According to Wikipedia "A popular but unconfirmed theory claims that Malbec is named after a Hungarian peasant who first spread...
Argentina may be best known for big, bolshy malbecs, but that's not all they do. This Shiraz is big and bold enough to ...
If an "inky, black, dark, fruity, intense, robust" red sounds attractive to you we think you should give this a try. Almost every review...
The Pearlstone Pinotage was named after the enormous granite Paarl Rock, which apparently looks like a pearl. Although we...
Shiraz is the sixth most populous city in Iran. Team Oddbins are a little unsure how the lovely people at Berton Vineyards in Australia managed...
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...
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...
Alex Dale, winemaker at The Cape of Good Hope, says he wants "clear water between Good Hope and brash, overtly commercial styles...
Bang! In your face! Let's not pussyfoot around, people like Argentine Malbec for its raw, heavyweight, power; and that's what ...
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 ...
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...
South and East of Adelaide down the coast of South Australia lie the regions of Langhorne Creek and Limestone Coast, where the...
Wairarapa, heard when spoken, may sound like reference to the steel netting that many bottles of Spanish red come, well...
Confused you say? South African wine named after a French alpine mountaineering and skiing resort and made in the Italian 'ripasso' style?
For too long the initials PC have meant personal computer. A machine that has tormented you, frustrated you, chained you to a...
Carménère is the forgotten one of the six Bordeaux grape varieties. But like an incredibly athletic and intrepid mole it has popped its head....
The folk at Santa Carolina hold dear the concept of “Herencia Viva”. This translates roughly as “living legacy” and means that they always consider the past...
The story of Carignan, like that of Malbec, is that of a humble country grape, widely exploited but little appreciated at home...
It’s not worth saying wines like this are like a very full bodied version of something you might get from Southern France. Only in the searing...
This New Zealand red caused quite a sensation amongst Oddbins' passionate staff last time this was in the range, with much ...
Gather round folks, we’ve a tale for ye… In the late 1800s, Oakley, California, was a booming farming community with thousands of acres of orchards and healthy vineyards...
Chile's Leyda valley is squeezed between the Andes and the Pacific, its climate dominated by dense fogs and the strong sea wind that...
It’s easy to split the wine world into ‘old’ and ‘new’, and not without good reason, but as ever, things turn out to be not as simple...
According to winemaker Ben Glaetzer, in films, the "director's cut" is regarded as the definitive version, subject to no compromises. Although...
Now we don’t want to start a bar room brawl and we will say from the outset that we are massive fans of French wine, but the British love...
