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Hallgarten Wines launches new fine wine service
Hallgarten Wines is launching a new way for UK retailers and hospitality buyers to purchase exception fine Bordeaux from back vintages that are ready to drink now. The new initiative, called The Cellar Series, is the result of a partnership with négociant La Compagnie Médocaine des Grands Crus.

Hallgarten & Novum Wines is aiming to change the way that premium retail and hospitality buyers buy fine wines with the launch of an initiative that makes a selection of vintage Bordeaux available in their prime drinking window.
The Cellar Series, which has been curated by Hallgarten’s buyer Robert Mathias MW (the UK’s youngest Master of Wine) and the company’s négociant partner La Compagnie Médocaine des Grands Crus comprises a selection of prestigious wines from Bordeaux. The wines have come direct from the some of the region’s finest chateaux and estates, across appellations and communes, ranging from Cru Bourgeois to First Growth customers and including a selection of vintages that are in their prime drinking window.
The wines will be available to the hospitality and retail sectors, circumventing the traditional route for fine wine from the most famous chateaux in Bordeaux, via the broking, collectors and trading routes.
The list comprises 92 wines, including a Lafite Rothschild 1er Grand Cru Classé from the 2002 vintage, a Château Montrose 2eme Grand Cru Classé Saint Estephe 1998, a Suduiraut 1er Grand Cru Classé Sauternes 2016, Chateau d’Issan 2010 and wines from Mouton Rothschild, Château Figeac, Château Phélan Ségur, Château Leoville Las Cases, Château Pichon Baron, Cos d’Estournel, Château Ducru Beaucaillou, Château Talbot, Château Armailhac and second wines from Carruades De Lafite and Pagodes De Cos, among others.
The Cellar Series, which will be unveiled at a tasting in London on 25 February, enhances the company’s focus on fine wines, offering customers ongoing access to some exclusive parcels of iconic wines, it said.
Michael Saunders, CEO of parent company Coterie Holdings said that he had identified a gap in the market for premium Bordeaux wines, direct from the Châteaux, that are currently in their optimum drinking window, a number of years ago.
“So often the emphasis is on providing the trade with the latest vintage of a wine – which is often what is demanded – however when it comes to regions such as Bordeaux, venues need access to older vintages, that are ready to drink now,” he said. “Through our partnership with the great Châteaux, alongside Compagnie Medocaine des Grands Crus, we are able to achieve this”
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Jim Wilson, portfolio director at Hallgarten & Novum Wines said that sourcing fine wines in the premium hospitality and retail sectors as an operator was “no mean feat” but that this initiative presented the “ideal solution” for the trade.
“The Cellar Series brings together some of the most prestigious producers and the finest wines, with the UK’s best sommeliers and wine buyers to provide wine lovers with access to the wines they want to drink, when they want to drink them,” he said.
“Bordeaux has been in my blood since a young age, so it only felt right to launch The Cellar Series with wines exclusively from this iconic region,” Saunders added.
According to Mathias, Bordeaux remains at the pinnacle of the fine wine market and will always have a place on wine lists at the country’s best venues.
“With The Cellar Series we are able to offer the hospitality and retail trade a complete solution for their fine wine lists and provide wine lovers with the best bottles available on the market,” he said.
Hallgarten & Novum Wines is one of the UK’s leading specialist wine distributors, having been established in 1933. In December 2023 it was purchased by Coterie Holdings, the parent company of fine wine merchant Lay & Wheeler, Coterie Vaults and fine wine valuation and lending specialists Jera, as well as Global Wine Solutions, a leading provider of fine wine and spirits to the superyacht industry, which was added to the portfolio in December 2024.
Speaking to db in June last year, Coterie revealed its ambitious plans to grow the business internationally and become a “repository of fine wine data”.
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