DRINKING LIST AUTUMN 22

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QUINTADEVALDAFIGUEIRA, 10YEAROLDTAWNYPORT,NV £125.00 £25.00 A wonderfully fresh and vibrant nose showing plums, sun dried prunes, raisins and hints of walnut complexity. There is perfumed power and balance. There is a delicious creamy texture and elegance. There is plenty of fresh and dried fruit, spice and nutty hints even with floral notes that bring vitality and freshness. A beautifully balanced port at a superb sweet-spot of maturity. Beautifully judged and moreish - very good indeed. £55.00 £66.00 2016 was a write off at Chandon de Briailles. 11ha yielded just seven barrels of wine due to frost. Pousse-au-crime is a French phrase to ‘drive one to crime’ or a ‘bad influence’.Well, this is a delicious Fortified Pinot Noir - drink inplace of Port - that theywere driven tomake by the vintage. £384.00 £76.80 “This has aged on the nose much faster thanmost JJP Auslesen but it’s absolutely fascinating with a strange nose that’s a cross between smoked bacon and rubber! By nomeans unpleasant. Such lovely delicacy with a hint of somethingmetallic ... masses of golden syrup, but really lively and lightweight.” JR 17.5 6x75 VINDULIQUEUR,POUSSEAUCRIME,DOMAINECHANDONDEBRIAILLES 2016 1x75 JOHANNJOSEFPRÜMGRAACHERHIMMELREICHRIESLINGAUSLESEGOLDKAPSEL 2003 6x75

OTHER FORMATS WHITEWINES : MAGNUMS

2021

AKITU,PINOTNOIRBLANC,CENTRALOTAGO £395.00 £79.00 “This has apale rose-gold tingewitharomas of raspberries, pomegranates, slicedapples, lemon curdand freshherbs. It’smedium-bodiedwith freshacidity and a round, creamy palate. Juicy and fruity. Like a delicate rosé.” - JAMES SUCKLING JS90 £273.00 £109.20 6 parcels including Les Pelles, Corbins, Chaumes de Narvaux. Step up in concentration, you can sense and underlying buttery texture here. Creamy nut, white chocolate, blossom. But goodmineral finish - hint of menthol. Very long saline finish. BH90 6x150 MEURSAULT,DOMAINEBALLOTMILLOT 2019 3x150 MORELLINODISCANSANO,TERENZI £8.20 Good quality and classic sangiovese. Thismakes for easy drinkingwith great purity of cherry fruit and red berries with lovely freshness. It’s fine, elegant and well made wine. We all agreed when we tasted that we would happily drink this at home with pasta! 24x37.5 £212.00 £10.60 “The 2019 Picque Caillou is powerful, dense and rough around the edges. Dark fruit, leather, game, smoke and herbs all come together in a rustic winewith a lot of intensity and depth.” - ANTONIOGALLONI WA87-89 12x37.5 £232.00 £23.20 Fresh, floral and vibrant. The gunpowder/flint element really is prominent. Pretty black fruit so pure and fine on the palate and then some hints of coffee, strawberries and autumn raspberries too with gunpowder and spice. Lovely and early drinking. Very red cherry fruit to finish with lingeringminerality. BH88-91 12x37.5 £256.00 £25.60 So named for the small and flat flint stones in this gentle sloping vineyard in the southern part of Nuits St. Georges. The wine matches the terroir’s mineral complexity, with soft giving fruit, charming and elegant spice with lovely freshness. BH89-91 2019 12x37.5 £82.00 CHÂTEAUPICQUECAILLOU,PESSAC-LÉOGNAN 2019 NUITSST.GEORGES,LESCHALIOTS,DOMAINEMICHELGROS 2016 NUITSST.GEORGES,LESCHALIOTS,DOMAINEMICHELGROS 2017 REDWINES : HALVES

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