Merlot Blend Wine

Seductive, accessible, Merlot-rich blend

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

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

Chateau Barrail du Blanc Grand Cru St-Emilion 2015 Halves

Chateau Saint-Aubin 2018

An attractive, characterful wine from the far north of the Médoc, an innovative blend which attains optimal balance.

Chateau Vieux Caperot St-Emilion 2015

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

Pomerol Ets J-P Moueix 2018

“Barry White”, as this 7 hectare estate is affectionately known at C&B, is a triumph and one of the great values. Huge colour, deepest red to the rim and with a dark, sinewy, pungent perfume of red and black fruits, this wine offers a palate that is sweetly intense, nicely balanced with firm, fresh but supple structure and really fine length.

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.

Having tasted this Dior family-owned wine over many years, it was this 2016 offering, under Dominique LauretMestreguilhem, that finally made us put a toe in the water. 90% Merlot, usefully old vines (35 years) and a fine gravelled soil with some clay have combined to make a super wine in 2016. Profound ruby colour. The nose is darkly fruited, smoky, even sexily fruited. The palate is spicily rich with grainy tannins but avoids the rough trade element through plump, fresh fruit and judicious use of oak. Fine length as well.

Manoir de Gay 2014

Chateau de Bel-Air 2016

Louis Mitjavile produces this from vines planted at the end of the Saint Emilion limestone ridge. Cool soils warrant late harvesting and create great intensity

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.

Personally owned by Christian Moueix, this is one of the great, gravel soiled Pomerols - lots of charm. The nose offers hints of strawberry and damson whilst the palate has lovely balance, a lithe, silky structure with powder-fine tannins, freshness, purity and length. Lovely wine.

The second wine of Château Gazin, this is one of the very greatest values in Pomerol.

This is known for its open, generous accessible style Opaque ruby colour. Arterial dark fruit, vibrantly fresh with that characteristic -inky- perfume. The palate is not just plumply ripe but possesses real density, is full flavoured and generously structured with a fresh and extended finish.

Bright, bursting plump red fruits, sweet, pure, fresh and naughty. Difficult to see how this could be better really.

90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Franc, in a terrific year. Creamy, almost linseeded nose, powerful and red fruited. This is a big, even burly wine with big extract but fruit well in support, a chewy concentration and a powerful, fresh finish. This Bourgneuf combines a great capacity for ageing and very attractive approachability in its youth.

L'Hospitalet de Gazin 2015

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.

Château La Grave à Pomerol offers briary black fruits on the nose, creamily ripe, very pure and fresh. The palate has that characteristic La Grave silkiness with supple, full flavours and - the key to 2015 - real density and fresh concentration to a long finish.

Neighbouring the fabled Pétrus, this wine is an example of the amazing quality this region produces. Packed with red and black fruits, bold and rich this wine is guaranteed to impress winelovers anywhere.

Chateau La Grave a Pomerol 2016

This 2011 is a dense ruby colour. It offers a clayey pure, vibrant almost cocktailed red fruit nose. The palate has a creamy density and generosity, almost succulence to its weight, allied to a dark concentration of structure and fine, fine length. A force with which to be reckoned and then some

Fleur de Clinet 2011 Magnum

Roc de Cambes, in line with all of the Mitjavile wines offers the comfort of a warm slipper or duvet – sumptuous and yet focused.