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The Wine Society spring 2026
This UK wine-selling co-operative – the world’s oldest – continues to deliver diversity and value. Marie and Sylvie Courselle (pictured above) of Château Thieuley produced an impressive Bordeaux Blanc –...
Jancis Robinson
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Independent London merchants Charles Lea and Patrick Sandeman have built up an excellent reputation for real quality of wine and...
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The Wine Society is a British anomaly, a wine merchant that is owned by its members, a genuine co-operative then...
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This weekend, forecast to be unseasonably hot in England and Wales, Majestic are offering some further discounts on many of...
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13 Sep – A few hours after this was published, my colleague Victoria Moore, wine writer on The Daily Telegraph...
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We don't usually present en masse a collection of tasting notes based on the wares of one UK importer since...
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Corney & Barrow very kindly offered subscribers to this site some free tickets to their summer tasting in June. They...
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High heels, black silk stockings, velvet ruffs, and my first ever taste of champagne... at 14, I was bedazzled by...
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Later – Just realised that the prices below refer to orders of at least 12 bottles, but they may be...
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Apart from an understandable blip in 2008, Majestic Wine have consistently returned enviable profits. Now, with fewer nationwide competitors and...
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Wines lovers outside the UK should note that most of the wines reviewed here are in general international circulation. To...
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Below is a rich and, I hope, useful collection of tasting notes on wines in unusually wide commercial distribution, all...
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Laithwaites, the best-known face of the world's dominant mail-order wine merchant – or direct-sales specialist, as I should perhaps call...
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As usual, this collection of 70 summer wines from one of London's first new-wave independent wine merchants was an interesting...
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This is peak time for burgundy offers in the UK with thousands of 2009s, many of them spread between several...
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UK importer Enotria picked up the trophy from the International Wine Challenge this year for, as befits their name, Italian...
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British wine buyers are currently spoilt for choice thanks to a rash of new independent online wine retailers – a...
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