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Noble Rot: Issue 33
In this issue, Dan Keeling reports on a 25-vintage vertical of Romanée-Conti, organised by the domaine to mark the reprint of Richard Olney’s seminal book Romanée-Conti: The World’s Most Fabled Wine. “As all wine lovers can attest, the last glass is often the best... -
Swinney Mourvèdre Rosé 2023
How do you follow a wine described by Erin Larkin as “one of Australia’s greatest rosés”; by Huon Hooke as “a super-serious rosé of character and intent”, and by Decanter as a rosé of “complexity and restraint”... -
Bachelet-Monnot
A small but beautiful release from a domaine now widely considered among Burgundy’s elite. Despite the season’s challenges, 2021 is a year of terrific purity and transparency for Marc and Alexandre Bachelet... -
Domaine Pierre Gaillard
Rhône Valley 2021 and ’22 was a tale of two vintages. The former was a challenging season marked by frost, hail and cooler and wetter conditions. You had to be on top of your vineyard at short notice in 2021. Those willing to drop a lot of fruit and beaver away among... -
Domaine de Marcoux
The two vintages we offer today could hardly have been more different for Sophie Armenier and her son, Vincent Estevenin. The two Châteauneuf-du-Pape reds hail from 2021, a year when the notorious April frosts crept far south... -
Domaine de Courbissac
While we don’t work extensively with the wines of southern France, you can be assured that when we do, it is with good reason. Run almost single-handedly by the talented Brunnhilde Claux, this grower’s juicy... -
Quinta do Noval
From a Port grower that prides itself on the finesse, purity and balance of its wines, 2021 has delivered these qualities in spades. This is an outstanding vintage where temperatures were consistent compared to recent extreme... -
Bodegas Pentecostés
In the wine game, some tip-offs are a damp squib, others a slam dunk. This is the story of the latter. Like many contemporary Rías Baixas vineyard owners, Alberto Cabaco made his fortune in Galicia’s lucrative fishing industry... -
Domaine de L'Oratoire St-Martin
Next year, we will have worked with this outstanding Rhône producer for twenty years. When offering the domaine’s 2004 vintages back in 2006, Rob wrote, “Oratoire Saint Martin are considered by many to be...