Traditional Christmas Dozen
Prosecco, five whites, five reds and a bottle of port
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Drusian, Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore, Extra Dry, NV
This smartly presented bottle has established itself as a firm favourite with our customers. Deliciously sherberty, light, and with the merest hint of fruity ripeness, one can consume this charming example with alarming ease.
A wonderful, much praised Prosecco from a family owned producer with vineyards in the heart of the Valdobbiadene. Deliciously sherberty, light, and with the merest hint of fruity sweetness, this makes a perfect aperitif. Now-2024
"Continuing the...
ColourWhite
StyleSparkling
RegionVeneto
GrowerDrusian
Grape VarietyProsecco
VintageNV
ABV11.5%
Bottle75cl
ClosureCork
CodeDRU1NV
Decanter
Decanter provides authoritative content, independent advice and our wine's recently featured in their top 5 (out of 149!).
The panel is made up of 3 experts: Jane Anson, Matt Walls & Matthew Luczy.
Any wine you see on our website that has the Decanter icon on the picture has had a great write up!
Jane Anson
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Domaine de la Chauvinière, Muscadet Sèvre et Maine sur lie, 2022
Muscadet, grown at the mouth of the Loire (where the climate isn't that dissimilar to Cornwall) is the traditional French accompaniment to Atlantic oysters and other seafood. From low yielding vines on the estate's classic granitic soils - with a little clay. Open, generous mouthful with lemon and pear fruit, crisp and mouthwatering with textbook zest and balance, and a dry, gently saline finish. Now-2025
It is hard to believe when meeting Jérémie Huchet that he has been...
ColourWhite
RegionLoire
Sub RegionMuscadet
GrowerDomaine de la Chauvinière
Grape VarietyMelon de Bourgogne
Vintage2022
ABV12%
Bottle75cl
ClosureCork
CodeHUC122
Loire Valley
In early February I undertook our annual visit to the wine fair in Angers, escaping the snow which engulfed much of the UK during that week.
This is the yearly opportunity for the vast majority of vignerons in the Loire valley to show off their latest offerings to the rest of the world. The early season’s weather in 2008 was not kind, with variously frost, hail and torrential...
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Les Chardons, Sauvignon Blanc, IGP Val de Loire, 2022
The hot and dry summer of 2022 brings so much ripeness and weight to this humble Vin de Pays. Lacking any aggressive grassiness or excessive gooseberry fruit, this is fresh, balanced and perfectly food-friendly. Now-2024
ColourWhite
RegionLoire
GrowerAumonier
Grape VarietySauvignon Blanc
Vintage2022
ABV13%
Bottle75cl
ClosureCork
CodeAUM322
Loire Valley
In early February I undertook our annual visit to the wine fair in Angers, escaping the snow which engulfed much of the UK during that week.
This is the yearly opportunity for the vast majority of vignerons in the Loire valley to show off their latest offerings to the rest of the world. The early season’s weather in 2008 was not kind, with variously frost, hail and torrential...
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Sauvignon Blanc
Origins
- Probably in Bordeaux region
- Parent of red grape Cabernet Sauvignon (established by DNA analysis)
Characteristics
- Vigorous plant, so can be too leafy and overproductive
- Aromas and flavours described as: herbaceous, grassy and nettley; Gooseberries; but can also show more tropical fruits...
Le Tende, Custoza, 2022
Custoza is a Veneto wine which may be blended from about nine named varieties: Le Tende’s is about 45% Garganega (the grape of Soave) with Cortese, Trebbiano and Trebbianello (= Tocai Friulano). Pretty scent of citrus and green herbiage; and then builds well on the palate, showing lime and grapefruit with a note of pear. Mid-weight, refreshing, a classic northern Italian white. Now-2024
ColourWhite
Grape VarietyGarganega, Cortese & Trebbiano
Vintage2022
ABV12.5%
Bottle75cl
MethodOrganic
CodeLET122
Garganega
Garganega
Garganega is a white grape variety grown widely in the Veneto region of North East Italy where it is most famous for the production of Soave.
Though it can be inoffensively neutral, it has a distinct pea-pod character, and can deliver considerable weight and character.
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Chateau Courbin Heritage, Graves, 2022
"Full bottle 1,267 g. 85% Sémillon, 15% Sauvignon Blanc aged for four months on lees with a small portion in oak." Subtle and sophisticated for the money. Tastes quite rich, too rich to be an aperitif, but a really fine, quite complex wine to drink with food. No hurry to drink. I think this will probably age quite well. Pungent, green-fruit flavours with a little bit of a smoky overlay. Long. VGV, 16.5/20, Jancis Robinson MW, November 2023
A gorgeous white from Bordeaux...
