What’s Drinking Well?

Well, it’s now Rosé season (even though somebody forgot to tell the weather this) and here’s a pick of four delicious rosé wines sip whilst you enjoy those long summer evenings. First up is a gorgeous Bandol that has the elegance and grace of a Federer backhand 2022 Bandol Organic Rosé, Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles Côtes du […]

Few Countries offer better value around the £10 a bottle mark than Portugal and, in my opinion, one of the very best at this price point is Quatro Ventos from the Douro valley. I remember this wine blowing me away at a Wines of Portugal tasting back in 2019 and then one week later my […]

So, what do we have here? Only a 2016 Super Tuscan from a plot of 35 year old Cabernet Franc vines located on the southern facing slope of the hill that houses the beautiful Abbey of Sant’Amtimo. The vineyard sits at 450m and the soil is a mixture of limestone, marl stone and clay. The […]

2021 Prisma Organic Monastrell, Paco Mulero, Jumilla, Spain This downright delicious red is destined for the ‘Wines For Summer’ offer that’s launching this weekend, however it thoroughly deserves to be highlighted on its own – as I don’t think you’ll find a more drinkable wine than this for sub £10 a bottle. Prisma is made […]

Now here’s a seriously gorgeous Italian white that recently wowed the judges at the Decanter Magazine World Wine Awards. There are times when certain awards can be taken with a pinch of salt, however when a wine is rated as the top Italian white in the whole of Italy (yes, the entire country!) then you […]

…unless you spend a small fortune. You know you’ve had a good day when your major concern is what bottle of wine to open with dinner and I had been quite fancying a Priorat for most of yesetrday afternoon. However, when arriving home I noticed the sample of 2014 Château Morillon, Saint Émilion Grand Cru […]

2020 Godello Sobre Lias, Bodegas Madai, Bierzo, Spain  “Complex palate, bursting with kumquats, passion fruit, honey, cream – multi-layered. Long and expressive.” Sarah Jane Evans MW, Decanter Magazine “Full and intense ripe lemon and white fruit. Full of life and energy.” David Williams, Decanter Magazine “A wine of such intensity of texture and concentrated flavour […]

2019 Maranges 1er Cru La Fussière, Domaine Bachelet-Monnot, Burgundy “If you enjoyed the Bachelet’s Bourgogne Rouge then you’ll fall head over heels for this wine.” Jonny Wren, Songbird Wines “What I really love is how they (the Bachelet brothers) elevate Maranges into something that exceeds all expectations.” Neal Martin, Vinous.com “If you don’t know or […]

Below are the wines featured in the current Songbird Wines Autumn Offer. It’s a little taster of our Christmas specials, with six hugely popular wines, and we aim to keep them on promotion until the end of the year if stocks last. They will be joined in a couple of weeks by another bunch of […]

Songbird in Chief, Jonny Wren, shares his recent experience of getting to know the Exceptional Brunello di Montalcino estate, Casanova di Neri. Now Vintellectuals, I feel compelled to tell you this little tale of how I became aware of this wonderful wine but it’s a bit of a yarn. If you would like to cut […]

2018 Barbera d’Asti ‘Crocera’, Il Cascinone, Piemonte, Italy  “Already great value at £10.25 per bottle, at £8.50 this could well be bargain of the year.” Songbird Wines Bargain Committee London City Bond is a huge, bonded warehouse about the size of Wembley Stadium and packed to the rafters with pretty much any drink you can […]

Hello Vintellectuals, The Songbird Wines portfolio has been boosted nicely over the past few weeks so I’ve outlined some of our latest listings to enlighten you on the new delights that are begging for their cork to be pulled. And to kick off proceedings, something quite delicious from Piemonte… I make no secret of my […]

Cheers! Santé! Salud! Or is it Chin Chin? Well, it’s certainly Chin Chin (as opposed to Cin Cin) at Songbird Wines at the moment as we have just had our first delivery of this joyfully named Vinho Verde that has made quite a splash at some of London’s coolest bars. It is a joint venture […]