Invitation to our next tasting at The Winery Maida Vale, Wednesday 22nd January – featuring Jonas Mullen
You are invited to our next tasting on Wednesday 22nd January from 17.00-20.00h at our shop in Clifton Road W9 when we will be joined by Jonas Mullen from the Mosel in Germany.
Weingut Martin Mullen is unique along the dizzyingly steep, slate-lined Mosel Valley. It’s the only winery to exclusively use big old oak casks and this, combined with incredible attention to detail in the vineyards, creates hauntingly fragrant, focused dry Riesling. Martin’s son Jonas joined the family winery in 2018 fresh from Germany’s top wine college, Geisenheim. He’ll help us navigate the three beautiful dry Rieslings in Wednesday’s line-up.
https://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/martin-mullen-traben-trarbach/
To begin we have Xavier Bolet’s latest outstanding Cava Reserva, with 40 months of lees contact providing layers of texture and complexity.
https://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/cavas-bolet-penedes/
We’ll start the reds with Pinot Noir from its spiritual home: Burgundy. Helene Michaut’s Clos des Poulettes is in the village of Corgoloin on the Cote de Nuits. When we visited last spring she showed us her Corvee au Pretre 2022, from a named Bourgogne Cote d’Or vineyard at the north end of Vosne-Romanee. Fabulous. That sold briskly. Fortunately we had reserved a second hit for winter.
https://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/clos-des-poulettes-corgoloin/
Alessandra Toso of Cascina Le Doti in Piedmont dropped in with her boyfriend Pietro when they were over in London to see Bob Dylan two nights running. Since when our latest shipment of her delicious Barbaresco, Nebbiolo, Barbera and Arneis arrived. We’ll be showing her Nebbiolo on Wednesday: junior Barbaresco.
https://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/cascina-longoria-neive/
We were sitting in Chateau Bellevue in Saint-Emilion last March, for lunch and a tasting with Axel de Lavaux and Angelique Merlet whose family’s wines we have imported for many years: Chateau Martinet and Fort Pontus to name just two. Angelique introduced us to Justine Destouet, one of Bellevue’s team members and said, “You should taste Justine‘s family’s wines too – they’re very good.” Justine duly popped out to Chateau Guibeau in Puisseguin-Saint-Emilion to fetch some bottles. Bright, vibrant fruit. Silky Bordeaux in the modern style.
Our tastings are very casual, just drop in anytime and feel free to bring a friend.
We look forward to welcoming you on Wednesday.
David, Nelly, Antonella, Kit, Natalie, Chris, Riccardo, Sam and David