2 days agoWINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine de Mourchon Séguret Tradition 2017, Séguret Côtes du Rhône, France£14.99, Averys of Bristol I’m often surprised by the wines I find I haven’t featured here before. This estate-bottled red Séguret is a case in point. I blame...
3 days agoThe New Order at Luce: New Wine, Winemaker and Winery and a Retrospective Tasting Looking across the Luce vineyards to Frescobaldi's Tenuta di Castelgiocondo in southwest Montalcino in the November sunshine The text of this article was fir...
Apr 2WINE OF THE WEEK: The Doctors' Sauvignon Blanc 2019, Marlborough New Zealand £8–£10, Tesco, Waitrose, Ocado, Booths The name of last week's wine of the week translated as "no fuss". This week it's The Doctors. It could be a metaphor f...
Mar 26WINE OF THE WEEK: Pas d'Histoires Le Rouge Syrah 2018, Pays d'Oc, France£14, Red Squirrel Wine The name of this wine, "no fuss", may seem oddly inappropriate right now, but it's the kind of mellifluous, carefree red – what the Fr...
Mar 19WINE OF THE WEEK: Boccantino Passerina Terre di Chieti 2018, Abruzzi, Italy£11, The Daily Drinker The Passerina grape is an old variety grown in central Italy, especially in Terre di Chieti in the Abruzzi, but you don’t see it as mu...
Mar 12WINE OF THE WEEK: L'Arpenty Chinon 2018, Loire, France£14.75, Yapp Brothers I've enjoyed a lot of vintages of the Desbourdes family's l'Arpenty Chinon over the years, so I'm surprised that it hasn't featured her...
Mar 5WINE OF THE WEEK: Mullineux Old Vines White 2018, Swartland, South Africa£22.99–£24.99, AG Wines, Berry Bros & Rudd, Hay Wines, The Wine Reserve I've loved every vintage of this wine I've tasted. It shows the virtue of blends, old...
Feb 27WINE OF THE WEEK: De Bortoli Regional Reserve Pinot Noir 2018, Yarra Valley, Australia £11.95–£12.99, Saxtys Wines, Quantock Abbey Wine, Adnams This is not a wine that's going to stand out on the shelf, but it deserves to. Behind the classicall...
Feb 20WINE OF THE WEEK: Altano Organic Douro 2017, Portugal£10.50–£11.80, Booths, Waitrose, Davy's Wine, Tanners Wine, The Wine Shop (Knaresborough) I'd like to think that my venture into mouthwatering dry Riesling f...
Feb 13WINE OF THE WEEK: Weingut Müller-Grossmann Furth Kremstal Riesling 2018, Austria£14.40, Tanners Wines If you're in the UK you may wonder at my recommending a Riesling in the currently comfortless weather – not only that but a dry Rieslin...
Feb 6WINE OF THE WEEK: Finca Constancia Entre Lunas Organic Tempranillo Moon Wine 2017, Castilla, Spain £8.50 on offer, Sainsbury's The name of this wine is so long I couldn't fit in its designation, Vino de la Tierra, but that's what it is: a Tempranillo from ...
Jan 30WINE OF THE WEEK: Vachnadziani Saperavi, Kakheti, Georgia £9.59–£11, Fintry Wines, Vineyards Wine Shop, The Solent Cellar, Noble Green Wines What took me so long? Georgia has been making wine for 8,000 years, but th...
Jan 23WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Paul Ginglinger Alsace Gewurztraminer Wahlenbourg 2017, France £14.50, The Wine Society This is another wine, like last week's, that would be a good choice for a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but that's not why I've cho...
Jan 16WINE OF THE WEEK: Chateau Changyu Moser XV Cabernet Sauvignon Blanc de Noir 2018, Ningxia, China £11.99 on offer, Ocado This is an obvious choice if you're celebrating Chinese New Year next week, but it's so much more than that: a true original, a Cabern...
Jan 9WINE OF THE WEEK: Guerila Pinela 2018, Vipavska Dolina, Slovenia £15, The Daily Drinker The repository for so many intriguing wines, The Daily Drinker, has come up trumps again with its featured winter wines. I was looking...
Jan 2WINE OF THE WEEK: Les Nivières Saumur 2017, Saumur, France £7.49 on offer, Waitrose A red wine that's all about blackcurrant and currant-leaf fruit and freshness and soft-textured graphitey mineral flavours – textboo...
Dec 23, 2019WINE OF THE WEEK: Cap Royal Bordeaux Supérieur 2016, France £8 (on offer), Tesco I'm posting this week's wine three days ahead of schedule because it seems a lot more useful to highlight it when there's still time to ...
Dec 19, 2019The Festive Sweet, Sticky and Fortified Guide 2019 ‘Tis the season for sweet and fortified wines, for entertaining, for communing with quietly, or giving as presents. Fortifieds, in particular, are often barg...
Dec 19, 2019WINE OF WEEK: Le Volte dell'Ornellaia 2016, Toscana, Italy £19.99, Majestic; £20.99–£22.95, Hard to Find Wines, Armit, Caviste, Davy's This would be a wonderful bottle for the festive table if you're having a bird, m...
Dec 13, 2019The Festive Champagne Guide 2019Writing my annual Festive Champagne Guide is, as you can imagine, no hardship, not least because I have tasted everything in it recently. As always it has be...