(2025) From Colli Euganei in the Veneto, a wine made from Moscato Giallo in the style of Vin Santo, aged two years in oak barrels. It's a deeply coloured, very lightly rancio style, where the aromatics of the Moscato soar through creamy and nutty notes, Parma Violet and exotic Turkish delight. The palate is fully sweet, but nutty and luscious, filled with orange oil richness, tang and sweet and juicy ripeness. should you come across it on a visit to Italy, it's a sheer delight.

(2025) A verdant Sauvignon, grassy and pungent elderflower over ripe, but not too ostentatious, fruits. The palate is juicy and citrussy, hints of tropical mango and nectarine run into a cleansing lemon finish.

(2025) From single vineyard owned by the Laithwaite family and planted on chalk and gravel, made from a blend of the three main Champagne grapes, with wines from a perpetual reserve started in 2013 as part of the blend. Bottled in May 2021, it was disgorged in October 2024. Pale gold in colour there is plenty of shortbread biscuit and toast on the nose, lightly bruised apple and citrus. On the palate there is some sweetness of the dosage, and ripe and juicy orchard fruit, then a nicely sour and savoury hit of lemon pith and grapefruit. Stylish and enjoyable.

(2025) Gloria is an estate established only in the 1950s, long after the famous 1855 classification of the Médoc, but over the years it has been consistently rated as equivalent to many of the Crus Classé wines. In 2019 the blend is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, with Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot from a ripe vintage where this wine weighs in with 14% alcohol. That sumptuous nature is immediately evident, the black fruit deep and glossy, but plenty of cedar and graphite precision and a sense of mineral freshness too. In the mouth it is medium-bodied and again rich, the weight of fruit on the mid-palate flows into tannins that are just softening from chewy density, the acid and tingle of cigar box spices into the finish. Drink this now after decanting or cellar for a decade surely and note that by the six-bottle case suppliers including Mann Fine Wine will bring this in at under £35 a bottle equivalent. Watch the video for more information.

(2025) Beautiful level of gentle oxidation in a wine that is maturing rather than fully mature. Intense but filigree aromas and bubbles. A slatey mineral edge to the aromas, and so fresh, with lemon rind firmness. It is direct, intense and yet gossamer light. What a fine Krug.

(2025) This Cabernet Sauvignon from McLaren Vale also has 5% Cabernet Franc in the blend. From two vineyards planted in 2002 and 1971 respectively, it spent 15 months in French oak, 60% of the barrels being new. It is a large-scaled and sumptuous wine, glossy with black cherry and blackcurrant, fine graphite and some meaty, roasted notes add to the savoury appeal. On the palate the sweetness and supple ripeness of fruit fills the mid-palate, the oak quite apparent, but merging into the firm, but juicy finish where tannins are grainy without being overpowering and the taut acidity extends the finish. Price and stockist for the previous vintage at time of review.

(2025) What a lovely Pinot from the cool and foggy Sanata Maria Valley with its fossil-rich shale and limestone soils. It is pale coloured and aromatic, floral with cherry and strawberry, exotic potpourri spices, rose petal and clove. Inm the mouth the stemmy, hessian-like character gives a dry freshness, with cranberry fruit, a subtle undertow of vanilla and a really quite vivacious finish as crisp tannins and acids extend the finish. A lovely Pinot.

(2025) From the young team at Hanewald-Schwerdt in the Pfalz, a Gewürztraminer from very warm soils of sand and river pebbles, and with only 11.5% alcohol, one of the first vineyard to be picked in the region. It's a wine that doesn't overwhelm with Gewürz's exoticism, just a gentle lychee and tropical fruit, a touch of honey suggested too. In the mouth it has more authentic Gewürz flavours, but the underlying juiciness of orange and grapefruit drives through. It is definitely off-dry with the sweetness to take on milder Chinese and Thai if you need a break from richer foods over Christmas, but no hint of flabbiness here in a wine of lovely balance and good length. Watch the video for more information.

(2025) Also from the Bekaa Valley and made only in exceptional years, vines here are 80–90 years old. The blend is around two-thirds Obaideh, with Merwah and a touch of Cinsault to give the colour. Unusually for the world's pink wines, this is aged in French oak from Nevers, and further matured in bottle before release. Again, Musar's recommendation is not to serve this fridge cold, but around 15C, so perhaps just half an hour in the fridge. Quite pale salmon pink with a hint of orange. The nose here is particularly spicy, with hints of clove and ginger, some Seville orange peel and a hint of something smoky. In the mouth it is rounded by vanilla, and there is a firmness through strict acidity. Small red berries and orange are the flavours, but again it is the spice that dominates. Will be interesting to see this one again in future years. Price and stockist given is for the 2018 vintage at time of review.

(2025) The last time I tasted this wine was 2012, in a restaurant in the Bekaa Valley over lunch with Serge Hochar, so quite evocative. Thick with sediment so decanting necessary in this 26-year-old wine, then heavenly on the nose with rich spiced berries and all sorts of gamy and vanilla nuances, high florals too. Rich, plummy and deep on the palate with fabulous fruit sweetness and purity, tannins resolved but working with oak spices to underpin solidly. Acidity is cherry-like and juicy in a lovely wine, drinking very well now but knowing Musar, could have decades ahead of it still.