“A sort of Montrachet of Champagne!” - Jancis Robinson MWHenri Giraud is a prestigious name known for producing rich, extensive, and powerful wine. Founded way back in 1625, Henri Giraud is one of the oldest Champagne houses in the region and is still a family-run business which is currently owned by twelfth-generation Claude Giraud, with his son managing the company while his son-in-law is the head winemaker. Their wines are 100% oak-fermented and the house insists on producing with oak casks from the forest in Aÿ to impose the forest terroir into the wine, giving it one of the most unique flavors among Champagnes in...

Located at Pesson-Leognan, Chateau Laville Haut Brion was established in 1611 by Marie de Laville, who was a wealthy window of a Bordeaux magistrate, Sir de Queyrac. Their family owned the estate for around a century until 1717 that sold to a surgeon Bernard Gaussens. After changing hands many times, the estate was eventually purchased by the Dillon family in 1983, who owns Chateau Haut Brion, and at the same time purchased La Mission Haut Brion and  La Tour Haut Brion. From vintage 2009, the name of Chateau Laville Haut Brion has gone into history, and the wines are now bottled under La Mission Haut Brion.Classified as Graves Cru Classe in 1953,Chateau Laville Haut Brion was also one of the two chateaus that purely...

Back in the olden days, the Champagne market was dominated by the Grande Marques and no one hardly cared for those so-called "grower champagnes"; but as the drinkers grew more sophisticated and demanded for more, they started to look beyond the commercial bottles that we are all so well acquainted with, and that's when the grower champagnes started to come into the spotlight. Despite not being Grand Marques, many of these grower champagnes has been creating world-class wines for many years, and one of the most iconic Grower Champagnes is none other than Egly-Ouriet which was praised by wine critic Antonio Galloni...

One of our constant favourites of Chardonnay producers from Burgundy and for many others around the world too! Domaine Leflaive has been an eminent winemaker which continuously produces astounding Chardonnay from Puligny-Montrachet for many decades. White Burgundy from Domaine Leflaive stands out of being the best in the world of wines. Madame Anne-Claude Leflaive built a strong reputation for the label under her careful and special attention in the vineyard. She made some of the most fruit-forward and terroir-expressive wines that are worthy to be added to every wine collector's cellar after she took over from her father in 1994. Sadly Anne-Claude passed away in 2015. However, Brice de La...

A very new domaine in Burgundy but not unfamiliar names, Arnaud et Sophie was established by husband-and-wife duo Arnaud Sirugue and Sophie Noëllat, both from celebrated Vosne-Romanée estates - Robert Sirugue and Michel Noëllat respectively. The first vintage produced was the 2016 and they made 2 cuvees: Bourgogne Passetougrain Rose which is made from Gamay and Pinot Noir grapes, and Vosne-Romanée Les Barreaux which is made from grapes from their family plot that is situated along the border of the southern part of the famous Cros Parantoux 1er Cru and also on the very border to Petits Monts. In 2018, they started to...