Our next trade tasting is in London at the wonderful @leilas_shop
We are delighted to welcome two winemakers to London, Benoît Kilian, his first time in the capital will be showing the 2024 wines from La Côtelette in Trugny, the north of Burgundy. It’s a bright, open vintage and the wines are already delicious.
Also joining us is Dave Morris from Mountain People wines in Monmouth, Wales, showing a mix of cuvées from his vines in Monmouth and the Cowboy’s Don’t have Curls project from vines tended by George Price in Somerset.
We will also have a bunch of new wines from the likes of Domaine Goepp, Domaine Einhart, Simon Rouillard, Garo’vin, Domaine Ozil and a new Anjou grower we are very excited about.
To book in send us a message with your group size and preferred time.
*Watch out for news soon of two special events with Benoît on the Sunday evening and Benoît & Dave on Monday night.*
Thanks to @j4cks0on for the wonderful poster.
On Sunday 12th April from 7pm alongside @wrightswines we will be hosting an evening with @domainelacotelette
Benoît will be pouring a selection of wines new and old, and we will be opening some special magnums that have been resting in our archive cellar
£45 pounds per person set menu including a welcome drink, there will also be an optional wine pairing
We have been collecting Benoit’s wines for many years and it is a project that means a lot to us as a team🤍🤍🤍
*Places are very limited, please email [email protected] to reserve your place*
Artwork @marc_springhetti 💙
Photos @wrightjamie 💙
After a long wait we have new wine from Lucas & Ariane in the Valais.
Lucas Madonia started his adventure in Valais at the end of 2021. In 2022 on 1 ha, in 2023 1.7 ha and 2024 1.5 ha located in and around Ayent, between 600 and 820 meters above sea level. The soils here are some of the most complex in the world and the altitude offers the potential to make wine with a beautiful balance of concentration and freshness. The soils are mainly composed of Schists and Limestone, but also of Loess, Quartz, Clays and others.
Since 2023 Lucas has been joined by his partner Ariane and they work tirelessly on the terraced vineyards, all by hand as mechanization is not possible on these steep slopes.
Grass management is done with the backpack brush cutter. The organic treatments (<1kg copper ha) are carried out using a backpack atomizer. The harvest is taken out on the shoulder.
Destemming is manual and is done through sifting keeping berries intact.. Aging takes place in old Burgundian barrels from 228L to 600L. The whites are pressed on the day of the harvest then sent in 400L barrels. All bottling is done by gravity from the barrel itself. All wines are without inputs and without sulphites.
After a visit earlier in the year, it’s a delight to see a full cellar, as 2025 offered a brilliant vintage with reasonable quantity, brilliant quality and the wines in barrel are already looking wonderful.
For this latest release, we have typically small quantities of a mix of wines from 2023 & 2024, all vibrant examples of the potential of this wonderful terroir, including the Bahian 2024 in tiny quantity and one of our favourite wines this year, the impossibly elegant Cherouche 2023.
All of the wines are up on our website now, trade, we will be showing some at our next trade tasting at Cadet on 1st June. To book in, send us a message.
New wines from Lucas Madonia have arrived ✨
Lucas & Ariane produce wines of incredible depth and purity from these amazing vineyards. The wines, made in tiny quantities, are up on our online store now. Trade, get in touch.
New from Domaine Ozil in the Ardèche.
Thomas and Jean-Daniel Ozil now look after this estate, taking over from their parents who had farmed organically but sold the grapes. The brothers, inspired by local natural winemakers like Gilles Azzoni decided to make their own wines, while still selling some fruit, (most of Antoine Azzoni’s wines are made with their fruit.) Working on typical Ardèche terroir of clay and limestone, they are able to balance selling beautiful fruit and make their own wines that are delicious but also brilliant value.
The new arrivals are a mix of vintages, including a restock of the popular light red Barry Rose, Gourmandise 2024 - silky blend of Syrah & Grenache, Chassille 2025 - new vintage of their brilliant value Sauvignon and for the first time in years their orange wine, Bois Blanc, a textured blend of Marsanne & Sauvignon.
We have also got the new vintage of Carmino, their lovely Syrah, at the same incredible price in both 3l bag in box and 20l kegs. The 2025 is blended with Cinsailr & Ugni Blanc to bring welcome freshness in a warm year.
It’s hard to find better value for money in France than these wines. - they are up on our website now. Trade get in touch to taste!
📸 from @harris_himself
With the sun ☀️ in the sky, we can think of no better time for the arrival of a new Champagne from La Bulle Libre, Romain & Thomas Henin.
