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Sometimes the most memorable discoveries in wine arrive by chance rather than by design. Had myself and Victoria not suffered a flat tyre late on a Friday afternoon in rural Burgundian France – at precisely the moment when, thanks to the French nation’s longstanding reverence for the ideal of the weekend, any hope of repair was postponed until the following Monday – we would never have found ourselves with an unexpected extension to our trip. As luck would have it, what began as a serious inconvenience quickly became a stroke of good fortune, affording us the opportunity to finally meet Celestin Troussard, the talented young Vigneron/Proprietor behind Domaine Troussard-Prin, who had been unavailable on our previous attempts.
Célestin had come highly recommended by his second Cousin Jean-Michel Giboulot, a man whose beguilingly brilliant Burgundies we have been proudly selling for decades. Jean-Michel’s elegant and characterful wines have long captivated the imagination of both our loyal customers and lovers of great Burgundy worldwide, and we were naturally curious and excited to see if and how the lineage of such mastery might be expressed in Célestin’s own wines. Suffice to say, and I think I can with some certainty, we have perhaps never been more grateful and delighted for our plans to hit a bump in the road.
Having served his apprenticeship between the two local legendary domains of Jean-Michel Giboulot and Simon Bize et Fils, Célestin has developed a style that shows a consistently unerring combination of purity, balance and transparent expression of terroir with an expertly fine-tuned sense of complementary structure, depth and élevage. His wines are not only a true testament to the expertise he has clearly acquired from his time spent with two of the region’s benchmark producers but also mirror the way he has lovingly and meticulously restored the family domain itself, preserving its traditional character whilst subtly and continually refining, improving and modernising it with his uniquely personal touch.
Much like the Commune of Ladoix-Serrigny, the appellation at the heart of which the domain is to be found and one which can sometimes fly under the radar of the more storied and prestigious Burgundian appellations, Célestin Troussard is charmingly modest and unassuming, whilst never-the-less exuding both a steely determination and a quiet confidence in the striking brilliance and poise of his wines and their capacity to exceed possible expectations.
In their refined complexity, intensity, poise, balance and depth of character, these are the wines of a young producer whose star is most definitely on the rise. God bless the pothole that caused our planets to align!
2023 Bourgogne Aligoté
A beautifully fresh and dry Aligoté that is marked by the varietal’s hallmark zesty and lush acidity and almost Chablis-esque minerality. The wine is imbued with depth and roundness from 6 months ageing in old oak barrels. Notes of crushed stone, ripe orchard fruit and nutty, honeyed tones lead on to a palate of green apple, chalk and honeycomb. Great crisp, dry and clean finish.
2023 Bourgogne Côte d’Or Pinot Noir
From 60-80-year-old Pinot Noir vines, with 12 months spent in oak barrels, of which 20-30% were new, this is a Côte d’Or Bourgogne Pinot Noir that punches well above its weight and rank. On the nose, dark fruits are punctuated by notes of wood smoke and gamey sous-bois. The palate mirrors the whisps of smoky, gamey intensity that swirl around notes of griotte cherry, sweet spice and elegantly floral jasmine aromatics.
2023 Ladoix-Serrigny ‘Champ Pussuet’ Pinot Noir
From the south-east-facing stony slopes of the ‘Champ Pussuet’ lieu-dit vineyard, this beautifully ripe, pure and intense Ladoix Pinot Noir has a perfectly balanced nose of black and red berry fruit with touches of game and smoke alongside aromatic wooded spice notes of star anise and clove. The palate, no less generous, is fresh, bright, fine and focused, with serious intensity and structure amidst flavours of red and black cherry, plum stone fruit, earthy, meaty undertones and smoky floral nuances.
2023 Savigny-Les Beaune ‘Les Planchots’ Pinot Noir
From the clay-rich soils of the ‘Planchots’ lieu-dit vineyard, this wine shows a more savoury and structured character with ‘hunting lodge’ aromas of split wood, far-away bonfire smoke, meat, spice and dark and dried fruits. On the palate, spicy, structured meaty tones are softened with hints of jasmine, fresh raspberry and plum enlivened by juicy acidity.
2023 Aloxe Corton ‘Les Valozières’ Pinot Noir
An incredibly well balanced, fine, elegant and intense wine from the valley vineyards of ‘Les Valozières’ in Aloxe Corton. The nose, lightly reminiscent of the aromas of a Christmas market, is full of exotic wood-spiced cherry and plum interspersed with rich gamey and sanguine aromas of cured meats. The palate is beautifully elegant and fresh with fine tannins enveloping ripe red cherry, cranberry and dried rose petal, melting seamlessly into a peppery wood spice and charcuterie finish. Sublime!
