Often overlooked but delivering great value are the mature wines from Chinon. In the hands of the right producers, Cabernet Franc from Chinon are long lived, of low alcohol (typically 12.5%), and develop beautifully into complex yet fresh and authentic wines that should be of real interest to lovers of aged wines. Bought from a Michelin starred restaurant in Germany that purchased the wines direct from the producer on release, we have a small pristine parcel of Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Grézeaux 1999 and 2000 to offer today.

“Fulcro is, for me, the most promising of the small producers, making extremely authentic and tasty wines.”

Ferran Centelles, sommelier at the world-renowned El Bulli for 13 years until its closure, writing for Jancisrobinson.com of a blind tasting on Albariños in 2021

Following our popular Ex-Chateau offer on the Chateau Bel Air Marquis d’Aligre 2009 and 2000 wines, we are delighted to have sourced more Ex-Chateau back vintages and can now also offer the 2005, 1999, 1998, and 1995 in limited quantities.

Celebrate the relaxing of social distancing restrictions by splurging with us and indulging in the wines you love! Enjoy the below special discounts until the end of this month by emailing sales@vynluna.com and pay by Alipay or WeChat Pay.

15% off all of Our Artisan Wines

15% off all Jancis Robinson Glassware

5% off all other wines and merchandise

Takaki Okada started Folium Vineyard as a boutique and organically farmed estate with 8ha of vineyards located in the Brancott Valley in the Marlborough Region on New Zealand’s South Island. The wines crafted here are distinctively European in style, with vintage variation, and has a subtlety that complements rather than overpowers food. They have a great following in Japan and other parts of Asia, and the Folium Vineyard Pinot Noir Reserve 2015 was featured as a great match for the much loved Peking Duck dish in the immensely popular Japanese manga series about wine, The Drops of God (神之水滴).

Only 600 bottles produced each year from ungrafted old vines that date back to 1870, today’s ex-Domaine offer is of the rare 2018 and 2019 vintages of the Creutz Sylvaner cuvee from the historic Sylvaner producer Weingut Zehnthof Luckert. The wine is complex, full-bodied, saline, and with elegant texture. It’s a match against great Burgundies in blind tasting, and as with all the other Luckert Sylanvers, it is made to age and should ideally be left to rest in the cellar or decanted in advance before serving now.

Founded in 1978 by Piero Benevelli, the father of current proprietor Massimo Benevelli, the estate has been going from strength to strength in recent years. From Fresia, Dolcetto, and Barbera, to the three Barolo crus, each cuvee of the Estate exhibits their own character, with elegance and balance a common theme across the wines. The vineyards are mainly on the hillsides of Monforte, a commune at the south eastern boundary of the Barolo DOCG producing zone. The winery and cellars are in Le Coste di Monforte, and the focus is always in the vineyards, consistent with Massimo’s belief that great wines only follow from the best grapes.

The Royer family owns 5 hectares of vineyards in Châteauneuf du Pape stretching back to the 1800s, but historically always sold their grapes to negociants and rented out their vines. This changed in 1985, when former rugby player Jean Marie Royer finished his oenology studies and returned to the estate to take charge and started bottling wines under his own name. The wines produced here are always amongst the more elegant samples of Châteauneuf du Pape, dominated by ripe elegant red fruit and more Burgundian in style, with Grenache being the dominating grape in the Southern Rhône blend.

Domaine Lionnet is a traditional Cornas domaine run by the husband and wife team of Ludovic Izérable and Corinne Lionnet, the estate has been organic since 2007, and officially organic since 2012. Though not certified, biodynamic farming has been practiced here since 2017. The low intervention wines from this small artisanal estate are classically proportioned and distinctly graceful in style, and they continue to sneak under the radar of northern Rhône enthusiasts.

Domaine de Villaine was created when Aubert de Villaine, co-owner of the world-famous Domaine de la Romanee Conti, returned to Burgundy from the United States in the 1970s with his American wife. The estate is now run by Aubert’s nephew Pierre de Benoist with organic and biodynamic farming in the vineyards, and with the Mercurey and Rully reds fermented in wood tanks, a style adopted from DRC. Production is low at circa 10,000 bottles per year, so we are delighted to be able to offer the eclectic parcel below.