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UK-based wine blog that focuses mainly on wines available in supermarkets and other popular merchants.
A big thanks to my sometime co-blogger Tom for bringing this over. It's on offer at Sainsbury's for just under £30. This is the second wine of Chateau Palmer, a third-growth Bordeaux.The full price of almost £45 is over-inflated, as it can be obt (read full article)
I mentioned the other day that I bought a bunch of stuff from The Wine Society. Because it's been a rather hectic past few days (not too hectic for wine though), I have managed to try a few more of these wines, but haven't managed a neat and tidy po (read full article)
A rare indulgence here. A 15-year old St. Emilion from Sainsbury's. I've mentioned it before, but my Sainsbury's has a 'fine wine' section, and I trust it - they have pretty good stuff in there. We decided to splash out on this - it was a good vin (read full article)
Here we have Sainsbury's latest offering in the supermarket half-price Bordeaux arena. Why do I do this to myself? The answer is - for every few crap wines in this price/offer category you will unearth a genuine bargain, but you have to try them, o (read full article)
I picked up this right-bank Bordeaux from Thorold Wines, a local shop which was fortunate enough to feature in this month's (April 2010) Decanter magazine. The subject is a feature on independent wine shops and their place in the community following (read full article)
I ordered a case of this wine almost exactly 2 years ago, after it performed well in a Decanter tasting. This a 'fifth-growth' claret from Chateau Clerc-Milon in Pauillac, an estate owned and operated by the Rothschild family.It seemed a good buy - (read full article)
I haven't bought one of these half price Tesco clarets in a while, and after the first sip I remembered why.This was an impulse buy from my local Tesco 'Metro' while I was on a milk run. I was having steak for dinner and saw this for £6 (from £12. (read full article)
This is Chateau de Pitray's 'Grand Vin', and has been a mainstay at Majestic for some time. It's a reliable, fruity right-bank claret from the Cotes de Castillon appellation.I made sure I got some of this when it appeared on offer (£1 off, I'm such (read full article)
Cotes de Castillon... I love this place! Spend a few pounds extra on a bottle and you are normally in for a treat. Living in the shadow of its St Emilion neighbour this appellation does not quite have the same cache... and is the better for it. It re (read full article)
As the weather turns colder I'm getting cravings for Bordeaux. Besides the usual stuff at Tesco and Sainsbury's, I haven't seen too many good deals on claret. Between that and the fact that 2007 was a poor vintage I haven't really bought any recentl (read full article)
I purchased, and drank, this bottle a few weeks ago. I wasn't in any hurry to blog about it because I bought it in Brussels (at the same time I bought this), and drank it with a couple of friends. It wasn't the first bottle of the night, and I regi (read full article)
I've tried, and enjoyed, the 2005 vintage of this wine. The 2006 vintage has left a mostly negative impression on me. I found it thin and watery, and just generally short on character.Perhaps I've been drinking too much Aussie red lately, and am ju (read full article)
Here is another claret bottled for Tesco by the negociant Yvon Mau. Whenever you see a half price claret at Tesco, chances are it's a product of Yvon Mau.The wines are usually decent, if unspectacular. This is regularly around £15 from Tesco, but (read full article)
If Carlsberg made rosé...For whatever reason, this rosé has garnered the praise of the late writer Auberon Waugh. I don't really know anything about him, so I'm not going to pretend to. However his words are immortalized on the back label of this (read full article)
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