As 2021 gets going, our Cellar Plan Manager, Tom Cave, provides the first instalment of our annual series on the vintages to uncork this year, starting with Vintage Port. Most 1970 Vintage Ports remain comfortably at their pinnacle of maturity and offer, 50+ years on, fabulous drinking. Now that ’63 and ’66, are hard to […]

John Olney, COO at Ridge Vineyards, talks to us about sustainability, the impact of the 2020 Californian wildfires and applying French philosophies to New World winemaking. High in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in a rugged terrain swept by a Pacific breeze, is where the story of Ridge Vineyards began. The original Monte Bello vineyard sprawls over a mountain ridge: the inspiration behind the producer’s name.   “The important […]

David Sautereau, the winemaker behind our Own Selection Sancerre, talks to us about his relationship with the region’s unique ecology and the joy of collaborating with us.   Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, David Sautereau makes fresh, delicately fruity wines from the Sauvignon Blanc grape. “Sauvignon Blanc is grown all over the world, but the wine we make here in Sancerre is unique because of the terroir. This […]

As our Burgundy 2019 En Primeur offer continues apace, Burgundy specialist Will Heslop extolls the virtues of patience in building a fine wine collection.  Burgundy: a land that time forgot, divided into miniscule plots of vines, perpetually shrouded in mist and tended with monastic devotion by crooked-backed vignerons. Through some alchemy passed down from generation to generation, their […]