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17 hours ago

WINE OF THE WEEK: Cabernario No. 8 Ungrafted Vines Cabernet Sauvignon 2020, Maipo Valley, Chile

£12.99, Waitrose There's 15 per cent Syrah in this Chilean red, and to beneficial effect, but even so the wine comes across as very...

Sep 21

WINE OF THE WEEK: Gaia Wines Thalassitis Santorini Assyrtiko 2022, Santorini, Greece

£26.11–£34.85, Tannico, All About Wine, Hic!, Epinoia, Great Wines Direct, Drink Finder, Corking Wines This is slightly outside the...

Sep 14

WINE OF THE WEEK: Santa Tresa Insieme Orange Wine 2022, Terre Siciliane, Italy

£14.75, Vintage Roots If you’re in the business of writing about or selling wine, it's easy to think that orange wine is now so...

Sep 7

WINE OF THE WEEK: Olivier Coste Mourvèdre Illegal 2020, Pays d'Oc, France

£13.95–£17.70, Fintry Wines, Great Wines Direct, Vino Gusto, Beckford Bottle Shop, Noble Green Wines, The Wee Vinoteca, Turton Wines This...

Aug 31

WINE OF THE WEEK: Ormarine Villemarin Picpoul de Pinet 2022, Languedoc, France

£9.99, Majestic I can hardly believe that in 400 wines of the week this is the first time I've featured a Picpoul de Pinet. Fitting...

Aug 24

WINE OF THE WEEK: Errazuriz Wild Ferment Pinot Noir 2021, Aconcagua, Chile

£12.95–£15.25, Amps Wine, Vinvm, Cheers Wine, The Surrey Wine Cellar, Booths supermarkets, NY Wines, Fareham Wine Cellar, Whole Foods...

Aug 17

WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Filliatreau Saumur Champigny 2020, Loire, France

£17.25, Yapp Brothers I’ve always like Loire Valley Cabernet Franc, even way back when I started in wine and it was a leafy green shadow...

Aug 10

WINE OF THE WEEK: Mar de Frades Albariño Atlantico 2021, Rías Baixas, Spain

£16, Tesco There are times when no other white wine seems to fit the mood more than a Galician Albariño. Now is one of them. You can...

Aug 3

WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Jones Fitou Vieilles Vignes 2021/2022, Fitou, France

£14–14.50, Booths, The Wine Society and independents It’s likely that grapes from my adopted vine at Domaine Jones are in both these...

Jul 27

WINE OF THE WEEK: Vasse Felix Filius Chardonnay 2021, Margaret River, Western Australia

£12.99/£14.99, Majestic You wouldn’t know it from this svelte, balanced, bright-eyed Chardonnay, but 2021 was one of the most challenging...

Jul 20

WINE OF THE WEEK: Santa Tresa Rina Russa Frappato 2022, Terre Siciliane, Italy

£8.99 (on current offer), Waitrose There are quite a lot of red wines that you can drink lightly chilled if you want to and there's a...

Jul 19

Prime Time for Pink: Rosés for Summer 2023

Update, August 3 I've just added two more southern French rosés: Alaina, which is new to me, although its producer, Laurent Miquel,...

Jul 13

WINE OF THE WEEK: Henriques & Henriques Sercial 10 Years Old Madeira, Portugal

£18.95–£21.50, Secret Bottle Shop, Waitrose, The Wine Society, many independents You might not think of Madeira as a summer drink, but...

Jun 29

WINE OF THE WEEK: Amstramgram Pomone Vin Orange 2022, Vin de France

£14.25–£15.95, Grape & Grind, Carruthers & Kent, Wild & Lees If an electric orange colour sounds alarming and likely to indicate a wine...

Jun 22

WINE OF THE WEEK: Finest Peumo Carmenère 2020, Peumo, Valle del Cachapoal, Chile

£8, Tesco This has to be one of the best value wines in the UK. When I last recommended it here, I thought it was good value at £9 and...

Jun 16

Going Beyond Sparkling Wine: England's New Still Wines

Chardonnay vines in The King's Vineyard, Rochester, Kent, planted on the site of the vineyard of the medieval priory. Simpsons Wine...

Jun 15

WINE OF THE WEEK: La Vis Nosiola 2022, Vigneti delle Dolomiti, Italy

£12.99, House of Townend You need to let this lithe, young, north Italian white open up in your glass to enjoy it at its best, so pour it...

Jun 8

WINE OF THE WEEK: Jean-Luc Baldès Malbec du Clos 2020, Cahors, France

£8.49/£10.99, Waitrose I’m delighted to see this on the shelves. We don’t see enough Cahors in the UK. It has a reputation for being a...

Jun 1

WINE OF THE WEEK: 14/27 Agiorgitiko 2019, Nemea, Greece

£15.99/£13.99, Laithwaites Sound the first 'g' as a 'y' and the second as a hard 'g' and you're well on your way to a passable...

May 25

WINE OF THE WEEK: Bischel Gau-Algesheim Terra Fusca Riesling Trocken 2020, Rheinhessen, Germany

£26.45, The Wine Barn This page sees too few Rieslings and too few German wines. One wine that falls into both underrepresented camps...