These wines are making a debut appearance and are from independent importers

We are at mid-summer point now and the sunshine, up to now, has been rather absent.

At least we are not getting hail showers like the poor benighted growers in Cognac and Burgundy — we are already being warned that Chablis prices will be as much as 20% higher next year.

A little to the south in Beaujolais there were a couple of devastating hail showers this growing season with a particularly devastating one at the end of June.