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Mar 16, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Xavier & Nicolas Barbet Moulin-à-Vent 2014, Beaujolais, France

£14.99–£15.49, Hennings Wine, Vineyards of Sherborne Beaujolais is on a roll, as the fashion for big, ripe, oaky blockbusters is replaced...

Mar 15, 2017

Wine with Food: what to drink with pork

Pork dishes in four Michelin starred restaurants (clockwise from top left): Duke of Berkshire barbecued pork ribeye, baked potato, sorrel...

Mar 9, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Caixas Godello 2015, Monterrei, Spain

£7.49 in any 6 bottles, £8.99 per single bottle, Majestic Godello may sound like a character in a Mozart opera but it’s a high quality...

Mar 7, 2017

The Year they Tried to Erase: 1956 Tokaji

Two bottles of rare, museum collection Tokaji Aszú were opened in London last week. I was one of a handful of tasters Revolutionary...

Mar 2, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Feudo di Santa Tresa Frappato 2015, Terre Siciliane, Italy

£8.99–£9.99, Adnams, Vintage Roots, Ocado It would be hard to come up with a red wine more full of the joys of spring than this juicy,...

Mar 1, 2017

Credit Where Credit is Due: Hawke's Bay's stellar Chardonnays and a debt to Australia

Hawke's Bay is producing stellar Chardonnays, some from vineyards within spitting distance of the Pacific Ocean. Left and centre above,...

Feb 23, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Réserve des Tuguets Madiran 2014, France

£6, Tesco A bargain from Madiran in the foothills of the Pyrenees in south west France, one of my favourite parts of the world and one...

Feb 17, 2017

Girls' Night: who'd have thought it...

As I sat on the train reading up about the dinner I was heading for at Northcote in Lancashire, a Michelin-starred restaurant and AA...

Feb 16, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Vasse Felix Filius Chardonnay 2016, Margaret River, Australia

£12.99, Waitrose I love a good Chardonnay – anything from taut, streamlined, mineral Chablis to fuller, richer, barrel-aged styles. But...

Feb 10, 2017

Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2014

Aubert de Villaine, director and co-proprietor of DRC, at Corney & Barrow's London HQ for the tasting The wines were tasted at Corney &...

Feb 10, 2017

Romance in a Wine Bottle

There's no harm in serving up vinous clichés, as long as they're good. These are: two pink Champagnes and two reds that will have your...

Feb 9, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Edgebaston Syrah 2014, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Rude Wines, £12.99 If a wine from the southern hemisphere or North America is labelled Syrah, not Shiraz, you can be pretty sure the...

Feb 2, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Dog Point Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc 2016, Marlborough, New Zealand

£13.50, The Wine Society, Hennings Wine It’s hard for any New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc to stand out from the massed crowds, but Dog Point...

Jan 26, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Moser XV 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon, Ningxia, China

£10.99, Wine Rack I’ve chosen a new-wave red wine from China to mark Chinese New Year on Saturday. The alternative would have been a...

Jan 19, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Rioja Vega Crianza Edición Limitada 2013, Rioja, Spain

£12.95, FromVineyardsDirect This week’s wine is a comforting, oak-matured red for wintery weather and warming food. It’s a limited...

Jan 12, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Bellingham The Bernard Series Whole Bunch Roussanne 2015, Paarl, South Africa

£10, Sainsbury's Roussanne is a peach of a white grape variety from the northern Rhône, but it’s susceptible to all sorts of pests and...

Jan 11, 2017

Giving German Pinot Noir some more love

I made the point in last week's Wine of the Week that Germany has never been short of red wines. More than one third of its vineyards are...

Jan 9, 2017

Beaujolais: The Comeback Kid

The famous windmill that gave its name to Moulin-à-Vent, one of the ten crus of Beaujolais I was slightly wary of showing a Beaujolais to...

Jan 5, 2017

WINE OF THE WEEK: Stepp Pinot Noir 'S' 2015, Pfalz, Germany

£15, selected Marks & Spencer Hands up if you didn’t know Germany made red wine. Quite a show of hands, I bet. In fact, Germany has never...

Dec 21, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2014, Rhône, France

£10.99, Co-op If you’re looking for a heartwarming, generous red for the festive feast this Châteauneuf-du-Pape is just the wine, whether...