It’s so cute! Aw! Look at the ickle thing! Hmm, explain myself? Well, the super-duper Burgundian co-operative, Cave de Lugny...
Château Jalousie have just gone straight to the to the top of our popularity list for lightening up our day with the following food matching...
A brilliant little white that offers fantastic value for money. This engaging wine flows with ripe expressive fruit while at the same time enjoying a crisp...
Dolia. A refreshing Sauvignon Blanc from Gascony, SW France. But, little did we know, it is also a defunct Bishop’s seat in ...
The Languedoc is a place where many marvellous things can happen in the wine world. Not bound by the strict conventions of many of the Appellations d'Origine Contrôlée, it’s a case...
Sometimes in life you just want to keep things simple. Your furniture minimalist, your walls whitewashed, your white wine crisp...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that you have to go to the New World to get really good value in the classic French grape ...
We know 'Gros Manseng' isn't the nicest name for a grape. In fact it sounds like...
Francois Lurton of Bordeaux is a man who makes great value wines .....
Ah, summertime, when the living is easy, fish are jumping and it’s time for rose wine – or something along those lines. And of course, kicking back...
In all that's good! What a gem this is! Here's a real flash...
Like the Clan MacLeod in epic 1980s sci-fi/fantasy, Highlander, the Bougrier family have been around for a long time. But, thankfully, they don’t have that nasty...
In June 2012 Oddbins launched a nationwide search for the UK’s finest amateur wine taster. After months of gruelling competition we found her...
A red as good as this one shows why French wine has remained still so widely popular and survives the obvious competition from the ....
In keeping with the cultural terminology as memorably described by Jules and Vincent in Pulp Fiction, if the French do a take on a foreign product, all they do is stick “Le” in front of it, as in “Le Big Mac”. ...
Incredibly high standards of winemaking for the price. This is an astonishingly well-loved Oddbins favourite and one...
This wine has some surprising parallels with the original Beat author, Jack Kerouac. Like Jack – or Jean-Louis as he was...
Get ready for a crashing tidal wave of people claiming they've known about Picpoul for years, have always known about it, and ...
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...
Steeped in exciting history, this wine is like a really good Brontë novel, or maybe a Dan Brown. Dating way back to 1070, Le Chateau de la ...
The word "robust" has come in for so much overuse lately, that it may as well not mean anything at all. "Robust new measures to counter ...
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...
If the world of wine were Hundred Acre Wood… the omnipotent Robert Parker would be Christopher Robin, the exuberant Olly Smith - Tigger...
Well-coloured with relatively high acidity, this is a vivacious Beaujolais abundent with notes of freshly picked berries and traditional boiled...
Don't just reserve your decanter for special occasions; nearly all wines will benefit from the special treatment. However, if decanters just ...
Some people, like Hobbits, like their homeland and see no reason to up sticks to pastures new ...
An absolutely delicious classic white Burgundy, with the broad, exuberant charm typical of its 100% Chardonnay-based content. This is 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...
It's always handy having an Aligoté around, because sooner or later, a Burgundy fan who knows their stuff is going to ask for one...
Sourced from vineyards in the historic villages of Viré and Clessé, Les Liards 2010 is alive with those crisp citrus and light floral ...
Do you remember that scene in American Gangster with the naked women in the factory? We were trying to imagine a similar ...
Rasteau is a village in the southern Rhone, where either life is particularly hard, or they just like to have a good time...
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)...
Question: what is crisp, herby and cleansing? No, it’s not a date with Mary Beard. It’s Chateau Croix des Bouquets, of course. Much like the controversial classicist
What do manure, solar energy and pheromones have in common? Why, they are all used in the production of wine from Chateau d’Or ...
Diane de Puymor, from Château d'Or et de Gueules, is a very eco-friendly winemaker and holds daily communion...
There’s more to Loire valley sauvignon than Sancerre and Pouilly Fumé. Even occasionally more than just sauvignon blanc...
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 ...
One to add to a magnificent group of Rhone reds now at Oddbins by this modern and dependable new supplier. Domaine de L'Arnesque...
You may have heard of tea picked by monkeys and coffee defecated by civets. Those are nothing, this is an exotically spiced ...
One of the glorious things about the colder weather is that magical feeling you get when curled up indoors with the elements safely shut...
René Carroi’s rosé makes us say ‘Allo ‘Allo! It’s sexier than Yvette brandishing the wet celery and the flying helmet in the back...
