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The Vialard family have run it for five generations, and the style has barely wavered: classic, unforced Médoc claret made to age, the kind Hugh Johnson once called the pillar of the Cru Bourgeois.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wine is Cabernet Sauvignon-led, filled out with Merlot and a little Petit Verdot, fermented in a mix of wood and stainless steel and matured in French oak. The gravel soils give it the firm tannic spine of the Médoc; the winemaking polishes it without smoothing the character away. This is wine built on structure rather than flash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect a traditional, medium-bodied claret - blackcurrant and dark plum, cedar and a savoury, earthy edge, carried by fine, gripping tannins and real freshness. 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The estate holds New Zealand's largest organically farmed vineyard area, 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 clay hill slopes at the estate's Settlement and Yarrum sites, drawing on six different clones from vines dating back to 1983. It's hand-picked and hand-sorted, then fermented with wild yeasts and 25% whole bunches in small open-top tanks, without pumping, before eighteen months in French oak, 30% 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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It's led by Tempranillo, with smaller amounts of Graciano, Mazuelo and Garnacha filling out the blend, then aged around two years in American oak. 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. 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Their aim is stated plainly: typical Cahors that trades on sincerity, balance and freshness rather than weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the estate's classic cuvée, Malbec-led with a little Merlot for roundness. The south-facing clay and limestone terraces ripen the Malbec fully, and the winemaking keeps oak deliberately in the background - so the fruit and the structure lead, not the barrel. The result is recognisably Cahors: dark-fruited and firm, but without the heaviness the grape can fall into elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect dark plum and wild blackberry, a savoury, faintly liquorice edge, and the fresh acidity that keeps the whole thing lively. Firm but fine tannins give it grip without weight. 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Fermented in stainless steel and concrete, then rested for a year in the estate's large old Slavonian oak casks - the traditional Montalcino approach, where the big format gently rounds the wine without layering on oak spice. The aim is freshness and finesse over weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect wild cherry and crushed berry, rosemary and a savoury, stony, faintly olive-tinged edge - cool-toned and silky, medium-bodied, with the fine tannins and bright acidity that mark good Sangiovese. Approachable now but no lightweight. 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Part of the wine is fermented and aged in French oak barrels and left to rest on its lees, which builds a creamy, rounded texture and a gentle note of vanilla and spice; the rest stays in steel to keep the fruit bright. The result leans rich without tipping into the heavy, over-oaked style California Chardonnay is sometimes known for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpect ripe stone fruit and citrus - peach, melon and lemon - wrapped in that soft, creamy texture, with a savoury, lingering finish. 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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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