With attractive, juicy, bramble fruit and floral aromas, the palate is up-front and fresh with warm spice and real depth. This is a classic southern Rhône red; ripe and characterful with smooth supple tannins.
Côtes du Rhône
La Chapelle la Marin
Price: £9.25 Bin No. FR01
Dense red colour, very expressive. The nose is a dance of red fruits and gentle spice, aromas we rediscover on the palate. Made to be drunk young, this wine is ample and easy to approach
Côtes du Rhône
'Plan de Dieu Font Sarade - Cuvée Egoiste
Price: £14.00 Bin No. FR13
This blend is 65% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 10% Cinsault and 5% Carignan An elegant and well balanced wine with forward fruit and interesting spicy flavours
Côtes du Ventoux
Domaine Vieux Lazaret
Price: £11.95 Bin No. FR24
This wine is lively and ready to drink. With juicy red fruits and flecks of black pepper, accentuated by a liquorice note on the finish,
Ventoux le Carignan
'Font Sarade' Bernard et Claire Burle
Price: £11.95 Bin No. FR14
Bags of black and red fruits with herbs, liquorice, coffee and spice. There’s an intriguing savoury and mineral element too. All in all, a thoroughly approachable and agreeable southern Rhone red.
Rasteau
Domaine La Font de Notre Dame
Gigondas
Domaine la Font de Notre Dame
Price: £14.50 Bin No. FR15
Price: £22.50 Bin No. FR27
The Saint Esprit is deep plum in colour with red and black fruit in abundance, cinnamon and liquorice on the nose. The palate displays expressive plum and blackberry, embellished with peppery spice and violet, finishing medium with warm spice and ripe red-fruit character.
Delas Côtes du Rhône
Price: £14.95 Bin No. FR03
The wine has a deep ruby colour with purple tinges. Its nose shows aromas of blackberries and spices, lifted by some mineral and gently wooded notes. Well concentrated, this wine has pure flavours that come to the palate in successive layers of varying aromas, all of equal intensity.
Delas Sainte Epine St Joseph
Price: £49.50 Bin No. FR18
Deep, intense morello cherry colour. Vibrant dark cherry fruit on the palate with fresh, mouthwatering crunchy tannins supporting the juicy, clean Northern Rhône fruit.
Crozes-Hermitage ‘sans sulfites’
Cave de Tain
Brilliant crimson colour.Very fresh fruit aromas with a hint of floral notes. A touch of liquorice and spices on the palate
Vacqueyras Vignobles
Jérome Quiot
The palate is composed and lighter weight, again exhibiting a measure of bottle development in an appealing mix of red cherry and spice notes. This is an elegant, not heavyweight style expressing Cinsault and Grenache in particular, with the emphasis on finesse rather than power.
Châteauneuf du Pape
Domaine du Vieux Lazaret - magnum
Price: £20.00 Bin No. FR26
Price: £17.50 Bin No. FR16
Price: £55.00 Bin No. FR29
The palate is composed and lighter weight, again exhibiting a measure of bottle development in an appealing mix of red cherry and spice notes. This is an elegant, not heavyweight style expressing Cinsault and Grenache in particular, with the emphasis on finesse rather than power.
Châteauneuf du Pape
Domaine du Vieux Lazaret
Price: £25.00 Bin No. FR25
Beautiful nose of kirsch, raspberry, flowers, alcohol, and herbes de Provence. Full-bodied, lush, with great fruit and structure. Good length on the finish
Châteauneuf du Pape
‘Cuvée Exceptionnelle’ Vieux Lazaret
Price: £42.50 Bin No. FR32
A blend of Grenache Blanc, Clairette, Bourboulenc and Roussanne, this dry white balances crisp pineapple and peach flavours against hints of nuts