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The estate is now New Zealand's largest certified organic vineyard, and the wines are made with as light a touch as possible: this is Marlborough taken seriously, well away from the supermarket version of the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pinot comes off old vines in the southern Wairau Valley, drawing on six different clones, some planted back in the early 1980s. It's hand-picked and hand-sorted, fermented with wild yeasts and a portion of whole bunches in small open-top tanks, then aged around eighteen months in French oak, a part of it new. It's bottled unfined and unfiltered, which keeps the texture and aromatics intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect a highly perfumed Pinot - rose and violet over red cherry and dark berry, with a savoury lift of dried herbs and spice from the whole-bunch fruit. The palate is silky and succulent, carried by fine, supple tannins and the bright acidity that Marlborough does so well. 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That long, traditional oak ageing is the heart of the Murrieta style: it softens the wine and adds warm, sweet-spice and vanilla notes, so it arrives polished and ready rather than tough and young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect ripe red and dark fruit - strawberry and cherry - with a warm, earthy edge and a smooth, silky feel right through the finish. Serve at 16-18°C.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marques de Murrieta","offers":[{"title":"2020","offer_id":56936466350463,"sku":"IM-MMR","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"2021","offer_id":57595907178879,"sku":null,"price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0276\/5216\/1623\/files\/marques-de-murrieta.jpg?v=1774285302"},{"product_id":"guado-al-tasso-il-bruciato-bolgheri","title":"Guado al Tasso Il Bruciato, Bolgheri","description":"\u003cp\u003eIl Bruciato is the wine that brought Antinori's Bolgheri estate within easy reach. It was first made in 2002, one of the hardest vintages Guado al Tasso had faced - a year that forced a younger, fresher style of wine, and proved good enough to become a permanent fixture. Today it's the estate's most approachable red, carrying the Antinori name on the Tuscan coast without the flagship price.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a Bordeaux-style blend built for Bolgheri's warm, sea-cooled climate: Cabernet Sauvignon at its core, with Merlot and Syrah filling out the middle and adding spice. The constant breezes off the nearby coast keep the fruit fresh through the summer heat, and the wine sees only a short spell in French oak barriques - enough to round the edges, not so much that it buries the fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is generous, polished Bolgheri - ripe blackberry and dark cherry, sweet spice, and a savoury edge of coffee and Mediterranean herb - with supple tannins and a clean, fresh finish. 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The 815 is his calling card: a Cabernet assembled from six appellations into something consistent, polished and easy to reach for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fruit comes from Napa Valley, Sonoma County, Lake County, Mendocino, Lodi and the Central Coast, each region contributing a different piece - Napa for depth, Sonoma for spice, Lake County for structure, Mendocino for colour and dark fruit. The lots are fermented separately, then aged in American oak before blending, which rounds the tannins and folds in a warm note of baking spice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the glass it's open and unfussy: raspberry and blackberry fruit, a touch of mocha and cedar, smooth tannins and a fresh, dry finish. 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ARTEMIS is their Napa Valley Cabernet - the wine that carries the house style to the widest audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than come from a single plot, ARTEMIS is built from a handful of carefully chosen vineyards across the valley, blended together so each one adds something. It's almost entirely Cabernet Sauvignon, with tiny amounts of three other grapes for depth, and spends just over a year in French oak barrels - mostly older ones, so the oak supports the fruit rather than dominating it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is rich and smooth, with ripe dark fruit - boysenberry, plum and blackcurrant - alongside softer notes of chocolate and baking spice. The tannins are plush and well integrated, so it's approachable young but has the structure to keep. 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They work with Richard Kershaw, one of only a handful of Masters of Wine making wine in the country, to draw finesse rather than weight out of the cool site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chardonnay comes from three blocks, hand-harvested and whole-bunch pressed after a short period of skin contact. Fermentation starts in stainless steel on the vineyard's own ambient yeast, then the juice is racked into French barrels, where regular lees-stirring builds the mid-palate over ten months. There's no malolactic fermentation, which is the quiet decision that keeps the acidity bright and the wine focused rather than broad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt pours pale yellow, with orange and apricot, yellow apple and a lift of nutmeg and gentle oak spice over a wet-stone edge. The palate is textured but taut - crisp acidity carrying a real sense of richness, then a long, mineral finish. 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It's destemmed and fermented naturally on wild yeast in open fermenters for around ten days, with the cap gently worked to draw colour and flavour without force. The wine then goes to French oak, a portion of it new, where it completes its malolactic and matures for eleven months before a light filtration. The aim throughout is delicacy over extraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt pours light crimson, with fresh strawberry and red plum, spiced orange and a dusting of clove and cinnamon over a savoury, faintly cola-and-oatmeal depth. The palate is light to medium-bodied, juicy and bright, the tannins fine and powdery, the finish long. A genuinely cool-climate Pinot. 