We’re going to go a bit GCSE English on you, but we think Carmenère is an onomatopoeically-named grape. Uh-huh! That’s right. The softness of the ‘ah’ sound and the curve of the ‘ñ’...
According to Wikipedia "A popular but unconfirmed theory claims that Malbec is named after a Hungarian peasant who first spread...
Argentina may be best known for big, bolshy malbecs, but that's not all they do. This Shiraz is big and bold enough to ...
If an "inky, black, dark, fruity, intense, robust" red sounds attractive to you we think you should give this a try. Almost every review...
The Pearlstone Pinotage was named after the enormous granite Paarl Rock, which apparently looks like a pearl. Although we...
Shiraz is the sixth most populous city in Iran. Team Oddbins are a little unsure how the lovely people at Berton Vineyards in Australia managed...
We love the Greeks. They’re rebellious, they’re warm-hearted and, more pertinently, they’ve been making wine there for 6,500 years...
Quite possibly the smoothest Rhône valley red in the range at this price point, and a frequent bestseller, this is a real gem from the very...
Smouldering, nocturnal and spicy Rioja to make your head spin
Primitivo, the grape used in this wine, translates from the Italian as ‘primitive’, but rather than being a club-waving...
Altogether now, “Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby! Ahhhaaaa-aaaahhhh. Do you do you do you need it?” Yes, Kaiser Chiefs. The answer is yes...
Conjure the image, if you will, of a long, oak table in a conservatory in Venice. It's after dinner, the table is laden with bowls of plums, cherries and raspberries...
Rasteau is a village in the southern Rhone, where either life is particularly hard, or they just like to have a good time...
Diane de Puymor, from Château d'Or et de Gueules, is a very eco-friendly winemaker and holds daily communion...
In a country whose winemaking world is dominated by men, Susana Balbo is a formidable force in Argentina. After clocking up 20 years as a consultant vintner...
This wine takes its name from a curious custom in the Maipo Andes, in which new brides must go to the river, catch a fish and whisper...
This wine has a USP and it executes it brilliantly. What is it? It is the charming freshness and vibrancy of youth. With this Joven (young) wine, vintner Óscar Aragón has captured ...
In the tradition of Take That, Blur, Brian Wilson and Johnny Cash, winemaking in Wairarapa, on New Zealand’s North Island, has made a bit of a comeback...
Think Aussie shiraz and the cliché is of big, bold, in yer face wines – you might even say unreconstructedly macho. We’d never suggest...
Oh Mamma! What a smooth one this is. Get ready for some of the most over-worked wine adjectives in town hurtling their way ...
Baltasar Gracián was a 17th century Spanish writer. He once said, very wisely, ‘don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising
Alex Dale, winemaker at The Cape of Good Hope, says he wants "clear water between Good Hope and brash, overtly commercial styles...
We have a recipe for you. Take one world famous Port house (Ramos Pinto) and one incredibly prestigious Champagne...
One can at once see why this one is called One. The definitive article. That's to say, the benchmark to which many other Spanish ...
Bang! In your face! Let's not pussyfoot around, people like Argentine Malbec for its raw, heavyweight, power; and that's what ...
If you've not yet come across a bad Carmenere then there's a very simple reason for this. There aren't any. This is partly attributable...
Border-hopping Malbec from the other side of the peninsula in Chile. This is very South American anyway. Small wonder Chile too are ...
One to add to a magnificent group of Rhone reds now at Oddbins by this modern and dependable new supplier. Domaine de L'Arnesque...
Reds like this signal the new turn taken by Chilean wineries who want to get a third dimension across on their already too-good-for-their-own...
It feels like this was destined to become an Oddbins wine. In 1988 a sailboat carrying a Dane and an American arrived in Portugal. These two...
Wine or maths? Not a difficult question, is it? We don’t mind some algebra, fractions or long division occasionally...
South and East of Adelaide down the coast of South Australia lie the regions of Langhorne Creek and Limestone Coast, where the...
Wairarapa, heard when spoken, may sound like reference to the steel netting that many bottles of Spanish red come, well...
Confused you say? South African wine named after a French alpine mountaineering and skiing resort and made in the Italian 'ripasso' style?
For too long the initials PC have meant personal computer. A machine that has tormented you, frustrated you, chained you to a...
The story of Carignan, like that of Malbec, is that of a humble country grape, widely exploited but little appreciated at home...
Carménère is the forgotten one of the six Bordeaux grape varieties. But like an incredibly athletic and intrepid mole it has popped its head....
The folk at Santa Carolina hold dear the concept of “Herencia Viva”. This translates roughly as “living legacy” and means that they always consider the past...
Baltasar Gracián was a Spanish Jesuit who wrote El Criticón. Apparently it’s famous, but we’d never heard of it. When we looked it up on Wikipedia...
It’s not worth saying wines like this are like a very full bodied version of something you might get from Southern France. Only in the searing...
The name Gigondas is derived from the Latin ‘Jocunditas’, meaning great enjoyment and pleasure. What more appropriate name could...
It's wines like this elegant, intense, blackberry-infused Ribero del Duero, that make selling wine such an absolute pleasure...
This New Zealand red caused quite a sensation amongst Oddbins' passionate staff last time this was in the range, with much ...
Bordeaux? Old man's wine, isn't it? Drunk mainly by old duffers in gentleman's clubs or young fogeys aspiring to be old duffers. Well, maybe, but...
Gather round folks, we’ve a tale for ye… In the late 1800s, Oakley, California, was a booming farming community with thousands of acres of orchards and healthy vineyards...
Can a wine change the world? We say yes it can. Now we know it sounds like a bold claim, but we come with the Wine Not War...
Chile's Leyda valley is squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific, its climate dominated by dense fogs and the strong sea wind that...
It’s easy to split the wine world into ‘old’ and ‘new’, and not without good reason, but as ever, things turn out to be not as simple...
According to winemaker Ben Glaetzer, in films, the "director's cut" is regarded as the definitive version, subject to no compromises. Although...
Forgive us, gents, we're talking to the ladies here. Michael Fassbender (Prometheus, A Dangerous Method…) is the kind of man-god who ...
If you can't wait an age for your fine wine to age (and you don't want to go breaking into any of those sealed wooden cases ...
Amarone is about as full-flavoured and juicy as a red can get without help of fortification; very smooth and silky with a tantalizing ...
Chateauneuf is a classic. And this is as breathtaking an example as you're likely to come by at this outstandingly reasonable price tag....
Here at Oddbins, we know when we’re on to a good thing. We like this wine, we can see that you like it too, so what did we do? We got..
Jonathan Maltus is the established maverick of Bordeaux – the novice Englishman who turned up at Château Teyssier in the 1990s...
When we tell you that Valpolicella is made using dried-up grapes left for ages in a box, it doesn't sound very nice, does it? But hear us out...
Like the Royal Family at the moment, Cillar de Silos just go from strength to strength, and they don’t even have Kate Middleton on their team...
With a family history that goes back to the land before time, Quinta do Noval know a thing or two about making wine. They could be...
The summer of 2003 was hot. It was more than Hubert de Boüard de Laforest could take...
Gloria. It’s not just a name, it’s a way of life. Just think about it, practically every famous Gloria out there has warbled an uplifting song...
In 1977 the market town of Hay-on-Wye, on the Welsh border, was appropriated by a charismatic man called Richard Booth, who...
If Sassicaia were a person, it would have to be London’s confused, bumbling, loveable Mayor Boris Johnson. Mr Johnson has a family ...
Now we don’t want to start a bar room brawl and we will say from the outset that we are massive fans of French wine, but the British love...
