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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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The Co-op, Aldi and Lidl compared
Andy Howard MW
Monday 3 November 2025
• 3 min read
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Is any other fellow British wine lover spluttering over their paper this morning? My Guardian states twice, in its report...
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Believe it or not, the wine range at the decidedly downmarket ASDA supermarket chain, now owned by Walmart, has been...
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Below are notes on some top-quality wines that are actually ready to drink, and available to British wine lovers by...
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Mel Jones, currently working on her Master of Wine dissertation, gives us her impressions of 54 of the wines from...
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British wine warehouse chain Majestic Wine announced its half-yearly results today, featuring a slide in profitablity that reflects the grim...
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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)...
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It seems only a moment ago that Tesco, Britain’s dominant supermarket, were moving firmly upmarket with a dramatically increased finer...
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Those who watched the video interview with the new owner of Oddbins will know that a new broom has been...
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First an apology to the many visitors here who do not live in the UK and are therefore not within...
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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...
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The buyer of Thresher, Britain’s only remaining large off licence chain, Jonathan Butt described the following wines as ‘a selection...
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See this article in the Financial Times, including an interview with Oddbins' new owner on his strategy and intentions for...
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Mel Jones writes: To celebrate the 10 th anniversary of its premium range of own-label products, Britain’s biggest retailer recently...
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In this series of tasting notes on the range of wines currently offered by significant British retailers, we have only...
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See below for my tasting notes on about 135 wines from Waitrose, Britain’s supermarket with the best reputation for fine...
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Marks & Spencer has been one of Britain’s totemic retailers, a relatively upmarket operation that for at least a generation...
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