Discounter Discoveries: A New Lidl Wine Tour
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A new Lidl Wine Tour has just started, and today’s post picks out some of its stars that grabbed my attention.
Party and House Wine Options for you
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While Christmas Day lunch – understandably – attracts most attention, you also need good value but less expensive wines for casual seasonal drinking. Here are a pair of good ones.
Top Red Wines for Christmas
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Here are 10 top red wines, from a range of countries, that will grace any Christmas lunch table.
Top Tip Signposts for the Wine Aisles
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Once again, Top Tips highlights a pair of wines that don’t shout “Buy Me” but discreetly offer brilliant value for money.
Top Choices for Christmas (Part 1)
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Christmas shopping starts here with my look at festive season sweet wines and fortified ones. More – many more – top Christmas choices to follow in future weeks.
Reputations enhanced, but value preserved
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Revivals are often good to see, and today’s post looks at two names that had faded from view but are now back – improved but still well-priced.
Christmas drinks for “People Like Us”
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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
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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
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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
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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.