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Penfolds French-ish Launches, the New Grange, the Fabled Bin 60A and More
When Penfolds launches its 2022 collection tomorrow, Thursday 4 August, it will include two French, or French-ish, still wines for the...
Aug 3, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Forza della Natura Orange Catarratto 2021, Terre Siciliane, Italy
£9.99, Waitrose If you've yet to fall for an orange wine, try this hazy gold, unfined and unfiltered organic example from Sicily. It's...
Jul 28, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Taste the Difference Coteaux du Giennois Sauvignon Blanc 2020, France
£11, Sainsbury's If you fancy an alternative to Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé that's close in both style and origin, this refreshing dry white...
Jul 21, 2022


Prime Time for Pink: Summer 2022 Rosé Round-up Part 1
Update, August 12 I've just added two more wines to this, so it's now 12 appetite-whetting rosés. The additions, Ramón Bilbao Rosado and...
Jul 19, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Quinta do Mouro Zagalos Reserva 2017, Alentejano, Portugal
£20, The Wine Society In view of the weather, I almost changed to a white wine this week, the intense, fragrant, beautifully chiselled...
Jul 14, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Petite Immortelle 2018, Côtes du Roussillon Villages, France
£10.90–£12, Gorey Wine Cellar, lovewhatyoueat, Bath Road Beers, Beckford Bottle Shop, Cork of the North, SW Bottle Shop, Red & White An...
Jul 7, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Gini Soave Classico 2020, Veneto, Italy
£15.88, Justerini & Brooks Good Soave, which usually means Classico, often doesn’t get the recognition it deserves as one of the most...
Jun 30, 2022


Celebrating English Wines
My picks for the second weekend of English Wine Week celebrations. Not that they're only for English Wine Week. English wines are for...
Jun 24, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Pierre Jaurant Saint-Chinian 2020, Languedoc, France
£5.99, Aldi Saint-Chinian is an appellation I look out for in restaurants. The wines – white and rosé as well as the more abundant reds –...
Jun 23, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Smith & Sheth Cru Sauvignon Blanc 2021, Wairau, New Zealand
£17, Tesco This cracking New Zealand Sauvignon is the product of the very low-cropping 2021 vintage and one of the country’s top...
Jun 16, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Albert Road Pinot Noir by Savage & Louw, Western Cape
£9.49, Waitrose Finding inexpensive Pinot Noir isn’t the challenge it once was, but even so this is a spectacularly good-value example –...
Jun 9, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Château des Fougères La Raison 2012, Graves, France
£16, Tesco I was planning to choose something that shouted summer more obviously this week, but along came a timely reminder that you...
Jun 2, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: A de Château d'Arche Bordeaux Blanc Sec 2020, France
£13.50, The Wine Society This is the debut dry wine from a Sauternes Grand Cru and it's delicious. Fresh herbs, grass, dried flowers,...
May 26, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Tringario Ludopata Marselan 2020, Colchagua Valley, Chile
£17.50–£17.99, Grape Expectations, Novel Wines If you fancy an unusual, high quality, yet effortlessly approachable red, this rare...
May 19, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Kutjevo Rosé 2020, Slavonia, Croatia
£14.49/£12.49 in a 12-bottle mix, Laithwaites If you like your rosés very pale, look no further. If you don't like your rosés very pale,...
May 12, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Filos Estate Aspri Petra Assyrtiko 2021, Florina, Greece
£6.99, Aldi I know, I know, this week's wine is being posted late but, believe me, it's worth the wait for this terrific value, summery...
May 6, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Adnams Barolo del Commune di Serralunga d'Alba 2015, Italy
£24.99, Adnams If you're wedded to Rioja or red Bordeaux for Easter, don't let me stop you, but if you want something different, yet...
Apr 14, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Saddle Goose Skin Contact Bacchus 2020, England
£20, Saddle Goose Wine On the face of it, the only thing this straw-yellow wine has in common with the red wine that occupied this slot...
Apr 7, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaines Lupier El Terroir 2015, Navarra, Spain
£19.99, Marlo Wine The old Garnacha vines that produce this fragrant, concentrated red date back to 1903 and come from up to 27...
Mar 31, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: The Society's Exhibition Santorini Assyrtiko 2020, Greece
£14.95, The Wine Society Just the sight of the words Santorini and Assyrtiko on the label will be enough for some people to reach...
Mar 17, 2022
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