H2Vin Ltd

We’re Hiring in London!

‘Wine Sales Logistics & Marketing Coordinator’

We’re looking for dedicated professionals with strong wine industry knowledge and experience, a proactive determined ‘can do’ work attitude whilst furthering their career in the UK Wine Industry! 🌎 🍷

To apply, go to Indeed Jobs and submit your application.

Link provided below 🔗👇 ✍️ 🤞

Wine Sales Logistics & Marketing Coordinator - Amersham - Indeed.com H2Vin Ltd

We are delighted to invite UK based Wine Buyers, Sommeliers and Key Wine Press to our 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ Annual Trade Portfolio Tasting!

🗓 Wednesday 22th March
⏰ 10am - 4:30pm
📍 London
📧 [email protected]
📞 020 3478 7376
🚨 Strictly Trade & Press by invitation only

For the very first time H2Vin and The Wine Treasury are teaming up to host a one-off joint portfolio tasting, showcasing 125 wines each from their portfolios, to bring you 250 extraordinary wines to taste & experience from around the globe, whilst having us introduce you to many new vintages, new Producers and exclusive under-the-radar gems.

📩To register, please email [email protected] to confirm your attendance.

We’ll be extremely happy see you at our 1st joint Trade Tasting event for 2023!

Have you ever tried a wine from Corsica?
We continue to find exciting artisan producers in diverse wine-producing regions. Check out !

Have you ever had wines from Corsica?

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Our En Primeur Campaign Client Offer from the 2021 harvest!


The majority of prices have now been confirmed with several still waiting for final confirmation by the producers. Once we’ve received all final prices, we will then be able to confirm the offer in full.

Send us a DM to receive the H2Vin’s Burgundy 2021 En Primeur Client Offer & Vintage Report

📣Calling all *wine geeks*:
Who’s in for a glass of Jurançon?
The Pyrenees foothills are the setting where Gros Manseng and Petit Manseng thrive and create luscious and fresh sweet wines.
📌Located in the South West of France, Jurancon is an appellation for two top wines: Jurancon (sweet) and Jurançon sec (dry), as well as a late-harvest wine.
Pastures, agriculture and woodland are mixed in this region which lies in clayey topsoils with a high stone content.

🤓What to expect in Jurançon?
💯Golden-hued sweet wines are aromatically expressive and have a fresh and balanced mouthfeel.

A perfect combination to start thinking about your Christmas dessert table!

🍷This Saint Joseph Syrah from is a remarkable example of the Northern Rhone wines.
🌄It is created with a blend of wines from vines on granite hillsides facing East and South-East and refined with 15 months in oak barrels.
💜A beautiful dark purple colour is accompanied by silky tannins, freshness and brambly dark fruit.

😍The produce recommends to have it with candied lamb. What would be your take?

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Let`s meet Dewalt Heyns!👋
This passionate farmer and winemaker create unique and award-winning wines in the Paardeberg Valley in Swartland.

His love for wine started working side by side with his father on the family farm.

This 1.1-hectare vineyard is the origin of a exclusive batch of wines full of character: Weathered Hands.

📍In Swartland, drought-resistant varieties are grown and planted in bush vines. It`s home to the oldest Chenin Blancs in the country and specially awarded Pinotage and Shiraz.

Dewalt Heyns is up to creating wines that express this terroir with elegance and authenticity. 👏

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Orange wine vibes all around!

MiNimus from Chatzivaritis state in Greece is a low intervention wine that showcases the characteristics of the 📍Slopes of Paiko (P.G.I)

Chloi Hatzivaritis 👩🏻, daughter of the founders, took over the winery in 2017. She is committed to producing wines sustainably and authentically.

🍊This is made with 100% Malagousia, cultivated organically in light-textured soils.

Its fermented in clay amphora without any additives and is non-fined or filtered.

👄 It has a beautiful orange colour witg complex bouquet of orange zest, dried flowers, cedar and bergamot.A well-structured palate with good acidity and a lasting finish make this wine a .

Which is your favourite orange wine?

Tag a lover

Dewaldt Heyns is one of the most talented South African winemakers. He has achieved his lifelong dream of making wines from a parcel of ancient vines in his father's vineyards in Swartland.

📍Swartland, South Africa
Bush vine
Elegant and complex
Aged in barrel for 20 months,

👁Deep, dark purple colour
👃Dark fruit, red berry and ripe cherry layered over spicey and violet tones
👄Textured and full-bodied
+ Silky tannins

What's your favourite Pinotage? 👇

Did you know? Port producers are traditionally located in Vila Nova de Gaia, instead of Porto.

