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Food & wine matching with Yealands wines(Post)
I love to cook; I’m fascinated by scents, flavours, and how they marry together, or clash horrifically. I’m also obsessed with finding just the right wine to go with different styles and flavours of ...
Alan's Wine of the Week(Post)Howard Park Mount Barker Riesling 2014 Since 1986, Howard Park has focused on creating fine, long-lived Rieslings from the Great Southern. Careful, ongoing development of our Mount Barrow vineyard h ...
Decoding a wine label(Post)Wine labels are meant to provide all the information you need to understand what you are buying; however, what they often do is just confuse, and add to the dilemma of what to choose. With hundreds o ...
Hibernating Wines for January(Post)If you’ve been hiding away this January, here are some wines to lay down for when you feel like celebrating again. After all the Christmas and New Year festivities, you may well be struggling to cont ...
Wine and Cheese(Post)A match made in heaven? Everyone loves wine and cheese don’t they? Does anyone really care about which wine with which cheese? Think again – how many of you have had a glass of good red spoilt by th ...
Alan's Wine of the Week(Post)Heartland Stickleback Red, South Austrailia 2012 Fragrant, spicy, juicy and full bodied. A rich violet / purple colour. Chocolate spice and black fruit characters of cherry and plum on the pa ...
Alan's Wine of the Week(Post)Ruggeri, Prosecco Brut Quartese DOCG NV A bubbly to toast the last week of our Italian promotion, and just in time for the tasting Saturday this weekend too! Take a look at the press reviews ...
How to Taste Wine – and Why…(Post)In my latest Back to Wine School blog, I'm looking at why, and how, we should taste wine to get the very best of enjoyment out of every bottle that we buy. Wine tasters and writers are often the butt ...
When wine meets chocolate(Post)"Its a tough job, but someones got to do it" is the phrase that sprung to mind when I set off on a quest to find out whether wine and chocolate could live together. Easter is looming and that means c ...
Alan's Wine of the Week(Post)Domaine de la Janasse, Côtes du Rhône Rouge 2013 £11.75 £10.34 Another producer with a talent for making great wines at different prices is the never-less-than-superb Domaine de la Janasse. The b ...
Alan's Wine of the Week(Post)Bogle Essential Red Very vibrant, almost beetroot red in colour. Hugely intense aromas of damson and plum, with bitter chocolate and black cherry. Underlying a wonderful spicy zinfandel character th ...
Wine Words(Post)What do they all mean? There are words that we use in wine that seem like a new language or have a particular meaning. This should help clear up a few things - click to print and you can have it read ...
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Bright pale pink color with violet reflections. Fresh aromas of red fruits and cream caramel. On the palate, the wine is fresh with a great balanced acidity. Wide and enjoyable mid-palate,... Read more2024 12.5% ABV 75cl
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Clean powerful aromas of ripe red and black fruits with cacao and coffee bean notes. On the palate the wine shows finds spices, toasty hints and mature notes, with a perfectly integrated tannic... Read more2023 14.5% ABV 75cl
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Clean and intense aromas of ripe red and black fruits, with spicy notes from the Crianza, and mineral hints. Rich and powerful on the palate, tasting again fruity and oaky flavours perfectly... Read more2022 14.5% ABV 75cl
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The nose is very intense, with white floral aromas, hints of aromatic herbs and citrus. The fruit is ripe and exotic (passion fruit and grapefruit). The aging makes the wine perform balanced and... Read more2024 13.5% ABV 75cl
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Complex nose with fragrant and ripe red and black fruit. On the palate the wine shows powerful fruit, which is perfectly balanced, full and intense. Long finish. Read more2024 14% ABV 75cl
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Single£13.30Multibuy ? Save 10%: £11.97 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£11.97 Buy 12+ Save £1.33There are only in stock
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Fresh and intense aromas of greengage, pineapple and amalfi lemon, with a hint of asian spice. There is a coolness and fragrance that is very enticing. On the palate the silky Garnacha Blanco and... Read more2024 12.5% ABV 75cl
Single£9.95Was £12.20 Save £2.25Multibuy ? Save 10%: £8.96 per bottle when you mix 12+ bottles£8.96 Buy 12+ Save £0.99There are only in stock