Serious stuff from Waitrose

See below for my tasting notes on about 135 wines from Waitrose, Britain’s supermarket with the best reputation for fine wine and for employing the most Masters of Wine to choose them. Unlike Marks & Spencer, they are not great believers in own-label wines, preferring to pick out wines that you might well find in general distribution all over the world. Use winesearcher.com to find your local stockist.

Overall I was pretty impressed by this range of wines, which seem targeted at relatively sophisticated wine drinkers rather than at those whose wine buying is determined by what’s on special...