Christmas drinks for “People Like Us”
In addition to the usual Sunday Best and Friday Treat recommendations, today’s post brings you up to speed with a People’s Choice Drinks Award innovation and tries its award winning wines.
Decent £6 wine does exist – if you look hard
Our quest for great value wine again takes us on the “road less travelled” – today it’s to Southern Spain and even to Moldova.
Up to Half Price Offers at Aldi
Competition is hotting up for your wine-purchasing Christmas pennies, so our usual promotions feature is expanded to cover a new range of deals Aldi has introduced for the ten-week run up to Christmas.
Squeezing Maximum Value from the New World
Today the spotlight goes on great value new world wines – one with a name you might (inadvisably) ignore and the other with a price you couldn’t.
Where Value Lies off the Beaten Track
It is the “road less travelled” for an Italian red and “Loire” sauvignon today – but coupled with a look at something much more familiar – the Supermarket wine scene.
10½ Wine Reasons to be Positive
Today’s post tries to look on the bright side of the current wine scene and introduces two equally bright wines that will help you do so.
Great £6 Pinot Alongside a Malbec Superstar
A nice contrast today – Premier League malbec as a Sunday treat gets together with an enjoyable Romanian pinot noir weighing in at less than £6.
Top Tips to get ahead of the curve
Dial “M” for ….. well, Value. Two inexpensive wines starting with the same letter, that were ignored for years (or altogether in one case) show what you have been missing.
So, What’s New at Aldi
Five recommended wines from Aldi lead the charge in today’s post along with all your usual favourites.
When Being a Little Adventurous Pays Off
Today, we “go south” (in a good way) to laud a well-crafted red from South Africa and a savoury edged white from the South of France.