2023 Corton-Bressandes Grand Cru Pinot Noir
From the hallowed clay and limestone south-eastern slopes of the Grand Cru Corton-Bressandes, this is a wine of seriously impressive weight, concentration and finesse. The nose opens with creamy, dark blackberry and cherry fruit, seasoned with peppery clove and juniper wood spice, with gamey, meaty undertones. The palate shows a lovely richness of deep, dark and pure red and black cherry, with mouth-wateringly fresh acidity, fine, velvety tannins and beautifully elegant aromatic notes of peonies, all leading to an impressively long finish that is marked by peppery spice.
Well, the weather outside is frightful, however, you can chase away those January blues with this amazing offer on a couple of Campbeltown whiskies.
The Kilkerran Heavily Peated is, as the name suggests, heavily peated and quite full-bodied. The Heavily Peated Kilkerran is released twice per year at cask strength and is usually around the 45PPM mark.
Although the maturation can vary, it is typically matured predominantly in Bourbon casks, with a small amount of Sheery aged whisky too. The palate is firm and full-bodied with notes of ripe melon and smoked ham with a long, forward finish.
The Campbeltown Loch is a blend of Campbeltown Malts from all three distilleries in the area. Produced from whiskies aged in ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks, which are then carefully vatted together and bottled at the Springbank Distillery in Campbeltown.
The Campbeltown Loch is a wee cracker, dispalying a decent amount of fruity flavours alongside an earthy-leatheriness on the palate. The palate is relatively sweet, however, this marries phenomenally well with the slightly drying peat.
Two cracking whiskies – all for £85.50 (a saving of £10.40)
Ever since I started working at Gauntleys, just over a quarter of a century ago, I have been laying down age worthy wines in our cellar allowing them to mature quietly amongst the stock that we use to replenish the shop with.
Over the years, as these wines gained maturity, they would have been brought over to the shop during the festive period and offered to the lovely wine buyers of Nottingham. Now I thought it might be an idea to offer these fabulous wines to a wider audience, which is why we have created this special ‘Mature Wines From the Cellar’ offer.
Some of these wines, such as the Bandol’s from Domaine Tempier are now quite old and are showing some lovely maturity. Wine made from Mourvedre will live for decades, but with the festive season approaching, we felt that it is time to release them from their slumbers and offer them up for your enjoyment.
We are also offering a number of bottlings of Domaine du Pegau Chateauneuf-du-Pape, including a couple of larger formats, which would look absolutely fantastic on the table along with the festive food. We also have a couple of bottles remaining of the 2007 Cuvee Papet from Clos du Mont Olivet, which on release, back in the day received an almost perfect score from the Wine Advocate. We shouldn’t forget a few bottles of the 2005 Hermitage Le Greal from the legendary Marc Sorrel and one magnum of the 2006 Ermitage Les Greffieux from one of the great wine makers of the Northern Rhone, Michel Chapoutier.
For those of you that like your white wines, especially Burgundian white wine with a good amount of age, we have taken out the Meursault Le Clous from Patrick Javillier and not forgetting the desert accompaniment, we have pulled out a few bottles of the Istvan Szepsy Tojaki Cuvee. Szepsy is one of the masters of Tojaki and although this wine is 25 years old, it’ll be in a fabulous place.
Finally, some of these wines are now down to the last bottle or two, so be quick and grab yourself one of these special bottles whilst stocks last.
Autumn is here, bringing with it a rich palette of colours, scents and flavours that adorn the countryside and our tables alike. Nowhere encapsulates the very essence of this beautiful season more than the Piedmont in Italy.
Nestled in the foothills of the Alps, this part of Italy, and more particularly the Langhe region within it, is, at least in the minds of wine lovers like myself, seemingly perpetually cloaked in morning mists and burnished vineyards, its landscape as atmospheric as it is abundant. It is surely the most autumnal of all the winemaking regions on earth, defined, as it is, by the local cuisine rich with a bountiful array of truffles, mushrooms and game, and wines rooted in structure, perfume and earthy elegance, that seem to inherently belong to the season itself. Indeed, the noble Nebbiolo grape at the heart of the region’s most renowned and age-worthy wines, takes its name from the nebbia morning fog that creeps through the vineyards and hillsides throughout the autumn months.
For a long time Nebbiolo grapes from younger vines, lighter vintages, or less favoured sites, were traditionally bottled as Langhe Nebbiolo – a role formalised with the creation of the Langhe DOC in 1994 – and were very much seen as “second wines” to their much more prestigious counterparts Barolo and Barbaresco.
