Yesterday Jancis alerted bargain hunters to Sainsbury's offer this week of 25% off all wines and champagnes if you buy six bottles. Today Waitrose goes on the counter-offensive with a...

Attention all British bargain hunters. UK supermarket Sainsbury's is lopping a quarter off the price of all its wines and champagnes from tomorrow for a week, so long as six bottles are...

Last time I reported on the wine selection at British supermarket Sainsbury's (referred to recently in a New York Times profile of their poster boy Jamie Oliver as 'somewhat upmarket'), I was...

One of the perils of writing about any subject is losing touch. Wine writing seems especially susceptible to being irrelevant, with its internal trade culture (and I mean this affectionately) of...

This is a selection of wines shown recently by London wine merchant Corney & Barrow at the Tower of London and tasted by MW student Richard Hemming. REDS Ch Trotanoy 2001 Pomerol...

UK supermarket Waitrose, winner of the Decanter World Wine Awards 2009 Supermarket of the Year, which seems to be opening new branches like there's no tomorrow, continues to offer good value...

Richard Hemming and I tackled the 130 wines shown by UK retailer Marks & Spencer two weeks ago.  His tasting notes are appended '(RH)'. This was a pretty good showing for an outfit...

Laithwaites celebrate their fortieth year of trading this year, an era that has seen them grow from a man-and-van operation to a global network of mail-order companies with one million customers....

30 Sep - Please note that an additional 15 tasting notes have been added to this article. The Wine Society is a very unusual wine merchant based in Stevenage north of London - a...

Tamlyn Currin tasted the following wines shown by UK importers Private Cellar in London last March. Private Cellar are, inter alia, UK importers of the impressive collection of Australian wines...

Jeremy Palmer, managing director of Lay & Wheeler since the company was  acquired by Majestic , announces that his old fine wine buyer from Majestic days, Nick Dagley (pictured), has...

One resonant name we haven't covered recently in our surveys of UK retailers is Oddbins. This once-dominant chain of wine shops has had a turbulent recent history and was taken over from the...

We regularly monitor the current wine selections of the major UK wine retailers and supermarkets. Here's a guide to what we have already published this season and what we plan to publish in the...

Here are my notes on 34 of the wines presented by the UK's second-biggest supermarket Asda (owned by Walmart of the US) to wine writers last month. Below my notes is Melanie Jones' account of her...

Since rumours abound that the Thresher/Wine Rack group is in trouble, for some of the reasons addressed in this thread in members' forum, it seems sensible to publish Richard Hemming's notes on...