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Chateau
de la Colline  Chateau
Coupe Roses Chateau
Grezan |
 Chateau de la Colline
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Bergerac
Blanc 2001
100% Semillon.
Ripe, fruit-driven, complex Semillon. Some creamy fullness
with a gentle oak background. At its best as a food wine. |
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Bergerac
Rouge 2000
Intense
colour and a really fruit-driven wine, full of blackcurrants
and strawberries. This has had 12 months in Allier oak barrels.
Soft and rounded tannins allow the wine to age. A blend of
Merlot 70%, Cabernet Sauvignon 30% |
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Coupe Roses |
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Rose
2003
Bursting
with summer fruits of strawberries and raspberries that marry
power with finesse, softness with concentration from a blend
of 40% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 40% Cinsaut |
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Grezan |
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Domaine
de la Commanderie de St Jean Chardonnay 2003
Another producer we have selected
wines from previously is Chateau de Grezan. After the
very hot summer, the harvest was several weeks early.
Using a very short fermentation for the Chardonnay,
the wine produced has a delightful balance of acidity
and fruit. This Vin de Pays is buttery, full of tropical
fruit on the palate and without any oak ageing. An excellent
value purchase. Enjoy on its own or with food. |
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to order these wines
Please use one of the following links to open a printable
order form in a new window, and send the printed, completed
form to us by fax or post (details on the form). Two alternative
formats are provided for your convenience.
Adobe
Acrobat pdf format (recommended)
Microsoft
Word format
Minimum order of 12 bottles.
If you have any problems or queries please contact
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| Our
Summer 2004 Bergerac Offer |
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| Last
year during our visit to the South West of France we discovered this
little gem of a vineyard, situated on the plateau of Thenac, the highest
vineyard in Aquitaine, at 183 metres. |
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Chateau de La Colline is a small boutique vineyard, founded in 1994
by an Englishman, Charles Martin, despite there being no existing
market for the wines at that time. |
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He specialises in - and has established a reputation around the world
for - the quality of his Merlot and Semillon based wines. The vineyard
produces a small range of classic wines that reflect the terroir and
the winemakers’ desire to evolve with the market in tastes. |
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| Charles is a winegrower who takes his winemaking
to excessive extremes out of his passion for wine. He learnt his wine
making all over the world, starting in the Napa Valley then to Australia,
New Zealand, and South Africa before finally arriving in France. Then
he was the winemaker for Rymans at Chateau de la Jaubertie. |
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passionate, perfectionist pioneer has introduced innovations to the
Bergerac wine region, which are now adopted by many other vignerons
and have contributed to the quality revolution of Bergerac wines.
These include the use of inert gases to protect the wines from oxidation,
mechanical leaf plucking, integral grassing down of the vines, and
a system of very high-density plantations of vines at 8000 vines per
hectare. |
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| Bergerac is an
appellation (vineyard region) of France that has the same grape varieties
and geology as Bordeaux but without the arrogance or price! The climate
is more continental with decidedly less rainfall. |
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Merlot grape variety from this region achieves "strong tannin
structures with the appropriate ripe flavour profiles and mouth-feel
that no other country in the world can achieve" (according to
the Oz & NZ Wine industry journal). Classic melon/lemon/peach
aromas of Semillon are present in the dry white wines of Bergerac. |
| Our Summer 2004
Languedoc Offer |
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| Wines
from the south of France will always be found on our list because
of improving quality and outstanding good value. For another of our
wines we have chosen a delicious rose from old friends in La Caunette.
Françoise and Pascal, who run a successful organic vineyard,
have produced a marvellous Minervois we have featured in the past.
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| This
summer we offer a delightful Rose produced from parcels of vines in
the mountains of Haut Minervois (200-350 metres high) |
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