Château Montbenault, Coteaux du
Layon Fayé – a pre-shipment offer
Following
the success of our other Loire offerings from Vouvray and
Bourgueil, we have now added another domaine to our selection,
from the region of Faye in the famous Coteaux du Layon
appellation.
Traditional winemaking is used at Chateau
Montbenault to produce classic Moelleux wines from the Chenin
Blanc variety. These wines age beautifully.
The young Coteaux du Layon offers an excellent
substitute for Alsace Pinot Gris at half the price for the
quality, whilst the top cuvées are produced from selective “tris”.
We have a limited quantity of older vintages also available. The
red and rosé from the domaine are also delicious, and will be
excellent for drinking in the warmer spring weather.
2005 Coteaux du Layon Vieilles
Vignes, Château Montbenault
Youthful floral
appley fruit, with hints of honeysuckle and flowers. Soft, off-dry
fruity white, delicious aperitif wine.
£54.00 per case
of 6 bottles
2005 Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de
Poirier Bourgeau
The two top
vineyard sites of the domaine are now vinified separately in top
vintages. The Poirier is a little sweeter in style than the Herse,
with rich honeyed floral fruit, forward and delicious.
£100.00 per
case of 6 bottles
2003 Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de
Poirier Bourgeau
Honeyed botrytis
nose and palate, floral and very appealing.
£100.00 per
case of 6 bottles
2005 Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de
la Herse
The Herse is a
little more mineral in style than the Poirier, with notes of new
mown hay and flinty ripe fruit.
£77.70 per case
of 6 bottles
1989 Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de
la Herse
Softer and more
evolved, with waxy honeyed soft fruit flavours, delicious now.
£89.00 per case
of 6 bottles
1990 Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de
la Herse
1990 was an
exceptional vintage, and this cuvee is just starting to show its
potential, although it will continue to improve for many years.
Concentrated ripe honeyed botrytis fruit flavours with clean
balancing acidity, and excellent length and finish.
£120.00 per
case of 6 bottles
1976 Coteaux du Layon Fayé
We have only a
limited quantity of this wine. Gold colour. Honeyed evolved barley
sugar nose and palate, off-dry, with good balancing acidity and
excellent length. Classic soft mature Chenin, with hints of wax
and lanolin. Drinking very well now.
£100.00 per
case of 6 bottles
Coteaux du Layon Mixed Collector’s
Tasting Case
1 bottle each of:-
1969 Coteaux du
Layon Fayé
1971
Coteaux du Layon Fayé
1975
Coteaux du Layon Fayé
1976
Coteaux du Layon Fayé
1990
Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de la Herse
2003
Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de Poirier Bourgeau
2005
Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de Poirier Bourgeau
2005
Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de la Herse
2
bottles each of :-
2005
Coteaux du Layon Vieilles Vignes
1989
Coteaux du Layon Fayé, Clos de la Herse
£199.00 per mixed case of 12 bottles
2004 Cabernet d’Anjou Rosé, Château
Montbenault
Pale orange pink
colour. Honeyed gooseberry leaf and new mown hay nose, with floral
honeyed fruit, medium dry, delicate, soft fruit flavours.
Delicious on its own or with charcuterie.
£33.00 per case
of 6 bottles
2005 Anjou Rouge,
Château
Montbenault
Exuberant youthful
minty blackcurrant fruit, juicy and fresh, delicious served
slightly chilled.
£33.00 per case
of 6 bottles
2004 Anjou Rouge,
Château
Montbenault
Minty blackcurrant
nose, with elegant ripe soft fruit flavours, fresh, supple and
fruity.
£33.00 per case
of 6 bottles
2003 Anjou Rouge Vieilles Vignes,
Château Montbenault
A more "serious"
red, with ripe firm but supple fruity flavours and crisp
blackcurrant acidity to balance. Starting to drink well now, and
will improve further over the next few years.
£41.70 per case
of 6 bottles
Mixed Red and Rosé Anjou Case
3 bottles each of
the above four wines
£71.00 per case
of 12 bottles
Prices are valid until 30th April 2006.
This is a pre-shipment offer, and the wines will be available in
late April 2006.
2004 Opening Offer, Domaine de Trévallon
2004 saw the return to more normal climatic conditions in Provence,
and Eloï Durrbach has produced a very finely balanced red in 2004,
which, as usual, will age well over a period of ten to twenty
years. For us the 2004 combines the elegance of the 2000 with the
power and concentration of the 2001.
The 2004 will be shipped after bottling in Spring 2007.
2004 Domaine de Trévallon Rouge, Vin de
Pays des Bouches du Rhône
£195.00 per wooden case of 12 bottles, exclusive of duty and
V.A.T.
For large formats, please enquire
Prices are valid until 30th April 2006. This is a pre-shipment
offer, exclusive of duty and VAT, which will be charged at the
time of shipment, in Spring 2007.
Pure Petit Verdot……….
Domaine de Ravanès Prime Verd
Whilst customers
await the offers of the 2005 Bordeaux wines – another vintage of
the century, apparently – we have the latest vintage of Le Prime
Verd, a pure petit Verdot from Domaine de Ravanès to the north of
Béziers.
Marc and Guy Benin planted this variety in the 1980s, and the
first vintage of this cuvée was in 1995. Since then they have
produced the cuvée only in 1997, 1999 and 2002.
Although this is a variety found primarily in small percentages in
Bordeaux, it grows better in the warmer climate of the Languedoc.
Bruno Prats once said that he would have loved to have more petit
Verdot at Cos d’Estournel, but that it was difficult to ripen.
The 2002 is very much in the style of the delicious 1997; spicy
and earthy now, this will develop exuberant gamey flavours with
age.
2002 Le Prime Verd, Domaine de Ravanès
£115.00 per 6 bottles
£225.00 per 12 bottles
Mixed Collector’s Case Domaine de Ravanès
Petit Verdot and Diogène
A mixed case of the three vintages of Prime Verd, together with a
couple of vintages of the Cuvée Diogène, a blend of 70% Merlot,
20% Petit Verdot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon.
2 bottles each of:-
1995 Le Prime Verd
1996 Cuvée Diogène
1997 Cuvée Diogène
1997 Le Prime Verd
1999 Le Prime Verd
2002 Le Prime Verd
£195.00 per mixed case of 12 bottles, inclusive of duty, V.A.T.
at 17.5% and delivery within the UK mainland.
Prices are valid until 30th April 2006, and are inclusive of
duty and V.A.T. at 17.5%. This is a pre-shipment offer, and the
wines will be available in late April 2006.
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