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Believe it or not, the wine range at the decidedly downmarket ASDA supermarket chain, now owned by Walmart, has been revitalised by a Francophile Master of Wine. Philippa Carr MW admits that she... |
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Tamlyn Currin started doing wine classes with Michael Schmidt about five years ago, and then went down the more conventional route by doing the WSET Intermediate and Advanced in... |
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Mel Jones, currently working on her Master of Wine dissertation, gives us her impressions of 54 of the wines from the main range that Britain’s Majestic chose to show off to the press this... |
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While their bigger and more downmarket rivals offer increasingly cut-throat deals on wine (three bottles for £10 or even £9) to lure customers into their stores to buy food etc, Waitrose has... |
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The Argentine wine scene continues to be affected by the arrival of new Chilean investors who have so far invested in areas such as Luján de Cuyo, La Consulta, Perdriel and Agrelo. Based on... |
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From £5.99 and $10. Find this wine This was by a mile the best value wine at a recent tasting of the revitalised Odd bins’ new range – I actually wrote that it was too... |
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Dodie Miller has been the attractive and passionate conduit for distributing the most authentic Mexican ingredients to both professional and amateur chefs across the UK for the past 15 years.... |
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First an apology to the many visitors here who do not live in the UK and are therefore not within reach of a branch of our most famous retailer (especially of underwear - hence the image, not... |
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Things are really happening now in the UK in terms of reducing the weight of wine bottles. See, for example, our Name and shame heavy bottles campaign. In Wrapping it right: those lighter... |
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From £10.95 and $30. Find this wine . This is one of the most impressive and enjoyable Carmenères I have tasted for a very long time. It’s in De Martino’s single vineyard... |
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See related thread in Members' forum In this collection of 77 wines offered this autumn by Sainsbury’s, one of Britain’s biggest supermarket chains locked in mortal combat with the... |
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The beauty of wine is supposed to be that, unlike so much of the food and drink we eat today, it is so ‘natural’. To produce wine, as all of us wine students have been taught, all you need are... |
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Chile is ‘All Ways Surprising’ according to the slightly clunky marketeers of ProChile, the government body promoting Chilean exports. Their wines, meanwhile, are ‘the natural choice’... |
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A & B Vintners Little Tawsden Spout Lane Brenchley Kent TN12 7AS tel +44 (0)1892 724977 fax +44 (0)1892 722673 info@abvintners.co.uk... |
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In a nutshell : Reliable, keenly priced reds and whites, mainly from well-known international varieties. Main grapes : Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenère (red); Sauvignon Blanc,... |















