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We've been busy sourcing Vintage wines (and other fine wines) to add to our latest offers. Including the tremendous 1955 Fonseca! Why not come take a look... https://www.mwhwine.co.uk/collections/latest-offers 🍷

MWH is proud to announce that we are now stocking a range of Champagne Gosset’s exquisite wines! To celebrate the arrival of these new additions to the MWH Wine’s portfolio, we’ve created this guide to Champagne Gosset https://www.mwhwine.co.uk/blogs/blog/gosset-an-introduction-to-champagne-gosset 🥂

Take a look at the treasure trove of new additions to our list - from a 1945 and a 1885 Solera to the outstanding Taylor's 1985 ...there's something for everyone!
https://www.mwhwine.co.uk/collections/latest-offers 🍷

The list has been updated on our website. Take a look at all the new wines we've sourced including a very rare bottle of Romanee Conti 1998! www.mwhwine.co.uk/collections/latest-offers 🍷

Petite Douceur Rosé: an ideal companion to sublimate the exotic, spicy flavors of your cuisine. 🥘💜

Enjoy Gosset Champagne responsibly

Thought I'd mark with my favourite Australian Viognier, the Virgilius Viognier from Yalumba. Mid-gold, the nose offers a fantastically complex blend of apricots, honey, pears, vanilla spice, and ginger. On the palate, it's rich, powerful and unctuous but as they haven't tried to over-extract it, it's also subtle and well-balanced. Peach, melon, and apricot fruit melds with cardamon, almonds and limes to give a gloriously textured glassful. Limm Communications

Em 1980, a Ramos Pinto conduziu um estudo para identificar as castas mais adaptadas ao Douro. As variedades brancas seleccionadas foram Rabigato, Viozinho e Arinto. Hoje, essas mesmas castas são utilizadas para criar o Ramos Pinto DOC Duas Quintas Branco 2022, um vinho que exprime o potencial da sub-região do Douro Superior.

In 1980, Ramos Pinto conducted a study to identify the grape varieties best suited to the Douro region. The selected white varieties were Rabigato, Viozinho, and Arinto. Today, these same grape varieties are used to craft the Ramos Pinto DOC Duas Quintas Branco 2022, a wine that expresses the potential of the Douro Superior sub-region.

Read MWH's definitive guide to . Discover its history, how it’s made, the best vintage Port producers and what to serve port with. https://www.mwhwine.co.uk/blogs/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-vintage-port

My recent article on Graham Beck following my interview with Pierre de Klerk of Graham Beck Bubbly.

A press sample of the Contino Olvio 2021 arrived on Monday so thought we'd look at it. Tim Atkin awarded it 99 points, and the Wine Advocate gave it 96+. While I don't go in for scores, it was extraordinary. While I love all things CVNE Vino, there's something oh-so-special about Contino, especially in a vintage as good as this.

Blackcurrant leaves, orange peel, blackberry, sage and spices on the nose. Inky, seamless palate with magnificent extra and such poise. Plums, black berries, cream, coffee, citrus, and fresh, tangy red berries on the firm finish. Ordered a case, I just hope I can leave some of it to mature as it will be breathtaking in a few years.

Discover Chile’s new breed of and how by understanding terroir, Chilean wine has become a world-beater in this latest blog from MWH Wines https://www.mwhwine.co.uk/blogs/blog/chilean-fine-wines-how-terroir-turned-chilean-wine-into-a-world-beater

Last night we looked at the 2014 releases of Belle Epoque. While all were delicious, all have a long way to go. The white was ghostly pale, with a fresh, assertive nose of citrus, white berries, and a touch of yeast. Quite lean at first, after a few minutes it opened up and the red and white berries were joined by pears, peach stones, and a little creamy brioche. The rose was slightly fuller and more forward. Stunning nose of strawberries, cherries, redcurrants and flowers. In the mouth its shared the white’s reserve, but once the air got to it offered up raspberries, cherries, sherbet, and cream. The finish was spicey and clean. The Blancs de Blancs looked beautiful, the bead so precise and even rising through a white gold expanse, but it was standoffish to the point of rudeness. The nose was muted with only subtle hints of white peach, hawthorn, citrus, cream and vanilla detectable. On the palate it was slightly more forthcoming, but the taut, lean profile and impressive grip kept everything locked down. After around 30 minutes, it blossomed and gave vanilla foam, crushed nuts, lemons, and minerals. All are going to be wonderful in a few years, but the Blanc de Blancs is going to be really special.

Well, these make for fine additions to the cellar. Two for sale,, one to drink. Can't wait!

