After highly successful evening wine club tastings, post Xmas stocks of a few of our most popular wines are on the low side – indeed we have sold out of our stunning Sauvignon, the La Loge Aux Moines 2012 Pouilly Fume’ and so have the vineyard. Probably the best Loire Valley Sauvignon Blanc we have found so far – a view endorsed by an American lady at a recent club tasting who claimed it was ” the best Sauvignon full stop!”
The good news however is that new supplies of the equally impressive 2013 vintage will be in our Bond warehouse by April, along with [read more …]
The first ASDW Thame Wine Fair is this Saturday at Thame Town Hall, High St , Thame, Oxon – 11.00 to 5pm in conjunction with Friends of Thame & District Citizens Advice Bureau. Bordeaux and Beyond will be there with 8 other ASDW merchants with over 80 wines to taste before you buy!
Meet us and 7 other Association of Small Direct Wine-merchants (ASDW) members at Brackley Town Hall this Saturday. Open 12 noon to 6pm.
Organised by ASDW & the Rotary Club of Brackley this is a chance to taste over 70 different wines before you buy. Discover new wines mainly from independent producers many not available elsewhere in the UK. See www.brackleywinefestival.co.uk
Meet us at The Ship Hotel, Weybridge this Saturday for another Association of Small Direct Wine-merchants charity Wine Festival.
Bordeaux and Beyond with 7 other ASDW merchants will offer around 80 wines for tasting and buying by the single bottle – or as many as you can carry to the car! [read more …]
This weekend sees the first Oxford Wine Festival at the Oxford Union, St Michaels Street. An amazing range of Old World and New World wines to taste and buy! See www.oxfordwinefestival.org Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 17.00 and 18.00 to 22.00 each day [read more …]
New vintages of 3 of our customers favourites arrived in our Bond warehouse late April – the 2013 vintages of Sancerre, Pouilly Fumé and Provence Rose. The 2013 Ch. Vingtinières Provence Rosé is elegant, refreshing and ideal for patio lunches in the spring sunshine, as indeed are the Domaine Caroir Perrin Sancerre 2013 and Domaine Patrice Moreux 2013 Pouilly Fumé – ideal with fish, seafood or just al fresco! Early May will see the arrival of the 1er Cru Givry 2012 [read more …]
A brief latest news update to say Bordeaux and Beyond, together with 10 other merchants from the Association of Small Direct Wine-merchants will be at the Ship Hotel, Weybridge this Saturday 29th March. If you can make it you will be able to taste before you buy and then buy wines just by the bottle or if you get carried away by the 6b case! The Festival is open from 11.00 to 18.00 and details are at www.weybridgewinefestival.co.uk
We are pleased to report that new supplies of Chateau Micalet 2006 , Chateau de Lauga 2009 and Chateau des Moines Lalande de Pomerol 2009 are now in EHD London No1 Bond. In good time for Easter. [read more …]
Tony and I hope that all of our friends and customers have a fantastic festive New Year and a successful and healthy 2014.
Your support and appreciation of our artisan French wines has made 2014 our most successful year to date, so huge thanks to all of our private clients, the many Wine Clubs/Circles we have visited and not forgetting all those wine enthusiasts that we have met at recent weekend Wine Festivals with the Association of Small Direct Wine-merchants. [read more …]
The British love to complain about the weather but it doesn`t tend to have a major effect on our livelihood unlike some of our winemaker friends in France. Last week in Bordeaux for example, a 10 minute hailstorm travelling through parts of the Entre-Deux-Mers region literally wiped out many vineyards. The hail destroyed all the grapes and vegetation and left bare wood resulting in a whole years worth of work wasted and zero income for the Vignernon. Most small winemakers cannot afford the hail insurance premiums so just have to accept nature’s way and hope for better days in the future.
It certainly makes you think when you pull the cork from a bottle of wine made by a person rather than a factory!
On a happier note then we are pleased to say that stocks of the latest vintage of Ch. de Fontenille Bordeaux Clairet 2012 are now safely in our warehouse. So many of you love this rather special wine and have been eagerly awaiting its arrival particularly as we sold out the 2011 vintage many months ago.
Also we have two completely new arrivals from Bordeaux:
- Ch. Lamartine, Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux, 2010 — a particularly fruity Merlot from a great vintage
- Ch. de Lauga, Haut Médoc , 2009 – classic left bank Cabernet Sauvignon from the St. Julien border
Go to the main wine-list for full tasting notes and prices.
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