Having taken over the family estate at Roccheviberti in 2008, Claudio Viberti has been very much at the forefront of a new generation of Langhe winemakers that have been instrumental, not only in revolutionising the character and reputation of the sometimes unyielding and hard traditional style of Barolo and Barbaresco wines, but also, through the careful application of the same innovative and focussed processes for their Langhe Nebbiolos, of creating a category of wine that possesses all of the grape’s hallmark perfume, elegance and earthy complexity in a much more immediately approachable style.
The 2020 Langhe Nebbiolo from Roccheviberti is a true “baby Barolo”. Not simply an introduction to the great wines of the Piedmont region, but a wine of authenticity and character that reflects the landscape and traditions of the Langhe whilst offering an accessible, fresh, and true taste of Nebbiolo’s earthy charm at a suitably seductive price.
2020 Azienda Agricola Roccheviberti Langhe Nebbiolo
The wine comes from vineyards with an average age of 30 years and an average altitude of 350 meters, planted across the three Barolo crus of Mariondino, Rocche di Castiglione and Bricco Boschis comprising a mix of sand over tuffeau, clay, sandstone and marl soils. Having been fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel, the wine is aged in a collection of 2000, 2500 and 500 Litre French oak barrels for 18 months, followed by a period of 6 months resting in the bottle prior to release.
The nose is immediately and fragrantly expressive with notes of violets and rosehip, effortlessly curled around hints of tar, dried liquorice and woodland undergrowth. The palate is no less complex, but seamlessly infused, with ripe, fresh and crunchy autumnal bramble fruit, surrounded by herbaceous, earthy and gamey nuances. The tannins, rounded and textured, add into the savoury intensity of the wine, whilst providing focus and definition to the lush, bright and juicy finish.
This is a wine made for the season – vivid, earthy, characterful and refined – an authentic taste of Piedmont’s autumn captured in a glass.
I am delighted to send the pre-shipment offer below, on the superb Sancerre and Pouilly Fume wines from Daniel Crochet and Michel Redde. We have had the pleasure of working with both producers for several years now, but it had taken a couple of years of extensive exploration, before I found the quality and style of wines that I had been looking for from these appellations. Tasting the beautifully pure and expressive wines of Daniel Crochet and Michel Redde, was like finally striking gold!
2023 Was A Great Vintage In Sancerre And Pouilly Fume!
Despite the popularity of the deliciously, fruit-driven and vibrant varieties of Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand and other areas of the globe, non can replicate the fabulous minerality and refined complexities, of a great Sancerre or Pouilly Fume.
2023 was a great vintage in Sancerre and Pouilly Fume. Although the region had a period of extreme heat, it was followed by a spell of rain, (35 mm), which increased the juice in the grapes, without causing any dilution. The grapes were harvested in a perfectly healthy, clean condition, with a beautiful balance and no hint of rot. Indeed, it has resulted in a terrific vintage for the wines of both Sancerre and Pouilly Fume.
2022 was also marked by bursts of exceptionally hot weather, but once again the vines benefitted from just sufficient rainfall to relieve the hydric stress. In contrast to previous ‘hot’ vintages, the wines retained a good balance and the Pinot Noirs of Sancerre are quite exceptional, with the potential to offer good longevity.
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If red wines of character are your thing and the warm summer months don’t always appear conducive to your enjoyment of them, then we ask you, is there a more suitable, more vibrantly-flavoured and remarkable red wine for the job than modern day Beaujolais?
Here we have the great pleasure of presenting a mixed case containing two beautifully expressive and masterfully balanced Beaujolais wines from the peerless Jean-Claude Lapalu. I had the opportunity to taste with the great man himself at the domain on a recent trip to France. Under the dappled shade of a large tree in Jean-Claude’s back garden, surrounded by a panoramic of endless vineyards, we tasted his wines in the heat of the midday sun – a setting that perfectly framed the essence of Beaujolais at its finest. The experience brought into focus the singular beauty of Lapalu’s wines: characterful and complex, yet marked by a striking purity. Each glass was as bright, vibrant and almost impossibly refreshing as the last – an undeniable expression of the brilliance of Beaujolais when crafted with such integrity and finesse. They also proved to be a perfect complement to the wide variety of cheese, charcuterie and other delicacies, that Jean-Claude so kindly prepared for us. Read more…
We are delighted to announce the timely arrival of our new shipment of our ever-popular Prosecco, the Organic Elusia. The perfect cork to pop, in the sun!
As we are all aware, Prosecco has become nothing short of a ‘premium brand’ over the past 15 years or so. However, our much favoured fizz is by no means a new phenomenon, with the first production of Prosecco being recorded in the 1770s.
