5 Amazing New Wines including Two Paddocks, Torres, Château de Sours & Paul Cluver
Some new season beauties for you to reward your palates with. 2010 Plaisir de Merle, Petit Plaisir, South Africa (£7.99, Marks & Spencer). This is a delightfully spicy shiraz, cabernet, merlot blend and it is a superb, hearty, spring-like red with a medium-weight chassis and .. more
5 Stunners for Valentine’s Day including an incredible Billecart-Salmon offer
Some superb, romantic wines and a few to match to this week’s Weekend Magazine chocolate recipes, too, with a full list of stockists for the Billecart-Salmon offer! 2011 Brown Brothers, Moscato Rosa, Victoria, Australia (£6.89, Waitrose). This brilliant family firm makes a vast array of .. more
Five superbly priced wines to welcome in 2013
To finish off the year I have chosen five incredibly well-priced, tiptop quality, wines for you to welcome in 2013. 2011 M&S Negroamaro, Puglia, Italy (£6.49, Marks & Spencer). With impressively punchy blackberry fruit flavours punctuated with classy coffee and plum notes this is a .. more
2010 Fleur de Clinet, Pomerol, Bordeaux, France
2010 Fleur de Clinet, Pomerol, Bordeaux, France (£225.00 ib per case of 12 (equates to £24.78 per bottle inc duty and VAT), Bordeaux Index tel. 020 7269 0703 & www.bordeauxindex.com). My eternal quest for serious, but affordable, red Bordeaux occupies far too much of my .. more
Four Incredible Reds and a stunning Grillo to round off a Superb Collection
Four characterful reds and a silky, sensual white mark a change in the seasons. 2011 Torres, Sangre de Toro, Penedès, Spain (£8.15, reduced to £5.99 until 9 October, Waitrose). The new vintage of this inexpensive, iconic wine is lush, briary and spicy. Made from four .. more
Five very flashy wines this Weekend to splash out on!
Five extraordinarily delicious wines this week, all with immense class and elegance. 2011 Mirabeau Rosé, Côtes de Provence, France (£8.99, Waitrose). With fresh herb and floral notes inter-sprinkled with raspberry and strawberry flavours, this is a hear-achingly beautiful rosé from the finest region in the .. more
5 Incredible Wines for Spicy Vegetarian Dishes
The wines have been carefully matched to the vegetarian recipes in this weeks Weekend Magazine. 2011 Côtes-du-Rhone Blanc, Domaine de l’Arnesque, Rhône, France (£9.00, Oddbins). This stunning, fragrant grenache blanc is a total surprise and it is the perfect match for the Moroccan vegetable tagine .. more
5 Superb Wines for this week’s Lamb recipes including some jeroboams of Rosé!
I have five wines this week for the amazing array of lamb recipes including a white and two rosés! 2009 Château Paret, Côtes de Castillon, Bordeaux, France (£9.79, reduced to £6.46 until 8 May, Waitrose). This amazingly dense, dark, posh-tasting claret is a complete surprise. .. more
2004 Château La Haye, Cru Bourgeois, St-Estèphe, Bordeaux, France
2004 Château La Haye, Cru Bourgeois, St-Estèphe, Bordeaux, France (£13.95 Wine Society tel. 01438 741177). I have been buying this wine for years, enjoying it at home and also listing it at Bibendum Restaurant in the ‘strategic and well-priced’, St-Estèphe slot. It’s pretty difficult to .. more
5 Brand New Delicious Wines for Mother’s Day
Here are five particularly delicious wines with which to celebrate and spoil your mother on Mother’s Day. 2011 Moscato d’Asti, Nivole, Chiarlo, Piemonte, Italy (£6.99, half bottle, Booths Supermarkets). At only 5% alcohol, this feather-weight, sparkling sweet wine is the cutest and most innocent wine .. more
