Featured Winemakers

Champagne Arlaux

A Champagne for Champagne Connoisseurs

BWI have been on a journey to find a Champagne that would meet our high standards and appeal to all our clients. We searched high and low to find something that was not currently available to the UK market. We have finally found the ideal match and our clients have been quick to join us in our enthusiasm for this delightful range of Champagnes.

This boutique champagne house is Arlaux, from Vrigny in the Montagne Reims region of Champagne. Arlaux cultivate just 10 hectares of Premier Cru vines, and produce a small but beautiful range of high quality champagnes. The main grape varieties are chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier, the latter two are red grape varieties with white juice.

Chateau Carignan

High Scoring Premiere Cotes de Bordeaux

We’re immensely proud to be connected to Château Carignan, the proprietor Andy Lench - founder of Bordeaux Wine Investments, Ltd (BWI) in the UK; President & CEO of Bordeaux Wine Locators, Inc. USA - purchased this beautiful chateau in 2007.

Château Carignan is located at Carignan de Bordeaux, approximately 10 kilometers east of the city of Bordeaux. Its 63 hectares (155 acres) of vineyards are situated in the Premières Côtes de Bordeaux AOC (Appellation d’Origine Controlée.) As with other right bank Appellations (Saint Emilion and Pomerol), Merlot is the dominant grape variety.

Under the direction of consultant Louis Mitjaville, Château Carignan produces four distinctively different wines which are critically acclaimed as “modern” Bordeaux wines, representing superior quality and exceptional value that can rival the classified growths. Château Carignan Prima, Premières Côtes de Bordeaux 2004 was recently awarded an exceptional Gold medal at the 2007 Expovina wine contest, scoring 95 out of 100 points, the highest score among all participating wines.

• Château Carignan Prima (‘the alternative Bordeaux’)
• Château Carignan
• L’Orangerie de Carignan (second wine)
• Château Carignan Rosé
• Carignan Blanc

Turkey Flat Vineyard

From the Barrossa Valley

These wines have already become a firm favourite with both our clients and staff! 90pt ratings from prominent critics just add to the attraction. And with good reason, for it is the intense, concentrated fruit from these ancient vines that set Turkey Flat wines apart and have made them sought after the world over.

It was on the banks of Tanunda Creek where bush turkeys once roamed, that pioneer Salesian settler Johann Friedrich August Fiedler planted the first Shiraz vines in 1843. His vines flourished and the land – Section One, in the Hundred of Moorooroo – was bought in 1865 by Gottlieb Ernst Schulz, a successful butcher who established a thriving retail business among the vines.

Butchering developed into dairying, but the vineyards were always kept, until Peter, a fourth generation Schulz, and his wife, Christie, made the transition from grape growing to winemaking. They transformed the historic bluestone butchers shop into the cellar door and heart of their Turkey Flat wine business, and made sure that the vines that Fiedler planted so long ago, now gnarled and twisted, are still a vital part of the process.

The winery has established a consistent track record over the years and it is a fine portfolio from top to bottom.

Having recently hosted a tasting of the entire Turkey Flat portfolio in the BWI boardroom with proprietors Peter and Christie Schulz, we are delighted to offer you their collection of wines, some are only made in very limited quantities.