Mighty Magnums, Perfect for Parties
You were probably going to open two bottles anyway. That is the case for a magnum before anyone mentions ageing or occasion: if six people are coming round, a magnum is simply the rational pour, less glass to recycle, one cork instead of two, the same wine. It also happens to be the format winemakers reach for when a wine is built to last. Not for flash, for function. The best producers hold their top cuvées back for magnum because the ratio of wine to oxygen slows everything down. Slower, but usually more magnificent, is how the evolution tends to go. What you are actually choosing is a wine given more time to become itself.
We have curated four favourites across the styles that matter, Champagne, white, rosé and red, each selected for how it performs at magnum scale, not just how it looks on the table.
Champagne
NV Laytons Champagne
Blended exclusively for us by Maison Burtin in Epernay, this is Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier dominated and given extra age on the lees before disgorgement, giving a pleasing richness and depth to the wine.
White
2023 Pouilly-Fuisse Tete de Cuvee, Château de Fuissé
From the region’s benchmark estate, the Tête de Cuvée is a blend of over 100 subplots on differing soil types bringing both structure and multi-layered elegance to one of the finest wines of the Mâconnais.
Rose
2025 Kelly Washington Organic Rose
This is a sophisticated style of rosé with a nod to Provençal style, made from Pinot Noir grown in Marlborough’s southern valleys this is full of red berry fruits and finishes bon
Red
2022 Achaval Malbec
Achaval champion low yielding ancient vines and only use estate grown fruit and this gives everything you want in a Malbec, with dark fruits, mellow spices and fine structure on the finish.