There are 3 different reasons for this:

1️⃣Climate
The wind and lower solar exposure ensure cooler conditions for the wine to age properly.
2️⃣Shipping logistics
The South Bank geography eases the boat’s parking, loading and departure.
3️⃣Economy
Back then, taxes used to be paid directly to the bishop and the bishop was in Porto.

Have you ever been to Porto? What’s your favourite place to visit?

🙌Antoine Sanzay is one of Saumur's most talented farmers.🙌

👉His modern approach, with a great organic and low intervention focus, is backed up by 7 generations of his family mastering Cab Frac in the Loire Valley.

🍷'La Paterne' rouge is a brilliant expression of his organic grapes from Saumur-Champigny:

✅fragrant and powerful
✅silky, rich tannins
✅blackberry, bramble leaf and black pepper spice notes

Drop a 🙌 if you are a Cab Franc fan!

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Check out our latest blog post on what to expect from Burgundy reds and how to enjoy them at their fullest.

Pure passion and enthusiasm drive us at H2Vin for unearthing under-the-radar producers and their wines.

We focus on wines that offer a real sense of place, reflecting their precise origins with clarity & authenticity.

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Great weather ✔️ Great rosé wine ✔️

Rosé is made in so many different styles, and so gastronomic, that we love it’s versatility.

It can range from a pale colour and subtle aromatics to deeper intensity and more fruit-forward. There is a style for every taste, even for those who claim not to love rosé...yet!

This great range depends on:
-The grape variety used
-Skin contact length
-Maceration Temperature
-Extraction method

What's your favourite rose?

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😱Have you ever seen these?😱

👉We are familiar with stainless steel tanks, amphoras, cement and oak barrels. Still, we bet you haven't heard of these unique stone fermentation vases!

Although looking experimentative and Avant guard, these are dated from medieval times.🏰 They were built in the 12th century and have 3 different levels, working as gravity fermentors.

is a bright and motivated producer in the Catalan Pyrenees in Spain. They have a strong philosophy of highlighting individuality, expression and quality, producing brilliant wines we love. 🔝🔝🔝

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📣Calling all *Albariño Lovers*

🙋Why is everybody obsessed with Albariño?⁉️

a) Its textured body (with both a grip and slight creaminess)
b) Its fresh, crisp acidity
c) Its pure citrus flavours and overt notes of peach, apricot and almonds
d) Its savoury salty touch
e) Its amazing value for money
f) All of the above

What’s your take!?👇

Stéphane’s consultant venture ‘Derenoncourt Consultants’ embodies a new generation of consultancy in viticulture and wine-making. Their philosophy is that there is no such thing as a ‘petit vin’. With a broad palette of clients, a huge amount of investment and a great deal of hard work, they are able to showcase many lesser-known terroirs, producing exceptional wines, each with a distinct personality. Stéphane’s personal property, Domaine de l’A, is a 10 hectares estate planted to Merlot (80%) and Cabernet Franc (20%) at Sainte-Colombe, to the east of St Emilion in the Côtes de Castillon.

🍷 Stéphane Derenoncourt, Graves Rouge ‘Château des Fougères’ is a 12.5 hectares property near La Brède, with vines ageing 10-30 years planted on gravel soils. 85% planted to red grapes. All vineyard work is manual. 14-16 months in French oak barriques.

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The 13 hectare south-facing vineyard of Chateau Vrai Canon Bouché is planted with 70% Merlot & 30% Cabernet Franc. The terroir is clay and fossil-rich limestone soils on the top of the Canon Fronsac plateau. The vineyard is situated on a massive limestone quarry. The average age of the vines at Vrai Canon Bouché is 35 years, with a few parcels of old vine Merlot. The vineyard is planted to a density of 6,000 vines per hectare and is farmed using sustainable viticulture, as one would expect in a property consulted by Stéphane Derenoncourt. A great deal of effort is focused on the vineyard management. The soils are worked mechanically; de-leafing and crop-thinning are carried out as necessary. The grapes are always harvested by hand. Destemmed. Little intervention is required in the cellar. Everything flows through the use of gravity. The whole berries are placed in small thermo-regulated concrete vats for fermentation at 27-30 degrees C. 15-20 days maceration following fermentation. Natural yeasts. Malolactic in barrel. The wine is exclusively matured for 12 months in French oak barrels, 50% new and 50% 2 years old.