ColourWhite
RegionBordeaux
Sub RegionGraves
GrowerChateau Courbin
Grape VarietySemillon & Sauvignon Blanc
Vintage2022
ABV13.5%
Bottle75cl
ClosureCork
CodeCOU122
Sauvignon Blanc
Origins
- Probably in Bordeaux region
- Parent of red grape Cabernet Sauvignon (established by DNA analysis)
Characteristics
- Vigorous plant, so can be too leafy and overproductive
- Aromas and flavours described as: herbaceous, grassy and nettley; Gooseberries; but can also show more tropical fruits...
Jancis Robinson
We get super excited when Jancis Robinson (or one of her team) write about our wine!
Voted the world's most influential wine critic in polls in the US, France and internationally in 2018, Jancis views herself as a wine writer rather than a wine critic.
She writes daily for JancisRobinson.com and weekly for the Financial Times. She is founder-editor of The Oxford Companion...
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Victoria Moore
We get super excited when Jancis Robinson (or one of her team) write about our wine!
Victoria Moore is the author of the best-selling and award-winning book The Wine Dine Dictionary, and shares her knowledge of wine, winemakers and the wonderful world of food and drink pairings in her weekly Saturday column and Telegraph Luxury online.
Any wine you see on our website that...
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Badenhorst, Secateurs White, Chenin Blanc, Swartland, 2022
Secateurs is Adi Badenhorst’s second label. About 10% of this Chenin goes into old oak barrels for about seven months, gaining volume from the lees rather than oak flavour. So consistent: gently honeyed, sunnily exotic fruit - tangerines, lime, and orange peel - nicely textured and with a refreshing finish. Now-2025
ColourWhite
RegionSwartland
GrowerBadenhorst
Grape VarietyChenin Blanc
Vintage2022
ABV13%
Bottle75cl
ClosureScrewcap
CodeBAD122
Badenhorst Family Wines
Swartland, South Africa
We met Adi Badenhorst when he was making great wines at Rustenberg, and we have been shipping bottles from the family-owned vineyards at Kalmoesfontein farm on the Paardeberg for so many years that we still remember the days of bats nesting in the bedrooms and the resident Cape Cobra that lived behind one of the fermentation tanks!
The farm is now a...
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Chenin Blanc
Origins
- Anjou in the Loire, where documented in the 9thC
- Also known as Pineau in the Loire, Steen in South Africa
Characteristics
- Naturally productive and high yielding
- Huge range of styles: bone dry (e.g. Savennières); off-dry (e.g. old fashioned South African "Steen"); medium dry (e.g....
Carinae, Malbec, Odile, Mendoza, 2020
Under a new, somewhat revolutionary label. From 90 year old vines at Cruz de Piedra, Maipú, Lovely fat and texture - fine tannins just buttressing a forward and generous cup of raspberries and cherries. Easy-drinking but with substance too. Now-2025
Alistair's chice of what to drink at home: "This is my go-to Malbec. Unoaked, easy drinking, with a gush of red fruits and a bit of substance too, it’s perfect with a sirloin steak".
ColourRed
RegionMendoza
GrowerCarinae
Grape VarietyMalbec
Vintage2020
ABV14%
Bottle75cl
ClosureCork
CodeCAE120
Carinae
Mendoza, Argentina
Frenchman Philippe Subra, with his wife Brigitte, came to Argentina as the national boss of EDF, the French energy giant - but loved the country so much he cleverly bought some long-established vineyards and settled there, on the south side of Mendoza. He has built a small cellar - boutique indeed, whilst wholly lacking the pretension that word implies!
What...
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Malbec
Malbec is a red grape whose home is in south-west France, and specifically in the appellation of Cahors.
There (known as Cot) it makes a strongly flavoured wine which is, all too often, tannic and rustic and needs several years ageing to show its best.
Like Carmenère in Chile, it is much more successful in Argentina than in its homeland. Introduced in the mid 19th...
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Château Beausejour, Fronsac, 2019
The Melet family has owned Château Beauséjour in Fronsac for five generations. Since 2011, the consultant oenologist has been one of Bordeaux's finest, Stéphane Derenoncourt: here the grapes are picked by hand and the wine is aged for eighteen months, two thirds in barrel. 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc; and terrific this vintage, delivering ripeness but also lively, red-fruited freshness. Well-textured and complete. Now-2026
ColourRed
RegionBordeaux
Sub RegionFronsac
GrowerChâteau Beausejour
Grape VarietyMerlot, Cabernet Sauvignon & Cabernet Franc
Vintage2019
ABV14.5%
Bottle75cl
ClosureCork
CodeBEA119
Cabernet Franc
Cabernet Francis a parent of Cabernet Sauvignon.
