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WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine de Mourchon Loubié Rosé 2017, Séguret Côtes du Rhône Villages, France
£10.95–£13.99, The Wine Society, Exel Wines, The Black Dog Wine Co (UK), Averys of Bristol The McKinlay family's Loubié rosé, is always...
Jul 12, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Maison Dominique Piron Fleurie 2017, France
£14.49/£12.99, Laithwaites There are other summer reds, but few hit the spot as well as a good Beaujolais and I'm especially pleased to...
Jul 5, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Haut les Mains 2017, Pays d'Oc, Languedoc, France
£6.49, Waitrose and waitrosecellar.com An aromatic dry white from the south of France with the freshness and lusciousness of a perfectly...
Jun 28, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Cauhapé Geyser Jurançon Sec 2016, Jurançon, France
£13.95, The Wine Society Dry Jurançon has been one of my desert-island dry whites since I first tasted a Sec from Domaine Cauhapé, back...
Apr 26, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Chemin de la Pinède Merlot 2016, Pays d’Oc, France
£7.95/£7.25, Lea & Sandeman There were lots of excellent wines and new finds at Lea & Sandeman’s spring tasting (brilliant Condrieu and...
Apr 19, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Champ Divin Cuvée Castor Chardonnay Savagnin 2016, Côtes du Jura, France
£19.50, Tanners Wines From a region favoured by sommeliers looking for wines that are versatile with food, this white is a mouthwatering...
Apr 12, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Eschaffins Cairanne Côtes du Rhône Villages 2015, Rhône, France
£13.50, Yapp Bros I haven’t seen the label of the follow-on vintage of this generous, warm-hearted southern Rhône, but for the first time...
Apr 5, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Arthur Metz Crémant d’Alsace Brut 2015, Alsace, France
£14.99, Ocado One taste of this and you understand why Crémant d’Alsace is the most popular sparkling wine in France (aside from...
Mar 29, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Bouchard Père et Fils Bourgogne Chardonnay La Vignée 2014, Burgundy, France
£13.69–£14.50, Penistone Wine Cellars, Just in Cases, TheDrinkShop.com, Sandhams Wine, Hailsham Cellars This is just the kind of thing I...
Mar 14, 2018


Expanding wine drinkers' horizons: The Daily Drinker
As it was so hard choosing between the five Daily Drinker wines for my Wine of the Week, I'm writing up the other four here (and looking...
Mar 6, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Château Recougne 2015, Bordeaux Supérieur, France
£9.99, or £8.99 in any mix of six bottles, Majestic Bordeaux Supérieur – everyday claret – doesn't come much better than this, and...
Feb 22, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Le Grand Prébois Châteauneuf-du-Pape Les Quatres Terrroirs 2016, Rhône, France
£17.99, Waitrose Knowing that a lot of wine drinkers raid their wine racks for Châteauneuf-du-Pape over Christmas, I’ve found a...
Feb 8, 2018


La Conseillante: freshness, clarity and grace 1982–2011
The text of this article originally appeared in The World of Fine Wine, issue 53 A seated tasting of nine vintages of La Conseillante...
Jan 12, 2018


WINE OF THE WEEK: Abbotts & Delaunay Domaine de la Métairie d’Alon Pinot Noir Le Village 2015, P
£15.99, or £13.99 in any 6-bottle mix, Majestic This is a best of both worlds Pinot Noir – cherry and raspberry perfume and fruit, gentle...
Jan 11, 2018


The Festive Champagne Guide 2017
So here they are: my Champagne picks for Christmas, New Year and every other kind of festivity, whittled down with difficulty to what I...
Dec 13, 2017


Le Top 100 and other Languedoc beauties
The Wine Gang recently joined forces with Sud de France and 50 wine lovers who’d snapped up all available tickets to spend an evening...
Oct 30, 2017


WINE OF THE WEEK: Villa Blanche Terret Blanc 2016, Pays d'Oc, France
£8.49, Waitrose Terret Blanc is an ancient grape variety that has languished, unloved, in Languedoc for decades. It gets lobbed into...
Sep 28, 2017


The best of Beaujolais: visiting some top producers in the crus
I've already written something of my trip to the crus of Beaujolais . Here, in photos and words, is more about the producers and the...
Sep 7, 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 31, 2017


If I had a vineyard, it would be in...
Until a couple of weeks ago, I’d never seriously wanted a vineyard of my own, but I came back from a trip and found myself frenetically...
Aug 15, 2017
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