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Waitrose Own-Label White Wines

9 March 2012
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As increasing numbers of us are including a few bottles of white wine in our weekly supermarket shop, the supermarkets are working hard to improve the range and quality of the wine on their shelves. Many of the supermarkets are gaining increasing respect and winning awards for their wines and wine guides are being published [...]

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Patricius Dry Furmint 2008 Tokaji

11 April 2011
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I bet you always wanted to know what Tokay grapes taste like in their natural form, didn’t you? Well – by natural, I mean presented as a simple, single-grape dry white wine, not as Aszú: the nobly rotten sweet wine that comes in dinky little bottles and is famous world-wide by the generic name Tokay, [...]

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White Bordeaux: Chateaux Tour Leognan 2008

31 March 2011
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While Bordeaux may be most well known for its red wines, it also produces good, dry white wines. There is of course, the famous sweet white, Sauternes, but for today I’m only talking about the dry whites of Bordeaux. White wine can come from anywhere in Bordeaux but the most well known region for dry white [...]

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The Social Lubricant: How Social Media is Changing the Wine Industry

11 October 2010
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Guest contributor – Victoria Keeble, Bright Blue Day With a new breed of social-savvy producers and distributors and more people than ever sharing their opinions online, the balance of power in the wine industry is shifting. As these newcomers establish themselves, are the big names in danger of being left behind? And where should they [...]

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