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Killer Keller

Keller’s reputation just keeps growing. I first sold these wines while working at a German specialist importer, The Winery in Maida Vale, back in 2004 – now his wines regularly…

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Kutch-meister

Jamie Kutch jacked in his job on Wall Street in 2005, setting out for California to make wine with no previous formal training. His Pinot Noirs quickly began garnering a…

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Marvellous Muscadet

Muscadet Sèvre et Maine 2013, Domaine de la Pepière, Loire, France Muscadet is now a savvy choice on good wine lists, and Marc Ollivier makes a benchmark expression in the…

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Maso Moves

Chardonnay 2011, Maso Furli, Trentino, Italy This 4 hectare estate in the municipality of Lavis just north of Trento, manages to craft a Chardonnay with a beguiling sumptuousness and complexity….

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No Duress

The village of Auxey-Duresses tends to be the one that slips under the radar, jammed as it is between the two more illustrious (and pricier) villages of Volnay and Meursault…

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Wine Rapier Ramey

The Ramey Chardonnays have been regarded as benchmark Californian wines for many years now, David Ramey and his wife having founded the winery in 1996. Relatively long ageing on the…

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Wine Razor Riesling

Jim Barry was a huge influence on the reputation of South Australia’s Clare Valley as a top Riesling region, founding the winery in 1959 with his wife Nancy. His son…

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Wine Russian River Winner

Impressive Russian River Valley Chardonnay at the Marks & Spencer press tasting, and a rare treat to find a decent, elegant Sonoma County Chardonnay that doesn’t make teeth itch and…

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Wine Savvy Savagnin

A few small parcels of vines to the west of the Swiss border and Lake Geneva are tended by Henri Le Roy, the local Savagnin grape producing utterly distinctive whites….

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Wine Step To It

Stomper. The ancient art of ‘pigeage’ is celebrated in the name of this wine, the ‘little’ referring to the fact only small children could fit into the top of one…