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WINE OF THE WEEK: Bischel Gau-Algesheim Terra Fusca Riesling Trocken 2020, Rheinhessen, Germany
£26.45, The Wine Barn This page sees too few Rieslings and too few German wines. One wine that falls into both underrepresented camps...
May 25, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Morandé Terrarum Patrimonial Semillon 2022, Maule Valley, Chile
£9.99, Waitrose For the second week running the spotlight is on a wine made from 100-plus year old vines, but this time the wine is...
May 10, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Saint Gayan Sablet L'Oratory 2021, Sablet Côtes du Rhône Villages, France
£15.25, Yapp Brothers If you thought Sablet was a red wine, you would be right. Most of the time. Nine in ten bottles is red, but 10% of...
Apr 27, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Heggies Vineyard Cloudline Chardonnay 2022, Eden Valley, Australia
£13, Co-op With a name like Cloudline, there are no prizes for guessing that this wine comes from high up. At 500m in the Eden Valley,...
Apr 13, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Carvalho Martins Golpe Douro Branco 2021, Douro, Portugal
£13.50, Tanners This recent discovery by Tanners is a gem: a textured, dry white wine with crystalline acidity, a riveting smoky, mineral...
Mar 30, 2023


2020, Another Extraordinary Vintage at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
The magnificent La Tâche 2020 is conspicuous by its absence in this line-up of empty bottles, but it was definitely in the tasting (see...
Mar 20, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Katie Jones Les Vignes Cachées 2021, Vin de France
£15.99, Naked Wines Another winner from the inspiring, indomitable saviour of unloved and old vines, Katie Jones of Domaine Jones in the...
Mar 16, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Cambria Katherine's Vineyard Chardonnay 2019, Santa Maria Valley, California, US
£22.99, Majestic Californian and US wines generally are infrequent visitors to this page, not because I don't appreciate them but because...
Feb 23, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Lions de Suduiraut Blanc Sec 2021, Bordeaux, France
£19.95, Cambridge Wine Merchants White Bordeaux has never really established an identity that’s captured hearts and minds like white...
Feb 2, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Yealands Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2022, Marlborough, New Zealand
£11, Sainsbury's; M&S and Waitrose soon I always step out of the season of festive indulgence into the new year wanting this kind of dry...
Jan 12, 2023


WINE OF THE WEEK: Rustenberg Wild Ferment Unwooded Chardonnay 2022, Stellenbosch, South Africa
£12, Tesco If you’re faced with someone who thinks Christmas isn’t Christmas without Chablis, someone else who always chooses southern...
Dec 22, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Olivier Coste Rare Carignan Blanc 2021, Vin de France
£13, Vino Gusto, Wine and the Vine, Strictly Wine, Great Wines Direct, Corking Wines and other independents* I’ve been waiting to feature...
Nov 17, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: La Cendrillon Nuance 2020, Vin de France
£13.20, Tanners Wines Wines rarely feature in this slot twice, but the 2018 vintage of La Cendrillon Nuance was my Wine of the Week in...
Oct 6, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Royal Tokaji Nyulászó Dry Furmint 2018, Tokaj, Hungary
£18, The Wine Society If ever there was a wine that shouted terroir, it's this single-vineyard dry white Furmint from Nyulászó, one of...
Sep 22, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Bellingham The Bernard Series Chenin Blanc 2021, South Africa
£11–£14.39, Tesco, The General Wine Co Chenin Blanc comes in all shapes and sizes: dry, medium, sweet, still, sparkling, oaked, unoaked,...
Sep 1, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Michele Chiarlo Nivole Moscato d’Asti 2021, Italy
£16.17 (75cl), Great Wines Direct; £9.90–£11.50 (37.5cl), Vinvm, Oddbins, Noble Green Wines, The Whalley Wine Shop, Great Wines Direct...
Aug 11, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Taste the Difference Coteaux du Giennois Sauvignon Blanc 2020, France
£11, Sainsbury's If you fancy an alternative to Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé that's close in both style and origin, this refreshing dry white...
Jul 21, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Gini Soave Classico 2020, Veneto, Italy
£15.88, Justerini & Brooks Good Soave, which usually means Classico, often doesn’t get the recognition it deserves as one of the most...
Jun 30, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: Smith & Sheth Cru Sauvignon Blanc 2021, Wairau, New Zealand
£17, Tesco This cracking New Zealand Sauvignon is the product of the very low-cropping 2021 vintage and one of the country’s top...
Jun 16, 2022


WINE OF THE WEEK: A de Château d'Arche Bordeaux Blanc Sec 2020, France
£13.50, The Wine Society This is the debut dry wine from a Sauternes Grand Cru and it's delicious. Fresh herbs, grass, dried flowers,...
May 26, 2022
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