Just to let you know that a new Wine Cellar promotion starts at Lidl today, Thursday May 28th. There is a lot of good stuff which, if past experience is anything to go by, sells out very quickly. Look out particularly for the Portuguese wines! Full accompanying brochure should be in with the weekend papers. […]
Last month I had a little gripe about how most wine-drinkers walk swiftly past those gorgeous Rieslings which the wine trade love to love. The situation is very much reversed when it comes to Pinotage. Consumers have no hang-ups whatever about buying wines from this grape variety whereas the trade on the other hand gets […]
Yesterday it was cheap and cheerful from Tesco, today it’s good stuff from Waitrose. Really good stuff. Fingers, credit card and cellar are currently flexing themselves for a pretty hefty order. We urge you to take a look here at the 254 wines with 25% off for one week only until 7th […]
Tesco has 25% off any 6 bottles from now until 21st April. We like this style of promotion because it is a chance to buy your favourites at competitive prices and, of course, ‘every little helps’. But actually Tesco’s assistance is even grander and more obliging than usual. Wines already promoted and reduced, and this […]
The Aldi/Lidl showdown, a blind tasting of pairs of generic wines from both stores, took place in Birmingham and revealed some interesting points. Lots of people were curious about the tasting emailing me their disappointment at not being able to attend for whatever reason, something they don’t usually bother to do, and more since the […]
I just love it when a wine hits me in the face with a great big smack of quality, especially when I am not altogether expecting it. The Wine Society press tasting found me mouth agape, pointing with raised eye-brows to the Pouilly-Fumé I’d just tasted. Other tasters around me agreed. I had had my pen-poised to write something […]
There must be good reasons why you, the wine lover, doesn’t drink wine made from particular grape varieties. But often this stubborn refusal to learn to love what some of us think of as utter deliciousness is sadly based on myth and outdated prejudice. The most maligned of these dejected grape varieties is the exquisite, uplifting and […]
For those of you still depressed by how comprehensively England were thrashed by New Zealand in the cricket World Cup, the following tale may offer some cheer. On the same day as the cricket, a blind tasting took place in both Wellington and London that pitched some of the best English sparkling wines against the best […]
One of the questions I’m asked about most frequently is for how long a wine can be aged. To be honest, for most of us, this is not a question keeping us awake at night as apparently 98% of the bottles of wine we buy, we drink within two weeks. If that seems way out […]
I’m not sure why people ask me for how long they should keep their wine or for just how long it will still be delicious because most of us don’t actually keep our wine for very long. My friend does though and he recently put on a tasting of old clarets; very mature Bordeaux, mostly […]