We love the Greeks. They’re rebellious, they’re warm-hearted and, more pertinently, they’ve been making wine there for 6,500 years...
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...
Smouldering, nocturnal and spicy Rioja to make your head spin
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...
Rasteau is a village in the southern Rhone, where either life is particularly hard, or they just like to have a good time...
Diane de Puymor, from Château d'Or et de Gueules, is a very eco-friendly winemaker and holds daily communion...
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
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 ...
We have a recipe for you. Take one world famous Port house (Ramos Pinto) and one incredibly prestigious Champagne...
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 ...
One to add to a magnificent group of Rhone reds now at Oddbins by this modern and dependable new supplier. Domaine de L'Arnesque...
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...
Baltasar Gracián was a Spanish Jesuit who wrote El Criticón. Apparently it’s famous, but we’d never heard of it. When we looked it up on Wikipedia...
The name Gigondas is derived from the Latin ‘Jocunditas’, meaning great enjoyment and pleasure. What more appropriate name could...
It's wines like this elegant, intense, blackberry-infused Ribero del Duero, that make selling wine such an absolute pleasure...
One of those reds that is so good it is likely to instantly convert many into lifelong devotees of Spanish wine. This is full-bodied with a deep...
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...
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...
Forgive us, gents, we're talking to the ladies here. Michael Fassbender (Prometheus, A Dangerous Method…) is the kind of man-god who ...
Amarone is about as full-flavoured and juicy as a red can get without help of fortification; very smooth and silky with a tantalizing ...
Chateauneuf is a classic. And this is as breathtaking an example as you're likely to come by at this outstandingly reasonable price tag....
Here at Oddbins, we know when we’re on to a good thing. We like this wine, we can see that you like it too, so what did we do? We got..
Jonathan Maltus is the established maverick of Bordeaux – the novice Englishman who turned up at Château Teyssier in the 1990s...
When we tell you that Valpolicella is made using dried-up grapes left for ages in a box, it doesn't sound very nice, does it? But hear us out...
Like the Royal Family at the moment, Cillar de Silos just go from strength to strength, and they don’t even have Kate Middleton on their team...
With a family history that goes back to the land before time, Quinta do Noval know a thing or two about making wine. They could be...
The summer of 2003 was hot. It was more than Hubert de Boüard de Laforest could take...
In 1977 the market town of Hay-on-Wye, on the Welsh border, was appropriated by a charismatic man called Richard Booth, who...
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...
If Sassicaia were a person, it would have to be London’s confused, bumbling, loveable Mayor Boris Johnson. Mr Johnson has a family ...
