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Every Tuesday (doesn't your week begin on Tuesday?!) we select particularly unmissable wines, whether because they are new and different, or a notable bargain, or something simply too stunning to keep to ourselves. We try to make our choices as international as possible although sometimes the wines will be available exclusively in the UK or the US, or occasionally somewhere else. If in doubt about your local stockists, check out the admirable www.winesearcher.com

From £11.99 and $25.99 Find this wine Bierzo has long been one of my favourite emerging/emerge Spanish wine regions. I particularly like the grape varieties from which its wines are typically made: Mencía for its fragrant, rather haunting reds and Godello for. More...
From $32.99, £28.49, Can$48.95, also in Denmark, Sweden and Liechtenstein Find this wine   I have long been a fan of Ridge Vineyards in California. They featured in my 1981 selection of a handful of producers for The Great Wine Book . We filmed there in 1983 for the. More...
From $9.99, £8.99, Aus$17.99 Find this wine Sitting here in San Francisco, having just flown across the Pacific from Beijing for a couple of days’ worth of celebrations to mark Ridge Vineyards's 50th anniversary (in exceptionally cold, wet weather), I realise it may seem a bit. More...
From £8.99 for the Malbrontes From €5.40, £5.49, $7.48 for the Catena Alamos Find the Catena For decades vignerons in Côte Rôtie have been adding a small portion of pale-skinned Viognier grapes to ferment with their northern Rhône Syrah to enhance colour, texture and. More...
Waterkloof is the relatively new operation in South Africa created by Paul Boutinot (pictured here) and, I think, a name of which we will hear more. See this video about why Paul chose to grow vines and make wine in South Africa. Purple pagers who read my full tasting notes in Great. More...
From €10.05, £13.49, US$24.99 Find this wine . Sometimes you taste a wine and you want to do two things at once: (a) clear the room, sit down, and focus all your attention on the pleasure this wine gives and (b) invite all your friends round to share the pleasure with them.. More...
From €21.90, $35.99, Sw Fr 41, £32.64 Find this wine The big blind tasting of more than 200 significant 2006 bordeaux that I undertook in Southwold a couple of weeks ago served to confirm my admiration for the improvements that have been made at Château Lagrange in. More...
About £18 Find this wine It’s not that often that I come across a combination of a relatively new appellation and new grape variety, but this lusciously aromatic red from Arribes, a relatively new DO on the Spanish side of the border with Portugal, depends largely on the. More...
From Au$47 Find this wine Last week my bloodstream was replaced by a stream of 2008 burgundy in my veins. (We are just about to publish more than 1,350 tasting notes on this intriguing vintage, the result of intensive tasting during a week in Burgundy in November and the. More...
From £99 a dozen in bond Find this wine This week Julia and I are totally immersed in tasting 2008 burgundies on the London circuit, at a total of 26 primeurs tastings in a fortnight. (Yes, crazy, isn’t it? But UK wine merchants are keen to divert as much of the reported £40. More...
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