Our latest list offers have just been updated https://www.mwhwine.co.uk/collections/latest-offers
We've multiple vintages from some amazing 1st growths, come take a look! 🍷

A true golden oldie. We found this bottle of 1947 laying in the cellar. Hand-blown bottle, a heavy sediment of tartrate, but otherwise it looked like it was bottled a decade ago. When the cork finally came out, it offered a gentle, slightly fungal nose, with marzipan, dried white fruits and smoke. Very gentle on the palate, there were echoes of the power and sweetness it once possessed, but now it's very subdued with flavours of dried white fruits, crushed nuts, slightly waxy with a touch of varnish. Dry, there was some richness, but it's now more like an old white Graves.

A beautiful bottle of Maison Louis Jadot Chablis Fourchaume 2018. Showing beautifully. Ripe nose of apples, melon, and lemons. Palate perfectly balances freshness and weight, offering plenty of white fruits with minerals, citrus, undercut by oyster shell minerality, and honey.

Another new (old!) arrival to the MWH Wine cellars. Suspect someone is going to get a very nice 60th birthday present!

We've been busy updating our list on the MWH website. There's a number of exciting new fine wines to choose from including a couple of bottles of from the 'insider's vintage' of 1966...come take a look! https://www.mwhwine.co.uk/collections/latest-offers 🍷

It's not every day that you come across a as fine as this. 1979 Mazis-Chambertin by Leroy in fantastic order. There is one problem though: to drink or to sell, that is the question...

First encounter with the recently released Camarcanda 2020 from Gaja. Critics seem united in their opinions this is the best-ever vintage of this esteemed Bolgheri Cabernet blend, and on tasting it we'd have to agree. While it's not the biggest we've tasted - the 2018 and 2015 have more weight - the purity of fruit is remarkable. Leay Cab Franc blackcurrants and juicy Cab Sauv blackberries make for a formidable, yet elegant and intense glassful. Rounded, firm tannins, and tangy acidity, this will be wonderful in a few years.https://www.mwhwine.co.uk/products/camarcanda-camarcanda-2020-case

The latest addition to my collection. A magnum of 1990 Petrus. Having had the 1990 in bottle - well, a glass at a tasting - the temptation is quite strong. Just need to resist the temptation to look at the price on WineSearcher.

Discover Gosset’s new website: www.champagne-gosset.com
In our today’s digital world, GOSSET adapts itself to the modern communication tools (touch pads, smartphones) and has developed a Full Responsive website based on GOSSET know-how.
Everything has been crafted to offer a dynamic, interactive and intuitive immersion into the GOSSET world for the web surfers: new graphics, ergonomics, menus and well-fitted technical solutions.
This new platform offers the possibility to discover our cuvées, the House know-how, our tradition, our history and our news with restyled pictures and videos.

L’abus d’alcool est dangereux pour la santé, à consommer avec modération.

Petrus 1987 in mganum. We picked this up (relatively) cheaply and it's a lesson in Bordeaux. 1987 was roundly slated when it hit the market - unfairly in our eyes, it was just massively overshadowed by the glorious 1986s and the excellent 1988s.
This is rated by by many as the wine of the vintage with the caution that it will take time to come around. When we looked at this we found it was fully mature. The colour remained deep, but the nose was showing tertiary notes of dried leaves, woodsmoke, earth, and red berries. The palate was a game of two halves. Initially plump - cherry, mulberry, dried blackberries and a suggestion of chocolate - a leaner side followed, with red fruits, some stalkiness, and a bitter, vegetal tone. The finish was a battle between these two sides, alternating richness and austerity. If this was sensibly priced it would make for an interesting experience, but as its Petrus it's expensive and it goes to show that no matter how good the producer, you can't make a great wine in an indifferent year.

Our website has just been updated with our latest offers, including a bottle of the Fonseca 1948 Vintage which is in superb condition! Come take a look at our latest offers here https://www.mwhwine.co.uk/collections/latest-offers 🍷

1996 Chateau Margaux. I was gifted this while I was a wine broker back in the late 1990s, and while I've always been sceptical of 100-point 'perfect' wines, I'd have to say this was utterly sensational. Opened and promptly decanted, the nose was quite closed on opening, and the colour remains solidly dark and brooding. Two hours on, and it bloomed. A heady bouquet of blackcurrants, cedar, vanilla, and violets with woodsmoke and earth toward the back. In the mouth, it's amazing youthful, powerful, lusciously appointed and seamless. Layer upon layer of black fruits interspersed with cream, red berries, hints of clove, leather, and Asian spices. Utterly mouth-filling, this texture and depth seem endless, but there's restraint, elegance, and purity here. I've had the 1961, the 1982 and the 1990 and this, in my humble opinion, is better. Drinking well now, this has a long future ahead of it. A perfect wine? It's damn close!