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UK-based wine blog that focuses mainly on wines available in supermarkets and other popular merchants.
I picked up this Canadian Bordeaux blend at the excellent duty-free shop Toronto's Pearson International airport last autumn. I had never heard of it before, but from the label and information on the producer's website it is presented as a high-end, (read full article)
I picked this red Burgundy up in supermarket in Brussels a few weeks ago. The village of Mercurey is in the southern part of Burgundy known as the Côte Chalonnaise. Two villages in particular here, Mercurey and Givry, are sources of good quality a (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)
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 is a pretty decent Cotes du Rhone from Louis Bernard. It is from their Chartreuse de Bonpase range, which I think is supposed to be a bit more high-end than their generic appellation wines.It has a good red-fruit nose and a nice chalky, mineral (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)
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 a wine I wouldn't normally drink, which is the whole point. What I mean is, a friend of mine offered to do a "wine swap" - that is trade something of his that I wouldn't normally try, for something he wouldn't normally try.My experiences wit (read full article)
I don't drink a lot of red wine these days, it being summer and all. But I made an exception tonight because we were having steak (and not just any steak, but Marks and Spencer's 21 day aged peppered rump steak). My views on steak are similar to my (read full article)
This wine has been popping up in a lot of newspaper columns and magazine articles recently, so I figured I might as well try it to see what all the fuss is about.Those who know me know that I'm not a huge fan of cheap, new world Pinot Noir. Despite (read full article)
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