Good Food
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items: Victoria Moore's top ten bottles for Christmas
items: How to taste wine
items: How green is your wine?
items: 10 best wines to buy as a gift
items: Why you should keep red wine in the fridge
items: Why you should be drinking Mediterranean wine
items: Best summer white wines
items: Why you should be drinking Chilean wine
items: Best wines for under £5
items: Top sustainable wines for 2020

Victoria Moore's top ten bottles for Christmas
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creator: Victoria Moore – Wine expert
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encoded: Whether it’s to sip with a quiet meal or raise a toast at a gathering, here’s my pick of wines and fizz to enjoy over the holidays... To enjoy at home Tesco Finest Premier Cru Brut champagne NV (£23, Tesco) This creamy, chardonnay-rich champagne is great value and a much better buy than many of the well-known brands. The vintage version is even better – more toasty and precise, and only a few pounds more – but both are excellent. Aldi Specially Selected douro 2019 (£7.99, Aldi) Red wines from the Douro have been called ‘poor man’s claret’, which is unfair as they have a personality all their own – wild, darker and fruitier than a similarly priced claret, though still structured. Morrisons The Best falanghina 2021 (£7.50, Morrisons) Falanghina is an Italian grape that grows in the area around Naples and produces refreshing white wines with the tang and subtle festive fragrance of orange blossom. Asti spumante 2020 (£5.29, Lidl) Such a joy, this is frothily effervescent, light, sweet (but not too sweet) and slightly floral, like fresh grapes and honeysuckle. Refreshing with rich foods, and great with Christmas pud. Dow’s Quinta do Bomfim vintage port (£35, Tanners) It’s worth splashing out on good port, because it goes a long way. This single-estate vintage port is lovely – intense and rich, with an edge of freshness. To take to a party Bride Valley Eosé Bella 2018 (£34.95, The Whisky Exchange) This pink sparkling wine has pleasingly upfront red berry flavours – think crunchy redcurrants, late-summer raspberries and wild strawberries. Domaine Pouderoux Maury grande réserve NV (£11.49/50cl, Waitrose & Partners) A fortified red wine made in the south of France from Grenache, this sings of bramble jelly, sloes, walnuts and prunes with a hint of cocoa. It goes well with chocolate and chocolatey desserts. Blind River sauvignon blanc 2021 (£10.99, Waitrose & Partners) For some, New Zealand Marlborough sauvignon blanc is the ultimate white wine: luminously fragrant and refre…

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How to taste wine
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subject: Drinks
subject: Guide
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subject: Entertaining
subject: Wine
subject: wine tasting
description: Learn how to taste wine with our easy to follow guide and top tips. Grab some friends and your favourite bottles and host your own expert wine tasting at home
encoded: Wine tasting is different from drinking purely for pleasure, though it should also be fun. It helps to approach it methodically so you can get as much out of the wine as possible. Don’t forget that there’s a firm scientific basis for for associating certain flavours in wine with non-wine things. For example, the green pepper smell you find in sauvignon blanc is caused by compounds called pyrazines which also occur in, yes you guessed it, green peppers. Want to learn more about wine, get exclusive discounts and join tastings with experts? Check out our BBC Good Food Wine Club or visit us at the Good Food Show Summer in Birmingham to be introduced to your new favourites pours. Tips for wine tasting Take notes as you taste and work methodically. If you’re tasting blind, don’t jump to conclusions. Keep a file or use an app like CellarTracker to store your notes. Tasting blind is a great way to hone your nose. Get a friend to give you wines with the labels covered to see if you can identify them. Consciously smells things like blackcurrant jam and lavender so you can identify them later. Build your flavour vocabulary. It can help to use a flavour wheel to learn how to get more specific. Don’t be embarrassed. If you think it smells of cheese, then there’s probably a good reason for that. Learn to trust your instincts. If you can’t get anything from the wine, leave it and come back to it. It might be your nasal equipment is tired or the wine might need time to open up. What you need for a wine tasting A wine glass. You don’t need to spend a fortune or have different ones for red and white. The most important things are that it should be clean and there should be room to give the wine a swirl. White table cloth or white paper so you can examine the wine. Daylight or neutral lighting is best for this. You don’t want any strong smells to distract you so avoid cooking smells, perfume etc. Your wine should be at the correct temperature. 7-10C for white wines and rosé, and 12-18…

