Maison Louis Latour presented a dense and creamy 2011 Aloxe-Corton 1er Cru Les Chaillots. Latour’s family hometown for over three centuries, Aloxe-Corton, is also home to their famous Chateau de Corton-Grancey and vat house. The name Les Chaillots refers to the vineyard pebble-filled soil. The 2011 Aloxe-Corton 1er Cru Les Chaillots displays a shimmering, garnet-tinted, ruby red colour. The nose bears intense Morello cherry and liquorice fragrances. The wine offers a lovely acidity with well blended, round tannins, and a finish refined by a touch of liquorice.

Château Sociando-Mallet is a dense, fresh, medium bodied Bordeaux, with a blackberry-like flavour and nose and spicy green streak. It is a relatively simple wine that drinks well above its weight and is an impressive example of this vintage, 1998. Château Sociando-Mallet was neither ranked in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855, nor is it listed among Médoc’s Cru Bourgeois, simply due to the decision of its owner Jean Gautreau not to enter it for classification. Despite this, it consistently produces wines that outshine its neighbours that are classified. This is a vineyard that has been going from strength to strength in recent years.