Hints and tips:
...Only Itata could deliver this. £21.95 Vin Cognito Joey Tensley, Fundamental Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 Central Coast (14.5%) A new name on the UK market offering great value....
...Rhône £14.50 Montrachet Food and caution definitely needed with this youthful, potent wine, but there is freshness too, thanks to the elevation. 15% Ch de Pizay 2016 Morgon, Beaujolais £14.50 Le Bon Vin...
...Magnums are great for large numbers....
...Old Clairette vines. 13 per cent £24.75 A&B Vintners (available in magnums too) Walter Hansel, North Slope Chardonnay 2005 Russian River Valley Really beautifully balanced: hazelnut richness and savoury...
...The wines are soft and precociously attractive, yet lack the guts and gravitas of real vins de garde....
...Frescobaldi. 13.5% Ch Lagrave-Martillac 2004 Pessac-Léognan £14.50 (£29.95 a magnum) SVSRound, sleek and not expensive....
...This generally means omitting some vats that, in the old days, would have gone into the grand vin but are now put into a second or even third wine....
...From a magnum and a heatwave vintage, the 2003 now seems ready to drink and should impress any lover of fine white burgundy. £20.95 per bottle, from www.indigowine.com....
...six magnums of the mythic 1947 Cheval Blanc....
...And the key question in everyone’s mind is at what stratospheric price will Bordeaux’s A-list châteaux release their “grands vins”?...
...The Brampton plant, which turns out about 970 vehicles a day, is set to add a third shift in early 2005 to meet demand for the 300 and Magnum and to produce a new Dodge Charger, due in the showrooms by mid...
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