L’Odyssée Pétillante Chapitre 2, is literally the second chapter of this wine, from the 2023 vintage, an exuberant, bright blend of 50% Pinot Noir, 40% Pinot Meunier & 10% Chardonnay all from the Henin estate in Aÿ-Champagne. The grapes were pressed direct in the Henin’s 4000kg vertical press, a family heirloom, the juice is moved by gravity alone, straight into barrel, where they can monitor the wines carefully, anything that goes off-kilter can be used in their production of ratafia or even cleaning alcohol. The best juice is kept and blended into single vintage champagnes like this. After a year in barrel and 14 months in bottle the wines were disgorged in December 2025. As with all of the wines from the estate they are zero dosage, and without any additions.
It’s a wine of celebration - exuberant, fresh and alive with pure fruit, but with length, texture and beautiful precision. It opens up beautifully with air, over a few hours and you could even carafe it. Already drinking beautifully, it’ll be a wonder with some bottle age.
The wine is available now on our website and for trade, along with a restock of the delicious cider, aged in Champagne barrels and a very small amount of the 2022 Meunier Tu Dors which is drinking wonderfully.
Introducing Les Frères Bertrand
On a visit to the Loire earlier this year, we were enchanted by the wines of a new project in Anjou. who on their first vintage are producing wines of rare character and precision.
Les Frères Bertrand are indeed brothers Pierre & Thomas Bertrand who discovered the world of wine through their Alsatian uncle and aunt in the mid-2010s (Hélène and Jean-François Ginglinger). After working several harvests and spending time in the vines, they decided to leave their respective careers and found their own estate. They completed a one-year degree in viticulture and oenology (BTSA) and worked with several winemakers in Anjou (Thomas with Adrien de Mello and Jean-Noël Bellard; Pierre with Jacques Février and Martial Angeli) before acquiring 4.5 hectares of vines in 2024.
All the parceis are located in the same area, on shallow silty soils (green schist on the upper slopes, purple schist at the bottom, with bands of phtanite scattered across the different plots). Each cuvée except for Grolleau Noir and Cabernet Franc-takes its name from the parcel where the grapes are grown.
Their aim is to work as simply as possible: focusing efforts in the vineyard (mechanical soil work, a strong emphasis on plant health, cover crop management, and soil vitality) and intervening minimally in the cellar. They prefer to keep the wines in the cellar as long as possible, only releasing them when we feel they are fully ready to be enjoyed. So far just two two cuvées have been released which are now on sale in tiny quantities:
Le Veau 2024
50-year-old Chenin vineyard covering 1.4 hectares; 50% vinified in barrel and 50% in fiberglass, then blended before bottling (July 2025). from a cooler vintage, this is Chenin of a depth and texture that belies it's 11% abv. Totally delicious.
Les Félons 2024
A blend of 90% Grolleau Noir and 10% Cabernet Franc. Each variety was vinified separately, macerated for ten days whole bunch before being blended at the end of fermentation. A Grolleau of rare finesse!
We will be showing both of these wines at our trade tasting this Monday at Leila’s Shop. Send us a message to book in.
The 2024 wines from Domaine de la Côtelette are here and this weekend we are privileged to be joined by Benoit in London for the first time.
A former wine merchant with a deep knowledge of natural wine, he purchased the vines of his friend Guy Bussière in 2018 and has garnered has garnered a reputation for making energetic, pure and incredibly vibrant wines in tiny quantities on a surface of just over 2.5 hectares in the north of Burgundy, in the Val de Saône an almost forgotten appellation.
2024 was a lean vintage in terms of quantity but the quality was good and the wines are already showing very well. As always quantities are very limited and we will be celebrating and pouring the new (and old wines) at three special events in London:
Sunday night at Ducksoup - long supporters of the wines, they are opening for a special evening pouring wines dating back to 2021, alongside a special set menu from the kitchen team. They are still a few spaces left - email [email protected] to book in.
On Monday at Leila’s shop for the trade we will open the biggest selection of his wines that has ever been shown in the UK, for our biggest trade tasting of the year so far. It’s from 10-4pm at Leila’s and as well as the wines from Côtelette, we will be joined by Dave Morris from Mountain People, pouring the first Pinot Noir from his beautiful parcel in Monmouth plus his new rose from his Cowboy’s don’t have Curls project.
Alongside these wines I’ll be pouring a myriad of new arrivals from Domaine Goepp, Domaine Einhart, Garo’vin, Freres Bertrand and Simon Rouillard amongst other things. Not one to miss.
Finally we are back at 107 on Monday evening for a very informal event with both winemakers pouring their new wines and the team there opening some special back vintages of Côtelette (they have also acquired quite the collection).
For those who can’t make it - the wines are up on our webshop now in limited quantities!
