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Whether you are looking for the latest vintages from Bordeaux and Burgundy, the Rhône, Germany or futher afield in California and Australia, we hope you will enjoy looking through the latest Private Cellar finds.
 

Château de Sours Rosé 2011 Early Bird Offer

Rather like hearing the first cuckoo, when the time comes to write the annual offer for Château de Sours’ luscious rosé we start to feel that spring isn’t too far away. Granted, it hasn’t been a hard winter this year (yet), but after a lacklustre summer we all feel the need for a bit of sunshine in our lives, either real or bottled, so where better place to start than a joyful rosé with its promise of warmth to come?
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NB: if you are ordering five or more cases of bottles, please call us on 01353 721 999 to ensure that you receive the special multiple case price.
   

2010 Burgundy

Given all that we had heard all about the 2010 growing season, harvest and vinification, it was with some trepidation that we approached our tastings, having encountered stories of extreme temperatures, thunderstorms and even exploding vines, yet we were confounded at our very first red wine tasting by gorgeously floral, perfumed red fruits, supple, ripe, juicy – and the word ripe appeared again and again in our tasting notes. Read more...

 
   

2010 Rhône

Travelling around the different Rhône regions last December, we found that many of the growers were slightly bemused by the global interest in the precocious 2009s because they knew – and told anyone who would listen – that the 2010 lying in the barrels was a much more interesting vintage. Textbook in terms of its growing season, it combines power and freshness, ripe tannins and sensible alcohol levels, which cannot be taken as given in the Rhône, resulting in elegant, poised wines which will make fine old bones. Read more...
   

Domaines Joseph & Philippe Roty 2009

As with all the 2009 wines, these are so alluring that it is tempting to tuck into them immediately but it is clear that they have the structure – tannins and acidity – and fruit to evolve into something really rather special in the longer term.  Many in Burgundy are of the opinion that if they taste good now, then we should enjoy the 2009s without feeling the need to wait, however with a few years bottle age these wines will evolve into something even more complex than they are now. Quantities are extremely limited so please note that all orders will be confirmed in writing. Read more...
   

Domaine Leflaive 2010

What struck us when tasting at both Domaine Leflaive and elsewhere on the Côte d’Or was the intense clarity of fruit due to the combination of small yields – reduced by the frost and difficult flowering – and the coup de tonnerre forcing early picking. The wines are delicious, with mouth-watering, primary fruit, with great depths of mineral flavours resulting from the vines concentrating their efforts on ripening fewer, smaller grapes. Reduced yields has, sadly, meant reduced availability so these wines are likely to sell out even more quickly than usual. Read more...