📸 Derenoncourt Consultants

The 6.5 hectares property of Croix Lartigue is located at the high point of the village of Belvès de Castillon, not far from Domaine de L�A. Limestone base, gravel and some clay. Organic practices. Manual harvest. Fermentation via natural yeast in temperature-controlled, stainless steel tanks. �L�’Expression� was aged in �one wine� French oak barrels, with additional ageing on the lees for 6-8 months. Unfined, unfiltered.

📸 Derenoncourt Consultants

Côtes de Castillon vs. Côtes de Bordeaux

🍷‘La Violette du Manoir’ is strictly selected old vine fruit (57 years of age) from a small 2 hectare parcel in the commune of St Genès de Castillon. Clay/ chalk soils. Manual harvest. Careful sorting of fruit. 100% destemming. Vinification plot-by-plot, variety by variety. 30 day cuvaison. Rémontage and délestage to ensure gentle extraction. Fermentation at 28-30°C. Maturation in 100% French oak for 12 months. Light filtration.

🍷 ‘Chateau Manoir du Gravoux’ moves from clay-limestones plateau soil in Castillon, then into vats, with micro-oxygenation on fine lees where work in the winery is based on accurate extractions

🍷 ‘Château Les Charmes Godard’ is from a mainly clay-limestone mix soil in Bordeaux. 12 to 16 months vats and oak barrels for red wine, fermented in oak casks, then 8 months ageing on its lees.

📸 Thienpont Wine

The Thienpont heritage is impressive: Vieux Château Certan and Le Pin in Pomerol, Puygueraud, Lauriol and Les Charmes Godard in the Côtes de Bordeaux

📸 Thienpont Wine

🍷 ‘Tradition’ blend represents the greatest proportion of red wine produced by Château Penin. It is produced with grapes from vines of at least 8 years old, spread over a surface area of 13 hectares in total. Gravel soil depending on the plot, the proportions of pebbles and sands are variable. Selection of plots at harvest-time according to the age of the vines, the grape varieties and ripening. Total destemming. Fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats. 15 to 25 days vatting depending on tasting characteristics. At the end of the vinification, each vat is carefully tasted to select which wines go into this blend. Those wines, which are not good enough, are not bottled and are sold in �bag-in-box�. The ageing lasts for 12 months in vat, with regular rackings to provide the necessary oxygen to soften the tannins. The wines are tasted and notes are taken regularly every month to monitor their development and to fine-tune the final blending.

🍷’Grande Sélection’ blend is produced from a selection of parcels spread over 15 hectares of the château�s best soils, where the vines are all more than 30 years old. Soils are gravelly, pebbly, and sandy. Harvesting at optimum grape ripeness. Total destemming. Cold maceration during 5 days. Fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel vats for 20 to 30 days. The wines are racked into barrel at the beginning of November. The barrels are made of fine-grained Allier oak. One third of them are renewed every year. The wines age traditionally for a period of 12 months, of which 6 are spent on the lees. The wines are regularly oxygenated at the beginning of the ageing. The doses of oxygen incorporated are determined according to the richness and tannic structure of each batch.

📸 Château PENIN

Château Penin’s 40 hectares of vines are located between the limestone plateau and the marshland on the left bank of the Dordogne River, facing Saint Emilion. The estate has been family owned since its beginnings in 1854, when Louis Carteyron and his son Jacques purchased it. For many years, the production was divided between fruit and wine. Hubert Carteyron began direct sales of Château Penin in bottle with the 1964 vintage. His son Patrick, representing the 5th generation, took over the estate in 1982, after working as an oenologist for several years. The fruit production side of the farm then disappeared, making way for the vines, which were planted with the clear aim of producing quality grapes for wine. In 1985, a new vat cellar was built, enabling the temperature in the vats to be carefully controlled during fermentation and maceration. In 1990, a barrel cellar was built, along with a completely air-conditioned bottle storage cellar.

In 2001, a new vinification cellar was built and in 2005, respect of the environment and of customers’ health became key priorities to be addressed: setting of quality procedures and waste treatment (recovery of washing water from cellars, treatment of this water and putting on sewage farm). The vineyard has a majority of high density Merlot planted on gravel soil. Patrick Carteyron has been making cracking Bordeaux wines for a number of years now. He consistently receives high praise for his work and is one of the new wave of Bordeaux producers who succeed in delivering great early drinking wines, whilst still keeping some of the traditional balance between fruit, tannin and acidity.

