Our Wine
Partners

Over the years we have built lasting friendships with the growers and suppliers of our wines.

We have visited some of the most beautiful areas of Europe. The following is a summary of some of these places for you to explore and enjoy.

Franconia, Germany

The Franken region of Germany. It is a region that does not feature very heavily in most wine merchant's lists - why? Because the sales within Germany themselves are extremely high. So we started selling wines of the Franken region of Germany. This region remains our speciality. Now we source and have greater sales of French wine.We feature Alsace, the Loire, Beaujolais, and the Languedoc. All our producers we know and are visited regularly on tasting trips. Some relationships go back more than 20 years. This year we will add Italy to our portfolio.

As many of you will know, at HarlequinWines we contact our customers when each new wine selection becomes available. Often an informative newsletter accompanies each selection from Martin, who gives that little bit of extra information on the origins of the wines.We aim to source wines of character and quality, which we feel represent outstanding value for money.

Villa Forano, Italy

Villa Forano is owned by Count Lucangeli in Appignano near Macerata in the Marche region of central Italy.

20 hectares of land are under vine. Much recent investment in replanting, modernizing equipment and improving the cellar has produced great wines.

My daughter who lived in Macerata had discovered the delights of this vineyard and following a visit in 2007 I vowed one day to includeVilla Forano in the list of HarlequinWines. In September of last year we achieved this aim.

Alsace, France

Domaine Loberger

Jean-Jacques Loberger continue the tradition of the family firm started in the 17th century, located on the “Route deVins” in the village of Bergholtz, 20km south of Colmar.

Alsace, France

Domaine Bléger

Christophe Bléger

Loire, France

Domaine de la Carbernelle

Claudia, Frank and Bertrand are worthy successors of a long line of winegrowers and families CASLOT PONTONNIER since XVII. They have restored a house about 400 years old to create their "Domaine de la Cabernelle" which is located above the cave dug into the tufa, a limestone widely used in construction including the castles of the Loire.

Languedoc, France

Domaine Bourdic

Hans and Christa are not what you’d call typically Swiss. They are meticulous, definitely, when it comes to their vineyard. Organised, yes. But their Domaine is fun and un-stuffy and more than likely to bubble to the sounds of laughter or to a quartet playing Beethoven at the music festival they sometimes host in the summer.

Bergerac, France

Chateau de La Colline

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.

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.

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 NapaValley 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.

Beaujolais, France

HarlequinWines has long had a love affair with Cru Beaujolais.We feel the wines are due for a re-evaluation.You can forget the pale watery Nouveau, the Grand Crus wines still offer the best value in Beaujolais, none more than our chosen producers Domaine Marquis des Pontheux and Domaine de Combe de Loup, both in the village of Chiroubles.

Behind the bottles in our picture is David Meziat of Earl Meziat Père and Fils.

Our second producer Pierre Meziat can be found at http://www.marquisdespontheux.fr/

Sancerre, France

Our journey along the Loire we reach Bue, a village outside of Sancerre yet steeped in the tradition of mineral and rich Sauvignons perfected by local producer Daniel Crouset.

Languedoc, France

Monsieur Moret at Domaine La Grangette.