Bordeaux 2025: A bijou but precise vintage in St-Julien

Such a vivid and vibrant colour in the glass with a bright pink rim. Ripe almost heady aromatics – perfumed bramble fruits with a dried...

An extremely captivating Poyferré this year. Beautiful vivid and vibrant colour in the glass with soft rose and violets on the nose. Juicy and alive,...

A serious but classic Las Cases style with a fragrant nose of roses and violets, blackcurrant and plum. Grippy from the off, the Cabernet playing...

Beautiful aromas, expressive and open, really fragrant with bright purple flowers and dark cherries. Supple and so energetic, you can feel some tension here with...

Such scented notes on the nose, more like a sultry summer’s evening with jasmine, lavender, violets, peonies and deep, heady blackcurrants alongside tobacco, liquorice and...

Beautiful vibrant colour in the glass, bright pink. Fragranced blue fruit and floral aromas on the nose. Soft and supple, a nice vibrancy and energy...

Purple flowers and dark black fruit aromas. Rich in flavour, this is full of life, energy and depth with a soft chew to the tannins...

Blackcurrant, raspberry leaf, liquorice and wet stones on the nose. Smooth and supple with nice clarity. A little tight at the moment but great clarity...

Liquorice and blackcurrant aromas on the nose, smells quite dark and heady and seductive. Almost a sweet, sticky liquorice aspect with some wet stone salinity....

Really ripe and fragrant with some dried herbal accents. Lovely grip on the palate, filling tannins but really fresh and juicy giving a cool, minty,...

Sweet, creamy, fragrant blackcurrants on the nose – smells floral, ripe and perfumed with vanilla and milk chocolate too. A touch chewy, you really get...

Cola and salty edged blue fruit on the nose. Smells clean and crisp. Supple and lithe, this is creamy smooth with a softly chewy edge....

Wildly fragrant, inky, blue fruit, tobacco almost headily perfumed. Pure and juicy, so approachable and accessible straight away with a bouncy element to the fine...

Perfumed fragrance on the nose, velvety and grippy with a soft chew and enjoyable bounce to the tannins and fruit. Still quite high toned, fresh...

Such a gorgeous fragrance on the nose, so alive, so floral and expressive with milk chocolate, cherries and violets. Grippy and alive in the mouth,...

Bramble fruit aromas on the nose. Supple and so controlled with a gorgeous weight on the palate – ripe, filling tannins with a cool vein...

Such fragrant and explosive aromatics, full of violets and freshly picked flowers with really ripe blackcurrants. Such a vibrant colour in the glass too –...

Really ripe and perfumed, so fragrant and aromatic. Lovely purity though, still some wood showing in the massy tannins, but there’s delicacy to this and...

Vivid and vibrant blackcurrant aromas on the nose with some blueberry and crayon touches too. Succulent and juicy but perfectly matched so you get this...

Dark liquorice and blackcurrant on the nose with some dark chocolate. Tangy and lively, an instant buzz from the acidity with freshly picked, almost tart...

Fresh blackcurrant aromas with a hint of balsamic and prune plus some cola and liquorice too. Quite serious and expressive aromatics. Juicy and alive with...

Really fresh and fragrant aromas, so bright and expressive with violets, blackcurrants and some liquorice. So smooth, tannins here are excellently presented and integrated. Super...

Darkly floral with some black chocolate, liquorice, rose and blackcurrant. Smooth and enveloping, this has lovely fleshy but really cool tannins, not chewy but certainly...