The popularity of Sauvignon Blanc is showing no signs of letting up. People continue to buy, wineries continue to plant. We drink it throughout the year, of course, but it’s an especially fitting wine for summer drinking because it is generally very refreshing, zingy and uplifting, and usually it’s bottled with a screwcap closure which […]
Listen here at 1:17 available to listen until 7/8/16 CO-OP TRULY IRRESISTIBLE FIANO 2014 £6.99 12% International Wine Challenge Gold medallist and winner of the “Best Value White Wine under £7.00” trophy. This is 100% Fiano. It’s a medium bodied wine from Benevento in southern Italy. A little peachy number both in style and fruit character […]
Picpoul de Pinot Tesco Finest* 2015 £6.00 12.5% Refreshing, zingy and sort of lip-smacking which is perhaps not surprising as Picpoul means lip-stinger (apparently). It’s also just a little salty so is oyster-matching magic. Great for sunny day picnics. Not great for keeping for months on end. So drink now in the summer months. Food: […]
You might be forgiven for never having heard of Champagne De Castelnau. To be honest, it had slipped under my radar until recently, too. Its name and label are not exactly memorable even if you had spotted a bottle or two on the supermarket shelves, which you wouldn’t because they are not sold anywhere other […]
Burgundy, or Bourgogne as we must now properly refer to it as, can be quite an inaccessible wine region physically, financially and in terms of trying to get to grips with understanding all its sacred village names and individual vineyard plots or crus. There is no international airport nearby so it’s either a question of […]
We recommend these wines on offer at Majestic, showing the mix six price. Pierre-Jean Sauvion, Sauvignon Blanc 2014/15 – Val de Loire – £6.99 Sauvignon Blanc undoubtedly makes ideal summer drinking – nothing wrong with adding an ice cube or some sparkling water when it is really hot! This is a textbook example, dry, zesty […]
I rather like it when my views on wines are proved wrong, only of course if they change from being a bit negative to very positive as has happened following another look at the champagnes of Ayala. Ayala’s reputation has been somewhat up and down since its beginning in 1860, but, after having been languishing in a trough of producing forgettable […]
English Wine Week starts Saturday 28th May. And with apologies to the proud people of Wales it also includes wine from there.* If you haven’t already fallen in love with a few English wines make this week the moment that you do. The excitement about the rise in English wine quality is palpable in the trade, felt […]
You know what we’re like in the UK, the merest hint of sunshine and the bbq is out, the shorts are on and the rosé is in the fridge. The Drink Shop not only has a range covering every possible pink Pantone and price point but they are all reduced. But only until Thursday, […]
English wine is on a roll. English sparkling wine rocks. So how is it that there are still so many wine drinkers in the UK who have yet to give it a go? It’s particularly surprising given the recent coverage in the national press about Champagne Taittinger investing in 69 hectares of vineyards in Kent. […]