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Wine of the Week:
Wine List - Matthew Jukes
The Daily
Mail Weekend – Saturday 12th
July
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Chinon:
Château de Ligré 2007 Blanc
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£9.95
per
bottle
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£119.40
per
case
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“Chinon Blanc is a rare style of wine, and this is the finest I
have tasted in years. Tailor-made for the mint
recipes, the herbal, tangy, refreshing chenin
blanc flavours in this wine
are incredibly summery and
desperately classy at the same time.”
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Rosés that
pack a punch – Victoria Moore
The Guardian
Weekend – Saturday 12th
July
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Vin de Corse
Sartène: Domaine Saparale Rosé
2007
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£10.25
per
bottle
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£123.00
per
case
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“Pale and unusual, with serpentine strength
(in that it has flex and length that comes from
acidity and subtleness, rather than from shouty fruitiness). Made from
sciacarello, nielluccio and vermentino, it has a herbaceous savour that goes
well with food. I’m also a fan of the same
producer’s white.”
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Wine of the Week: A
Coral-Pink Rosé that is Perfect with Sea
Food
Matthew
Jukes
Money Week –
Friday 27th June
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Cassis: Clos Ste
Magdeleine 2007 Rosé
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£14.75
per
bottle
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£177.00
per
case
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“The beautiful Provençal fishing port
of Cassis is home to some of the most beguiling and
memorable wines in France. Only 14 producers
make wine here and François Sack, of Clos
Sainte Magdeleine, is my favourite. I have long
been a fan of the stunning, quirky white wine created
here, with its herbal tang and mildly oily, honey and
walnut notes (the 2007 vintage, which I tasted for
the first time the other day, arrives in the autumn
and is simply amazing). Very occasionally,
though, a small parcel of the ultra-rare Cassis
rosé makes it to our shores.
Made from Cinsault, Grenache, and
Mourvèdre, this coral-pink wine is one of the
most ethereal and heart-achingly beautiful releases
of the season. If you are an accomplished
epicurean and you want to prove your credentials once
and for all, then pour this wine at a summer lunch
alongside a mountainous platter of lobster,
langoustines, crévettes
grises, crab claws, clams and
oysters, and watch your guests go green with
envy at your imperial food and wine-matching
skills. This is a partnership fashioned in
heaven. You will feel compelled to order it by
the case, but there will probably be only one
opportunity to do so because Yapp has a very thirsty
fanbase and they will
soon be alerted to its arrival in Britain.”
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Everything’s
Coming up Rosé – Jancis Robinson
Financial Times
Weekend – Saturday 28th
June
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Chinon:
Château de Ligré Rosé
2007
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£8.90
per
bottle
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£106.80
per
case
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“A wine such as Château de
Ligré 2007 Chinon Rosé is absolutely
lovely – with its fragrantly leafy perfume,
soft, fruit texture and a bone dry finish. This
is obviously made from delightfully ripe Loire
Cabernet Franc grapes yet haw only 12.5 per cent
alcohol and would make a great partner for all sorts
of white wine foods.”
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Cassis; Clos Ste
Magdeleine 2007 Rosé
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£14.75
per
bottle
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£177.00
per
case
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“…superbly pretty with scents of some
sort of herb oil.”
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Fabulous Fizzes
– Jonathan Ray
Telegraph Weekend
– Saturday 28th June
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Crémant
de Limoux:
‘Cuvée Selection’ Brut
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£8.95
per
bottle
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£107.40
per
case
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“They were making sparkling wine in Limoux,
south west of Carcassonne, long before they cottoned
on in Champagne. This fresh, fruity,
full-flavoured example from Philippe Collin, son of a
Champenois
vigneron, is a
beauty.”
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Natasha
Hughes
Wine & Spirit
Magazine Website
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Chinon:
Château de Ligré Rosé
2007
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£8.90
per
bottle
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£106.80
per
case
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“I find good rosé irresistible at
this time of year, and one of the best I’ve
tasted recently is Pierre and Fabienne
Ferrand’s Château
de Ligré Rosé, Chinon 2007. The pale
pink wine is made from Cabernet Franc with just a
touch of Cabernet Sauvignon, which gives it wonderful
crunchy flavours of violets, redcurrants and a
pleasant hint of green capsicums. It’s got a
trace of residual sugar (less than 3 grams per
litre), but it also has crisp, zesty acidity and a
bone-dry finish. A really pleasant summer food wine
to accompany salads and light seafood
dishes.”
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Châteauneuf
du Pape: Le Vieux Donjon Rouge 2006
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£25.00
per
bottle
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£300.00
per
case
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“A good wine list deserves a good
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, so I think Claire
Michel’s Le Vieux Donjon Rouge 2006 is worth a
look. There’s a lot of depth and complexity to
this wine, which shows notes of lavender and herbs,
along with plenty of smoky red fruit. The silky
texture contrasts nicely with the grippy tannins. This is a
full-bodied, powerful wine with a haunting, elegant
finish. If the examples of the 2000 and the 1995 are
anything to go by, this wine should age nicely
– if you can keep your hands off it that long.
If not, I’d match this now to a lamb tagine or even a good
steak.”
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Sauce –
Joanna Simon
Sunday Times
– Sunday 21st June
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Tavel: La Forcadière
2007
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£9.95
per
bottle
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£107.40
per
case
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“Full bodied, stylish, spicy southern
Rhône rose.”
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Rosé Future
– Amelia Pinsent
Country Life
– Wednesday 11th June
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Bellet: Domaine de
la Source Rosé 2007
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£16.75
per
bottle
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£201.00
per
case
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“Try the robust Povençal style of 2007
Bellet, Domaine de la Source, Jacques Dalmasso. It has a
gorgeous herb aroma that follows onto the palate,
where the wild strawberries take over. Perfect
for alfresco dining.”
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Sauce –
Joanna Simon
Sunday Times
– Sunday 8th June
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Côtes de
Gascogne: Domaine Millet Cabernet Franc
2007
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£6.95
per
bottle
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£83.40
per
case
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“Light, soft, raspberry-scented
rosé.”
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The Lure of the
Loire – Victoria Moore
The Guardian
Weekend – Saturday June 7th
2008
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Sancerre: Domaine
André Vatan ‘Les Perriers’
2006
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£12.50
per
bottle
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£150.00
per
case
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“Very Sancerrey’ my first
thought. Which is just as it should be. A
bit of gunflint and lovely tranquillity. 2006
was a better Loire vintage than 2007. If a wine
is this good, the age does it no harm: as the sharp
grass and citrus aromas soften, a more noble
character comes through.”
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An Actor with Range
– Peter Grogan
The Telegraph
– Saturday June 7th 2008
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Banyuls
: Domaine de la Tour
Vieille ‘Reserva’
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£13.95
per
bottle
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£167.40
per
case
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“… a
stone’s-throw from the Spanish border, the
chocolate-friendly wines of Banyuls are a gift to lovers of
sweet wines. All about nuts, toffee and spice,
complex, age-worthy wines like Domaine la Tour Vieille
Reserva are often a serious
bargain.”
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