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10 Bottles of Bubbles to Pop Open this Festive Season(Post)
Christmas is the perfect time to open a bottle of festive bubbles but that doesn’t always mean reaching for the Champagne. Whether it’s a sparkling created using the traditional method, by adding ice ...
300 Year-Old Vines? Tasting with Sebastian De Martino(Post)When Pietro De Martino arrived at Isla de Maipo in 1934, he recognised the exciting potential for wine production of this cooler part of the Maipo Valley, with its deep, free-draining gravel so ...
Tried & Tested: Moules Marinières and Sauvignon de Touraine(Post)This week I followed a recipe by The Guardian’s Felicity Cloake, devised following extensive research into how to make the perfect Moules Marinières. Her mammoth task included attempting recipes by s ...
Alan's Wine of the Week: Sauvignon de Touraine, Domaine de Pierre 2014(Post)Sauvignon de Touraine, Domaine de Pierre 2014 £10.75 £9.46 Beautifully fresh, complex aromas of spring flowers, fresh mint, capsicum and pea pod. Rounded texture, kept fresh with vibrant acidity.
Our Tour de France takes is to Faugeres(Post)Domaine des Prés Lasses Faugeres 2010 Boris Feigel’s wonderful Faugeres is always held aloft on our Tour de France winners rostrum. Soft, spicy red fruit with Southern French herbs gives this wine a ...
Twirly-Lamb(Post)Recommended with Rioja Reserva, Marqués de Riscal 2011 "Lamb and Rioja are the best of friends. The rich, spicy, smokey and complex flavours of the wine marry stunningly well with the lamb as well as ...
Día de Muertos Cocktails(Post)Día de Muertos (Days of the Dead in English) is a traditional Mexican holiday during which people’s lost loved ones are honoured. Taking place November 1 st and 2nd, Mexicans who observe the Days ...
Côtes de Provence - The Essence of Summer(Post)Azure blue skies; sun-kissed landscape; glittering sea; the smell of lavender, rosemary, olive groves, and hot, baked earth; local market stalls groaning under the weight of a kaleidoscope of ripe s ...
Wine Spectator – five of the finest(Post)Italian wine buyer Sergio De Luca attended the prestigious OperaWine, Finest Italian Wines: 100 Great Producers in Italy last week, returning with news that an amazing nine Great Western Wine produc ...
Quenching a love for the French Quarter : Mastering the Vieux Carré and the De La Louisiane(Post)A shared love for liquid Louisiana, trickles down from the Mississippi, quenching the palates of those after refined dimension. In amongst the classics there are two residents of the ‘Big Easy’ that ...
Alan's Wine of the Week: NV Rosé 'Brut de Noir' Cleto Chiarli(Post)NV Rosé 'Brut de Noir' Cleto Chiarli An intense fruit and strawberry bouquet opens up to redcurrant notes on the palate. A delicious elegant rosé! Regular price: £12.95 Special Price: £11.40 Free de ...
Alan's Wine Of The Week | Cave des St Desirat Syrah, Ardeche, France(Post)Cave des St Desirat Syrah, Ardeche, France “A bit of a bargain this, if you like Syrah in the northern Rhône's Crozes-Hermitage style as much as we do. It's medium bodied with clean-lined red fruit a ...
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This demonstrates how delicious Carmenere can be when it’s grown in the right place, carefully-tended and picked fully ripe. It’s a dusky-deep colour and full of juicy,... Read more2021 13% ABV 75cl
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Fresh aromas of blackcurrants and violets, together with complex notes of tobacco leaf, cedar and graphite. Enjoyable while young, it has sufficient structure to develop greater complexity with... Read more2022 13% ABV 75cl
Single£33.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £29.70 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£29.70 Buy 12+ Save £3.30There are only in stock
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This violet-coloured wine has a floral and perfumed nose with notes of violets, fresh red and black fruits and spices. In the mouth, it is medium-bodied with fine, smooth tannins, fresh acidity and... Read more2020 13% ABV 75cl
Single£30.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £27.00 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£27.00 Buy 12+ Save £3.00There are only in stock
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This violet-coloured wine has a floral and perfumed nose with notes of violets, fresh red and black fruits and spices. In the mouth, it is medium-bodied with fine, smooth tannins, fresh acidity and... Read more2018 12.5% ABV 75cl
Single£30.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £27.00 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£27.00 Buy 12+ Save £3.00There are only 7 in stock
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This wine is aromatic and intense with great volume in the mouth and achieves a balance between the fresh acidity and the texture contributed by 6 months’ maceration with the skins. Vinification in... Read more2018 12.5% ABV 75cl
Single£30.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £27.00 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£27.00 Buy 12+ Save £3.00There are only 6 in stock
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The immediate impression is of lemon meringue pie straight from the oven, with the zesty freshness and pillowy lightness of meringue, richness of lemon curd custard and pie-crust toastiness. ... Read more2020 13% ABV 75cl
Single£19.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £17.10 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£17.10 Buy 12+ Save £1.90There are only in stock
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Fresh aromas of blackcurrants and violets, together with complex notes of tobacco leaf, cedar and graphite. Enjoyable while young, it has sufficient structure to develop greater complexity with... Read more2020 13.5% ABV 75cl
Single£33.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £29.70 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£29.70 Buy 12+ Save £3.30There are only 0 in stock
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From a low-yielding, dry-farmed old vineyard, planted in 1955, this wine is a 'field blend,' composed principally of Carignan, with a little Cinsault and Malbec, all grown on bush vines. It has... Read more2010 14% ABV 75cl
Single£39.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £35.10 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£35.10 Buy 12+ Save £3.90There are only in stock
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Attractively fascinating, leafy, peppery aromas greet the nose, before you step down into to the cellar, where a deep trove of earth, tar and yeast extract awaits. The palate impression is... Read more2022 12% ABV 75cl
Single£39.50Multibuy ? Save 10%: £35.55 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£35.55 Buy 12+ Save £3.95There are only in stock
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With an impressively deep, vibrant ruby colour, Las Cruces has intense aromas of ripe blackcurrant, whipped cream and hints of woodsmoke. There’s a subtle scent of crushed leaves, a... Read more2021 13% ABV 75cl
Single£39.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £35.10 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£35.10 Buy 12+ Save £3.90There are only in stock
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Highly aromatic and complex with notes of sweet crushed blackberry, truffle, earth and smoke. From a low-yielding, dry-farmed old vineyard, planted in 1955. A field blend, principally of Carignan,... Read more2019 14% ABV 75cl
Single£39.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £35.10 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£35.10 Buy 12+ Save £3.90There are only in stock
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Attractively fascinating, leafy, peppery aromas greet the nose, before you step down into to the cellar, where a deep trove of earth, tar and yeast extract awaits. The palate impression is... Read more2019 13% ABV 75cl
Single£39.00Multibuy ? Save 10%: £35.10 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£35.10 Buy 12+ Save £3.90There are only in stock