Choosing wines for Christmas usually has him dithering undecidedly over the regional shelves; but this year, Alan’s in the mood to bring some Mediterranean sunshine into the depths of a British December.

Supermarkets vary in their ability to offer genuine regional wines at value prices so I was happy when a pre-Christmas reccy of my local Morrisons led me to the conclusion that, here at least, ‘Seek and ye shall find’.

With a few days of fine weather forecast, it’s absolutely imperative to roll out the barbeque one final time this year and use up the last of your briquettes before they end up sitting dolefully in your garage for the next nine months.

Stuck for Father’s Day Ideas ? Our drinks department comes up with some suggestions.

Where has Vinho Verde been all these years? We open a couple of bottles of good stuff and discover that it might be time to look again at these wines of Portugal.

Alan Kingsbury tries the new vintages of Nyetimber English sparkling wines and reckons that they are fit for royalty.

Alan Kingsbury goes off in search of cheap wine and ends up in an Aldi store.

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Alan Kingsbury takes a virtual trip to the northern Adriatic courtesy of three bottles of […]