📸 Château PENIN

Situated at the crest of one of the most beautiful hillsides of the parish of Bayon, Chateau Falfas is truly “the glory of the region of Bourg”. In the 14th and 15th centuries, this handsome estate belonged to the Lords of Lansac, ancient nobility of the sword, swearing allegiance to the English crown. At that time, the wines of Falfas were exported with privilege to the courts of the Edwards. Later in the 17th century, the domain was acquired by the Sires de Riveaux, to whom the château owes the pure Louis XIII architecture of the present building. At the end of the 17th century, the property came into the possession of the family of the President of the Parliament of Guyenne, Gaillard de Falfas, who restored the château and gave it its name.

Now comprising 20 hectares of vineyards, Château Falfas was in fact one of the very first in Bordeaux to practise organic and biodynamic methods. Today Château Falfas is owned by Véronique and John Cochran, who are building on the traditions of the past with a very simple philosophy: the best wines are not “made”, but rather “grown”. They remain passionate about practising biodynamic principles to extract the very essence of the terroir, producing authentic, rich and generous wines.

📸 Château Falfas

Situated in the heart of the Kamptal, in the beautiful village of Straß im Staßertale, Allram is a 23ha family-run estate, which is now under the stewardship of 4th generation Michaela Haas-Allram, together with her husband Erich Haas

Their Grüner Veltliner ‘Alte Reben’ undergoes fermentation at 19°C with the natural yeast from the vineyard

📸 Weingut Allram

Viticulture at Allram is as natural as possible, as Michaela and Erich believe this is important to show the great potential of the local terroir. This philosophy, combined with their in-depth knowledge of their prime vineyard sites, results in superb expressions of each grape variety and it is no surprise that Allram is now recognised as one of the best wineries in the region, as well as Lower Austria

Their Grüner Veltliner ‘Strass’ is handpicked, followed by a short maceration period and a temperature controlled fermentation at 19°C, finishing with maturation on fine lees till bottling

📸 Weingut Allram

From vine to glass 🍷 Owned by the Ortiz family since 2013, Bodega Tapiz sources their grapes from several carefully selected, high altitude vineyards ranging from 915m to 1,340m above sea level, located in Mendoza and Salta

Flanked by the imposing Andes mountain range, these vineyards have unique bio-climatic characteristics, producing wines, which are distinctive expressions of the terroir

Their entry Malbec is sourced from two distinct sites, both in the Uco Valley - the wine matures for 8 months in 2nd and 3rd fill barrels (75% French, 25% American oak)

📸 Bodega Tapiz Mendoza Argentina

Bodega Tapiz estate’s winemaking facilities are some of the most technologically advanced in Argentina, with quality, value and authenticity being clearly evident in the finished wines; Malbec is their standard-bearer

The Malbec Reserva originates uniquely from the Finca San Pablo vineyards, located at 1,220m altitude in the Uco Valley - the wine matures for 10 months in 75% French oak and 25% American oak, both new and 2nd fill barrels

📸 Bodega Tapiz

Originally, from St Andrews in Fife, the first of the Campbell clan arrived in Rutherglen over 140 years ago with the intention of mining gold. When the ‘Bobbie Burns’ seam was exhausted, the family stayed on, turning their hands first to sheep farming before diversifying into viticulture.

Today their Rutherglen Muscat is aged in a solera system for an average of 5 years - The grapes are left until late in the season to achieve optimum ripeness, ensuring maximum fruit flavor and a high degree of natural sweetness. Selected parcels of the finished wine are then added to the Rutherglen Muscat solera which is a blend of a number of vintages from many past years. Wine can only be withdrawn from this solera when it matches exactly with the previous withdrawal thus ensuring the quality and consistency of style. Blended through solera for optimum flavour and balance, this wine will not improve with further cellaring and should ideally be enjoyed soon after opening.

📸 Campbells Wines

We’re here today and tomorrow exhibiting at the London Wine Fair

🗓 Tues 7th - Thurs 9th June
⏰ 09:30am - 6pm
📍 Tables Y146 & Y147 in the Esoterica Zone Upstairs, at Olympia London
📧 [email protected]
📞 020 3478 7376

Register: www.londonwinefair.com

With over 28 extraordinary wines from around the globe to discover and taste, whilst introducing you to many new vintages, new Producers and exclusive under-the-radar gems, we are extremely excited to be back on your tasting grid once again & we’re looking forward to seeing you here!