Inspiring island wines: reds from Sicily and Sardinia
Update, September 4, 2018: the Etna Rosso and Barbazzale are now out of stock, so the mixed case is no longer available, but the rest of...
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Aug 16, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Nicosia Fondo Filara Etna Bianco 2017, Etna, Sicily, Italy
£12.50, The Wine Society This mouthwatering, mineral dry white combines two of my enthusiasms: wines from volcanic soils and island...
Jun 7, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Mount Horrocks Watervale Riesling 2017, Clare Valley, South Australia
£17.55–£21.99, Exel Wines, Noel Young WInes, No2 Pound Street, Loki Wine Why oh why are we so resistant to Riesling in the UK? On second...
May 30, 2018
The white wine that thinks it's a red: Santorini Assyrtiko
No one knows quite how many indigenous grape varieties Greece has, because so many take different names in different regions and have...
May 10, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Te Awa Left Field Albariño 2017, Gisborne, New Zealand
£12.99, Cambridge Wine Merchants If you’re an Albariño fan, you’ll love this wine, as long as it’s not the saline mineral character that...
Apr 26, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Cauhapé Geyser Jurançon Sec 2016, Jurançon, France
£13.95, The Wine Society Dry Jurançon has been one of my desert-island dry whites since I first tasted a Sec from Domaine Cauhapé, back...
Apr 12, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Champ Divin Cuvée Castor Chardonnay Savagnin 2016, Côtes du Jura, France
£19.50, Tanners Wines From a region favoured by sommeliers looking for wines that are versatile with food, this white is a mouthwatering...
Apr 11, 2018
Txakoli – a must-try wine (even if you don't want to pronounce it)
The first bodega I visited on a revelatory, perception-challenging first trip to the Spanish Basque country’s Txakoli regions last autumn...
Mar 23, 2018
12 of the best from Aldi
Aldi's wines are cheap, as you would expect, but they're bought with care. These are a dozen that stood out at a recent press tasting....
Mar 14, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Bouchard Père et Fils Bourgogne Chardonnay La Vignée 2014, Burgundy, France
£13.69–£14.50, Penistone Wine Cellars, Just in Cases, TheDrinkShop.com, Sandhams Wine, Hailsham Cellars This is just the kind of thing I...
Mar 6, 2018
Expanding wine drinkers' horizons: The Daily Drinker
As it was so hard choosing between the five Daily Drinker wines for my Wine of the Week, I'm writing up the other four here (and looking...
Mar 1, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Venea Trebbiano d'Abruzzo 2015, Abruzzo, Italy
£9.50, or £8.55 club members' price, The Daily Drinker I’ve tasted only five of The Daily Drinker’s wines, so can hardly claim knowledge...
Feb 15, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: Telmo Rodríguez Mountain Blanco 2013, Sierras de Málaga, Spain
£17.95, Ocado Here’s as fine a demonstration as you’ll get that there’s more to Málaga than sweet wine. Sierras de Málaga is the DO...
Jan 29, 2018
Sauvignon catch-up
My Festive White Wine Guide last month was light on Sauvignon Blanc, so I’m putting that right with 8 recommendations here, in a variety...
Jan 25, 2018
WINE OF THE WEEK: De Grendel Sauvignon Blanc 2017, Durbanville, South Africa
£8.99, on offer until 20 February, Waitrose and Ocado The weather in London is looking a bit more Sauvignon Blanc-friendly than it has...
Jan 15, 2018
The changing face of Txakoli
Hot-foot from a trip to Basque Spain at the end of October, I postponed the idea of a blog enthusing about Txakoli (aka Chacolí) on the...
Aug 10, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Altano Douro Branco 2016, Douro, Portugal
£8.50, The Wine Society I’ve been following this delicious unoaked white from the outset and each vintage more than lives up to its...
Aug 3, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Château-Thébaud Muscadet Sèvre et Maine Granit 2010, Loire, France
£14, Tanners Muscadet growers have been having a tough time of it in the last few years, with devastating frosts this year and last...
Jul 20, 2017
WINE OF THE WEEK: Kyperounda Winery Petritis 2016, Pitsilia, Troodos Mountains, Cyprus
£15.40, Wineman.co.uk This week’s wine comes from the highest vineyards in Europe – rocky terraces at 1,400 metres above sea level in the...
Jul 11, 2017
Assyrtiko steps out of Greece and into Australia
I like classic wines made from so-called noble grape varieties as much as anyone, but there’s a thrill of a different kind in wines that...
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