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Melon de Bourgogne
Nantes, Muscadet
Light bodied
From a prestigious parcel with some of the oldest vines. After an initial blast of citrus, this blooms into a lovely, savoury complexity and a driving, long finish that winds down the road for a fair while.
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
A simply delicious, clean, fresh and salty Chardonnay from a single plot, no oak, only concrete tanks. A big crowd pleaser at a friendly price.
Style: Still
Producer: Cognettes
Country: France
Region: Muscadet, Loire
Grapes: Chardonnay
ABV: 12.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
Zippy and zesty from the Atlantic-battered vineyards of Nantes in the Loire. A salty-kiss from the sea, crisp-lemon acidity and a generous white almond mid-palate.
Style: Still
Producer: Cognettes
Country: France
Region: Nantes, Muscadet
Grapes: Folle Blanche
ABV: 12
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
Classic Muscadet fleshed out with a little lees ageing: crushing your fresh apple onto broken sea shells, your pal zesting lemon on their new microplane. Absolute scenes
Style: Still
Producer: Cognettes
Country: France
Region: Nantes, Muscadet
Grapes: Melon de B.
ABV: 12.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
A beautiful vintage for the Pinot Gris, managing to be both concentrated yet fresh and energetic. Incredibly long, textured. A triumph.
Style: Still
Producer: Xaviere Hardy
Country: France
Region: La Chapelle Glain, Loire
Grapes: Pinot Gris
ABV: 13.5
Sulphur: None added
From the place to grow Chenin, the is probably the most precise wine we have ever seen from Philippe. Drining well now but will age for years.
Style: White
Producer: Philippe Delmee
Country: France
Region: Loire
Grapes: Chenin Blanc
Sulphur: none added
ABV: 13
Not your classic SB, more of the lovely vegetal Loire Sauvignon complexity that makes this a great food wine.
Style: White
Producer: Domaine de Bablut
Country: France
Region: Loire
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
ABV: 12.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
Saline textured amphora aged grown on Shcist soils in the home of Chenin.
Style: White
Producer: Domaine de Bablut
Country: France
Region: Loire
Grapes: Chenin Blanc
ABV: 13.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
Chenin Blanc
Saumur, Loire
Medium Bodied
A brilliant example of all we love in a Chenin. Rich fruit, toffee apple and a saline finish. Fresh acidity and a long finish.
Chenin
Anjou, Loire
Medium bodied
Loire Chenin at its most expressive and dynamic: pithy grapefruit and chamomile, balanced with a taut line of acidity.
Chloélie & Matthieu’s Chenin succeeds in being equal parts precision-guided and direct, whilst continuing to unfold and into a nutty, savoury, oxidative afterglow. Magic wine.
Style: Still
Producer: Les Chants Jumeaux
Country: France
Region: Nantes, Loire
Grapes: Chenin Blanc
ABV: 11.5
Sulphur: None added
A field blend from the parcel it’s named for ('the high place’)
The 2022 has a real generoisty of spirit whilst retaining great freshness at the finish. Liquid tarte tatin here with salt & acid for good measure, very gastronomic, a truly Wintery white.
Style: Still
Producer: Domaine Balansa
Country: France
Region: Fitou, Hautes Corbières
Grapes: Grenache Blanc, Grenache Gris, Vermentino, Carignan Blanc, Carignan Gris
ABV: 13
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
From a steep vineyard in the hills of the Hautes Corbières. Beautifully measured aromatics, stone-fruit and rose over wet stone, linear and mineral with a salty acidity, elegant and long. 6 months ageing in clay amphora lends a soft touch to the angular frame.
Style: Still
Producer: Domaine Balansa
Country: France
Region: Fitou, Hautes Corbières
Grapes: Muscat Petit Grains
ABV: 13
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
Special stuff. Lively, saline, lemony and mineral. Opening the oven to re-heated brioche from the shop on the corner, getting all your jars of preserved lemons out on the counter, lilies in the window
Style: Still
Producer: JP Rietsch
Country: France
Region: Mittelbergheim, Alsace
Grapes: Auxerrois
ABV: 12.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
From vines JP planted with his father 30 years ago from Leu dit Stein grown on Grey Marl and Limestone, true terroir Riesling expression, multi-dimensional, long, mineral and stoney. Drinking beautifully but will greatly reward patience in the cellar.
Style: Still
Producer: JP Rietsch
Country: France
Region: Mittelbergheim, Alsace
Grapes: Riesling
ABV: 12.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
Rare! A perpetual cuvee of Savagnin Rose grown over clay-limestone in the Klevener de Heiligenstein. Sourced from a foudre he tops up with new juice as he bottles every other year, this 2021 edition comprises the 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021 vintages. It walks the line beautifully between the depth and complexity of an older vintage, lifted with the vitality of younger wines.
