Brian Elliott is an established wine journalist, taster, judge and writer with a weekly column in Scottish newspapers.
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Catch up with the varied and reliable batch of promotions that Waitrose have assembled for the rest of May. I have pinpointed four particularly strong examples but there are many more in store to engage the incurable wine browser.
Inexpensive Bordeaux wine often seems an oxymoron but the latest Sainsbury’s promotion (along with its bulk buy discount where it applies) turns it into reality. I have pinpointed three of the region’s wines that, to me, illustrate the point perfectly.
With a whole range of supermarket promotions to dazzle and confuse, here is a short list of the best of the current bunch. Put them in your trolley’s sat nav for days when there is time for little beyond “grab and go” shopping.
As the premium discounters make the market for conventional wine more challenging, so established retailers are experimenting with more unorthodox – and sometimes exotic – wines. Here are four of them that are particularly tasty – and reduced in price too.
A new Tesco promotion began yesterday and neatly partners a great champagne with six dependable wines to herald springtime but which all cost less than £6
Waitrose started a new promotion yesterday – and I think it has been laudably enriched with some unorthodox and enticing wine that many of you will enjoy.
Having cast my eye over two promotions that started this week – at the Co-op and Sainsbury’s – here is some well priced (and well made) champagne to help you toast the arrival of spring.
The M&S promotions that started yesterday combines well made whites at entry point prices with at least one unconventional wine that will startle and delight by turns
Here is a quartet of wines retailing around £10 – but worth rather more – and part of MidWeek Wines aim to focus on value at several price points – not just the lowest.
Over a hundred Tesco wines began a three week price reduction yesterday or this morning and here are the “must buy” components. Outside Scotland the promotion coincides with a further 25% multi buy offer that brings some of these commended wines down to a mere £4.50 a bottle.
