Red Wines from France

Chat en Oeuf red, is a luscious red made from selected parcels of old vine Grenache and Syrah (Shiraz), making it a truly mouth-filling wine...

Award: Bronze Medal - International Wine & Spirits Competition Awards 2008

Stock: 14 bottles left

Price £4.99

A delicious Shiraz wine. Full-bodied red from the parched slopes of the Languedoc region. 

Food Match: Works well with game pate, roast pepper and tomato casserole

Award: Won a Seal of Approval Medal - IWC 2006

Stock: 8 bottles left

Price £5.49

This superb Shiraz from the Languedoc region has plenty of spice and ripe damsons with a farmy rustic edge, lovely rich dark fruits with meaty concentration and style, full flavoured but reasonably soft and drinking well.

Food Match: Eat with red meats and grilled meat.

Stock: 7 bottles left

Price £5.97

Languedoc Cabernet Sauvignon. Quite ripe blackurrant and wild berry fruits on the nose with a hint of grassy herbs, medium to full-bodied black fruits balanced by dry-ish grip and length offered by underlying but not overpowering tannins.

Food Match: Drink with full flavour redmeat dishes, barbecue or simply on its own.

Stock: 6 bottles left

Price £5.97

 

Delicious Merlot from the Languedoc region. Rich, vibrant & aromatic fruit showing soft plummy flavours but with full jammy fruit too...

Food Match: Soft and pliable red capable of matching with most foods.

Award: Silver - Sommelier Wine Awards 2010

Stock:  2 bottles left

Price £5.97

The nose is rich in blackcurrant and violet and every mouthfull is full of soft strawberry and cherry fruit...

Food Match: Try with, roast lamb, duck or casseroles.

Award: Commended - Decanter World Wine Awards 2008

Stock: 9 bottles left

Price £6.55

Fantastic Cotes du Rhône Villages. Warm, ripe red fruit with jammy damson characters, gentles tannins and a rounded chocolaty finish.

Food Match: Good with sausages, steaks and poultry.

Stock: Sorry this wine is temporarily out of stock

Price £6.99

 

Lussac St Émilion, deep garnet-red with a delicate nose of ripe red fruits, complemented by rounded and well structured tannins.

Food Match: Good with lamb dishes of all styles.

Award: Bronze Medal - Decanter World Wine Awards 2008

Stock: 7 bottles left

Price £9.34

 

A medium ruby red; ripe with sweet dark fruits, black olive and liquorice notes. Rich and dense, with great expression of terroir and a firm tannic structure with spicy layers.

Food Match: Suited to all types of game and red meat, especially lamb.

Award: Bronze medal - Decanter World Wine Awards 2007

Stock: temporarily out of stock

Price £12.22

The nose of intense dark fruit, herbs and spice show the scale of the wine...

Food Match: Rich meat dishes, especially game and classic cheeses of France.

Press Quote: 2 Stars, Le Guide Hachette du Vin, 2008

Stock: Sorry this wine is temporarily out of stock

Price £10.66

25% OFF. This superb Alsace Pinot Noir is born from a selection of grapes and aged in barrels, its red fruits aromas, and its harmonious palate are combined with pleasant tannins.

Food Match: Meat or grilled fish and chesses.

Stock: 4 bottles left

Price £12.66 our Sale price £9.49

Bourgogne Pinot Noir. Ruby colour with medium intensity; good nose of authentic Pinot noir from Côtes de Nuits area.

Food Match: Traditionally “Coq au Vin” yet goes equally well with roast chicken, or young game birds...

Stock: 4 bottles left

Price £11.66

Cotes de Provence Rouge 2005. A dense and brooding red wine made from Carignan, Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre with complex flavours of red fruits, leather and tobacco.

Food Match: This robust wine would match roast duck or a fine fillet of beef.

Award (past vintage): Silver Medal - Vintage 2004, Decanter World Wine Awards 2006.

Stock: 7 bottles left.

Price £14.89

Bordeaux superieur 2005.  "Balanced with plenty of cassis charm, soft tannins and a harmonious finish"...

Food Match: Delicious with herby slow cooked lamb dishes...

Award: 5 Stars, Decanter Magazine *****

Stock: 5 bottles left

Price £14.34

Superb St Émilion Grand Cru 2005, quite full bodied with a touch of oak, velvety tannins and fine length...

Food Match: Should match fuller flavoured free range poultry, beef or even pork and mature cheeses.

Stock: 6 bottles left

Price £18.13

Burgundy Cotes de Beaune Villages. Fruity and clean nose, great finesse opening with aeration. Good structure in the mouth, supported by present acidity.

Food Match: Drink with wild poultry, white and red meats in sauces...

Stock: 10 bottles left

Price £16.39

A consistent Chateau (part of the estate managed by Hugues Dubosq) in one of the smallest appellations of the Haut Médoc, producing a polished Claret from 30 year old Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon vines.

Food Match: Lamb, game, ham and rabbit in mustard sauce. Cheese; Edam and Gouda.

Stock: 1 bottles left

Price £18.86

 

Bordeaux Classique Margaux. Powerful yet refined, with a subtle hint of coffee and dark fruit. On the palate the wine brims with ripe berry and subtle tannins.  

Food Match: A joint of tender lamb.

Award: IWSC 2008, Bronze Medal.

Stock: Sorry this wine is temporarily out of stock

Price £17.83

Côte de Nuits Villages. Another excellent example of traditional Pinot Noir. The wine is light and elegant in colour with a characteristic strawberry Pinot perfume...

Food Match: grilled red and white meats; meats in sauce, venaison; traditional cheeses.

Stock: Sorry this wine is temporarily out of stock

Price £17.14

Chateauneuf du Pape Rouge. This warm spicy red wine can be enjoyed young for its warm red fruit and damson aroms, spice liquorice richness and elegance to finish.

Food Match: Try with traditional lamb or lentil and vegetable moussaka...

Award: Bronze Medal - Decanter Wine Awards 2009

Stock:  4 bottles left

Price £19.82

Awarded 5 Stars in a Decanter Cru Bourgeois panel tasting this wine was described as "Exceptional. Complex. Very elegant tannins, blackberry and sensuous. Beautiful palate. I love it". (Decanter, March 2008)

 Awards: 5 Stars, "Decanter "Cru Bourgeois - Decanter, March 2008...

 Stock: 2 bottles left

Price £49.65