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Wine List
Whites
1) Reeves House Sec -France -12.5% £12.50
A blend of Ugnic blanc and Semillon, fresh crisp dry from the
heart of Gascony.
2) Reeves Chardonnay Colombard -Australia-12.5% £12.50
A delightful style from down under. Good fruit with soft overtones.
3) Hacienda del Rey Sauvignon - Chile-13% £15.00
Good style. Soft gooseberry.
4) Millberg Cellars Rose –S. Africa-14.5% £16.95
Medium with ripe fruit, very quaffable.
5) Kreuznacher Kronenberg Kabinett Nahe -Germany- 8% £14.00
Fresh clean medium wine from the Riesling grape.
6) Pouilly Fuissé Caves des Crus Blancs - Burgundy-13% £29.50
Dry, full flavoured and buttery. Classic Fuisse from a top class producer.
7) Sancerre Vacheron Les Roches - Loire-13% £35.00
Rich, full flavoured steely wine from one of the best producers. Top quality.
8) Muscadet Sur Lie Domaine de La Moutonnière - loire-12% £16.00
Nice balance of fruit and refreshing acidity with well developed yeasty
character from the lees.
9) Pouilly Fumé Les Griottes Domaine Bailly - France - 12.5% £28.95
A more delicate style Sauvignon. Steely gooseberry style, elegant and fresh.
10) Chablis Beauroy 1er Cru - France-13% £29.00
Excellent, full flavoured style, steely, long and well balanced.
The Naulin family make correct, stylish wines which deserve praise.
11) Lantana Chardonnay Semillon - Australia - 12.5% £15.50
Fresh zingy fruit lifted by toasty oak, benchmark Chardonnay Semillon.
12) Old Coach Road Sauvignon Blanc - New Zealand -12.4% £23.95
Lovely fresh exuberant Sauvignon with bags of character.
This is so classic New Zealand Sauvignon.
13) Hollicks Chardonnay - South Australia-14% £27.50
Well structured wine with good fruit levels but not overoaked.
Very burgundian and classy.
14) Millberg Cellars Chenin Blanc - South Africa -13% £14.00
From the Franschhoek Cooperative, Millberg produces one of
the best Chenins. Clean, well made with hints of melon and citrus.
15) Pinot Grigio Cantina di Custoza Garda - Italy -12.5% £18.75
Delicious, fresh very well made wine from this exemplary producer.
Floral, elegant, fruity and dry.
16) Gavi DOCG Casa Martelletti -Italy -12% £22.50
Very fresh, complex wine with good weight and extract.
Long clean finish. One of the great white wines of Italy.
17) Brampton Viognier-South Africa-15.5% £22.50
Medium weight, expressive, nervy tasty wine.
Rose
18) St Martin de la Garrigue - Languedoc -13.5% £17.95
Delightful fresh salmon pink wine with plenty of fruit and a crisp finish.
Sparkling
19) Prosecco Colli Trevigiani San Simone -Italy-11% £19.90
Soft dry easy to drink Italian fizz. Very good aperitif wine
Methode Traditionnelle Rose
20) Touraine Traditionnelle James Paget -12% £24.50
Delightful fresh rosé with a taste of fresh strawberries and a long finish.
Champagne
21) Blanche Lepage N.V.-13% £39.00
Clean, fresh lively style with a good fresh bouquet and good mousse.
22) Cuvee de Redempteur Claude Dubois 1993 - £12% £59.00
Fabulous vintage Champagne from an excellent Chateau.
Reds
23) Reeves House Rouge - France - 12.5% £12.50
A blend of Cabernet, Merlot and the native grape Tannat.
Good soft round fruit from the Gers.
24) Reeves Shiraz Cabernet - Australia - 13% £12.50
A good Aussie blend with nice depth and weight.
25) Ch La Tuilerie du Puy Bordeaux Superior - France -13.% £18.50
Tucked away in south Bordeaux this petit Chateau has produced
consistency over the years. A well made, fruity Merlot dominated claret.
26) Ch Clos du Roy Cuvée Arthur, Fronsac - France-12.5% £30.00
This is extremely good quality wine with complex flavours and a long finish.
27) Mount Edward Pinot Noir -New Zealand -13.8% £55.25
Classic super-Burgundian Pinot from this up and coming cold climate region of
New Zealand.
28) Coriole Sangiovese Shiraz McLaren Vale -Western Australia - 14% £23.95
Lovely ripe fruit blend with plenty of astringent Sangiovese showing through.
29) Zinfandel Montevina - USA-14% £18.95
Ripe soft brambly fruit with spice and a good balance of tannins and acidity.
30) Rustenberg John X Merriman Cab Merlot Malbec -Sth Africa-15% £29.95
Big, complex full flavoured wine in the claret style with cedar notes and cassis fruit.
31) Otonal Rioja -Spain-12.5% £15.00
This is Rioja without the oak. However it is exceptionally smooth
and balanced on the finish.
32) Laguna de la Nava Gran Reserva Valdepenas - Spain-12.5% £20.00
Not unlike its great neighbour, Rioja, this region can offer so much more.
Very rich smooth and long with figgy vanilla fruit and good balance of oak.
33) Bentivigolio -Italy-12.5% £23.50
This Super Tuscan is mainly Sangiovese like its Chianti cousin but has
an extra dimension of richness that puts it into another class.
34) Cranefield Borrosa Shiraz - Australia -13.5% £21.50
This is what Shiraz is all about. Packed fuit, flavours and bags of weight,
without it being too heavy. Classic early aussie style.
35) Anakena Pinot Noir - Chile -14% £19.00
Classic Chilean Pinot with soft fruit and mineral character, long soft finish.
36) Neil Joubert Pinotage - South Africa -13.5% £16.95
Crammed with sweet raspberry fruit, with an underlying weight making it more
complex than normal for this type of wine. The finish is long and full.
37) Brampton Shiraz Viognier - South Africa-14% £25.00
Fantastic smooth ripe fruited syrah with the 3% viognier
lifting it into Hermitage territory. A deserved medal winner.
38) Estepa Reserve Malbec - Argentina-14.5% £28.50
Smooth, layered complex wine with oak and fruit in perfect harmony.
This is as fine example of Patagonian winemaking as you could hope to find.
Halve Bottles
39) Dr L Riesling Qba Dr Loosen Mosel -Germany-9.5% £11.00
Lovely fresh style Mosel.
40) McGuigan Brothers Chardonnay - Australia - 13% £11.00
Not too oaky Hunter Valley Chardonnay.
41) Chablis -France -12.5% £16.50
A good Old world classic.
42) Sancerre Vacheron -France -13% £17.80
Top of its range almost organic Sauvignon.
Red
43) Rioja Anares Crianza - Spain - 12.5% £11.00
Very smooth with a touch of vanilla.
44) McGuigan Brothers Shiraz - Australia - 13.5% £11.00
Good rich not too heavy Shiraz.
45) Clos du Roy Fronsac - France -13% £16.00
Merlot dominated with ripe fruit.
Champagne
46) Claude Dubois Halves NV - France - 12% £20.00
Who could resist a glass of bubbly? Any excuse!
Pudding
47) Muscat de Rivesaltes - France -16% £3.60(100ml) £16.50
A blend of two Muscat grapes that produces a wine that is rich in
fruit and flavour, yet not too sweet. Delicious!