France Bordeaux de Farguesde Fargues

1996 de Fargues

de Fargues

Bordeaux / France

White

12x75cl

0 Immediate | 1 Marketplace

£484.00

Behind the Bottle: Hundred Acre

We were very lucky to have the Hundred Acre team visit us in our London office last week and to open up some very special bottles from one of Napa’s most celebrated modern wineries. The property was set up just 20 years ago and has very quickly became one of Napa’s most iconic premium estates. The story behind the bottle ...

ON May 30, 2019

Port vintages to drink now

Ahead of St George’s Day – the day on which Port houses traditionally declare a vintage – we caught up with the Douro Valley’s leading producers to find out which vintage Ports you should be uncorking now Quality in the Douro Valley has arguably never been higher – with a run of recent vintages universally declared (2011, 2016, 2017). The 2018 vintage was declared by some ...

BY Sophie Thorpe,

ON March 19, 2021

A spirited debate: the tale of Port’s 20%

Port is much more than just wine. “Brandy” or aguardente makes up 20% of every bottle – and some argue that a shift in the quality of this spirit is key to the wines’ superiority in the last two decades. Sophie Thorpe spoke to the region’s leading producers to find out more about the firewater that defines the Douro’s age-old fortified wines Looking across the dramatic ...

BY Sophie Thorpe,

ON March 26, 2021

Solving the premox problem: Olivier Lamy

Premature oxidation has plagued the modern era of white Burgundy – but could it be a thing of the past? Recent research by Olivier Lamy – the experimental winemaker at the helm of Domaine Hubert Lamy – could hold the key to solving the problem. We caught up with him to find out more When visiting the cellars of Domaine ...

BY Gavin Smith,

ON January 7, 2021

A visit from Domaines Barons de Rothschild

This week we were honoured to host our long standing partner Domaines Barons de Rothschild's commercial director Jean-Sebastien Philippe for a very special tasting.... It is not every day that one has the opportunity to taste a line up of wines from all of DBR's Bordeaux properties; in fact even individual tastings rarely take place outside of Bordeaux, so we ...

ON July 25, 2019