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Sainsbury’s Pale Dry Fino
I enjoy a glass of sherry as you may have worked out by now. Tio Pepe is my standard pre-dinner sherry, but now and again I try something different either because it looks interesting or it’s on sale....
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Sartori Regolo 2001
A recent house move meant finding lots of things I’d either lost or forgotten about. One of the nice surprises was finding wine I’d tucked away well under the stairs and wiped from my mind. One such...
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Brown Brothers Tarrango 2008
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I went out in search of large pasta shells to stuff and at the end of the pasta aisle at Sainsbury’s there was a river end full of wine oddities at knock down prices. I...
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Dr. Loosen Dr. L Riesling 2008
Dr Loosen is good at making wine. Very good. Great Rieslings are truly great and come with the truly great price tags to match. Dr L is the friendly, approachable entry level offer from the brand....
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Jacob’s Creek Chardonnay Pinot Noir
It’s snowing again. The trip home was long and slidy and at some points slightly scary. There’s only one good use for snow, using it in a champagne bucket. It’s not really a champagne day, so I...
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Antoine de Clevecy NV Champagne
So it’s a New Year and people tend to buy fizzy wine for New Year. I’m not a huge fan of Champagne, I tend to find it’s over-priced and if I’m going to spend good money on a bottle of wine I know I...
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Stamford Brook Chardonnay 2012
Over the holidays we tried quite a few wines that aren’t in our normal rotation. People brought them to us, we had them in restaurants, and we drank them in homes we visited. Quite a bit of what was...
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Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Vinedos Barrihuelo Rioja Blanco 2013
This wine was purchased in a wine emergency. We wanted something nice, something fresh, and something that was available after eight o’clock on a Sunday night in Cardiff as all the restaurants we’d...
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Heidsieck Monopole Blue Top
There’s a bewildering array of Champagnes available, and then there’s an extra complication of the price discounts and offers that make it difficult to work out what price you should be paying....
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Sainsbury’s Amontillado Medium Dry Sherry
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. I like to think of myself as a good person, and I like it a lot when bad things do not happen to me. Sadly this is a tale of a bad thing (this wine)...
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Barramundi Chardonnay 2015
I’m a sucker for a cheery label, or a grim label, really I’m just a sucker for any kind of effort that’s been made to make a label stand out on the shelf. That said I have learned through the years...
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I Heart Prosecco – Perfect for Prosecco Cocktails
If you wanted a Prosecco for Valentine’s Day then this one certainly looks the part. The label features a heart, the name is Heart. Quite why they didn’t make the label heart shaped I don’t know....
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