Mid-Week
Wines

Christmas is our last feast day so lunchtime wine needs careful thought but here are nine great candidates – from £10 to £20.

Fortified wine need not just belong to generations past. Many such current offerings provide fantastic quality – often at great value prices – and here are some you can buy with confidence.

Winter nights do not just mean drinking wine in comfortable surroundings but learning more about them too. Here are five books that not only help you do so but often offer “rattling good yarns” as well.

A treasure chest of wines have been assembled in the Lidl Christmas promotion and here are several that impressed me; they include unusual examples of port and fizz with more familiar classy reds and, of course, well priced sauvignon.

Another “25% off when you buy six” promotion starts in Sainsbury’s today, so here are five reliable (and already discounted) premium or award winning wines that these extra reductions turn into even brighter bargains – three of them drop below a fiver.

Tune in today for six excellent wines – from right across the price points – in probably the most plentiful of the High Street wine specialists – together with a little bonus of two “under £5” delights from Asda and Morrisons.

Not just a look at Tesco’s brand new promotions but a peep, perhaps, at the plan behind the main ranges – plus the final instalment of Everyday Bordeaux with wine from Sainsbury’s and the Co-op.

Climate change, current exchange rates and the potential effect of Brexit all suggest a rosy (and rosé) future for English wine so do take a closer look at these award winners.

What a line up today! Sainsbury’s latest “25% off when you buy six” deal, plus my top picks from their “conventional” promotion (including an unmissable Loire white) plus a lovely pinot gris from Aldi and Part 2 of my Everyday Bordeaux trilogy.

Here is a range of mid priced wine from an often under estimated High Street retailer – coupled with hot tips from Asda and Tesco that include an “Everyday Bordeaux”.