Merlot Blend Wine

Easy drinking, Bordeaux-style red without the price tag.

A custom-blended claret, delightfully accessible – perfect at family gatherings

Enticing raspberry and fresh mint aromas, with a juicy palate of strawberry, blackcurrant and stony definition. A claret of unrestrained deliciousness.

Chateau Saint-Aubin 2018

An accessible, food-friendly style, this has elegance, grace and richness – a fine ambassador for both the vintage and the appellation

Red cherry and cedary blackcurrant aromas. The juicy, substantial palate has firm tannins and sweet spices. A suitably decadent 2018 St Emilion.

Inky blackberry aromas, with bitter chocolate and dark peppery spice. The palate’s dark cherry and raspberry fruit is ripe and velvety, with fine tannins providing definition. A crowd pleasing, decadent Pomerol from right bank superstars J-P Moueix

The go-to St-Emilion for generations of C&B customers, this has never been better than in the storied 2016 vintage. Merlot on gravel soils, classic stuff.

An attractive, dark and deep garnet red, the wine has an intense and precise nose that opens on delicate aromas of spices, roses and plums macerated in spirits. Some roasted, toasted notes appear with airing. From a supple and highly refined attack, the mid-palate rapidly emerges on smooth, patrician tannins enhanced by a youthful freshness. The fruit, already there in the background, comes into its own, giving a harmonious, long and opulent finish.

A wonderful wine from Louis Mitjavile’s excellent site in upcoming Castillon, Côtes de Bordeaux, neighbour to Saint Emilion.

We are delighted to represent L’Aurage exclusively in the UK and Hong Kong. This property is owned by François and Emilie Mitjavile’s extremely talented son, Louis.

Mitjavile magic from the wizards of Bordeaux's right bank, L'Aurage 2016 combines a high quality vintage with the family's trademark degraded Merlot fruit.

The second wine of Pomerol's Chateau Gazin, neighbour of Petrus, delivers a silky dark-fruited decadence. From the 2015 vintage, a treat for Christmas day.

Huge colour in 2016, opaque ruby. The nose is smokily dark with a linseeded, creamy fresh black fruit perfume. The palate is richly and powerfully extracted and just when you think that its power is at the limit of comfort, the freshness and charm of the vintage lifts it back into the pleasure zone. Ambitious yes, but it’s delicious. This is a property to watch.

We've saved these last drops of 2015 La Grave for Christmas - it's perfect for drinking now and deserves a proper occasion. A Moueix Merlot to cherish.