6 RED WINES RANKED 90+ ROBERT PARKER

Closer to a Burgundy than a Beaujolais, this Moulin-à-Vent will explode all the prejudices that the uninitiated hold about this appellation. It is just the sort of wine that everyone should try before they speak against the wines of Beaujolais. Another flawless effort by Jean-Paul Brun.

Located in a satellite appellation of Saint-Émilion, the Château Rocher Gardat offers wines of impressive quality for the price. With Hubert de Boüard as its consultant, the Château has the advantage of plenty of expertise. Its wine, with its intense cherry-red colour, is initially dominated by a truffle nose, which after airing gives way to ripe fruit notes. With its tannic structure of evident quality, this beautiful vintage lengthens on to a fresh and flavoursome finish. This ready-to-drink Montagne-Saint-Émilion is a real triumph!!

The second vintage of a vineyard 700 metres above sea level in the village of Samaniego producing the fabulous Paso Las MaÑas, a pure Tempranillo with a very low yield planted in 1999 and 2013. This artisan wine (3000 bottles) is fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in two casks for 15 months. This wine has such a sleek and aromatic profile thanks to the high altitude of the vineyard from which it comes. Despite its elegance, the wine has firm tannins and a very serious spine as well as an unheard-of depth. This is a fresher expression than the previous vintage but also more delicate and with a stronger Burgundy style, while the previous one was a more north-Rhone style. No doubt, this is a very pleasant wine and already very successful in Spain!

Between freshness, power and finesse, the Christophe wine of the Remizières domaine stands out thanks to its dedicated style. A very dense colour for a Crozes preluding to a deep wine that diffuses beautiful notes of black fruit and spices. The palate is tight with a powerful body but marked by great freshness and great finesse at the tannic level. This wine is quite incredible with very precise, mineral and sensual aromatic definition.