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Chateau Meaume - The estate has been owned by the English Johnson-Hill family for almost 50 years and has seen considerable investment under current proprietors, Mark and Sandra Johnson-Hill

Buy AIX Rosé With magnums, you really want a wine you can settle into which probably explains why, in summer, the most popular wine to pour from magnum is rosé. Naturally, you can now find the hugely popular La Vieille...

Buy Rock Angel Rock is another wine that often needs a year to relax into its couture trappings, but this time, the oak nuances are subtle, sublime, and fully integrated into the fruit.  This is a first!  You can open...

In his review of the red wines, our wine expert Aidy Smith, found that this pinot noir’s tasting notes of strawberries, dark cherry and vanilla combine into a “seductive intensity” that “truly tastes just as good as it smells”.

Château Galoupet, G de Galoupet 2024 - Splash out on this classy, complex, organic, oak-aged, hibiscus and tobacco leaf-scented Provencal pink.

As I talked with Sacha, he let me into a secret.  He thinks 2024 is one of the finest vintages he has ever seen in Provence.  And, if this wine is anything to go by, he is right.  This is...

2024 De Wetshof Estate, Bon Vallon Chardonnay, Robertson, South Africa (£15.95, www.finewinedirect.co.uk) Buy Now I first visited De Wetshof some twenty years ago.  Back then, this impressive winery, overlooking the Breede River, in the relatively cool and breezy climate of...

Pauillac 2019 Declassified £29.95 per bottle BUY NOW "Declassified claret, with glorious, rich, velvety, cedar-scented charm, from a top Pauillac château you’d pay a lot more for." Jane MacQuitty - This week’s star buys The Times 21.10.2023 Read more - click...