With 15 ha within the UNESCO world heritage site of the Prosecco hills, Elusia’s pristine Prosecco comes from Glera grapes grown on slopes in Treviso and part from the renowned areas of Lison-Pramaggiore. Grown on the silty clay soils, rich in mineral elements, the vines benefit from an exceptional micro-climate, providing an optimum exposure to the sun, combined with a fresh breeze, to dry the vines after periods of rain.
The Elusia estate is dedicated to the production of organic wines. Eliminating the use of any chemical fertilisers or pesticides, to improve the quality of the soil, eradicate erosion and encourage the biodiversity of the environment, together with avoiding over use of any sulphur to create a more natural, purer wine on the palate.
With the first and secondary fermentation in tank, the Organic Elusia has a fine and persistent mousse, a beautifully clean, fresh, floral bouquet with delicate white fruits, followed by a delightfully clean, dry palate with mouthwatering ripe pear fruits balanced by a vibrant acidity, with a lingering, fresh finish.
Despite the wine being refreshingly easy to drink, it is surprisingly versatile, making it a good pairing for a wide variety of dishes and courses. The perfect aperitif, Elusia is an ideal choice with a variety of appetizers, including fresh salads, fried fish or vegetables. It makes an equally enjoyable partner to rice, or pasta dishes with seafood, as well as charcuterie, cheese – or pizza!
Let’s get ready to party! Enjoy the sun and embrace Elusia!
I first came across the beguiling wines of Sylvain Gauthier several years ago and was immediately smitten. The purity of fruit and seamless balance in Sylvain’s red and white wines is irresistible.
Enjoying truly breathtaking views across the Rhone, Sylvain’s wonderfully positioned winery, is perched high up in the hills of Saint Joseph, in the sleepy hamlet of Ozon.
Having trained and studied at Domaine du Tunnel and Chapoutier, Sylvain established his own domaine, Pierres Seches in 2007, when he acquired 5 hectares of prime sited vineyards on the slopes of Saint Jean du Muzol.
Working completely organically, today he produces three sensational cuvees of St. Joseph Rouge, from 100% Syrah, together with an innovative range of stylish IGPs and sublime examples of St. Joseph Blanc.
Indeed Sylvain’s ‘regular’ Saint Joseph Blanc is something highly exceptional. In contrast to the majority of white wines from the appellation, with a predominance of Marsanne, this exquisite wine is produced from 100% Roussanne. Displaying an invitingly honeyed and floral bouquet with ripe tropical fruits. Super intensity on the palate with layers of luscious, ripe fruit. Seductively silky, but not at all heavy, with a refreshing, zesty lift of acidity and long, clean finish. Absolutely delicious!
Enjoy a special ‘discovery discount’ until the end of May!
Our wine evenings offer you the opportunity to taste a stunning array of great wines, from our fantastic producers in relaxed surroundings. Our most eagerly anticipated tasting events are our ‘Meet the Winemaker’ evenings. These particular evenings offer you the rare opportunity to converse with one of our highly acclaimed winemakers, whilst tasting their wines, which can be a highly rewarding experience.
Choose from our carefully curated selection of themed mixed cases. Often at discounted prices. Explore new styles and regions – discover your new favourite wine/ winemaker – broaden your vinous horizons.
£152.60
Today, we invite you to indulge your senses with two Crozes-Hermitage from two of the Southern Rhônes leading winemakers: Louis Barruol of Chateau St Cosme and Baptiste Grangeon of Domaine de Cristia.
Louis Barruol, often hailed as ‘The Genius of Gigondas,’ is truly a master of his craft, and is one of the most versatile winemakers in the world today. His remarkable understanding of the needs of different terroir and what makes great wine allows him to craft wines in appellations all over the Rhone Valley.
Domaine de Cristia, under the innovative leadership of the ambitious & forward-thinking Baptiste Grangeon has transformed since its modest 2-hectare beginnings in the heart of Chateauneuf du Pape, in 1942. Embracing organic viticulture in 2008 and adopting an unwavering commitment to terroir, the Domaine now spans 20 ha in Chateauneuf and is crafting an exceptional selection of wines from different terroirs throughout the Rhone Valley, including Hermitage, Saint Joseph, Gigondas and Vacqueyras.
Both have ventured beyond their southern roots, bringing their dedication and mastery of different terroir to the vineyards of the Northern Rhône. The delicious 2019 Crozes from Cosme & 2022 from Cristia are exceptionally expressive wines with ample character and elegance. Both are open and approachable now, but promise to evolve gracefully with time, rewarding patience with even greater complexity.
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