintage was a little tight and closed when I tasted it, but Colonia has a solid track record for a long bottle evolution. The bouquet brings dark fruit, rosemary, cherry and an especially sharp or chiseled mineral note that really is this wine's lasting signature. There are...

"This is a young wine with terrific depth and layers of fruit. It’s full-bodied with notes of eucalyptus, lavender and sage and hints of matchsticks and oranges. It’s linear and tight at the end, with an energetic finish. Very Saffredi in nature." 99, James Suckling