This is wine is a runaway Aussie juggernaut. The trailer was fully loaded in McLaren Vale with heady perfume, juicy blackberries, chocolate...
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 ...
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...
Open up any book about the red wines of France and before long you'll be sure to see the name of this highly reputed...
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...
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?
‘What is a Super Tuscan, and is this one?’ is a question one might well ask. Well, it’s a vaguely defined term but generally it ...
For too long the initials PC have meant personal computer. A machine that has tormented you, frustrated you, chained you to a...
Carménère is the forgotten one of the six Bordeaux grape varieties. But like an incredibly athletic and intrepid mole it has popped its head....
Masterful, legendary and heroic are words that are often bandied around when talking about this Shiraz. We prefer to describe it as...
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...
This New Zealand red caused quite a sensation amongst Oddbins' passionate staff last time this was in the range, with much ...
One of those reds that is so good it is likely to instantly convert many into lifelong devotees of Spanish wine. This is full-bodied with a deep...
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...
Chile's Leyda valley is squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific, its climate dominated by dense fogs and the strong sea wind that...
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 ...
In the UK there are almost 18 million families. Some are as jovial and gregarious as the Huxtables, some are balls of tumultuous rage ...
