There were some very serious and well-made wines here – quite a change from the mass-market retailers. None of the wines is cheap and a few are overpriced, but they are generally satisfying....

Below are notes on some top-quality wines that are actually ready to drink, and available to British wine lovers by the single bottle – admittedly provided another 11 are bought....

Every year, Spanish wine writer José Peñîn and his team taste more than 8,000 wines to produce their annual wine guide, the Guia Peñín . For the second year running, I went to Madrid to...

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...

It seems only a moment ago that Tesco, Britain’s dominant supermarket, were moving firmly upmarket with a dramatically increased finer wine range (see Tesco – speccing up a bit? ). And it...

Find this wine From $45 and £24.78 a bottle Close followers of this site will know of my recent conversion to white Châteauneuf-du-Pape (see all these tasting notes on the...

Those who watched the video interview with the new owner of Oddbins will know that a new broom has been swept very firmly though the wine range here - especially the French range.   This...

Where I live (Sonoma), one must shop long and hard to find a representative sampling of serious South African wines. The cheap and cheerfuls are here, yet the top bottles are difficult to find...

Almost all wine-producing countries are making better and better wines every year but I am seriously impressed by how much more refined Argentine wines are today than they were even two or three...

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...

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’...

From $4.99 and £7. Find this wine Have I gone mad? Choosing a California Chardonnay made by the world’s biggest wine company that can be found in the US for as little as $4.99...

In a nutshell: Some fine value, under-appreciated by the French. Main grapes: practically anything but especially the international varieties. Vin de Pays means 'country...

In a nutshell: Dry, sometimes beefy red wines designed for ageing. Grapes: Syrah (red); Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier (white). It's not difficult to see why vine-growing is...

In a nutshell : Reliable, keenly priced reds and whites, mainly from well-known international varieties. Main grapes : Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenère (red); Sauvignon Blanc,...