Our Favourite Wineries
de Ladoucette -
France
The largest and most famous Pouilly-Fumé vineyards have been in the hands of the Comte Lafond and Ladoucette families since 1787 when the Comte Lafond purchased the estate from the illegitimate daughter of the French king, Louis XV.
The estate is now owned by Baron Patrick de Ladoucette, a descendant of the Comte Lafond.
After taking over Ladoucette in 1972, the Baron has now extended his activities to Sancerre, Chablis, Vouvray and Chinon. In 1993, they bought arguably the finest vineyard in Sancerre. The vineyard, Clos de la Poussie, produces spectacular Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc.
Today, the Baron produces outstanding Loire Valley wines under the de Ladoucette, Marc Bredif, La Poussie, Regnard and Baron Patrick labels. Many of the wines, including the Pouilly Fumé de Ladoucette, Baron de L and Comte Lafond Grand Cuvée, are considered to be the finest examples of of Sauvignon Blanc in the world.
Bruno Andreu Winery -
France
In March 2023 we were delighted to have engaged new French wine Supplier Bruno Andreau from Montblanc near Montpellier.
Bruno develops and creates trendy, ethnic, cosmopolitan wines as well as rare and exceptional wines…a meeting of tradition and modernity.
He is a self proclaimed avant-gardist of flavour and design!
Get in touch to be one of the first in the UK to try these wines.
Bodegas Fos, Rioja -
Spain
An ultra-chic boutique wine range made in a small winery nestled in the Cantabrian Mountains in Rioja Alavesa . Winemaker Michel Murea Laorden produces spectacular Rioja. Most of their Riojas now fall outside the classic DOCG Rioja classifications. Experimenting with Amphorae and 500 Litre oak casks to extract more complexity and expression.
Their Saltavinas, spends 12 months in Oak, Finca Zuriena is fermented in Amphora and lees aged for 5 months before spending another 9 months in Oak and on to FOS Baranda, a 3000 bottle run of the estates finest wine. We have just started selling Por Los Cien, 18 months of oak aging, from vineyards over 100 years old. They have just produced a Gran Reserva for the first time, which will be available to us in late 2024. Total production from the winery runs to 120,000 bottles. Templar Wines is the sole UK importer.
Domaine Jöelle Vrignaud, Burgundy
France
The Vrignaud family have been winegrowers for 5 generations. Based in the heart of the AOC Chablis Premier Cru Fourchaume, they own 19 hectares of vineyards, all planted with Chardonnay, across four Crus. Producing a total of 12,500 cases per year, all their Chablis is produced using malolactic fermentation methods. Vrignaud’s wines were fully accredited as Organic in 2014. Templar Wines is delighted to have been selected to supply the UK restaurant trade with these wines.
Baron Albert Champagne -
France
Templar Wines first foray into importing wine began at Champagne Baron Albert. A growers Champagne house, the all-female team at Baron Albert produce top quality Champagnes ideal for the restaurant market. Based in Charly Sur Marne, Templar Wines import the L’Universelle Brut Tradition, L’Enchantresse Rosé and the Blanc de Blancs La Pimpante.
Casa Vinicola Botter -
Italy
The cornerstone producer of our Italian range. Sometimes, you need a big partner. It’s not just that Luca Botter and his team consistently produce fantastic Pinot Grigio in quantity, also they have first class Prosecco, Merlot and Chianti. The winery just outside Treviso, is vast, yet they still have time to produce there own Estate bottled Pinot Grigio, La Di Motte (shown here).
Morador Navarra -
Spain
Made by the same Company which makes the famous Rioja Vega, our Morador is made in Navarra to a special recipe. The Modern, sustainable methods and a respect for the natural surroundings are employed by the winery, with no soil movement or watercourse modification. They even night harvest (pictured) These high-quality house wines are a real hit.
Domaine La Baume -
France
They have been growing grapes in this region since the Roman era. The vineyards were rescued after the Phyloxera crisis in 1880 by Jean Prat, the family behind Noilly Prat. Domaine de la Baume today produces authentic wines for authentic wine-lovers.
These sun-drenched wines are firm favourites of ours. Domaine de la Baume has won over 50 medals in 5 years, including the Syrah “Jeunesse” 2009, voted “The World’s Best Syrah in 2010”. They also own 49 hectares where they produce the fully Organic Domaine Tholomies wines.
Goyenechea -
Argentina
Goyenechea is a 5th generation family-owned winery, which in our opinion sells the best Malbec we have found. In the heart of Mendoza at an altitude of 515 metres, they produce a silky, intensely flavoured Malbec, a fragrant Torrontes and quite simply the best Merlot Rosé in South America.
Langham Estate, Dorset -
England
In April 2020 Templar Wines entered an agreement with Langham Estates to supply Langham’s existing direct restaurant trade business in Dorset.
As winegrowers, Langham Estates pride themselves in crafting terroir-driven sparkling wines using grapes only grown on their Dorset vineyard. Located east of Dorchester, their 16 hectare, south facing, vineyard was planted in 2009 with a mixture of Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Pinot Meunier. Their chalk soils endow the wines with a fresh, saline character and by reducing inputs both in the vineyard and winery these characteristics trully express the local terroir.
Their wines are created with low intervention in mind, no fining or filtration, so all the wines are Vegan friendly. The wines are initially fermented as still wines, the fizz coming from a secondary fermentation in bottle. Aging on lees for at least 18 months before being disgorged and further aged under cork. The wines are only released after a final tasting.