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How green is your wine?
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creator: Victoria Moore – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Guide
subject: How to
subject: Sustainability
subject: intentional-climate
description: Our wine columnist, Victoria Moore, finds out about the grape growers that bring people and nature together.
encoded: Christina Rasmussen is a yoga-practising, nature-loving millennial whose Instagram feed is filled with pictures of birds – and wine tanks and vineyards. In 2020, she launched a new venture, Littlewine. Part digital magazine and slick information resource, part wine shop, Littlewine’s focus is on low-intervention, organic and biodynamic wine. For Christina, promoting growers who look after the planet is as much of a creed as drinking good wine. Not all wine businesses have such purity of purpose, but more and more are putting green credentials high on the agenda. To be fair, wine producers were early adopters; as gardeners of vines, they are acutely aware of climate change and man’s impact on the biosphere. In South Africa and New Zealand, they embarked on nationwide sustainability certification programmes two decades ago, and have a participation rate close to 100 per cent. But there has been a notable step change in recent years, with global brands as well as small family producers increasingly keen to hone the improvements made. Lindeman’s – the Australian super-brand found on every supermarket shelf – recently announced that it had achieved its goal to be certified carbon neutral in Europe by the end of 2020, after moving its wines into lightweight bottles, deploying solar power and investing in carbon credits. If you love sauvignon blanc from Marlborough, then you’ll probably have encountered Yealands wine in a shop or pub. Yealands unusually opened its doors in 2008 certified carbon-neutral from the off, but recently redesigned its packaging to forge a visual link with its environmental work. Meanwhile, not a week goes by when I don’t receive an email informing me that a wine producer has just been certified organic. The push to improve is coming at every level – from grand properties in Bordeaux, big Champagne houses, international everyday brands and small family estates. So much work is being done on every stage in the winemaking and selling process – it’s a…

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10 best wines to buy as a gift
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creator: Victoria Moore – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
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description: Whether you’re after a bargain or want to splash out, here you’ll find the ideal wine to give a loved one (or yourself) this Christmas.
encoded: A good wine is a simple, yet stylish Christmas offering. Wine expert Victoria Moore rounds up her top 10 bottles to give as gifts over the festive period – we have red, white, sparkling and even fortified options to please every budget and taste. We also have our list of the best wine glasses for a lovely additional gift. 1. Antica Formula Carpano Vermouth For the negroni-lover in your life, this litre-bottle of red vermouth is a great gift. For a stocking filler, get the 37.5cl size at Ocado (£14). Available from: The Whisky Exchange (£31.25) 2. Mad Fish Sauvignon Blanc 2020, Western Australia This Aussie white is less pungent than one from Marlborough, but still refreshing. Think lemon sorbet, white grapefruit rind and cut grass. Available from Tesco (£9) 3. Christmas pudding Madeira A majestic fortified wine that tastes of dried fruit, roasted walnuts, caramel and candied citrus peel. Never mind the Christmas pudding – this makes a beautiful glass with a good hard cheddar or piece of stilton. Available from Fortnum & Mason (£16.50) 4. Ashling Park Estate Cuvée Brut, NV South Downs, England English sparkling wine keeps getting better. This, made by Dermot Sugrue, is award-winning. Airy, determined, fierce, and yet light and elegant. Available from Corkk (£29.50) 5. Domaine des Tourelles Cuvée Pierre Brun 2016, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon An atmospheric red blend from the Lebanon that would suit a Francophile who wants to stretch their wings. It’s gorgeous stuff. Available from Majestic (£12.99) 6. Domaine Jones Fitou 2017, France Katie Jones grew up in Leicester, but now lives in the rugged wilds of the Languedoc, where she makes sumptuously full reds like this. It smells of dried herbs and figs. Available from The Wine Society (£15.50) 7. Trapiche Pure Malbec Unoaked 2019, Mendoza, Argentina The juicy plum and mulberry flavours of malbec soar free here, unoaked and luscious. It’s easy to see why malbec has become so popular when it’s as tasty as this. Available from Co…

