Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin November 17, 2019 Drink, Wine Koha Sauvignon Blanc 2018, Marlborough, New Zealand, 12.5%, Marks and Spencer down from £8 to £6 until 2 December A bright, zesty, citrus and gooseberry packed wine, perfect as an aperitif to keep in the...
Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin November 10, 2019 Drink, Wine Finest Breede River Sauvignon Blanc 2018, South Africa, 12.5%, Tesco down from £7.50 to £6 until 18 November Fresh, bright and gooseberry-fresh, perfect as an aperitif, or team it with grilled sea...
Four-letter Worth – Great Wines from Aldi and Lidl Christine Austin October 13, 2019 Drink, General, Wine It seems that more of us are heading to the ‘discounters’ as Aldi and Lidl supermarkets are known. Apparently they acquired another 1.6 million shoppers in the last three months, pushing their joint share...
Smarter Drinking from Aldi and Lidl Christine Austin March 30, 2019 Drink, Wine They started just a few years go with small stores in the less favoured parts of town, but now Aldi and Lidl, collectively known as ‘discounters’ have carved out a large chunk of the grocery market. Now...
Discount me in – Best Wine Buys from Aldi and Lidl Christine Austin October 6, 2018 Drink, Wine A few years ago the value of your house would go up if a Waitrose store opened nearby. These days you have to wait for a Lidl or Aldi to open at the end of the road to get an uplift in the value of your...
Quaff Licence – What’s in store at Aldi and Lidl Christine Austin October 26, 2017 Drink, Wine There was total shock on the High Street as earlier this year Lidl gradually overhauled Waitrose in the supermarket stakes. It joined Aldi which had moved up the pecking order a year ago pushing Waitrose down...
Blog: Lidl and Aldi Christine Austin March 7, 2016 Drink, Wine With a very limited range of just 60 wines on the shelves at Lidl, it would be easy for customers to run out of drinking options, yet wine sales have increased by an astonishing 30 per cent over the last 12...