Far and away the most successful Chablis in our range over the past few years, this is loved and adored by all who try it, like it, and...
From the producer who almost single-handedly put Menetou-Salon on the map as a serious competitor to its big-name neighbours...
Sancerre like this one is a guarantee. A classic French white style that should by now, be known and trusted by one...
Of the various “Pouillys”, this is the Loire variety, made from the well known Sauvignon Blanc grape. Pouilly-Fumé makes more than a pleasant ...
This could well be the fullest of the new red Burgundies of those in our mid-price range, but only by a smidgen. All those from the ...
Fleurie with a bit more... This is a little fuller than you might expect from this traditional style and a fail-safe option, particularly for those ...
Look into my eyes, look deep into my eyes. You feel ever so sleepy. You now find yourself in a pleasant French garden with beds of lavender and sweet peas and a tabby ...
There's a lot of fuss in Chablis about a precocious new talent called Samuel Billaud, of Billaud-Simon fame. He's regarded as one of the best...
We like Maine and Jean-Marie Guffens-Heynen. As young students, they rocked up in Burgundy in 1976, without a word of...
When we're looking for a proper bottle of wine, what are we actually looking for? Red? Check. French, specifically Bordeaux? Check ...
A classic Bordeaux from fifth growth Château Belgrave in Haut-Médoc. A wine of depth, class and smoothness that really sings...
Bordeaux and Burgundy are of course the two cornerstones of any traditionalist’s wine cellar, and there’s good reason for that....
The name Gigondas is derived from the Latin ‘Jocunditas’, meaning great enjoyment and pleasure. What more appropriate name could...
Pascal Zanuto has been creating every drop of this beautiful wine for the last 15 years. It's a classic year for production in Bourdeaux, a classically...
All the wine books seem to give positive acknowledgement of this well-established Loire house. An Oddbins long-stander...
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...
Thank heaven! A red Rhone that hasn't lost its head to alcohol or lost its mind to modernity. This is the way it should be, because ...
Psst, we're about to let you in on a little secret. Saint Aubin is not very famous, but it sits right next door to the world famous Chassagne-Montrachet ...
Domaine Long-Depaquit winery was founded in 1791 and has built a reputation as one of the top estates in Chablis. The Château itself dates from the 18th Century...
This wine is drier than Jack Dee on a desert island, having just seen a mangy mutt licking its lips after drinking the last drop of water from the ...
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...
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...
Chateauneuf is a classic. And this is as breathtaking an example as you're likely to come by at this outstandingly reasonable price tag....
I like big La Butte and I cannot lie. Sir Mix-a-Lot was not talking about this wine, but he probably should’ve been. La Butte is a small...
Verget's philosophy can be summed up in one simple sentence: "the best wine from the best grapes". But in Mâconnais...
This is one for Tony. No not Tony Montana. Nooo, not Tony Benn. Tony Robinson! Time Team Tony! Yes this one hails from a...
Jonathan Maltus is the established maverick of Bordeaux – the novice Englishman who turned up at Château Teyssier in the 1990s...
Three. It’s a magic number. Think of all the brilliant three-related phenomena – you’ve got The Corrs (if you don’t count the brother), you’ve got the Holy Trinity...
Forgive us, gents, we're talking to the ladies here. Michael Fassbender (Prometheus, A Dangerous Method…) is the kind of man-god who ...
Nuit-Saint-Georges is a place in France where they make really extraordinary wine. It is not a reference to the “Night of Saint George”,...
Like a truffle-hunter who’s just visited a sweet shop after being dragged through a blackberry bush, this wine has powerful aromas of...
The summer of 2003 was hot. It was more than Hubert de Boüard de Laforest could take...
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...
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...
Like a Sorcerer's Apprentice who actually knows what he's doing, Patrice Cacheux took over operations from his father, Jacques Cacheux,...
In 1977 the market town of Hay-on-Wye, on the Welsh border, was appropriated by a charismatic man called Richard Booth, who...
When you learn that Montrachet unappealingly means “Scabby Hill”, it teaches you that the wine must be pretty impressive for it to...
Big. The name of a notorious rapper and the buzz-word at most American eateries. It is also, however, the size of bottle that the goddamn...
Beard? Moustache? Or just experimenting with whiskers? Then this is for you. Corton Charlemagne was named after a French Emperor ...
