'Who's Afraid of Romanée-Conti?' Case

Drink six beautiful bottles featured in our founder Dan Keeling’s new book ‘Who’s Afraid of Romanée-Conti?’ with this limited-edition mixed case:

Domaine de la Pépière Muscadet Vieilles Vignes ‘Clos des Briords’ 2022
One of the great also-rans of French regions, Muscadet has long been thought of as a cheap, innocuous, moderate-alcohol accompaniment for seafood, lacking sophistication. Yet vignerons like Rémi Branger of Domaine de la Pépière are at the vanguard of Muscadet’s bid to be recast as a serious wine of place. Produced since the turn of the millennium, Pépière’s single-vineyard cuvée ‘Clos des Briords’ is an intense, linear wine that’s full of energy, with a salty-delicious finish reminiscent of top Chablis.

Suertes del Marqués ‘Trenzado’ 2023
Spain’s white wine game is hitting new heights in the Canary Islands with Suertes del Marqués’s Listán Blancos, a highly appetising type of liquid rock that, if we didn’t know better, we could imagine had seeped through the volcanic soils over millennia rather than being born of fruit. Jonatan García Lima’s entry-level ‘Trenzado’ – named after the local technique cordon trenzado, whereby vines are tied off the ground in braids so that they look like gigantic spiders’ legs along the Orotava Valley – marries mouth-watering citrus and smoky minerality from volcanic soils. 

Domaine des Croix Beaune Rouge 2021
Loire-born David Croix of Domaine des Croix typifies a generation of winemakers eking magic from Burgundy’s humbler appellations. Greatly improving farming and refining a gentle style of winemaking since his first Beaune vintage in 2005, Croix has lit the way for rising stars such as Chanterêves, Thomas Bouley, and Catharina Sadde. If a cliché of Beaune is that of it being simple, fruity drinking, Croix’s is the antithesis with its rich core and saline edge. Delicious now, we’d love to revisit this in a decade.

Cornelissen ‘Munjebel’ Rosso 2021
Leaving his career as a wine merchant in Antwerp to become a vigneron without any formal training on Mount Etna in 2001, Frank Cornelissen followed his dream of making “anti-wines” as a reaction to the ever more technological winemaking of the late ‘90s. In recent years, Cornelissen’s cuvées have become more harmonious through his mastery of details such as harvesting dates and adding minimal SO2. Made from Nerello Mascalese, a dark-skinned grape that bears similarities to Pinot Noir and Nebbiolo, his flagship ‘Munjebel’ takes purity and precision to a new level.

Piero Busso Barbaresco ‘Mondino’ 2021
Barbaresco has more famous wines, but none we’d rather drink than Piero Busso. Founded in the 1950s by Guido Busso, the winery is now headed by his grandson Pier – a thoughtful, deftly skilled vigneron who knows exactly the kind of wine he wants to make. From 25-to-80-year-old vines located between some of the highest sites in Neive and Treiso villages, Busso’s site-specific Barbarescos are the estate’s icons: the intensely flavoured, yet polished ‘Mondino’ underscores exactly why these wines are among our favourites from the region.

Marco de Bartoli Marsala Superiore ‘Vigna La Miccia Oro’
Despite being the favourite tipple of Admiral Nelon’s fleet and enjoying nearly two centuries of success, Marsala’s reputation had been trashed by cooperatives cutting corners to increase production by the 1970s. Even today, it is known mainly as a cooking ingredient, rather than as something to savour in its own right. The late Marco de Bartoli – a former racing driver who grew tired of people criticising Marsala – produced the best, something his family continues. We love the nutty, spice-infused ‘Vigna La Miccia Oro’ at the end of a meal – or as the perfect foil to a treacle tart, as served at a special dinner to launch the book at Noble Rot Mayfair.

Includes 6 bottles and a signed copy of ‘Who’s Afraid of Romanée-Conti?’