WINE OF THE WEEK: *finest Greco Beneventano 2016, Campania, Italy
£8 until 1 January, Tesco Since I included this southern Italian in my Festive White Wine Guide last week, I've discovered that it's on...
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- Dec 20, 2017
The Festive Sweet, Sticky and Fortified Guide
Sweet and fortified wines come into their own at this time of year – for entertaining, sipping quietly and contemplatively, or giving as...
- Dec 19, 2017
The Festive White Wine Guide 2017
Sixteen dry whites to cover the festivities and all eventualities at prices from £7 to £48 and from the supermarket giants to small...
- Dec 15, 2017
The Festive Red Wine Guide 2017
Twenty red wines to take you through all manner of festivities and in some cases festivities for years to come. As, always, they’re...
- Dec 13, 2017
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 11, 2017
Festive fizz 2017: anything except Champagne
The first of the season's round-ups is sparkling wines – anything alcoholic and fizzy except Champagne (the Champagne round-up follows...
- Nov 30, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: *finest Viña del Cura Rioja Gran Reserva 2011, Rioja, Spain
£11, Tesco (25% off when you buy 6: £49.50) Wire-wrapped bottles divide Spanish red wine drinkers into those who run a mile and those for...
- Nov 16, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Taste the Difference Barbaresco 2014, Piedmont, Italy
£11, Sainsbury's Barbaresco and bargain aren't words that usually go together, but £11 is a very good price for a Barbaresco of this...
- Nov 2, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Seresin Rachel Pinot Noir 2012/2013, Marlborough, New Zealand
£22–£23, The Wine Society, Booths supermarkets I don’t normally do split vintages – i.e. recommend two at the same time – but 2012 and...
- Sep 28, 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 7, 2017
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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 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 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....
- 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...
- Mar 30, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Val de Salis Saint-Chinian 2015, Languedoc, France
£7.99, Lidl This hits the shelves today with 39 other wines in Lidl's Easter Collection and is a red to zone in on if you like the...
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