• 4
    March

    Renaissance Vintners – we want to sell your wine

    Do you have a collection to sell? Selling wine on behalf of private customers is what we do at Renaissance Vintners.  We work on tight margins, price wines realistically and treat you, our supplier, as our customer. 

  • 22
    February

    It never rains but it pours – Rayas.

    Curiously, until earlier this month I’d ever had Château Rayas.  Curious because I have several good friends with substantial holdings of Rhône wines in their collections – and even one who (somewhat unusually) actually began his wine journey

  • 18
    February

    Gevrey-Chambertin: Domaine Fourrier

    Here’s a question: what is the best domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin after Rousseau? The answer is of course at least partly subjective: there are always going to be fans of a grower’s style, or an emotional attachment to a particular estate.  De

  • 29
    January

    2002 Romanée St Vivant, Cathiard

    We have a pretty exceptional list here at Renaissance Vintners.  Of course we would say that, but who else has a list like ours, with wines all physically in the UK, stored professionally in Octavian, Vinothèque and London City Bond.  Our relation

  • 12
    January

    2002 Krug – the wait is almost over

    2002 Krug.  After a plethora of Champagne releases over the past year or two, the big one is now on the table, or at least on its way.  The Daddy of the champagne houses and, whilst I really do rate 2004s, the Daddy of this century's vintages. N