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Viña Errázuriz was founded in 1870 by Don Maximiano Errázuriz, who introduced French grape varieties to Chile’s Aconcagua Valley in Chile. This is the 2025 vintage, made from 100% Pinot Noir. It is lightly oaked, with 50% of the wine subsequently aged for six months in French oak barrels, and comes in at 13% abv....
Last week I was in London and ate at Maki & Ramen in Soho. I’m becoming increasingly sceptical about ordering wine when eating out, partly because I’ve been disappointed too many times, and partly because some of the mark-ups are eye-watering. This time, though, I tentatively ordered the Izakaya Red from Portugal, described on the...
Villiera Cap Classique Brut comes from South Africa, from a producer that has become one of the country’s most respected names in sparkling wine. Villiera played an important part in establishing Cap Classique as one of South Africa’s flagship wine styles and became particularly associated with traditional-method sparkling wine, helped in its early years by...
There’s a long piece on the BBC about young adults increasingly turning to prescription drugs rather than alcohol. That, together with greater health awareness, the growing use of other drugs and the rise of prescribed weight-loss drugs, made me wonder about the effect all this has on wine consumption. Wine drinking tends to make up...
Calabria Bélena Rosé comes from Calabria Family Wines, drawing fruit from NSW/South Australia. “True Partnership” appears on the label, and there is a family story behind it. The name Bélena pays respect to the second generation, Bill and Lena Calabria, combining “Bill” and “Lena”. It celebrates their partnership in guiding the family through difficult periods...
Waitrose has 25% off 6 bottles or more of wine and Champagne priced between £6 and £100 from 19 August 2026 to 1 September 2026 inclusive. See the pick list for tips on what to buy. This offer isn’t available in branches in Scotland, Wales or Jersey, motorway service stations, Welcome Break or petrol stations.
Tesco has save 25% off wine with Clubcard when you buy 6+ bottles that are £6 and over (£7 in Wales) from 19 August 2026 until 24 August 2026. See the Tesco Pick List for tips on what to buy. Note that, in the past, Tesco has often extended the end date.
Morrisons has 25% discount on 6 or more bottles of wine, More Card price, £6 or more from 17 August 2026 until 30 August 2026. See the Morrisons pick list for recommendations. Note that the Morrisons web site is deficient and can only show one offer, for a wine, at a time. If you go...
Héritage Rosé from Famille Negrel comes from Côtes de Provence Sainte-Victoire. The producer is a little shy about revealing the exact blend, but it’s likely to be Grenache, Syrah and Cinsault. This is the 2024 vintage, vegan, with 12.5% abv, and it has an impressive 3.9 rating on Vivino. In the glass, it’s a very...
A new paper asks, as vineyards get warmer and drier, will familiar grapes such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir continue to taste recognisably like themselves? The researchers analysed 256 grape-juice samples from 80 vineyards across 13 European and Argentine wine regions over the 2019–2021 vintages, looking at vine water stress and thousands of metabolites. One...
Gaia Organic Malbec takes its name from Gaia, the green goddess of the earth, who appears on the label. Behind it is a touch of French winemaking brought to Argentina by Domaine Bousquet, whose roots are in Carcassonne in southern France. The grapes are grown at 1,200 metres in Gualtallary, in Mendoza’s Tupungato Valley, where...
