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Waitrose Own-Label Red Wines

March 19, 2012
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Supermarket own-label red wines can be an unknown quantity. It should be simple – supermarket own-label red wines tend to have clear, simple-to-understand labels and usually reflect the best known and most popular wine styles and grape varieties from around the world. Yet, despite own-label and exclusively imported wines making up around 40 per cent [...]

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Paul Mas 2011 Vin de Pays d’Oc Grenache – Syrah

March 6, 2012
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Here’s a soft, easy-to-drink wine from the south of France with a hint of spice and liquorice. It’s not one that you’d pull out on special occasions to impress guests or if you’re in the mood for oral explosions of taste. It doesn’t dominate proceedings, and you might not pay a huge amount of attention [...]

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Lussac St.Emilion, Affordable Bordeaux

February 3, 2012
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I have always liked the wines of Bordeaux: from the top growths to Bordeaux Superiore and everything in-between. What people often overlook is that it’s not just the first growths that produce amazing wines. Bordeaux is a place where you can find all sorts of good red wine at affordable prices, as long as you’re [...]

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Domaine Marie Faugeres 2010

September 30, 2011
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I like the label on this one. Modern, minimal, but still with a touch of art, of wildness. Its understated nature suits what’s inside quite well. It’s from the Faugeres region of the south of France, which only got its own appellation in 1982 but has by many accounts been producing excellent – and good [...]

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Peter Lehmann Back To Back Barossa Valley Grenache 2006

May 9, 2011
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Some of the best wines I’ve had in the past year have been related to the Grenache grape, and some less tenuously than others. I’ve had a growing fondness for Rhône blends for some time, many of which comprise Grenache along with Shiraz and other varietals, usually in lesser quantities. I’m still finding its versatility to [...]

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Joseph Drouhin Rouge Rully Burgundy

April 13, 2011
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‘Rully‘ is a nice memorable name, and therefore – I presumed – a good place to start in exploring Burgundy, and its wines, remotely. That’s right, far from being a rough northern town in England, which it (arguably) sounds like, Rully is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department of the greater Burgundy area, and for [...]

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Everyday Bordeaux – 2009 Calvet Reserve

April 6, 2011
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Bordeaux is often thought of as an elitist drink. A wine that only the rich (or the Chinese) can afford. While it’s true that if you want to drink the great wines of Bordeaux you will have to fork out a lot of money, there are plenty of great everyday wines that are produced from [...]

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