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The juice is fermented and aged across three vessels at once - older French oak barrels, Italian terracotta amphorae and concrete eggs - with no new oak, so nothing covers the fruit. Each element pulls in something different: the old wood gives dimension, the clay brings brightness and lift, and the wine spends months on its lees, unfined and unfiltered, before bottling. The result is texture and depth without weight or oakiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt pours full and bright, with white peach, quince and citrus pith over a subtle floral note and a long, distinctly mineral finish. Rich but taut - a serious, savoury style of Chenin built to age. 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The fruit here is hand-harvested and sorted, then lightly crushed and given a cold maceration before a temperature-controlled fermentation. It is aged for around fourteen months in barrel, with only a modest proportion new - the house has steadily pulled back on new oak so the fruit and the limestone site speak first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is all Pinot Noir, off clay and shallow Bathonian limestone with gravel. In the glass that gives bright red cherry and raspberry, a little violet and spice, and a savoury, stony depth underneath. The tannins are fine and the whole wine stays lifted and energetic rather than heavy. 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The grapes are whole-bunch pressed, fermented with wild yeast, and aged for over a year in French oak - a portion of it new - with time resting on the lees to build a broad, creamy mouthfeel, before a short spell in stainless steel keeps it fresh. The result leans into richness without losing its line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect a generous, Meursault-like profile: ripe pear and apricot, candied lemon, toasted almond and sweet baking spice, with a crème fraîche roundness and enough fresh acidity to keep it balanced. Full-bodied but poised. 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The grapes are hand-picked and sorted, then the wine spends time in French oak barrels, a quarter of them new - enough to add a layer of spice and polish without sitting on top of the fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is smooth and elegant rather than heavy: ripe blackberry and dark cherry, a touch of cedar, tobacco and Mediterranean herb, with fine tannins and a fresh, savoury finish. Medium-bodied and seamless. 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Chris and Suzaan Alheit built it as a map of that heritage: a blend drawn from rare, dry-farmed parcels scattered the length of the Western Cape, most of them between forty and eighty years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is Chenin Blanc with a small portion of Sémillon, the Chenin pulled from a string of distinct sites - granite, sandstone and decomposed shale among them - and the Sémillon from a single venerable Franschhoek block. The winemaking is deliberately hands-off: whole-bunch pressing, wild fermentation in old barrels and concrete eggs, and a long spell on the lees with no new oak and no fining. The aim is to let each site speak rather than the cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a wine of real tension and length - lime and pear fruit, a savoury, almost herbal lift of Cape fynbos, and a stony, saline grip that runs through a long, dry finish. There is texture and weight here, but no fat; the line of acidity keeps it taut. 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The fruit is hand-sorted and whole-bunch pressed, the cloudy juice left to ferment on wild yeast in old foudres and barrels, then held a year on its lees and several months more on fine lees before bottling - no new oak, no fining, nothing added. The intent is to bottle the site as directly as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is Chenin with real depth and grip: yellow plum, mandarin and preserved-lemon fruit, a waxy, lanolin richness from the old vines, and a savoury, stony line of acidity that gives the wine its tension and length. Powerful but not heavy, and built to age. 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It takes its name from the family's historic vineyard, planted in 1932, the year Emilio Moro himself was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine is 100% Tinto Fino - the local Tempranillo - drawn from the estate's youngest vines, between five and fifteen years old, which is exactly where its bright, primary fruit comes from. After fermentation it spends just four months in French oak: enough to round the tannins and add a faint savoury edge, but never enough to cover the fruit. The soils here run from deep red clay on the valley floor to chalkier, stonier ground higher up, giving the wine both flesh and lift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is Ribera in its most open, drinkable form - mulberry, ripe cherry and a touch of liquorice, juicy and fresh with a clean, energetic finish. 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It takes its name from the Latin for majuelo, the local word for a vineyard plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fruit is Tinto Fino, the Ribera del Duero strain of Tempranillo, drawn from the estate's older vines high on the region's stony moorland - shallow, calcareous soils studded with rock that give low yields and a tense balance of ripeness and freshness. After skin maceration, the wine goes through malolactic fermentation in tank and is then aged in French oak, mostly larger 500-litre barrels, which lend structure and breadth without dominating the fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a deep, structured Ribera red - ripe black fruit, cedar and tobacco, clove and a savoury, mineral edge - powerful on the palate but carried with real balance and a silky finish. 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The vines sit on schist and flinty soils a few kilometres from the Mediterranean, and the sea air keeps the fruit fresh through the summer heat. Whole bunches are chilled and gently pressed, then vinified cool and aged on fine lees in tank - no oak, nothing to blur the fruit. The result is the pale, crystalline pink Provence is known for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect white peach and spring blossom on the nose, then a dry, zesty palate of pink grapefruit and citrus zest with a clean, mineral finish. 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