WINE OF THE WEEK: Running With Bulls South Australia Tempranillo 2014, Australia
£7.99, Co-op Running With Bulls is one of the new breed (excuse the pun) of Australian wines made from non-traditional grape varieties....
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Aug 31, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Caves d'Esclans Whispering Angel 2016, Côtes de Provence, France
£16.99, Waitrose and independents I’m not letting summer go without another classic, pale rosé from Provence. This, appropriately, is...
Aug 24, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Le Fraghe Chelidon Rondinella 2015, Veneto, Italy
£12.50, The Wine Society It's easier than it used to be to find good light-bodied red wines, but even so this crystal-bright Veronese red...
Aug 17, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Swartland Winemaker's Collection Granite Rock Blend 2014, Swartland, South Afr
£9.29, Noel Young Wines It can't be that there's more granite than there used to be in the world, so either more growers and winemakers...
Aug 10, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Altano Douro Branco 2016, Douro, Portugal
£8.50, The Wine Society I’ve been following this delicious unoaked white from the outset and each vintage more than lives up to its...
Aug 3, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château-Thébaud Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Granit 2010, Loire, France
£14, Tanners Muscadet growers have been having a tough time of it in the last few years, with devastating frosts this year and last...
Jul 27, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Zorzal Eggo Malbec 2015, Guantallary, Mendoza, Argentina
£16, Marks & Spencer Eggs are quite a thing in wine nowadays. Not egg whites for fining red wines but large cement or concrete eggs for...
Jul 20, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Kyperounda Winery Petritis 2016, Pitsilia, Troodos Mountains, Cyprus
£15.40, Wineman.co.uk This week’s wine comes from the highest vineyards in Europe – rocky terraces at 1,400 metres above sea level in the...
Jul 13, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Finca Carelio Tempranillo Barrica 2014, Vino de la Tierra de Castilla
£7.99 in a 6-bottle mix This was so nearly a £15 red, but someone at the winery felt inspired to add some grapes from outside the...
Jul 6, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine La Croix Canat Sancerre Les Blancs Gâteaux 2015, France
£15.99, Cadman Fine Wines You can drink Sancerre at any time of the year and I do – it goes with all sorts of fish and seafood, goats'...
Jun 29, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Grace Bridge California Pinot Noir 2013, United States
£12.95, Stannary Street Wine Co It would be hard to find a better value Pinot Noir than this. It's all the more surprising because...
Jun 22, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: The Fire Tree Vermentino 2016, Terre Siciliane, Italy
Aldi, £4.69 I'm as stunned by the price of this wine as you are. It's my cheapest Wine of the Week so far, and at a time when prices of...
Jun 15, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Cady Cheninsolite 2015, Anjou, France
£14.99, Waitrose I’ve chosen this full, dry, honeyed Loire Valley white in honour of Drink Chenin Day on Saturday. I could have picked...
Jun 8, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Rod McDonald Wines One Off Malbec Hawkes Bay 2014, New Zealand
£15.75, Oddbins I feel a bit of traitor choosing this Malbec when I’m more or less within spitting distance of the grape variety’s home...
Jun 1, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Sancerre Rouge Les Champs Clos 2015, France
£13, Sainsbury's Sancerre Rouge is the archetypal summer red wine – not that that should stop you drinking it at any other time, but it’s...
May 25, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Jackson Estate Stich Sauvignon Blanc 2016, Marlborough, New Zealand
£11.99 in a 6-bottle mix, Majestic Some of the previous vintages of Jackson’s Stich Sauvignon have tasted more pungently green and tangy....
May 18, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Gayda Syrah 2015, Pays D'Oc, France
£9.99–£10.15, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Haynes, Hanson & Clark Wines made from Syrah aren’t always light on their feet and they’re not...
May 11, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Morrisons The Best Priorat 2014, Spain
£10, Morrisons A textbook red from the rugged, once remote but now famed, Catalonian region of Priorat that lies inland from Tarragona....
May 4, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Famille Negrel Bandol Rosé La Petite Reine 2016, France
£15.95, From Vineyards Direct Bandol is a small coastal appellation between Marseilles and Toulon within the large Provence region – but...
Apr 27, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Saint Mont 2015, Saint Mont, France
£9, Marks & Spencer Perfectly timed for the asparagus season, but equally tuned into seafood, chicken, salads and vegetable dishes, comes...
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