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Aldi Lidl Taste Off

A favourite tasting this. People like to taste wines they can find easily, that they can afford, wines which represent value and they are  interested to see if the cheaper prices are truly on a par with other wines they might buy. Can they justify buying wine from either discounter with their head held high? […]

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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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BBC WM recommendations

Viña Sol Torres 2016 Sainsbury’s £6.00 (from £7) widely available. A firm favourite of mine and many others over the summer months. It’s a blend of Spanish grapes, Parellada and Garnacha Blanca grown in Catalunya in the north east around Barcelona, and available all over Spain and much of the UK, too. Once upon a […]

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Lidl’s Latest Wine Cellar

The next Lidl Wine Cellar will be instore from Thursday, July 27th.  All the Hungarian wines are worth trying, of course, which you can check out here but these are a few of my top suggestions: Dry Whites Pouilly-Fumé Les Grandes Chaumes – £9.99 – This well-known Sauvignon Blanc from the Loire is normally much more […]

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The Latest from Lidl

The Easter Wine Cellar Collection arrives in Lidl stores on Thursday, March 30th 2017. There really is some good stuff so it’s worth popping in.  Here are a few of Richard’s favourites……   Whites Sauvignon Blanc 2016 Cimarosa, Chile  – 4.99 – textbook Sauvignon at a very affordable price Veneto Bianco Vigneti di Sole 2015 – […]

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Best Christmas Booze from Lidl

On Thursday November 24th, the latest Lidl Wine Cellar promotion began and the wine shelves should still be resplendent with Christmas-oriented fayre.   There are, as ever, a number of good buys but these are the ones Richard thinks will make your Christmas happiest: WHITE WINES Quincy Fief des Pierres Blanches 2015 – £8.99 Sauvignon […]

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Radio WM Recommendations 5/08

Days of Summer Torres 2015 12%  £6.99 Co-op, £7.49 Majestic (6 bottle price) This is 100% Muscat. The unusual thing about Muscat is that it actually has hints of grapey aromas unlike almost all other varieties. It also smells enticingly of orange blossom, white peach and exotic fruits. It is light, just off dry, with […]

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The Latest from Lidl

Just in case the wine rack is looking a little empty, Lidl’s next Wine Cellar Collection will be in store from August 4th.  I am sure you are more than capable of making your own choices but I cannot resist suggesting a few of my own anyway! White Wines  Gruner Veltliner Terraces 2015, Austria – […]

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Radio WM 22/07

This week’s Radio WM feature wines with a Tour de France theme as the cyclists pedal their way up and down the mountains of the Savoie region.   Cono Sur Bicicleta Viognier 2015 Asda £6.00 (Tesco £5.50 until 25th July) 13.5% Rounded and dry without the searing acidity some people don’t like in wine. It’s nonetheless fresh, […]

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English Wine Week

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 […]