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CHAMPAGNE

SPARKLING

Baron De Villeboerg Brut Ville sur Arce, France, LS £11 £62Our house Champagne, a beautifully balanced wine with lovely fresh fruit and a brioche toastiness.

Baron De Villeboerg Brut Rosé Ville sur Arce, France £12.50 £71Even the delightful salmon pink colour is inviting in a Champagne exuding delicate, fresh strawberry and raspberry hints.

Louis Roederer Brut Premier Reims, France £70Rich, inviting and complex, enjoy the way the delicate fruit is wrapped around with nuttiness,and raisined yeastiness in a long, perfumed finish.

Pol Roger Brut Reserve Epernay, France £80Described by Winston Churchill as simply ‘the best’. The aromas of white flowers and apple,palate of stone fruit and a long, firm, yeasty finish make this exceptional.

Laurent Perrier Brut Tours sur Marne, France £83Famed for a delicate, fresh style with light citrus and peach flavours and a lingering brioche finish.

Laurent Perrier Vintage Tours sur Marne, France £88With its fine and persistent bubbles, this is very elegant, blending ripe fruit aromas with hints of Crème brûlée.

Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Reims, France £88Wonderfully inviting apple fruit, quickly followed by a bready, rich complexity and lingering perfume.

Bollinger Special Cuvee AY, France £90The most muscular and firmly structured of the big Champagne houseswith lots of red fruit aromas and a seroius toasty finish.

Laurent Perrier Cuvee Rosé Brut Tours-Sur-Marne, France £100Justifiably acclaimed, the strawberries and redcurrants here are delicate and meld with subtle, yeasty notes.

Dom Perignon Hautvilliers, France £230The hallmark of great Champagne is its mouth-filling perfume, and Dom Perignon is wine of the most persistent,with complex spice and fruit notes layering one after another.

Louis Roederer Cristal Reims, France £285Precise and poised, Cristal is refined and elegant with fresh, pure flavours that roll over the palate.

Krug Grande Cuvee Champagne, France £300An iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove; a legendary Champagne that blends structure and grace, complexity and elegance.Try this once and join the legions of ‘Krugistes’.

125ml Bottle

Prosecco Doc Belstar Valdobbiadene, Italy £6 £33Soft, almond and pear-scented wine. When we chose our Prosecco, we chose the finest producer in Italy.Belstar Cuvee Rosé Sparkling Veneto, Italy £6.50 £33Frothy pear and almond Prosecco enriched with the strawberry and currant flavours of Pinot Noir.

125ml Bottle

MAGNUMS

Laurent Perrier Brut Nv Tours-Sur-Marne, France £125Famed for a delicate, fresh style with light citrus and peach flavours and a lingering brioche finish.Laurent Perrier Cuvee Rosé Brut Nv Tours-Sur-Marne, France £185Justifiably acclaimed, the strawberries and redcurrants here are delicate and meld with subtle, yeasty notes.

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FEATURED VINTAGE

Moet & Chandon Grand Vintage Brut Epernay, France £90A vintage of powerful fruit and shimmering freshness, this wine is special,offering layers of fruit, complexity and perfect poise in the glass.

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WHITE

A Coroa Godello Valdeorras, Spain £90What better wine to share than this, suffused with aromas of ripe apple,pear and melon and a bright, refreshing palate, perfect with fish and white meats.

Chablis Domaine Jean Defaix Ville sur Arce, France £98A spankingly clean Chablis that aches for fish or just some very elegant drinking.

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ROSÉ

Chateau D’esclans Whispering Angel Rosé Provence, France £110A serious wine, just this time pink. Like a white Burgundy with a herbal, red-fruit twist.

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RED

Cotes Du Rhone St Cosme Rhone, France £75From the best producer in the Northern Rhone - spiced, minerally and dense.

Vivanco Rioja Reserva Rioja, Spain £92Silky and crammed with refined strawberry fruit, wrapped in tobacco and sweet cedar.

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WHITE WINES

FRUITY & AROMATIC

MERE FAVOURITE

San Abello Sauvignon Blanc Central Valley, Chile £6 £8 £24Tropical Sauvignon with a delicious grassy twist and even a splash of passion fruit.

Jean Biecher Pinot Gris Alsace, France £7 £9.50 £28The forgotten Pinot, and undeservedly so. This delicate,lightly peachy Pinot Blanc is beautifully food-friendly and subtle.

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Weitgasse Gruner-veltliner Mantlerhof Kremstal, Austria £36Austria’s wonder grape puts in a star turn, delivering a bewildering array of delicious flavours: peach, apple, pepper.

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Wolf Riesling Pfalz, Germany £28This is sweetly crisp like a Pink Lady apple, and has a really seductive floral delicacy.

Banfi Le Rime Chardonnay Pinot Grigio Tuscany, Italy £29A succulent, delicious white, blending white pear and melon fruitwith a citrus lift making for a style you can enjoy all night.

Chateau St-genes Entre-deux-mers Blanc Bordeaux, France £31Was there ever a more underrated wine than white Bordeaux? Complex,fresh and with a mouthfilling texture, it’s a gorgeous seafood or chicken wine.

