I am delighted to offer some rare finds from New Zealand and are considered as one of the top quality Pinot Noir in the southern hemisphere, Bell Hill is located close to Pyramid Valley in Waikari. The climate and slopes are similar to Burgundy, with the soil combined with chalk and limestone. Marcel Giesen and Sherwyn Veldhuizen began the winery in 1997. They started to plant the vines in a very dense pattern at up to 11,363 vines per hectare on the very steep slopes in the unique vineyard. The quality is unarguably outstanding and Joe Czerwinski from Wine Advocate commented on these beautiful...

One of the top grower champagne houses that have come into the spotlight in recent years, Egly Ouriet has been crafting world-class wines for many years and was once praised by wine critic Antonio Galloni to be "at the very top of the pecking order in Champagne today". Apart from bubbly champagne, Egly is also a producer of a still red which is arguably THE BEST Coteaux Champenois from Champagne. Francis Egly's excellent skills also attract Jacques Selosse, who is a very good friend of Francis, to get barrels of Pinot Noir still wine from Egly-Ouriet to be included as a crucial blend of...

Whilst we are all so familiar with the fabulous Cristal that Louis Roederer makes, the Champagne house has crafted two new wines that allows fine wine drinkers to discover another facet of their unique winemaking expertise - Camille Charmont (rouge) and Camille Volibarts (blanc), named after managing director & owner Frederic Rouzaud's great-grandmother whom he so admired.  The project started in 2002 when Roederer replaced the 0.43ha (1-acre) Charmont plot with Burgundy and Alsace clones of Pinot Noir, specially selected for still-wine making; and the first wines were crafted back in 2014 but their Chef de Cave Lécaillon was not...