Champions Fine Wine Tasting Kit

This deservedly popular property used a high proportion of perfectly ripe cabernet sauvignon (85%) this year. Lovely texture with fine-grained tannins and a polished creaminess on the palate. A delicious Batailley with a long and promising future.

The 2022 Riserva is immediately expressive, offering lifted aromas of savoury spice, dried Mediterranean herbs, and red plum and cherry. The palate has real depth, with ripe fruit supported by mouthwatering acidity that keeps everything bright and poised. Medium-bodied and neatly structured, the tannins are firm but refined, giving the wine clarity and length. Fully worthy of its Riserva status, this is elegant on release and well set for graceful ageing.

Impressive, wine with rounded tannins aged 30 months in perfect conditions in barriques in a beautiful vaulted cellar, built in1830 by Don Francisco Juanicó. This shows the quality and finesse Uruguay is capable of. A blend of 45% tannat, 16% cabernet sauvignon, 16% cabernet franc, 14% merlot, 4.5% petit verdot, and 4.5% marselan.

From the elegant and highly rated 2005 vintage, this is a refined, savoury and fully mature Rioja. Graceful and fine with exquisite flavours of tobacco and cedarwood, this was praised by Decanter Magazine for ‘displaying all the complexity that you'd expect from a gran reserva at nearly 20 years of age.` The bodega is located in Sonsierra where the poor but well drained limestone-clay soils at 500 to 600-metres altitude up in the foothills provide a perfect terroir for old-vine tempranillo, grown on bush vines and hand harvested at low yields. Low stock – limited to six bottles per member.

Made from 100% old vines of grenache from a specific plot close to the winery, this is a full-flavoured and spicy Rhône. The 2023 has lots of juiciness and is full of brambles, garrigue and liquorice, with energy on the core that provides balance to this southern red.

The historic Lammershoek Estate - next door to Eben Sadie on the Swartland’s Paardeberg mountain - has seen multiple owners and many rebrands in the last three decades, but stability has finally arrived in the form of the Johannes family. With the young Stefan Johannes at the helm, there is a newfound vision and sense of purpose at the property as he launches his debut 2024 vintage estate wines. The violet-scented, vibrant red is a majority syrah blend, with carignan and mourvèdre in support, brimming with ripe raspberries and blackberries and wild rosemary fragrance. Aged in a combination of old barrels, concrete, and new French oak (20%), this is fresh and medium-bodied with an appealing sweet-juiciness to the fruit and easy-going tannins. A compelling interpretation of this beautiful property and a wonderful maiden vintage. The wine is named ‘Zwartwater,’ in homage to Stefan’s family’s original farm in Mpumalanga in north-eastern South Africa. The latest in the exciting ‘next generation’ of new wave producers out of the Cape, we are delighted to be the first to bring Zwartwater into the UK.