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Tesco autumn 2025
Tesco may not be a source of sublime wine but it’s packed with bargains, some of them non-mainstream. Jancis writes The Tesco buying team has been covered with glory in...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 21 November 2025
• 10 min read
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Jancis's diary – October 2025
Two fabulous weekends, and a lot of tasting. The Tuscan weekend is exemplified by the outdoor Sunday lunch pictured above (unthinkable in London). I write this just before taking off...
Jancis Robinson
Monday 3 November 2025
• 1 min read
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The Co-op, Aldi and Lidl compared
Andy Howard MW
Monday 3 November 2025
• 3 min read
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Too many people take second best when it comes to wine, with promotional promises such as three for £12 and...
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I dutifully toured the tables when UK supermarket Sainsbury's recently showed dozens and dozens of the wines the team are...
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Here's a selection of just over 60 wines available from the UK supermarket Waitrose, though I tried to taste mainly...
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I tasted the following 70+ wines in a freezing cold Majestic wine warehouse in London recently. They are all new...
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Despite the dire news announced in this thread in our members' forum at the end of October, Wine Rack stores...
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Independent UK retailer Lea & Sandeman is keeping its eyes very firmly on the ball and recently expanded west into...
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Tesco enjoys that peculiarly English distinction of being roundly castigated by everyone but their shareholders for being an extremely large...
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The new money behind Oddbins must be hoping against hope that the demise of Thresher/Wine Rack will drive more traffic...
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According to one store manager I spoke to at Majestic's autumn tasting in London, Majestic's reduction of minimum purchase from...
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Yesterday Jancis alerted bargain hunters to Sainsbury's offer this week of 25% off all wines and champagnes if you buy...
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Attention all British bargain hunters. UK supermarket Sainsbury's is lopping a quarter off the price of all its wines and...
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Last time I reported on the wine selection at British supermarket Sainsbury's (referred to recently in a New York Times...
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One of the perils of writing about any subject is losing touch. Wine writing seems especially susceptible to being irrelevant...
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UK supermarket Waitrose, winner of the Decanter World Wine Awards 2009 Supermarket of the Year, which seems to be opening...
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Richard Hemming and I tackled the 130 wines shown by UK retailer Marks & Spencer two weeks ago. His tasting...
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Laithwaites celebrate their fortieth year of trading this year, an era that has seen them grow from a man-and-van operation...
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