Style: Still
Producer: JP Rietsch
Country: France
Region: Mittelbergheim, Alsace
Grapes: Savagnin Rose
ABV: 13.5
Sulphur: less than 20mg/l added
Riesling
Andlau, Alsace
Medium bodied
A very steep, rocky hill dominates the Andlau valley on which the Durrmann families vines are planted, with a bedrock of dense schist that produces full bodied, mineral driven wines with incredible ageing potential. To cultivate the hill, past generations had built terraces up the slopes, in the local dialect Kastelberg roughly translates to ‘hill of terraces’.
Riesling
Andlau, Alsace
Light bodied
Another powerful, tropical-blast Riesling from the Durrmann family, Rebbuehl is from a parcel called deer hill, planted over granite. With a signature spice; cumin, ginger, their Rieslings are always super-expressive.
From the Bernstein hill on solid granite. A one-off cute, that Max only makes once every 5 years. Aged oxidatively for 18 months. Linear driving acidty develops into a wide textural landscape
Style: Still
Producer: Maxime Woerly
Country: France
Region: Dambach, Alsace
Grapes: Pinot Gris
ABV: 13.5
Sulphur: None added
Riesling
Andlau, Alsace
Medium bodied
Brilliantly linear, driving and attacking: profound length and minerality. Low yields in the Schist parcels leads to wonderful concentration. A blinder.
Riesling
Andlau, Alsace
Medium bodied
Natural Riesling from the Durrmann family: soft, supple, heady with tropical aromatics and a bright line of acidity to balance.
A collaborative wine blended with Andi and us, with our pals Meg from Flawd (Manchester) and Charlie from Papi (London) For fans of apricot yoghurt, electric acidity and late-night tattoos. Immediate upon opening but develops beautifully in the glass (and over the week if you have the patience!)
Label by Meg Williams.
Style: Still
Producer: Andi Weigand
Country: Germany
Region: Iphofen, Franconia
Grapes: Pinot Blanc, Silvaner, Scheurebe, Bacchus, Muskatelle
ABV: 11
Sulphur: None added
Muller Thurgau, Silvaner, Scheurebe, Bacchus
Medium Bodied
Iphofen, Franconia
Electric-bright field blend, with a reviving acidity, delicate aromatics and lovely texture. Andi makes fresh, exciting wines whilst keeping them clean. No added sulphur.
Sulphur: None added
Silvaner
Medium Bodied
Iphofen, Franconia
Tesla-coil electricity wound through this one. Cut direct from Andi’s unique Keuper soils, a 45 year old vineyard. A little more fleshy-fruit on it’s razorblade bones this year, juicy.
Sulphur: None added
Single vineyard Muller Thurgau, pressed directly and transferred to large German oak for 9 months before bottling. Fresh, reviving and clean with great texture. No added sulphur.
Sulphur: None added
Originating from a parcel with a now famous Grey Long eared bat conversation project.
Style: White
Producer: 2Naturkinder
Country: Germany
Region: Franconia
Grapes: Muller Thurgau, Silvaner, Riesling
Sulphur: none added
ABV: 11.5
Pinot Blanc, Müller Thurgau, Riesling, Chardonnay, Scheurebe, Kerner, Pinot Gris,
Silvaner
Pfalz, Germany
Light Bodied
Fresh and juicy, with refreshing herbal lift and juicy, pithy, grapefruit. Summer essential.
Sulphur: None added
From the cool '21 vintage this is almost as classic a Riesling as you get from Daniel and Jonas.
Style: White
Producer: Brand
Country: Germany
Region: Pfalz
Grapes: Riesling
Sulphur: none added
ABV: 11.5
Full of life, a pumped up version of PB, orange blossom and citrus packed in with buckets of limestone acid.
Style: White
Producer: Brand Bros
Country: Germany
Region: Pfalz
Grapes: Pinot Blanc
Sulphur: none added
ABV: 11
Walk on the wild side, one for the nature lovers, turbid and murky, yet what lurks inside is just fucking delicous.
Style: White
Producer: Brand
Country: Germany
Region: Pfalz
Grapes: Muller Thurgau
Sulphur: none added
ABV: 10.5
Pinot Blanc (100%)
Saale-Unstrut, Saxony Anhalt
Medium Bodied
From younger vines (25 years old), the only parcel of theirs with a little clay over the limestone, yielding a little more warmth and earth: this is a fleshy, zesty Weißburgunder, wired with the trademark line of acidity we love in Konni & Evi’s wines.
Sulphur: None added
From a special, incredibly fertile site on the Bockenheimer hill - incredibly unique Pinot Blanc, tinned peaches and aromatic herbs, saline, supple, slinky. Superb.
Style: Still
Producer: Brand Bros
Country: Germany
Region: Bockenheim, Pfalz
Grapes: Pinot Blanc
ABV: 11
Sulphur: None added