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MoneyWeek – 2025 Gratallops, Vi de Vila, Álvaro Palacios, Priorat, Spain

While the wine world will inevitably be talking about 2025 Bordeaux En Primeur offers this week (and probably for the rest of the month), but perhaps not placing any orders from the increasingly desperate Châteaux, here is a 2025 vintage wine that you most definitely should be buying En Primeur, and it is not from France.  Berry Bros. & Rudd…
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MoneyWeek – 2023 Vinya del Coll, Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, Spain

I suspect that many MoneyWeek readers will have personally met the star of this week’s column.  Vincent Pastorello was, and remains, one of the most discreet yet powerfully influential figures in the international wine scene.  I first met Vincent when he was the wine director at the Dorchester, working closely with Alain Ducasse.  He is a magnetic…
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MoneyWeek – 2025 Roseblood d’Estoublon, Rosé, Coteaux Varois En Provence, France

I feel like I have already tasted an ocean of new vintage rosés this year, and yet only a handful have left their mark.  I was very taken with 2025 Château Minuty Rose et Or (£28.90, www.millesima.co.uk), and it’s not the first time that I have preferred to upgrade from the entry-level wines at this well-known estate to the Rose et Or level.  It…
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MoneyWeek – 2022 Ceritas, Trout Gulch Chardonnay, Santa Cruz Mountains, California

I absolutely adore the spectacular Cabernets from Spottswoode.  I have followed this imperious Californian estate for over 35 years, and the wines seem to transcend all others whenever I taste them.  These are not typical weighty, oak-soaked Napa Valley Cabs, but finely crafted wines with a degree of finesse only found in the greatest wines from…
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MoneyWeek – 2025 Pagliatura, Vermentino Toscana, Fattoria di Magliano, Italy (£20.95, reduced to £18.50 each by the case, www.leaandsandeman.co.uk).

I have found no fewer than six stunning Italian whites from Lea & Sandeman this week, and next Wednesday I will publish notes on nine more wines on my website, making a fabulous ‘first fifteen’ for this elite independent wine merchant!  The L&S team is extremely adept at sniffing out great value and authentic Italian superstars, and I heartily…
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MoneyWeek – 2016 Côte-Rôtie, Mes Grands Lieux, Domaine Stéphane Ogier, Northern Rhône, France

I have told Stéphane Ogier’s story many times at tastings, but I never met him until last week.  I am a huge fan of the work he has done since taking over from his father back in the late Nineties.  His mission over the last nearly 30 years has been to fine-tune every single plot of vines in his estate, while gradually bringing a sense of true…
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MoneyWeek – 2025 Domaine des Oullières, Harmonie Rosé, Coteaux d’Aix-En-Provence, France

We are all very familiar with the big names in the Provence rosé constellation, and now that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the first release of the game-changer Whispering Angel, it is time to acknowledge those rare wineries that have kept their standards as sky-high as the eponymous wines from Château d’Esclans.  If you would like to…
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MoneyWeek – 2024 Hamilton Russell Vineyards, Chardonnay Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, South Africa

Anthony Hamilton Russell is one of the most urbane and courteous fellows in the Cape.  While all around him, middle-aged, creatively hirsute, boho-winemakers consume much of South Africa’s wine oxygen, AHR ploughs a thoroughly civilised furrow, crafting wines of uncommon refinement and global appeal.  Since he assumed responsibility for his estate…
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MoneyWeek – 2023 Mon père, Savagnin Ouillé, Domaine la Grappe’A, Côtes du Jura, France

I featured a collection of wines from Claire Thevenot’s Vins Clairs portfolio last year on this page, and one even made it into my Finest Fifty Wines Report last year.  Hers is a stunning, refreshingly esoteric and forensically curated list of wines, and my featured pair this week comes from the first Domaine she ‘signed’ for her business.  I…
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MoneyWeek – 2021 Restless River, Main Road & Dignity Hemel-en-Aarde Cabernet Sauvignon, Cape South Coast, South Africa

I am a massive fan of winemaker Craig Wessels’ work at Restless River in the cool, southern flanks of the Cape’s Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley.  I have previously thought that his speciality was the Burgundy duo of varieties, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and indeed he continues to push these twin skills with extraordinary accuracy.  In fact, 2024…
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MoneyWeek – 2023 Le Pujol Grenache, Boulevard Napoléon, Vin de Pays de l’Hérault, Languedoc, France

Trevor Gulliver is the co-founder and chairman of the St. John Restaurant Group. MoneyWeek readers, perhaps more so than any other demographic in the land, might be familiar with his legendary flagship restaurant in Farringdon, London.  Many moons ago, Trevor bought a house on a street called Boulevard Napoléon in La Livinière, in the stunning Minervois…
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MoneyWeek – 2022 Gašper, Cabernet Franc, Goriška Brda, Slovenia 

I tasted three wines the other day from Slovenia’s elite Gašper estate with none other than Gašper Čarman himself.  This fascinating winery is situated in Goriška Brda, a hilly microregion within the Collio that stretches into Slovenia from the famous Friuli Venezia Giulia wine regions, in northeast Italy.  You would be hard-pressed to think…
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