SUNDAY BEST WINES FOR OCTOBER

Taking a respite from the website’s staple wine diet, today’s the day for our regular Sunday Best feature on wines for special occasions – including well-priced claret and burgundy as well as a niche sauvignon and two superstar whites from Languedoc.

Rhinos and wines

Cricketing super-hero Darren Gough (Rhino to his admirers) is promoting a range South African wines – in support of an animal charity – and has joined forces with an excellent wine merchant and hugely successful wine specialist to do so.

Get onto the Latest Trend

A respected data analysis company tells us that UK wine consumers gently traded up during lockdown. Here are seven tasty wines awaiting others prepared to follow that trend. Plus a call for next week’s Zoom Tasting

Pick up a Picpoul

Picpoul has become the “go-to” wine for shellfish and is massively popular in the UK but which of the various versions is for you? Today’s post is specifically designed to help you answer exactly that question.