Stop! We know... Too easy to pass this one by. But stop we say. This is a really excellent and well balanced little Spanish white at a ...
It’s a hot day, you’re meandering through the picturesque streets of Nézignan-l’Evêque. A Citroën 2CV filled with fruit, preserves and wild flora...
A few years ago, Rias Baixas, and Albarino were the region and grape names to drop to prove your wine aficionado credentials. These days...
Grab this Granite Ridge and get it on your granite worktop; this is a food loving superstar. If you've yet to try Chenin or have only tried ...
There was a time that Australian Chardonnay was pretty much the world’s house white. Now received opinion would more generally ...
In June 2012 Oddbins launched a nationwide search for the UK’s finest amateur wine taster. After months of gruelling competition we found her...
If you are a worshipper of Pan, mystical leader of the natural world, mistakenly thinking that we’re talking about the village of Martino in Arcadia, Greece...
Of all the grape varieties that South Africa has helped put on the map and get the world to take seriously, it is likely to be Chenin Blanc ...
We imagine this heady beaut to be the kind of tipple that would be served up at Bilbo Baggins’ Farewell Birthday Party, with all the Hobbits gathered...
As Blondie said, picture this: you’re perched on the branch of an orange tree...
Why isn’t Chenin Blanc as famous as Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc? More versatile than a Swiss Army knife, it’s used all...
What do manure, solar energy and pheromones have in common? Why, they are all used in the production of wine from Chateau d’Or ...
Grüner Veltliner is a great grape and Markus Huber has handled it expertly here. With peachy fruit, capsicum and lightly spicy notes, it pairs...
Hidden deep in the normally peaceful Yarra Valley, maverick winemakers at Yering Station have been secretly building what the military ...
Smell plays a massive part in what you taste. That’s why when your nose is all bunged up food tastes bland. If you don’t believe us...
These days, the word Chardonnay can be a source of dread and fear, such is the rough ride this grape has received in the last decade...
Declared a “wunderkind” by Decanter magazine, 33-year-old Markus Huber is riding a ruddy great wave of popularity right now...
The Italian region of Molise was plagued by vampires, who had rampaged through the Balkans and across the Adriatic before the Pope...
Too often these days, winemakers, in seeking to make a riesling to suit the ‘modern’ palate, try so hard to make their Riesling dry they forget...
You may have heard of tea picked by monkeys and coffee defecated by civets. Those are nothing, this is an exotically spiced ...
What’s in a name? Pinot Grigio has developed a poor reputation in recent years, as generic pub wine. Call it Pinot Gris, on the other...
In Japan “kuru-kuru” means to spin around and “kuru-kuru-pa” is a colloquialism meaning insane. Although the Kuru Kuru Sauvignon...
From the producer who almost single-handedly put Menetou-Salon on the map as a serious competitor to its big-name neighbours...
ODDBINS EXCLUSIVE. It’s hard sometimes, in this life, to maintain a sense of place, when we have our furniture from Scandinavia, our pears from Kenya and our sitcoms from America...
They say it took 26 million years to make South Australia's Limestone Coast. Fortunately for us it takes only about a 26 Millionth of that time...
We like Maine and Jean-Marie Guffens-Heynen. As young students, they rocked up in Burgundy in 1976, without a word of...
Hungary is an unusual land famous for its paprika, extreme moustaches, turbulent history, water polo and melancholy. Its residents, the mighty...
When Marlborough first acquired its reputation for producing world class Sauvignon Blancs, that was largely, if not entirely down to Cloudy Bay....
It's quite something to think that in 1917, as WWI was at its most hellish in northern France, 300 miles south just outside the rustic hamlet of Pouilly...
Verget's philosophy can be summed up in one simple sentence: "the best wine from the best grapes". But in Mâconnais...
2009 was a great year for Verget’s Chablis, hailed by many as their best. Handpicked from 40 year old vines in a Grand Cru site, fermented in oak...
When you learn that Montrachet unappealingly means “Scabby Hill”, it teaches you that the wine must be pretty impressive for it to...
