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Aldi Wines go Online

Aldi have launched an e-commerce wine service this week taking a group of cracking wines to a wider audience. Here are four of the highlights.

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5 Ways to make 2016 your best wine year yet

Here are five very simple way to get better value and more enjoyment from wine yet still try to look after yourself.

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Putting sparkle into the Holiday Season

To try to catch the closing dates for many online operations, there are two posts today. The first offers fabulous red wines for lunch while this one provides the sparkle that no Christmas should be without.

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So which red for Christmas lunch?

Nowadays Christmas is not just for turkey, so here are a group of luxury red wines to grace and enhance whatever may form the centre piece your Christmas lunch.

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So which white should I select for Christmas lunch?

Christmas lunch calls for a bit of luxury, so today and tomorrow we round off my Christmas selections with suggestions that fill that bill perfectly.

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9 Fortified Wines for Christmas

A glass of fortified wine was as much part of Christmas Past as holly and mistletoe but the rise of table wines has reduced the demand – so here is a glimpse of what we are missing.

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Upgrading your wine knowledge from as little as £8

No wine drinker wants to appear (if you will forgive the double meaning) as a plonker, so getting advice and extra information from reliable, well written and entertaining books is a Christmas activity that keeps on giving.

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Tasty wines at an outlet near you

As a limbering up exercise before Christmas tuck into some of these tasty wines – available at, I guess, the wine retailer with the most outlets nationwide.

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Forget Black Friday, today is Golden Thursday

Today’s new Collection from Lidl includes a superb dessert wine that, to me, is a veritable crock of gold at the end of an impressive rainbow of varied wines.

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8 good reasons to catch Sainsbury’s 25% off deal

Sainsbury’s begin a new 25% off multi-buy promotion this morning. Use it, for example, to stock up on a tasty red at £3.57 or to knock nearly £8 off a classy Chateauneuf du Pape.

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Brian Elliott

Brian Elliott is an established wine journalist, taster, judge and writer with a weekly column in Scottish newspapers.

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