Absolutely brilliant! Comtes is Taittinger’s Cuvée Prestige and is made from 100% Chardonnay. It possesses a pale gold colour with mature notes of toast, caramel, honey, mushroom, chalk, anise and binned apple. On the palate, there is fabulous length, with well-integrated acidity and a punchy finale. There is at least another decade of life ahead, especially if you enjoy the complexity of aged Champagne.
Red cherry and leafy green herb on the nose with choke cherry and black cherry flavours, brisk acidity and firm tannic bite on the palate. Authentic cool climate Loire red.
Characteristic Bordeaux-style scents of earthy plum, green herb, a touch of clove, and blackcurrant. Blackcurrant, black plum and bitter cherry provide the dominant flavours, supported by balanced acidity and moderately dry tannic grip.
Bordeaux reds can be costly, but here’s one that is really well priced and will round out with 2 to 3 years of cellaring. This wine is dense purple in colour with a nose of blackcurrant, cedar and spicy oak. It’s medium-bodied and still tight, but some bottle age will soften its tannins. It’s the perfect wine for lamb.
Pale ruby. Fine nose of red fruits, typical of Pinot Noir, with well-dosed oak notes. Nice freshness; the fruity taste is ripe and sweet. Medium bodied with good extraction. A fine wine, delicious now and over the next 3 to 5 years.
Dense purple colour colour with a bouquet of cedar, spicy plum and currants. Medium- to full-bodied, dry, well balanced with a firm tannic finish. Needs 3 to 4 years.
Dense purple colour with a nose of cedar, creamy oak and vanilla — oak that’s masking the fruit at the moment, but it’s there just waiting to express itself. Medium-bodied, dry, firmly structured with black fruit flavours that are almost Syrah-like.