Archive | March, 2018

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Spring into Lidl 26/03/18

  Feeling thirsty?  Help is at hand.  On Monday, March 26th Lidl’s Spring Wine Tour will hit the shelves.  Good wines, great prices and a few that particularly caught my eye……   Champagne Bissinger Brut Rosé – £14.99 – Relatively dry for a rosé, well balanced and surprisingly complex – clearly some development in bottle.  I’ll […]

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Our MW in Argentina

Dispelling a few myths….   Argentina is and always has been a red wine country, yes? Wrong. As recently as the 1980’s, 90% of the country’s wine was white.   Argentina is all about Malbec, of course…… Wrong. Under 20% of the country’s current grape plantings are Malbec.   Argentina is a hot country so […]