WINE OF THE WEEK: Waitrose & Partners País 2019, Maule, Chile
£7.99, Waitrose A juicy, soft, low-tannin, pale red with strawberry and white pepper flavours, a swish of orange and a stony mineral...
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- Sep 24, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: The Society's Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon 2018, Maipo, Chile
£7.50, The Wine Society In a tasting of 20-plus wines from The Wine Society that included, among others, an excellent Brézème rouge,...
- Sep 10, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine des Sanzay Saumur-Champigny 2018, France
£13.50/£12, Haynes Hanson & Clark Just because you can drink the Cabernet Franc red wines of the Loire lightly chilled, it doesn't mean...
- Aug 18, 2020
The Phoenix Rises: Château de Pommard chez Carabello-Baum
Cork talk: is it an instruction? The strikingly branded corks used for all Château de Pommard and Carabello-Baum Burgundies However...
- Aug 13, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château Fabre Gasparets Corbières-Boutenac 2017, France
£13.74–£20.50, Drinks & Co, Cellar Selected, Mr & Mrs Fine Wine, Noble Green Wines, Kwoff, Hedonism A jewel not just of Corbières but of...
- Jul 29, 2020
Douloufakis Winery Dafnios Liatiko 2017, Dafnes, Crete
£14.50–£16.25, The Daily Drinker, Maltby & Greek, Strictly Wine Let's start by unpacking the name. This is a dry red wine made from the...
- Jul 9, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: La Garnacha Salvaje del Moncayo 2018, Spain
£8.49, Majestic Maybe it's auto suggestion, but there's a lovely off-the-beaten-track mountain wildness (salvaje means wild) to this...
- Jul 2, 2020
Wine from the Edge: New Zealand and Oregon Pinot Noir
Ready for the off – sample bottles of New Zealand and Oregon Pinot Noir lined up in order for the tasting This tasting, which replaced...
- Jun 11, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château la Canorgue Rouge 2017, Luberon, France
£15.95, Yapp Brothers I wasn't planning to do another Provence red as Wine of the Week so soon, but I can't resist this and it's...
- May 14, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: d'Arenberg The Footbolt Shiraz 2017, McLaren Vale Australia
£12–£14.99, Tesco, The Wine Society, Great Western Wine, ND John, Winepig Unashamedly full-throated Aussie Shiraz from a family-owned and...
- May 13, 2020
A Pit Stop with Pedro Parra in Chile
The genie in the pit: Pedro Parra in one of thousands of soil pits (calicatas) he has dug, but this one is special: it's amid vines in...
- Apr 30, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine des Tourelles Vieilles Vignes Carignan 2018, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
£17–£21, Great Grog, WoodWinters, The Wriggly Tin Wine Company, Borough Wines Old vines, old winery – Lebanon's first commercial one in...
- Apr 23, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine André Colonge et Fils Fleurie 2017, France
£15.20, Tanners Wines It's not just a beguiling name for a pretty wine. Good Fleurie has hidden depth, often ageing well for four or five...
- Apr 9, 2020
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine de Mourchon Séguret Tradition 2017, Séguret Côtes du Rhône, France
£14.99–£16.95, Averys of Bristol , Black Dog Wines (UK) I’m often surprised by the wines I find I haven’t featured here before. This...
- Apr 7, 2020
The 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...
- Mar 26, 2020
WINE 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,...
- Mar 12, 2020
WINE 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...
- Feb 27, 2020
WINE 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....
- Feb 20, 2020
WINE 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...
- Feb 6, 2020
WINE 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:...
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