Every so often we find a lowly claret that punches above its weight and strive to give it the wider exposure it deserves. Few contenders for our basic everyday Bordeaux crown have held our attention as forcefully as this delicious wine from Monsieur ...
Soft, round black fruit flavours with an edge of Iberian spice. Bodegas Antano, a modern, well equipped winery in Rueda, source grapes from within and outside the DO and bring to bear their wine-making skills.
This is a huge estate of 6600 hectares that encompassess a horse stud, an extensive cattle ranch, arable, olive groves and 50 hectares of vines. The vineyards have been heavily influenced by son Diogo de Braganca Campilho's three year stint in th...
Bodegas Piqueras farm 485 hectares of vines around the town of Almansa where their brand new cellars are situated. The cellars have so many solar panels on the roof that they produce more electricity than they use. This is a modern business but still...
This soft, generous blend merges the raspberry jamminess of Grenache with Syrah and Carignan suppleness. Great with rustic sausages. It was made at the Saurel family's Mistral-swept Provençal domaine, named after Eole, ancient god of wine,...
Laudun is previously famous as the place where Hannibal forded the Rhone on his way to attack Rome and as the home of a local doctor who, out of curiosity, imported vines from the USA and unwittingly brought in the phyloxra plague that devastated the...
Revitalised management at this 60-year-old co-op winery in the Western Cape's idyllic Franschhoek Valley has rallied the number of crush-contributors to 50, including historic Huguenot estate La Motte. Dynamic, Cape- and California-trained Jolene...