Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin August 25, 2019 Drink, Wine Sir Irsai 2018, Etyek, Hungary, Haraszthy, 11.5%, Lidl, £6.49 Dry, light and fragrant with a touch of spice. Perfect with fish cakes. A new wine at Lidl and only while stocks last. Jim Barry...
Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin August 18, 2019 Drink, Wine The Ned Sauvignon Blanc 2018, Marlborough, New Zealand, 13%, Tesco, down from £9.50 to £7.50 until 19 August A fresh tasting, thirst quenching,gooseberry and citrus-charged wine that is perfect as an...
Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin August 11, 2019 Drink, Wine La Fortezza Vermentino 2017, Sicily, Italy, 12%, Marks and Spencer, down from £7 to £6 until 26 August Terrific quality and value from Sicily where Vermentino grapes develop herb-scented, crisp Granny...
Valley Bears Fruit – Exploring Okanagan Christine Austin August 11, 2019 Drink, Wine Everyone knows that bears like honey, so what do you do if you are in bear country and you decide to keep beehives? ‘It is really quite simple’, said Taylor Whelan, winemaker at Cedar Creek in the...
Off the shelf – Best Wine Buys This Weekend Christine Austin August 4, 2019 Drink, Wine Plaimont Côtes de Gascogne 2018, France, 11.5%, Sainsbury down from £8 to £6.25 until 13 August Crisp and refreshing with notes of pink grapefruit and lemon. Ideal as an aperitif, or with...
Drink in the Silence – Wine in the Aisles Christine Austin August 4, 2019 Drink, Wine There is always some point in a summer holiday when you need to get off your sunbed and go and look at something. It might be no more spectacular than the wine shelves of the local supermarket, but if you...
Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys for this Weekend Christine Austin July 28, 2019 Drink, Wine Jackson Stich Sauvignon Blanc 2018,Marlborough, New Zealand, 12.5%, Waitrose down from £12.99 to £9.99 until 13 August A good step up from many Kiwi Sauvignons, this is packed with punchy gooseberry...
Mighty Whoosh – Fizz and Fun in Champagne Christine Austin July 28, 2019 Drink, Wine What’s the best part of sipping champagne? Is it the pop of the cork, the whoosh of bubbles or that gorgeous taste of crisp apples, toast, hazelnuts and citrus? All of these factors add to the special...
Meeting the Challenge with Champion Wines Christine Austin July 28, 2019 Drink, Wine ‘We were shortlisted for Specialist Merchant of the Year for Sparkling Wine but Waitrose pipped us to that one,’ said Yorkshire-based wine importer Tony Stones, but he still had a winning night at The...
Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys for this Weekend Christine Austin July 20, 2019 Drink, Wine The Doctor's Sauvignon Blanc 2017, Marlborough, New Zealand, 9.5%, Booths down from £10 to £9 until 30 July Naturally lower alcohol wine with all the zippy, fresh herbaceous taste of a full-strength one,...