Brian Elliott is an established wine journalist, taster, judge and writer with a weekly column in Scottish newspapers.
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National Barbecue Week finishes on Sunday but it is not too late to pull some BBQ friendly, well priced reds from the current round of Tesco promotions.
Usually convenience store wine shelves mean limited choice, higher prices and – sometimes – patchy quality. Come with me though to a retailer represented in most towns and villages that skilfully averts all three of those drawbacks and also has a great option for any prosecco famine.
Catch up with the varied and reliable batch of promotions that Waitrose have assembled for the rest of May. I have pinpointed four particularly strong examples but there are many more in store to engage the incurable wine browser.
Inexpensive Bordeaux wine often seems an oxymoron but the latest Sainsbury’s promotion (along with its bulk buy discount where it applies) turns it into reality. I have pinpointed three of the region’s wines that, to me, illustrate the point perfectly.
With a whole range of supermarket promotions to dazzle and confuse, here is a short list of the best of the current bunch. Put them in your trolley’s sat nav for days when there is time for little beyond “grab and go” shopping.
As the premium discounters make the market for conventional wine more challenging, so established retailers are experimenting with more unorthodox – and sometimes exotic – wines. Here are four of them that are particularly tasty – and reduced in price too.
A new Tesco promotion began yesterday and neatly partners a great champagne with six dependable wines to herald springtime but which all cost less than £6
Waitrose started a new promotion yesterday – and I think it has been laudably enriched with some unorthodox and enticing wine that many of you will enjoy.
Having cast my eye over two promotions that started this week – at the Co-op and Sainsbury’s – here is some well priced (and well made) champagne to help you toast the arrival of spring.
The M&S promotions that started yesterday combines well made whites at entry point prices with at least one unconventional wine that will startle and delight by turns