Spy Valley Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough, New Zealand £8.25 £11.25 £34Gooseberries, passion fruit and an exotic tropical aroma leap from your glass.

A2o Albarino Galicia, Spain £34A taut steely core draped with layers of elegant fruit, perhaps the world’s greatest seafood wine.

Craggy Range Te Muna Road Sauvignon Blanc Martinborough, New Zealand £51A nose that bursts open with white flowers and nectarine into a rich and complex palate.

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WHITE WINES

MERE FAVOURITE

Chablis, Domaine Des Marronniers, Bernard Legland Chablis, France £45A spankingly clean classic Chablis that aches for fish or just some very elegant drinking.

LIGHT, CRISP & FRESH

El Muro Blanco Macabeo Aragon, Spain £5.50 £7.80 £22Light and citrusy, we love this refreshing, fruity white from the land of Don Quixote.

Operetto Garganega Pinot Grigio Veneto, Italy £6 £8 £24Intricacy is the order of the day here, delicate pear and almond flavours wrapped in a soft mouth-feel.

Le Coste Trebbiano Nespoli Emilia Romagna, Italy £23No mere ‘house wine’, this pear and almond-scented treat is from Italy’sgastronomic heartland and a beautifully versatile ‘vino de la casa’.

Mas Puech Picpoul De Pinet Languedoc, France £29‘Picpoul’ means the ‘lip-stinger’ because of the grape’s refreshing zestiness, coupled with a delicious ripe fruit.

Marmora Vermentino Sardinia, Italy £26Love fresh, interesting white wines? You’ll love Vermentino with its zestycharacter and intense, citrus aromas and a lingering bitter-almond finish.

Pinot Bianco Alois Lageder Alto Adige, Italy £35White flowers, white fruit and a character as crisp and bright as the Dolomite mountains it hails from.

175ml 250ml Bottle

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Sancerre Les Chailloux Domaine Fouassier Loire, France £45Focused and precise with rapier-like fresh fruit and a food-loving minerality.

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FULL-BODIED

MERE FAVOURITE

Lorosco Reserva Chardonnay Casablanca, Chile £6 £8 £25A tropical tour de force, with pineapple freshness matched by peach fruitiness thatcomplements this wine’s vanilla-scented oak. Try with richer-flavoured white meat dishes.

Journeys End Haystack Chardonnay Stellenbosch, South Africa £30Ripely tropical with bags of exotic fruit and a perfectly judged oakiness for a richer, juicier style of wine.

Dry Creek Vineyard Wilson Ranch Chenin Blanc California, USA £32The best Chenin from the USA bar none - an off-beat wine that delights everyone who tries it.

Macon Villages Reserve Vignerons Des Terres Secretes France, Burgundy £34Lusciously balanced and creamy Macon, singing with honeysuckle flowers, a beautiful food wine.

Garzon Viognier Maldonado, Uruguay £35Ripe, warm and apricotty, this is a deeply flavoured white that leaves your mouth with a warm, spicy afterglow.

Rully Clos Des Mollepierres Domaine Saint-abel Roux Burgundy, Chile £41Stylish, elegant, smooth and integrated, a model of white Burgundian heaven.

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Puligny-montrachet Les Enseigneres Domaine Roux Burgundy, France £88The Roux brothers in Burgundy bring together complexity with wonderful integration in this expressive wine.Hazelnut oak blends seamlessly with acacia and citrus perfume and fruit.

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Pouilly Fuisse Domaine Trouillet Burgundy, France £55Utter loveliness. Top-flight white Burgundy from a great small producer who regulalry sells out.

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ROSÉ WINES

El Muro Rosado Garnacha Aragon, Spain £5.50 £7.80 £22Sun-blushed strawberries run through the colour and aroma of this delicious, easy-drinking rosé.

The Bulletin Zinfandel Rosé California, USA £5.80 £7.80 £23If you like it sweet, strawberry and lush, you will adore this wine, it’s fun in a bottle.

175ml 250ml Bottle

Cuvée De L’aubade Rosé Provence, France £7 £9 £27Elegant, unusually soft and with modish flavours of pineapple, wild strawberries, and red berries.

175ml 250ml Bottle

Chateau D’esclans Whispering Angel Rosé Provence, France £110A serious wine, just this time pink. Like a white Burgundy with a herbal, wild, red-fruit twist.

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MERE FAVOURITE

Operetto Garganega Pinot Grigio Blush Veneto, Italy £6 £8 £24Off-dry, without being sweet, this is dangerously easy to drink and impossibly moreish.

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RED WINES

SOFT & ROUNDED

San Abello Merlot Central Valley, Chile £6 £8 £24Merlot is an old French word for ‘blackbird’ because they love these sweet, soft,plummy grapes when they are ripened to make wines like this.

Solarena Barrel Aged Tempranillo Carinena, Spain £25Light and fresh with soft berry fruit, complemented by gentle woody notes.

Castillo Viento Rioja Crianza Rioja, Spain £7.50 £9.50 £28Elegance and suppleness in a glass, with bright and juicy cherry, currants and vanilla.

