The 2004 Cuvée Prestige exhibits a terrific bouquet of spring flowers, honeysuckle, orange marmalade, peaches, and some lighter tropical fruits. Medium-bodied and filled with fruit yet structured, with good underlying acidity to provide freshness and focus.

The 2006 L’Amarine Rose, medium pink in colour, aromatically displaying some ripe red fruits, the palate offers sweet juicy fruit and a very good mouthfeel, clean and crisp with a nice finish.

It appears I really am a push-over for a glass of great Muscat and the 2006 Grès St Paul Bohémienne is a real turn-on. These wines must be drunk within two or three years of bottling as most of their appeal is the delicacy and intensity of their huge, perfumed, fragrant noses. This wine offers up a smorgasbord of tropical fruits and lychee marmalade combined with spring flower garden scents. It is medium sweet, elegant, and ripe, with gorgeous balance and freshness.

The ruby-coloured 2004 Romanis exhibits spice and blackberry aromas. Light to medium-bodied and silky-textured, it offers sweet red fruit flavours in its easygoing yet expressive character.

While this will not be a long-lived Muscat, for drinking over the next 2-3 years it is a splendidly perfumed, medium-bodied dry wine that is meant to be drunk before the meal or with Asian foods, it is not heavy despite copious quantities of ripe fruit, both the aromatics and flavours are of honeysuckle, spring mountain flowers and mineral notes. This really is a delicious, super-perfumed style of Muscat!

Full on ruby-red, with deep aromas of currant, liquorice, graphite and smoky oak on the nose. Very juicy, serious and insinuating, with sweet currant and mineral flavours framed by ripe acidity and firm tannic spine. Finishes with noteworthy persistence and purity. This received almost all of the estate's cabernet franc in 2006. This is not your typical second wine-on the contrary, it's a rather more Pauillac style of St. Julien that will likely require some years of cellaring.

Mark Ollivier is the legend in his appellation, working with all pre-clonal vines and never rushing his young wines off their lees. A relatively shallow soil over granite mother rock gives the nearly 80 year old vines that inform Ollivier’s 2005 "Grand Cru" Muscadet de Sevre et Maine Clisson de Granite an opportunity to strut their formidable stuff, aged in a large concrete vat for two years enables the flavours and complexity to develop. Lime, apple, nuts, herbs and flowers in the nose segue into a gorgeous display of shimmering salt, chalk and stony minerality, inner-mouth floral perfume, and a (for Muscadet) surprising richness of honeyed, apple citric fruit. This finishes with amazing grip, fruit saturation and mineral intensity, but with absolutely no hardness or austerity. It is one of those Muscadets you can safely sock away for at least 8-10 years – just make sure you lay in enough to enjoy on an ongoing basis!

When in early 2007 I first tasted the Grange Philippe Cabernet Franc, I was bowled over by this wine, it was the first ever vintage for this producer and a glorious effort, however I really had not much of an idea how long it would continue to develop or how long it might last being the first ever vintage, nor for that matter how the aromatics will develop, (Cab Franc normally needs 5 years in bottle) so I rated it a conservative 88 points, but I bought half of the crop, 250 cases.
Last night I opened a bottle with dinner, and have to say this is a real beauty. It boasts a dense ruby/purple colour with a sumptuous nose of blueberries, cranberries, blackberries and hints of menthol. This is now a striking wine for the money, creamy and deep in texture, it fills the mouth with flavour as well as intensity, I now realise this gorgeously put together wine will drink well for a decade. 90 points Tasted 18 Nov 2009 
 

Lovers of organically grown Cabernet Francs will undoubtedly enjoy the medium to dark ruby-coloured 2006 Grange Philippe from Château Grès Saint Paul. Its aromas of dark smoky fruits lead to a medium-bodied character made up of plump blackberries, blueberries, and spices. It has lovely depth, soft, ripe tannin, and an appealingly soft finish. Tasted April 2007

A real sweetheart of a wine, the 2006 Gres St Paul Gipsy Rose exhibits a light salmon/pink colour in addition to a big, sweet, almost candied, raspberry, strawberry, and kirsch-scented bouquet. Medium-bodied, sweet ripe fruit on the attack, this is dry, and tasty, with fine intensity and flavour as well as a long mineral finish, it will provide pleasure over the next 24-36 months through 2010.

This attractive, light coral coloured, fruit laden rosé delivers strawberry and cherry spice aromatics, ample fresh flavours backed by good acidity, providing good harmony on a lightweight frame, almost feminine, the girls will certainly love this.