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http://timswineblog.blogspot.com/
UK-based wine blog that focuses mainly on wines available in supermarkets and other popular merchants.
I've seen this wine a million times in supermarkets, and never tried it. It seems like a supermarket stalwart - kind of just always there. Unspectacular looking, and normally just a pound or two too much to take a gamble on.It is on offer in Waitro (read full article)
This a new one for me. It sounded interesting enough - an indigenous grape variety (Brachetto) to Piedmont, Italy, one of my favourite wine regions. Pink, slightly sparkling, sweet, and made by a producer I respect. Unfortunately I didn't really l (read full article)
Like the Brachetto, this is part of Waitrose's Mediterranean showcase, on for I think the next month.I like Barbera. It produces good, reliable, everyday red (and also more expensive wines - see this month's Decanter magazine for details). It's usu (read full article)
The entire Sainsbury's Taste the Difference wine range is on offer for 1/3 off until April 13th. I think this range is quite good value, and a further 33% off makes it a steal.Chianti Classico for £4.90? Ridiculous. I wouldn't say it's the best Ch (read full article)
Because we drink a lot of Italian reds as 'everyday wine', I'm always trying new ones. I saw this award-winning wine on the Tesco website as I was ordering something else so I decided to give it a try.This is a 'riserva' which means it has to be age (read full article)
Trying this wine recently has sparked my interest in Chianti Classico. Quite often I buy 'normal' Chianti as a good value, food friendly table wine, but there is supposedly a big leap in quality between that and Chianti Classico. It's been years si (read full article)
I picked this up in another Tesco 50% off deal (£10 down from £20) a few months back. The exceptional vintage and the price made this an attractive buy.This is my 3rd and final bottle of this wine. The other 2 were drunk in circumstances not cond (read full article)
This was a bit of a risky purchase. I ordered 6 bottles without having tried it, going solely on the wine's reputation and price: half price from Tesco Wine Club (£9 from £18), and a Decanter gold medal. Sounds like a deal.The wine is a Chianti C (read full article)
This is essentially the same wine this, except this is a different vintage and it's gone up in price. I've been wondering if I should bother blogging about different vintages of what is essentially a supermarket wine. Italy isn't exactly California (read full article)
If you're a wine geek (I prefer that term to "wine snob"), then you probably somewhat careful around this grape variety. It's known for producing lakes of boring, cheap, dry white wine.Before I got into this wine thing, I was guilty of drinking it a (read full article)
This wine is the type of thing I'd serve to guests as an aperitif. However it sat in my fridge for ages because there never seemed a good time to open it due to the weather being rubbish and the general lack of dinner guests. That all changed last (read full article)
This wine is from the Fruili-Venezia Giulia region of North-East Italy, and made with the Friulano or Sauvignon Vert grape.The wine is medium to full-bodied, with a slight oily texture, and it's noticeably high in alcohol too (14%). Despite that, it (read full article)
I snuck a bottle of this Chianti into a recent Waitrose order. I hadn't tried it before, and it looked like a good deal (40% off). We like to have Italian wine around the house to have at mealtimes, and if we liked this I would plan to buy more.I f (read full article)
I had forgotten where I bought this, but I'm pretty sure it was Sainsbury's. I have also forgotten the price, but I think it was somewhere between £4 and £5. According to mysupermarket.co.uk, the regular price is £6.49.I find the wine a bit ho-h (read full article)
This wine is from the Marche region of Italy. From what I can gather, this region seems to be associated more with white wines than reds. I found it at a Wine Society tasting, and I felt it was probably the best value wine there. It's a blend of 5 (read full article)
This is probably one of the better Italian whites you can get for under a tenner. Made by the Piemontese co-op Araldica, this is a characterful, refreshing wine with strong notes of pear and citrus.It was £6.69 with 25% off, and was worth every penn (read full article)
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