A cross of it with Sauvignon Blanc resulted in Cabernet Sauvignon. Cabernet Franc tends to be softer and has less tannins than Cabernet Sauvignon, although the two can be difficult to distinguish. Many of the red wines of the Loire are primarily Cabernet Franc.
Origins ...
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Fiorano, Terre di Giobbe, Rosso Piceno Superiore, 2018
80% Montepulciano and 20% Sangiovese, aged in old French oak barrels. By far the best vintage we have ever tasted: rich and fleshy, with vigorous raspberry, blueberry and blackcurrant flavours, but also aromatic. Intense without being overpowering. Now-2025
We started working with Paolo Beretta and Paola Massi, introducing their wines to this country in 2015, with immediate success. Their wines exemplify perfectly the virtues of small-scale - they tend just 5 hectares of vines -...
ColourRed
RegionMarche
GrowerFiorano
Grape VarietyMontepulciano & Sangiovese
Vintage2018
ABV14%
Bottle75cl
ClosureCork
MethodOrganic
DietaryVegan
CodeFIO318
Fiorano
Cossignano, Marche, Italy
We started working with Paolo Beretta (formerly a dentist) and Paola Massi (a research pharmacologist) in 2015, with immediate success.
Their wines exemplify perfectly the virtues of small-scale - they tend just 10 hectares of vines - organic cultivation. All exhibit an entrancing purity of fruit, and all are bottled with minimal sulphur...
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Sangiovese
Sangiovese
Sangiovese is Chianti. fresh, perfumed fruit with a fine spice of acidity and clean refined palate - can age well.
Origins
- Originally known in its wild form by the Etruscans in the area around what is now Florence as Sanguis Jovis, or ‘Blood of...
Piekenierskloof, Pinotage, 2021
A clean and vibrant example of South Africa’s homegrown grape, developed by Abraham Perold in the 1920s as a cross between Pinot Noir and Cinsault (then known as Hermitage), hence the name. Sombre purple. Flamboyant blackberry and dark plum fruit, heated but not jammy. Peck of spice and dark chocolate hint from oak ageing. Intense. Good backing tannin. Traditional example, perfect to accompany grilled beef. Now-2026
ColourRed
RegionPiekenierskloof
GrowerPiekenierskloof
Grape VarietyPinotage
Vintage2021
ABV14%
Bottle75cl
CodePIK421
Piekenierskloof
South Africa
For years I had been hearing about Piekenierskloof – not as a wine producer but as a source of grapes for numerous other winemakers, young and old.
I didn’t realise that Piekenierskloof wasn’t just a ward (the smallest geographical unit in the South African regional classification) but one large estate, formerly a...
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Pinotage
Pinotage: a living national treasure or "the only grape variety which is carcinogenic"?
Pinotage is the one original South African grape, developed by Abraham Perold in Stellenbosch in 1925 by crossing Pinot Noir and Cinsault, then known as Hermitage.
It has the acidity of the former parent and the warm generosity of the latter. South Africans can’t make up...
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Domaine des Espiers, Côtes du Rhône, 2022
Philippe Cartoux’s very superior Côtes du Rhône, 60% Grenache, 20% Mourvèdre and 20% Syrah, all from large cement tanks. Cherry on nose with red and black fruits showing through, smooth tannins, a refined Cotes du Rhone. Now-2026
ColourRed
RegionRhone
GrowerEspiers
Grape VarietyGrenache Noir
Vintage2022
ABV14%
Bottle75cl
MethodOrganic
Code ESP122
Krohn, Port, LBV, 2016
Traditionally made; with rich plum and fruitcake character. May throw a deposit, so decant. Now-2025
Krohn was acquired by the Fladgate partnership in 2013. The company is a consistent producer of good value port.
ColourRed
StyleFortified
RegionDouro
GrowerKrohn
Grape VarietyTouriga Nacional
Vintage2016
ABV20%
Bottle75cl
CodeKRO116
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Traditional Christmas Dozen
Prosecco, five whites, five reds and a bottle of port
S,V+S does the job: finding interesting producers and excellent wines. The list is not bafflingly huge like some other merchants, nor is it narrow or unadventurous, nor fad/fashion, the result is a…Read More
Fantastic friendly service from Simon and his team. I ordered a large quantity of port which arrived promptly, well packaged and delivered by a decent courier - highly recommended. Thank you Stone,…Read More
Order arrived promptly as always. Using the catalogue and range of offers, encourages choice of interesting and enjoyable wines I probably wouldn't have chosen if buying from a supermarket.Read More
They are very clever at finding wines from the less fashionable parts of France that are as good as, if not better than, those from the fashionable parts at a fraction of the price. Also charming to…Read More
The champagne went down very well. Lots of compliments. Fortunately for me there is some left over so it is now in my cellar! I need to lock it up because my husband loves it. The Crozes-Hermitage…Read More
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