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Wineboxes: ugly but full of delight

Details: 14 January 2013 4:21pm

winebox tap If you really like a certain wine, rather than buying it in single cork-stoppered bottles why not get in larger three or four bottle-sized amounts available in boxes? You’ll find many supermarkets sell the same wine in bottles and wineboxes, but check out the equivalent price per bottle and you’ll find the winebox wine works out cheaper.

Top Ten Last Minute Christmas Wine Bargains

Details: 17 December 2012 4:28pm

Top Ten Last Minute Christmas Bargains this week. Because, if you’re like me, then you’ve been concentrating on the nosh side of Christmas rather than what wine to match with the roast turkey, the cold turkey, the turkey curry, the mince pies, the puddings, the nuts...yes well. So here are ten wines ranging from Aldi’s £3.99 stonking value Italian red to some posher clarets at over £10 a bottle. And what these wines have in common is that they’re all well worth the money.

Top Five Sparkling Wines of 2012

Details: 10 December 2012 12:56pm

half bottles of champagne Top Five Sparkling Wines of 2012 this week. Which makes a change from 2011 where there was such a dearth of the decent bubbly stuff that a top sparkling round-up couldn’t be justified. Things are a little better this year. But while we’ve had a Top Ten Whites and Top Ten Reds, and even a Top Ten Under A Fiver, there still wasn’t quite enough tasty fizz this year to make a top ten list. So you’ll have to make do with a top five instead. And here they are.

Top Ten Red Wines of 2012

Details: 3 December 2012 3:52pm

Caliterra label Top Ten Reds of 2012 this week including three at under £7 plus plenty of slurpable chocolate and cherry flavours. Here they are in order of fabness.

Top Ten White Wines of 2012

Details: 26 November 2012 4:29pm

Errazuriz Wild Ferment Top Ten White Wines of 2012 this week. There will also be a Paula’s Top Ten Red Wine choices of 2012 and the Top Five Sparkling Wines of 2012. But no Top Ten Rosés or After Dinner wines. Because this year has seen a dearth of great tasting and great value wines that are a delightful pink colour and an even greater lack of wines to match the cheese and nuts course. But slurpable whites at a reasonable price there have been, in abundance - which made it very hard to knock the list back to just the top ten. But here they are ranging in price from £6.79 to £12.49 listed in order of which bottle to save first if the house floods.

Top Ten Wines For Under A Fiver

Details: 19 November 2012 2:55pm

pound coins The £5 and under wine category has expanded rapidly this year now that retailers have finally realised consumer spending habits have changed irrevocably due to the recession. Waitrose added its own value range in October, while Tesco and Sainsbury’s enhanced and expanded their existing cheaper wine ranges. But Aldi still holds the top spot for the supermarket with the most consistently drinkable value wines. And that’s why six of its wines fill this year’s Top Ten Wines Under A Fiver.

Chocolate sponge, chocolate chip muffins, Mars Bar cake - but what wine?

Details: 12 November 2012 3:41pm

gooey cake Chocolate cakes come in many guises – dark chocolate sponges, white chocolate chip muffins and high-cocoa content cake topped with melted Mars Bars. But come the final cake count there will be two important questions to answer: “Which cake to slice first?”, and “What wine will match all that chocolate?”.

1994 Riojas: drink now

Details: 5 November 2012 2:31pm

Eighteen years of age is just a little too old to be young, yet not quite old enough to have any worldly-wise maturity. But what applies to humans doesn’t necessarily translate into the world of wine – particularly if you’re a red from the Spanish region of Rioja. These 1994s are at their best now and there just ain’t any point holding on to the corkscrew any longer.