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Why you should keep red wine in the fridge
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creator: Victoria Moore – Wine expert
subject: Guide
subject: How to
subject: best red wine
subject: chilled wine
subject: Full-bodied red wine
subject: Sangria
subject: summer wine
subject: Victoria moore
description: Red wines aren’t just for the darker months, so cool down with our wine experts recommendations for summer by discovering the benefits of cold red wine.
encoded: If you’re longing for a change of pace after a summer full of crisp, icy whites and pale pinks, but don’t want to feel that summer is over by going full bear-hug-red, there is a refreshing alternative: chilled red wine. Some types of wine are particularly suited to being drunk with a cool tingle, but actually you might want to think about putting any red wine you drink on a hot day in the fridge. Warm sun is no kinder to red wine than it is to chocolate or fresh fruit: it makes the flavours sag and ooze so you end up with a kind of red wine stew. Just 20 minutes in the fridge before opening can pep and perk a bottle up no end. But back to topic: red wines that taste good with a more assertive chill. Tannins and bitterness are the enemies here. Tannin – also found in tea – is the compound that feels dry to your gums and tongue. At lower temperatures, the effect of both tannins and bitterness is more pronounced, so if you pick a bitter, tannic wine to chill, the experience can be startlingly mouth-puckering. If you want to experience this, try refrigerating a young barolo for a couple of hours. Some may like this, of course: it’s the wine equivalent of putting more chilli in your curry. There are grapes, however, that most agree are particularly good when drunk at a fresh temperature. These include cabernet franc, gamay and pinot noir. Cabernet franc is most famously grown in the Loire and used to make wines such as saumur, saumur champigny, chinon and bourgueil, which taste like summer pudding. A favourite is Les Nivières Saumur. There are also some excellent, plusher, examples being made in warmer places like Argentina and South Africa. Gamay is best known as the grape behind beaujolais: it has a tang of red berries and an edge of graphite. Pinot noir is grown the world over, famously in Burgundy, but it’s the cheaper wines from slightly warmer places that I like best for putting in the fridge. Look for juicy, unoaked wines from the south of France, Australia or Cal…

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Why you should be drinking Mediterranean wine
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creator: Victoria Moore – Wine expert
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subject: How to
subject: cheap rosé wine
subject: Meditarranean recipes
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subject: Mediteranean food
subject: Victoria moore
description: A well-chosen bottle can evoke the feel of warm summers spent in the Mediterranean. Our wine expert picks out her favourite bottles of wine for warmer weather.
encoded: We’ve picked products we think you’ll love and may earn commission from links on this page. Read about why you can trust BBC Good Food reviews. This page was updated in July 2020. We were close enough to the Mediterranean to be able to smell it, burning our fingers in our haste to eat oily, garlicky prawns, and spooning pungent onion and tomato salad onto our plates. I can still remember the wine. It wasn’t expensive and it wasn’t rare, just a bottle of white made amongst the hills inland from Barcelona that you can buy from an English supermarket. Torres Viña Esmeralda 2018/19 (£11.25, Amazon) is tantalisingly aromatic – one of those wines that shimmers out of the bottle. It’s made from two floral grapes, muscat and gewürztraminer, and it smells of fresh grapes and freesia with citrus peel. It’s also very slightly off-dry, though you probably won’t notice any sweetness, the wine just feels gentler and more rounded than it might if it were bone-dry. If you follow the curve of the Mediterranean coastline north and east and into France, just before you reach Montpellier, you will come to the Bassin de Thau – a saltwater lagoon famous as a beautiful spot for summer holidays as well as for its oysters. Close by, there are vineyards, and in those vineyards grows a grape called picpoul de pinet, which makes a crisp, dry white wine with a faintly salty tang. Look for one that’s as fresh as possible. As I write, the 2018 bottles are on shelves, but you’ll want a freshly minted 2019. One specific southern French white that really impressed me is Domaine Mandeville Viognier Pays d’Oc 2019 (£7.50, M&S). It’s an almost perfectly summery wine. Viognier has a faint aroma of honeysuckle. It can sometimes feel a bit oily in the mouth – but not this one. This is a lilting dance of a white that comes with a heady waft of scented flowers. Keep going and you reach Provence, the global capital of pale rosé. Try Mirabeau en Provence Classic Rosé 2019 (£12, Waitrose). Rosé goes well with …

