Smouldering, nocturnal and spicy Rioja to make your head spin
Some people, like Hobbits, like their homeland and see no reason to up sticks to pastures new ...
A Rioja made for meal times! This might just be the food-match ace in the Rioja suit.
Don't just reserve your decanter for special occasions; nearly all wines will benefit from the special treatment. However, if decanters just ...
An Oddbins favourite of long standing, this 100% Tempranillo Ribera del Duero is densely packed with deep, dark fruit flavours...
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...
We'd write an evocative tasting note that grasps the personality of this wine, but Google Translate has done the job ably (original text from the Domaine Le Roc website)...
"Who will have won when the soldiers have gone… from the Lebanon?" One answer to the Human League's question might well be the wine drinkers of ...
Rasteau is a village in the southern Rhone, where either life is particularly hard, or they just like to have a good time...
Sometimes tasting notes can seem so far-fetched you wonder whether the writer is actually taking you for a ride. If we were to say ...
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...
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 ...
If you're looking for good honest seduction then this is a wine you shouldn't pass by. (It will seduce you good and proper). For the ...
Question: what do the Queen of Hearts, Mick Hucknall and Errazuriz Merlot have in common? Answer: they are all very red. Yes...
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...
Think Aussie shiraz and the cliché is of big, bold, in yer face wines – you might even say unreconstructedly macho. We’d never suggest...
Why have three little pigs, when you could have one big pig and three little fruits? The label illustrator must be aware of the wine world's ...
In a move that must surely make her the envy of maligned media families like the Murdochs and the welly-wearing Windsors, Filipa Pato...
Alex Dale, winemaker at The Cape of Good Hope, says he wants "clear water between Good Hope and brash, overtly commercial styles...
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
We have a recipe for you. Take one world famous Port house (Ramos Pinto) and one incredibly prestigious Champagne...
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 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 ...
After your first sip of this Rioja you'll begin to see why so many people ask for good red Rioja by name and you'll begin to wonder what ...
Boasting a madcap building that looks like a spaceship has landed in the middle of the Rioja countryside, the Luis Alegre winery is an innovative set up...
One to add to a magnificent group of Rhone reds now at Oddbins by this modern and dependable new supplier. Domaine de L'Arnesque...
One of the glorious things about the colder weather is that magical feeling you get when curled up indoors with the elements safely shut...
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...
