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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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See Sauvignon – methoxypyrazines v thiols for the background to this tasting in London with Saint Clair winemaker Matt Thomson (pictured left). I have given UK stockists and/or... |
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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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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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In a nutshell : New World wines with crisp fruity acids and intense flavours. Main grapes : Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris (white); Pinot Noir, Merlot (red).... |
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Chardonnay's a funny grape. It is arguably the most popular in the world, and yet most of those who love it would find it difficult to describe exactly what it tastes of. The truth, I suspect,... |
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See also Fiona Beckett's www.matchingfoodandwine.com A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T |... |
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As many as 60% of vine growers in Australia's crucial inland Riverland region are considering giving up, not least because of the current drought, according to this report by Ken Gargett in... |
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There is a quite staggering amount of stuff about wine out there on the internet. Many of you may well surf far more energetically than I do and be even more aware of this than I am. But here are... |
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I recently asked a close observer of the Australian wine scene what the current hot topics are there and here is the response. Domestic wine sales are down by approx 10%, partly... |
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Having been less than positive about the Extra Special range at Asda, when reporting here on how excellent Sainsbury’s Taste the difference is, I sloped along to their press tasting, not... |
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The trophy winners in this year’s International Wine Challenge have just been announced and can be found in full here (though you may need a magnifying glass). These 90... |
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Hot on the heels of the final tally of the 2008 Australian grape harvest comes news that the 2008 crop over the Tasman in New Zealand was also very much more generous than in the previous year.... |
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Sam Neill is the owner of Two Paddocks winery in Central Otago. He is also an actor with a string of very grown-up movies and several Golden Globe nominations to his credit. (Also to... |
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Australia, particularly South Australia , has been coping with one of the most difficult vintages ever known – crippling heat and, yet again, drought. You can see some inkling of this in... |