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Best summer white wines
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creator: Victoria Moore – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Guide
subject: How to
subject: best white wine
subject: Summer drink
subject: summer wine
subject: Victoria moore
subject: White wine
description: Wine expert, Victoria Moore, shares her favourite white wines to enjoy in the garden at home. See her top wine pairings and non-alcoholic picks.
encoded: We’ve picked products we think you’ll love and may earn commission from links on this page. Read about why you can trust BBC Good Food reviews. This page was updated in May 2020. My memories of the Barossa Valley are all imprints of heat: the heavy feel of the hot air, glare of the bright sun, and sight of winemakers in shorts (no double entendre intended). Long hours of sunshine are the reason that Australia’s most famous wine region is bestknown for powerful reds – think burly, flavour-saturated syrah with a thump of alcohol at 15% ABV. But, did you know that the Barossa Valley represents just part of a larger region known simply as Barossa? The other part is the Eden Valley. Higher, cooler and more verdant, the Eden Valley makes scintillating white wines from the riesling grape – think of the thrill of a fast ski run, the shock of tart lime juice, the aromatic oils in lime zest and the smell of white blossom, and you’re part way to imagining what they’re like to drink. If you’re able to get hold of it, Pewsey Vale Eden Valley Riesling (£15.95, Ocado) is a good choice. Barossa isn’t the only region with white wines that are underplayed and underappreciated because of more famous reds. The Rhône region in France, for instance, also makes brilliant white wines from a blend of grapes, including grenache blanc, viognier, bourboulenc, roussanne and clairette. These wines are aromatic (think waxy white blossom) with a creamy texture, and might taste of poached apricots and juicy pears. Again, if you can find it, I love Taste the Difference Côtes du Rhône White 2018 France (<a href="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100262634-14104232?sid=bbcgoodfood-332239&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sainsburys.co.uk%2Fgol-ui%2Fproduct%2Fsainsburys-c%25C3%25B4tes-du-rh%25C3%25B4ne-white-taste-the-difference-75cl%3FistCompanyId%3D1e096408-041f-4238-994e-a7cf46bf9413%26istFeedId%3D689af7a8-5842-4d88-be59-1ee5688a81b5%26istItemId%3Dwxwqlmlip%26istBid%3Dt%26%26cmpid%3Dcpc%26utm_source%3DGoogle%26ut…

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Why you should be drinking Chilean wine
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creator: Victoria Moore – Wine expert
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subject: How to
subject: best red wine
subject: best white wine
subject: Chilean
subject: Victoria moore
subject: Wine
description: See why Chile is producing some outstanding new wines. Our columnist shares her recommendations for pinot noir, gewürztraminer, sauvignon blanc and more.
encoded: We’ve picked products we think you'll love and may earn commission from links on this page. Read about why you can trust BBC Good Food reviews. This page was updated in March 2020. The brightness of the sunlight falling on the narrow valley looked severe, and it was. As he drove us up the dusty road, away from the Pacific coast, our host told us that, in Elqui, employers are required by law to provide sunscreen for outdoor workers. We passed sprawling vineyards filled with grapes destined to be dried for raisins or used to make pisco, and on we went, further in and up, until we reached a winery that only a visionary could have built. This was six years ago. The Elqui Valley was then Chile’s most northerly vineyard region, and also a magnet for stargazers. Now, Chile’s vineyards stretch farther north still, as winemakers questing for territory have ended up in Atacama – home to the driest desert on earth – and planted vines under its clear skies. We think of Chile as a place that makes reds that are comfortable and sturdy, the sort you might think of drinking on the sofa during a boxset binge. But stories like this show that the region has a spirit of adventure, too. Chilean winemakers are becoming better acquainted with the capabilities of the land, and as they do, the wine improves. Chile produces good, aromatic whites as well. In addition to the new sauvignon blancs from Huasco in Atacama, there are piercing sauvignon blancs that smell of white currants, lemon sorbet and the gooseberries grown in the cooler regions close to the coast – look for wines marked ‘costa’ (coastal) to find one. I like Errazuriz Costa Sauvignon Blanc 2018 Aconcagua Valley, Chile (£11.99, Waitrose & Partners). There are also excellent aromatic whites made from riesling and gewürztraminer – try Cono Sur Gewürztraminer 2018 Chile (£7.50, Tesco), which tastes of puréed lychees and rosewater. I like to drink this very cold, served with very hot homemade mac ‘n’ cheese. Reds? I think we all kno…

