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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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A half-century of wines from the oldest British wine and spirit merchant. Since the demise of Christopher & Co, Berry...
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Four dozen wines of which some of Britain's finest independent retailers are most proud. The Bunch is a group of...
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The last in Andy Howard MW's stocktake of the UK supermarkets' wine ranges. Click on the Supermarkets tag to find...
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Our retail specialist Andy Howard MW continues his Friday series on the UK supermarkets.
The rapid growth of Lidl shows...
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Our retail specialist Andy Howard MW tackles the behemoth of UK retailing whose wine range is dominated by other big...
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Andy Howard MW continues his tour of the UK's supermarket wine aisles with a look at Waitrose, whose regular 25%...
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Our retail specialist Andy Howard MW has a soft spot for a once-great name. Oddbins' wines are likely to be...
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Andy Howard MW continues his series reviewing the wines available at UK supermarkets. See also Sainsbury's unmerged and Aldi forges...
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The second in Andy Howard MW's series reviewing the wines available at UK supermarkets as well as the companies' overall...
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In the first of his seasonal series on the wine offerings of UK supermarkets, Andy Howard MW reviews the current...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times.
The very existence of vegan wines is probably illuminating...
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Majestic, the biggest chain of specialist wine stores in the UK, showed off its latest lines last week – a...
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Next year is the fiftieth anniversary of Laithwaite's Wine, the British wine merchant originally known as Bordeaux Direct. According to...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. See NZ beyond Sauvignon and Pinot for my...
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This is the third and last summer despatch from our retail specialist Andy Howard MW. See also his reports on...
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This is the second of Andy Howard MW's reviews of the current offerings from some of the more important UK...
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