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”.
Here is something that will appeal to all lovers of sparkling wine within the areas it covers.
Here are the highlights from the latest round of offers from a retailer that (as the title suggests) has quietly but skilfully assembled a range that is reliable and very accessible
It’s time for another Lidl promotion and this one returns to France with some excellent offers. Look out, especially, for the less well known regions.
Here are details of a promotion that starts today on red wine many drinkers will not have encountered but which offers distinctive fare – and for a limited time – at an especially good price.
Dependable, good value wines to celebrate a good day (or obliterate memories of a bad one) available at a store on most people’s way home.
Get hot tips about what to look out for in Tesco’s current promotion – plus a couple of excellent wines from two other retailers.
As part of their evolution under Rowan Gormley, Majestic have revived their initiative of acquiring one-off parcels of interesting wine. Here is at least one highlights from the current example of that policy in operation – along with good wines from other retailers (Asda and the Co-op).
