Yapp Brothers offer: 04.02.12

Saturday, 4th February 2012

This week’s offer, from Yapp Brothers of Wiltshire, is exclusively of Rhône wines.

Private Cellar Offer: 07.01.12

Saturday, 7th January 2012

I wouldn’t say these wines, from the excellent Private Cellar people in Cambridgeshire, are expensive. They may not be cheap, but they are very good value.

Corney & Barrow Offer - 03.12.11

Saturday, 3rd December 2011

Christmas is almost upon us, and for Spectator readers this always brings the magic of the Brett-Smith Indulgence, the enchanting scheme by which you can get £6 a case off your purchases from Corney & Barrow.

Offer of the month - November 2011

Saturday, 19th November 2011

Champagne Krug has an extraordinary cachet. The name of course, the bottle with its swan-like neck, and most of all the taste, which is bone dry, yet full, rich and even bountiful. The wine is aged in small oak casks, which adds to the roundness, and is matured on its lees, which provide added complexity. It has a marvellous, evocative perfume, which means that you could pretty much get high just sniffing the stuff in a glass. It is also very expensive.

Offer of the month - October 2011

Thursday, 20th October 2011

‘I wish it could be Christmas every day,’ sang Roy Wood’s Wizzard, a message which is doctrinally suspect, and which implies a hellish Groundhog Day, or else a Buñuel film in which the same people get up every morning, open presents, eat turkey and watch the same bad old movie.

Offer of the month: Private Cellar / Nyetimber

Wednesday, 12th October 2011

It is astonishing how much English sparkling wine has improved over the past few years. Some of the best isn’t just good; it is very good indeed, winning awards in blind tastings around the world. Wines such as Nyetimber, Camel Valley and Ridgeway are not merely as good as most Champagnes — they are much better.