Riva Leone Barbera Piemonte, Italy £26Any dishes with lots of tomatoes are perfect for this crisp and fresh red with a bright, cherry fruit.

Saint Cosme Cotes Du Rhone Rouge Rhone, France £32From the best producer in the Northern Rhone - spiced, minerally and dense.

Chateau Gardegan Bordeaux Superior Bordeaux, France £36When Sir Nicholas Soames talked about a ‘breakfast claret’ it was probably something like this bright Bordeaux.

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MERE FAVOURITE

Rosso Di Montalcino Castello BanfI Tuscany, Italy £40The clever-person’s Brunello, giving you the complex cherry and spice flavours in a fresher, youthful style.

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Castellare Chianti Classico Tuscany, Italy £54Warm and slightly bitter cherry notes mix in with some spicy oak and a hint of vanilla. This is great with meat.

Chateau Viramiere St-emilion Grand Cru Bordeaux, France £55The classic combination of currant and a light, cedary oak and spice make this the perfect complement to lamb.

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Castellare Chianti Classico Tuscany, Italy £54Warm and slightly bitter cherry notes mix in with some spicy oak and a hint of vanilla. This is great with meat.

Chateau Viramiere St-emilion Grand Cru Bordeaux, France £55The classic combination of currant and a light, cedary oak and spice make this the perfect complement to lamb.

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LIGHT & FRUITY

El Muro Tinto Tempranillo Garnacha Aragon, Spain £5.50 £7.80 £22Light and crunchy with a sun-kissed strawberry fruit. Our fruity, cheery Spanish red is a big favourite.

Fico Grande Sangiovese Poderi Dal Nespoli Emilia Romagna, Italy £23Delicious, easy-going Italian red made from the same grape used in Chianti − black cherries,plums and peppery spice make it a match for Mediterranean dishes.

Terre Di Giumara Frappato Nerello Mascalese Sicily, Italy £24If you like Pinot Noir you will love this unique Sicilian red with bright, moreish fruit and a cheery, deft mouthfeel.

Marmora Cannonau Sardinia, Italy £28Cannonau is the grape-jewel of Sardinia, known for its sunny raspberry and strawberry fruit. It’s a lush,rich wine without being dense, great for heartier dishes and slow-cooked tomato sauce.

Pinot Noir De L’hospitalet Languedoc, France £31The most versatile wine on our list, if in doubt this fruity, ripe and juicy Pinot is a great choice and universally popular.

Spy Valley Pinot Noir Marlborough, New Zealand £50Delicious and packed with strawberries, raspberries and red cherries before a seductive and softly-spiced finish.

Morgon Marcel Lapierre Beaujolais, France £55One of the great Beaujolais crus from one of its greatest producers. This shows the complexityof natural winemaking, and true terroir typicity with lingering minerality and plum and cherry fruit.

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RED WINES

BIG, BOLD & SPICY

Gable View Cabernet Sauvignon Western Cape, South Africa £6 £8 £24A precise and lively Cabernet with a core of blackcurrant and redcurrant vivacity running through it.

Lorosco Reserva Carmenere Colchagua, Chile £25Love merlot? You’ll be a sucker for Carmenere, its redcurrant-scented cousin, found almost entirely in Chile.Lightly spiced with a hint of leafy freshness, this is a mid-weight and verstile red.

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MERE FAVOURITE

The Spee’wah Cabernet Shiraz Murray Darling, Australia £6.50 £8.50 £26A glugging fruit bomb of a wine, made all the better for a fresh andeager cranberry crunchiness that ripples through the palate.

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RED WINES

PUDDING WINES

Chateau Loupiac Gaudiet Loupiac 37.5cl | Bordeaux, France £3.75 £25Sweet and fragrant, a lighter style of pudding wine, with light honey aromas and a peaches and cream palate.

Royal Tokaji Late Harvest 50cl | Tokaji, Hungary £6 £35A truly great pudding with densely packed with marmalade, honey and candied peach fruit. Heady and rich.

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Argento Malbec Mendoza, Argentina £7.50 £9.50 £29A precise and lively Cabernet with a core of blackcurrant and redcurrant vivacity running through it.

Garzon Tannat Maldonado, Uruguay £35This wine should be loved for its dark fruit, frangrance, vivacity and subtle, elegant tannins first. Then marvel atthe new superstar for both Uruguay and the grape Tannat, as this shows the potential of both.

Villa Belvedere Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso Veneto, Italy £40Made with Amarone skins to give a dense, sweet fruit, bitter cherry and heady perfume. A real treat and great value.

Catena Appellation Vista Flores Malbec Mendoza, Argentina £35One of the world’s great wines, Catena’s concentrated, perfumed, fresh Malbec sets the Argentine standard.

Vieux Chevalier Chateauneuf Du Pape Rouge Rhone, France £48Bold and spiced, long lasting and hearty, this has a warm,generous character and is the perfect match to richer dishes.

Amarone Della Valpolicella Classico Nicolis Veneto, Italy £85Heady, dense and rich with chocolate and cherry, this is a particulalryfine example of the greatest wine of Valpolicella.

175ml 250ml BottleBIG, BOLD & SPICY

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