Stop! We know... Too easy to pass this one by. But stop we say. This is a really excellent and well balanced little Spanish white at 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...
A few years ago, Rias Baixas, and Albarino were the region and grape names to drop to prove your wine aficionado credentials. These days...
In June 2012 Oddbins launched a nationwide search for the UK’s finest amateur wine taster. After months of gruelling competition we found her...
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...
What do manure, solar energy and pheromones have in common? Why, they are all used in the production of wine from Chateau d’Or ...
Grüner Veltliner is a great grape and Markus Huber has handled it expertly here. With peachy fruit, capsicum and lightly spicy notes, it pairs...
Declared a “wunderkind” by Decanter magazine, 33-year-old Markus Huber is riding a ruddy great wave of popularity right now...
The Italian region of Molise was plagued by vampires, who had rampaged through the Balkans and across the Adriatic before the Pope...
You may have heard of tea picked by monkeys and coffee defecated by civets. Those are nothing, this is an exotically spiced ...
From the producer who almost single-handedly put Menetou-Salon on the map as a serious competitor to its big-name neighbours...
ODDBINS EXCLUSIVE. It’s hard sometimes, in this life, to maintain a sense of place, when we have our furniture from Scandinavia, our pears from Kenya and our sitcoms from America...
We like Maine and Jean-Marie Guffens-Heynen. As young students, they rocked up in Burgundy in 1976, without a word of...
Hungary is an unusual land famous for its paprika, extreme moustaches, turbulent history, water polo and melancholy. Its residents, the mighty...
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...
Verget's philosophy can be summed up in one simple sentence: "the best wine from the best grapes". But in Mâconnais...
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...
When you learn that Montrachet unappealingly means “Scabby Hill”, it teaches you that the wine must be pretty impressive for it to...
