Despite the dire news announced in this thread in our members' forum at the end of October, Wine Rack stores in the UK are not dead and gone. The Venus group, run by James Rackham (son of...

The new money behind Oddbins must be hoping against hope that the demise of Thresher/Wine Rack will drive more traffic into their stores, the only chain left on the high street. The intentions...

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...

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...

Purple pager bargain hunters beat me to the announcement of the current 25% off all wines and champagnes at Waitrose Wine plus free delivery until midnight next Tuesday 9 Jun. Already they...

I felt pretty depressed after tasting nearly 80 of the wines of which, presumably, the UK supermarket Sainsbury's is proudest, since they were chosen to be presented to massed wine writers...

Richard Hemming recently tasted these offerings from Virgin Wines, now a subsidiary of Direct Wines, owned by the Laithwaite family. CHAMPAGNE Vilmart, Grand Reserve NV...

Upmarket UK supermarket Waitrose is clearly aware that it may not be perceived as the first destination for bargains. Why else would  the head of the wine department, Justin Howard-Sneyd MW,...

Congratulations to Marks & Spencer for having sourced one of the most interesting wine ranges in the British high street. Below you'll find quite a few scores as high as 17, lots at 16.5 and...