You’d be forgiven for not realising that it is Beaujolais Nouveau day on 15 November, as it has rather fallen from fashion. Perhaps oddly in retrospect, the third Thursday in November used to be a notable date in the wine calendar, when people literally raced by train, plane and automobile...
Magnificent Merlots Merlot is rightly regarded as a “go to” option offering ripe, fruity and softly textured wines, with attractive aromas of plums, dark berries and chocolate. It is also the variety of Petrus, one of the world’s most expensive and sought-after wines. But its reputation took something of a knock...
Tempting Tempranillos Hot on the heels of International Merlot Day it's International Tempranillo Day on November 8th, and with it no doubt some special offers in the supermarkets. Our Wotwine experts have picked out some of the best value wines to look out for. Tempranillo is a high quality and versatile variety and...
The savings to be made by "bring your own bottle" to a restaurant are huge. So it is with some delight that Bookatable.com have identified their top ten restaurants who offer this exceptional facility. Most restaurants need to cover the costs of buying the wine, storage in prime conditions in often valuable space, financing...
Mothers Day is a time to celebrate as well as show appreciation, so our first recommendations are for fizz, and our "go-to" best value continues to be the terrific Cremant du Jura 2012 in Aldi for £7.29. The wotwine? team consistently rates this nicely packaged, very clean and bright Chardonnay based fizz as...
wotwine? explains and finds that the diam cork is the best for supermarket wine: Over 70% of the wines we taste from supermarket shelves are now sealed with a screw cap. The few that come in wine boxes and tetra packs aside, there are around 5% sealed with plastic "corks", and the...
By far the most scanned red wine by our users is Rioja. That is not really surprising as these wines have for years offered good value and easy drinking maturity. We have tasted some extraordinarily good value Riojas this year, and they will be delicious with Turkey and all the trimmings...
In our second pre-Christmas set of recommendations, we cover Sancerre and New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, two of the most popular wines that are scanned by shoppers. The best Sancerre is a great wine. It takes what is fundamentally a pretty dull grape varietal (Sauvignon Blanc), and elevates it way above a simple...
Over the next few days, from today through till next Wednesday, we will be giving you our curated selection from the wines which you viewed the most on the supermarket shelves. Today we start with Champagne and here are our recommendations: From great, well known brands we always pick out Bollinger, Pol Roger and Louis...
As we have often said, one doesn't have to drink expensive wine everyday so long as it is well made, interesting and not bland or dull. All you really need is something with a good balance of fruit, acidity and intensity, and that will make it good for everyday drinking. Our real test...