Fine Wine List May-August 2010

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	Red Wines From small wonders at £20 and under up to £650 for Rousseau’s Chambertin – buyer Toby Morrhall’s dream bottle, the summer Fine Wine selection has plenty to appeal to all palates and pockets.		White Wines Old-world classics like Meursault, Condrieu, Vouvray and Mosel riesling rub shoulders with innovative bottles from the New World such as Napa Fumé Blanc, Hunter Valley semillon and Marlborough sauvignon blanc. An exceptional Galician godello brings a taste of the unexpected.
	All Wines The complete selection from the current Fine Wine List including Champagne Bollinger, Grande Année, 2000 and Delamain Early Landed Grande Champagne Cognac, 1986, two of the buyers’ dream bottles.		Mixed Cases The Fine Wine Mixed Cases often contain wines available in quantities too small to warrant individual listing. The current selection includes a case of Smart Claret, a Musar Vertical case, a case from Rousseau and Dujac, two of the Côte d’Or’s finest and six vintages of Bordeaux first growth Château Haut-Brion.

The Society's Fine Wine List
May-August 2010

Includes special occasion wines from £9.50 to £650, for drinking now or keeping

The classic regions, as we understand the phrase – Bordeaux, Burgundy, the Rhône, Alsace and the like – will always form the cornerstone of any Fine Wine List, but how long does it take for wine to become ‘classic’? Claret and Champagne have been dear to the British heart for centuries, but Vega Sicilia and Chateau Musar have deservedly won cult status in a matter of decades. Others, notably Australian super-cabernets, such as Yalumba’s, and aristocratic Languedoc reds, like Faugères from Domaine Alquier, are clearly classics in the making.

Like all The Society’s Fine Wine Lists, this summer edition aims to deliver a heady mix of the old money, the recently arrived and the deliciously aspirant. It reflects one of our founding principles, which is ‘to introduce, in addition to the wines in general domestic use, other Foreign Wines hitherto unknown or but little known in this country’ – more challenging nowadays than it was when first conceived by The Society’s original Committee in 1874.

We take great pride, of course, in being able to secure parcels of sought-after wines, like Haut-Brion, or the sumptuous mix from Domaines Dujac and Rousseau in the

Côte d’Or, a reflection of the excellent long-term relations we enjoy with our growers. But it’s an absolute joy to present the less obvious, whether newly discovered, or inexplicably under appreciated.

If our annual en-primeur sales are anything to go by, members need no persuasion to buy from the Rhône. Alsace has a more specialised following, but the two regions not only have a great deal in common, but complement each other perfectly. We put the two together, with food in mind, to showcase some of the spiciest whites and reds we know.

For members who like a taste of the unexpected in selections chosen on their behalf by The Society’s buyers, we include a timely reminder of The Society’s Fine Wine subscription service, Vintage Cellar Plan, designed for medium and long-term enjoyment. This plan has the advantage of being flexible, easy and accessible. All members need do is subscribe, select whether to have or have not, and we do the rest. The 'World Classics' Case and 'French Classics' Case selections give a taste of what subscribers might expect.

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Fine Wine List May-August 2010

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