Introduction to Fine Wine Case

This is a fine-flavoured unoaked SaintVéran from a cool spot in Chasselas, which has succeeded in producing a fresh and beautifully balanced wine in this warm year. Taut and firm, it is unoaked to preserve its lovely minerality.

From the much heralded 2010 vintage this is showing plenty of development in the glass with good depth and a brick-red rim. The nose is gorgeous with all the dried-plum, cranberry and graphite notes associated with mature claret. The palate still shows good richness of fruit, with fine dusty tannins and an appetisingly dry finish. Ideal alongside some hard, aged cheeses or with a classic beef Sunday roast.

Succulent sangiovese from organically grown grapes in a splendid site at Castellina, looking south towards the beautiful Italian city of Siena. This Chianti Classico is perfumed with cherry and dried cranberries, with a medium body, and tart red fruit and balsamic spice balanced by the fine tannins.

Ribera del Duero is rightly renowned as one of Spain's best areas for reds, and this intense, plump smoky and well-balanced wine offers a fine example at a very good price for its quality.

Dark fruit, gently spiced blackberry and clean, sappy flavours make up a northern Rhône red from the sun-kissed 2019 vintage that would be perfectly suited with a juicy steak.

A precise blend of Bairrada's bical and cercial grapes, with flashes of lemon citrus and delicate white-flower perfume with an Atlantic-fresh finish. Made by a young producer who cut his teeth at Portuguese star producer and member favourite Herdade de Esporão.