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Survival Plans for Prosecco Shortage.

Usually convenience store wine shelves mean limited choice, higher prices and – sometimes – patchy quality. Come with me though to a retailer represented in most towns and villages that skilfully averts all three of those drawbacks and also has a great option for any prosecco famine.

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Something for everyone at Waitrose

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.

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Sainsbury’s see May out with cracking discounts

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.

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Four good reasons to boldly go ……

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.

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The Finest* range scores well in the new Tesco promotions.

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.

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Tesco put top level Prosecco on offer

Tesco refreshed its promotions a few days ago with its familiar cocktail of fizz, branded wines and 18-20 lines from its Finest* premium brand. They include a great value Spanish red and – to me – one of the best modestly priced Proseccos on the market.

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February Tesco Promotion

Here are one or two highlights from the recent Tesco promotion  – with the focus on the very straight forward “crowd pleasers” most of us

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