Fusion Wines Ltd.

Suffolk Office

The Coach House
Barton Mills
Suffolk IP28 6AA
+44 (0)1638 510803

"Since purchasing the estate in 1994, Jonathan and Lyn Maltus have raised the quality of Château Teyssier to rival that of the Crus Classés" (Oz Clarke & Steven Spurrier's Fine Wine Guide, Websters).

"Château Teyssier is in hot pursuit of proving that these sandier flat lands can make head turning wines." (The World Atlas of Wine, Hugh Johnson & Jancis Robinson, 2001)

Bordeaux' Château Teyssier is a rising star in St-Emilion -one of two right bank "stellar cellars" according to Williamson & Moore's Wine Behind the Label (the other is the rather more expensive Ausone). The Vineyard Manger is Robert Fortin (ex-Petit-Village, Pomerol), the Consulting Oenologist is Gilles Pauquet (Cheval Blanc etc) and the winemaker is Jonathan Maltus assisted by Cyril Beziat. The team has steadily improved Teyssier which now must surely rank as one of the greatest value Bordeaux available. Meanwhile, Jonathan has been purchasing more land around the appellation and now produces premium wines including "Le Dôme" and "Laforge". In 2004 he made, for the first time, a wine from the recently acquired Château Grand Destieu which promises great things. The white Teyssier, "Contre le Vent" is so-called because whilst it is on a par, qualitatively, with the St-Emilion Grand Cru wines, there are of course no white wines permitted by the appellation's rules so it remains an outsider, a mere Bordeaux Blanc, flying against the wind. In addition to the Teyssier labels, the Maltus empire includes a very good range of Bordeaux Supérieurs under the label of Château Lacroix and the new Pezat range. These are some of the better inexpensive wines from Bordeaux. More recently, Jonathan has widened his range to include a Barossa Valley old-vine Shiraz from the Colonial Wine Company.