At the beginning of the year I wrote happily about Sainsbury’s expanding range, but after a recent visit to a fairly big store, I was sorry to see that some of the wines that I had recommended had disappeared. One was the lovely Gaillac. But I see that a few more have appeared that are new to me. One is a pinot grigio from Romania (which is not too obvious on the label) called, literally, “I heart pinot grigio”, underneath a heart shape, after the messages of affection for New York and other cities. It is bright and light enough (12 per cent), without the dullness of many pinots, and reasonable value at under £7.There are also two reds that for me, at least, seem new; one is a Languedoc Pic Saint-Loup, which had been on the shelf of another supermarket and I have r
07 August 2014, The Tablet
Those summer whites
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