Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin May 4, 2019 Drink, Wine Errazuriz Sauvignon Blanc 2018, Chile, 13%, Asda down from £9 to £7 until 22 May Bright fresh tropical fruit with crisp underlying lemon freshness. A great aperitif. Balfour 1503 English...
Follow the Flock – California Bounces Back Christine Austin May 4, 2019 Drink, Wine Wild fires have become the norm all over the world but when they sweep through a wine region there are all kinds of consequences. There is not just the grave danger to life and property, but there is the...
Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin April 27, 2019 Drink, Wine Bruce Jack Chenin Blanc 2018, South Africa, 13%, Sainsbury down from £7 to £6 until 30 April Fresh crisp, honeysuckle aromas, with white peach and crunchy apple notes on the palate. Team with fishcakes...
Fog on the Vine – From California to Yorkshire – and back again Christine Austin April 20, 2019 Drink, Wine ‘Yorkshire has been and will always be a major part of our lives, and so we just had to put the Yorkshire Rose on our label.’ When I was speaking to Kathleen Inman of Inman family Wines in Santa Rosa,...
Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin April 20, 2019 Drink, Wine Klein Street Grenache Blanc 2018, South Africa, 14%, Morrisons down from £6.50 to £6 until 30 April Grenache Blanc is a variety with peachy, ripe pear notes, citrus freshness and enough weight to cope...
Off the Shelf – This Weekend’s Best Buys Christine Austin April 13, 2019 Drink, Wine Yali Wild Swan Sauvignon Blanc 2018, Central Valley, Chile, 12.5%, Co-op down from £7.50 to £5.50 until 23 April Lively citrus fruit with melon and pineapple top-notes make this a perfect...
Rich Pickings – the story of Pingus Christine Austin April 6, 2019 Drink, Wine It was an obvious question. ‘Why is the wine called Pingus?’ I asked Peter Sisseck, owner and winemaker of the top-class wine of that name. ‘It was what my family called me’, he said with a...
Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin April 6, 2019 Drink, Wine Tenuta Rapitalà Grillo 2017, Sicily, 13%, Waitrose down from £9.99 to £7.49 until 9 April Grillo is the local grape on Sicily known for its flavours of floral, lemony fruit with herbs and a rounded...
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...
Off the Shelf – Best Wine Buys this Weekend Christine Austin March 30, 2019 Drink, Wine Cono Sur Bicicleta Sauvignon Blanc 2018, Chile, 12%, Morrisons, down from £7.50 down to two bottles for £10 until 2 April Fresh, juicy, lime-zesty, crunchy green apple flavours that will brighten up a...