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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.

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Château La Connivence, Pomerol 2012

“Pomerol is probably the ‘hottest’ appellation in Bordeaux at the moment.” So says Neal Martin, who is so enthusiastic about the region that he has written a very good book about it (www.pomerolbook.com). And in the 2012 vintage, we wholeheartedly agree with him. Read more...

   

Vintage Port 2011

Despite producing wine every year, it is only in the very best vintages that a Port house declares the wine to be good enough to make the cut as Vintage Port – on average only three times a decade. Rarer still is a general declaration, when all of the Houses pronounce the vintage to be an outstanding success... Read more

   

Bordeaux 2012 - Clos Cantenac

The 2012 wines from Clos Cantenac tasted deliciously well in April: racy, fruited, linear and with lovely complexity, showing real pedigree. Read more...

   

Bordeaux 2012 - Ets J-P Moueix

Tasting with the Moueix's is, for us, the opening gambit in any primeur campaign in order to judge the wines from St Emilion and Pomerol. No trickery, no fads and alway sclassically understated, tis is one of the few places where you can see the real fruit of the vintage and get a handle on what could or should have been made elsewhere. Read more...

   

Burgundy 2011

After tasting our way through the wines of the Côte de Nuits and the Côte d’Or in a snowy Burgundy in December, we are very pleased to launch our 2011 campaign with our Private Cellar selection of wines from eighteen domaines. In terms of style, the reds have ripe, supple tannins, moderate acidity and lower alcohol than in recent vintages and the whites display lovely fresh fruit, linear and rarely exotic, with acidity levels lower than in 2009 and 2010 but with enough to sustain the wines and give them balance. Read more...