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Dec 20, 2016

The Festive Fortified Wine Guide

Fortified wines are the perfect, relaxing wines to sip when life moves into the slow lane in the evenings and over the festive period....

Dec 19, 2016

What to Drink with Goose? It's easier than you think

People overestimate the difficulty of matching wine to roast goose. I really don't think it's tricky. I do goose at Christmas every year...

Dec 16, 2016

The Festive White Wine Guide 2016

A round-up of white wines – dry first, then sweet – to cover the festive season, whether it's a quiet night in, basic crowd control, or...

Dec 15, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Henry Fessy Beaujolais-Villages 2015, France

£9.75, Oddbins The 2015 vintage was brilliant for Beaujolais, from straight Beaujolais to the ten appellations in their own right at the...

Dec 14, 2016

The Festive Red Wine Guide 2016

Updated 15 December to take in a Christmas offer price in the Co-op – £5 off its Chateauneuf-du-Pape A round-up of red wines of all...

Dec 9, 2016

The Festive Champagne Guide 2016

December 29, 2016: prices and stockists updated. I’m writing this a few days after The Wine Gang’s 2016 Ultimate Champagne Evening, so...

Dec 8, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Hommage du Rhône Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc 2015, France

£13.99, Waitrose White Châteauneuf-du-Pape comes into the same category as the white Rioja I recommended a couple of weeks ago: everyone...

Dec 6, 2016

Christmas Fizz: anything but Champagne

The first of this year’s festive round-ups is sparkling wines – any kind of alcoholic fizz except Champagne (Champagne will follow)....

Dec 1, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Jones Fitou 2014, Fitou, France

£14.50, The Wine Society; £95 for 6, domainejones.com The key to the quality and character of this richly fruity Fitou is the age of the...

Nov 29, 2016

A £12 Wine You Can Age For Two Decades

Grapes for Amarone drying on traditional bamboo trays After visiting Valpolicella last month, I was going to write about the current...

Nov 24, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Viñas de Gain Artadi Rioja Blanco 2010, Rioja, Spain

£17.95, Jeroboams I’m always surprised how many Rioja drinkers – and there are a lot in Britain – only ever drink red Rioja. Far less...

Nov 17, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Tanners Super Claret 2012, Haut-Médoc, France

£14.95, Tanners, tanners-wines.co.uk The name may sound a tad old school, but the wine, I’m happy to say, is not. It’s claret for sure,...

Nov 10, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Errazuriz Aconcagua Costa Sauvignon Blanc 2015, Aconcagua, Chile

£8.99, down from £11.99 until 6 December, Waitrose Shimmering brilliance and seamless layers of flavour – beautifully expressive...

Nov 3, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Elephant Hill Syrah 2014, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

£19–£21.30, Theatre of Wine, Mr & Mrs Fine Wine, Great Western Wine, Hedonism Wines This was the first Elephant Hill wine I'd come across...

Nov 2, 2016

Give Muscadet Some Love: five wines to try

Post updated with more recommendations and more about the crus communaux on 11 November 2016 Muscadet has been having a tough time of it...

Oct 29, 2016

Is co-fermentation the new black for Port?

Co-fermenting – fermenting different grape varieties together happened by default in the past It was a while since I’d been in the Douro...

Oct 27, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Domaine Cordier Bourgogne Blanc Jean de la Vigne, Burgundy, France

£14.99, or £12.99 in a 6-bottle mix, Majestic Seems odd that this is the first white Burgundy I’ve recommended here. I’ve homed in on...

Oct 20, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: Tierra Y Hombre Pinot Noir 2015, Casablanca Valley, Chile

£8.50, Marks & Spencer I was going to recommend Stepp Pinot Noir from Germany this week, but there's been a delay with the delivery and...

Oct 16, 2016

A Corker of an Afternoon: checking into the recorking clinic

Caught in the act: me snapping the documentary cameraman from National Geographic photographing my three bottles of Grange just before we...

Oct 13, 2016

WINE OF THE WEEK: The Society's Exhibition Albariño 2015, Rías Baixas, Spain

£12.95, The Wine Society This is as much a wine for Albariño doubters as it is for devotees. It's a stunner. Albariño is a Galician grape...