Our old friend Jonathan Maltus has opened up his cellar, giving us exclusive access to 180 bottles of 2016 Le Dôme, the estate's greatest ever vintage: two perfect 100-point scores from Wine Enthusiast and Jeb Dunnuck, 99 from the Wine Advocate, all with ex-cellar provenance and at the lowest price globally.
Moreover, we've worked with Jonathan to build some extraordinary experiences around this offer, including four Syndicate Shares which include personalised labels, a tour and tasting at the Norman Foster-designed Le Dôme winery, dinner and an overnight stay at Château Teyssier, and an invitation to the Château Méaume Classic Car Rally.
Dunnuck calls it "a brilliant, brilliant wine that does everything right... unquestionably one of the most flamboyant, sexy, opulent wines in the vintage yet stays ethereal, elegant, and weightless." This is 80% Cabernet Franc from a site not far from Angélus, comfortably into its drinking window but with thirty years of life ahead. And we are offering it direct from the winery cellars at the lowest price globally.
There are three ways to buy, and two come with something more than the wine itself.
Single cases — available as 6x75cl at £950 in bond, or 3x75cl at £475.
12 bottles or more — personalised labels and an invitation with a +1 to a tasting on the terrace at Jonathan's Chelsea townhouse on Flood Street. Jonathan and Tom Harrow will be there.
Syndicate shares (24x75cl) — four shares only, at £3,800 in bond per share. Personalised labels, plus an invitation with a +1 for a tour, tasting and tapas lunch at the Norman Foster-designed Le Dôme winery, followed by dinner and overnight accommodation at Château Teyssier.
Syndicate members are also invited to join the Château Méaume Classic Car Rally. Mark and Sandra Johnson-Hill organised the first Château Méaume Rallye d'Automobiles Classiques in 2022 and it has been run as a private, invitation only event annually since, ‘focussing on intimate routes through historically significant regions, wine education integrated naturally, driving pleasure prioritised over distance’.
'Collectors often articulate this parallel: approaching a 1960s Jaguar E-Type evokes similar appreciation to examining a bottle of 1961 Château Pétrus… Classic car collecting and wine collecting attract individuals who value provenance over novelty, craftsmanship over convenience, heritage over trends.'
For those who collect both wine and memories, this is about as good as it gets.
Le Dôme 2016 — Single Case
£475 in bond per case (1x3 75cl)
£950 in bond per case (1x6 75cl)
Le Dôme 2016 — 12 bottles or more
£1,900 in bond per two cases (minimum 2x6, or 4x3 75cl)
• Personalised labels
• Invitation with a +1 to a tasting on the terrace at Flood Street, Chelsea (Sept. 2026)
Le Dôme 2016 — Syndicate Share, 24 bottles
£3,800 in bond per share (4x6, or 8x3 75cl)
• Four shares available
• Personalised labels
• Tour, tasting and tapas lunch at Le Dôme winery with a +1 Dinner and overnight stay at Château Teyssier (Sept. 2027)
• Invitation to join the Château Méaume Classic Car Rally