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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 €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...
From €18.20 Find this wine Spanish wine writer and wine producer, and deputy editor of El Mundo , Victor de la Serna recently bedazzled us on our members’ forum with a list of the 2009 Spanish wines of the year as judged by his paper’s wine website www.elmundovino.com . The. More...
From €11, US$13.80, £13.49 Find this wine .   You wouldn't know it from the name but Falesco, Ferentano 2006 IGT Lazio is made from a rare indigenous grape variety called Roscetto (also spelt Rossetto). That doesn't mean it tastes 'right weird', to borrow one of Jancis's. More...
From $22.99 The United Nations has been in the news recently. What a sickening shame that more was not achieved in Copenhagen. I don't know to what extent the producer of my chosen wine this week, ex ITN chief foreign correspondent David Smith, now a special advisor to the UN secretary general,. More...
From €6.50, 11.20 Swiss francs and £6.75 Find this wine Whenever I go to The Sampler, the innovating wine store with 80 well-preserved wines on taste, I discover at least one really interesting wine that is completely new to me. I suppose that is the point of its sampling premise.. More...
From £8.99 (until 5 Jan 2010), €69 (6 bottles) Find this wine . In the wake of our extensive review of Rhône 2008s , here's a great-value 2007 from the Cave St-Désirat that is ready for drinking now but won't mind waiting a little while. I was impressed by UK supermarket. More...
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