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Best wines for under £5
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creator: Victoria Moore – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Guide
subject: How to
subject: Review
subject: best wine
subject: cheap wine
subject: Victoria moore
subject: Wine
description: Make the most of your budget with Victoria Moore's money-saving tips. Learn how to buy cheap wine and see the best red and white wines for around £5.
encoded: All products were chosen independently by our editorial team. This review contains affiliate links and we may receive a commission for purchases made. Please read our affiliates FAQ page to find out more and read about how we write BBC Good Food reviews. This page was updated in February 2020. How much is too much to spend on a bottle of wine? For one in three people, the answer is even a penny more than £5, according to the consumer research group Kantar. Responses to this news mostly fall into two camps. There’s the HORROR from the wine lover end and there’s the VINDICATED from all those who feel they might be treated like a pariah if they dare to admit that this is all they pay. And me? I wasn’t all that surprised. Among those £5 drinkers will be those who can’t afford to spend more, those who could afford to spend more but who aren’t calibrated to be sensitive to taste (these same people might wince if they came round to my flat and heard me playing music out of a tiny, cheap speaker), and a third set who think they can’t afford to spend more but actually choose not to. I’m talking about people like the photographer I once worked with on a wine shoot. We did a lot of tasting on that day. The photographer sighed and said he’d love to buy the £10 bottle of plush Argentinian malbec I had just showed him but – budgets, you know? Money was tight at home. I nodded. Across the afternoon he ordered and paid for two cappuccinos at £2.60 a piece – which I had particularly noticed because takeaway coffee is something I think I can’t afford. Forgoing a takeaway coffee would be enough to upgrade the bottle of wine he planned to share with his wife at the weekend. It wasn’t the choice that surprised me (after all, why not choose a coffee or two over better wine?), but the fact that he didn’t seem to realise he’d made that choice. If you want to know how much better wine can be at £7.50 or £10 than at £5, you only need look at the numbers. Duty on still wine in the UK is charg…

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Top sustainable wines for 2020
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creator: Victoria Moore – Wine expert
subject: Guide
subject: How to
subject: biodynamic wine
subject: eco-friendly
subject: organic wine
subject: Sustainability
subject: sustainable wine
subject: Victoria moore
subject: what wine is sustainable
subject: Wine
subject: wine pairing
subject: zero waste
description: Drink more sustainably with our top wine recommendations for 2020. Our wine expert, Victoria Moore, gives her top low waste tips and wine pairings.
encoded: All products were chosen independently by our editorial team. This review contains affiliate links and we may receive a commission for purchases made. Please read our affiliates FAQ page to find out more and read about how we write BBC Good Food reviews. Are you thinking about drinking more virtuously this year? Relax – I’m not talking about sobriety, but that other ‘s’-word, sustainability. It used to be that if a winemaker wanted to impress, it was all about the weight and size of their glass bottle. Now you’re more likely to hear, ‘Come and have a look at my beehive,’ or ‘Can I talk to you about bats, zero waste to landfill and our organic viticulture programme?’ According to the UN, sustainable development should ‘meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’ It’s a broad subject, and in winemaking, that can include considering water use, choosing natural predators instead of pesticides and paying close attention to workers’ health and safety. As Valentina Lira, sustainability manager at Chilean wine producer Concha y Toro points out, different countries focus on different elements of sustainability. For instance, South Americans are apparently more sensitive to social issues, while Europeans tend to be concerned about environmental issues, such as carbon footprint. My advice? Forget about trying to find the most virtuous wine, or you’ll end up bogged down in an almost impossible calculation about whether a locally produced wine with low travel miles trumps an organic Argentinian Fairtrade wine shipped in bulk and bottled in the UK. Instead, make one positive choice from the following and trust that it is a step in the right direction. 1. Buy a wine that is sustainably certified The South African and New Zealand wine industries are world leaders in sustainability, having introduced national certification schemes in the late 90s. In both countries, more than 95% of wine is sustainably certified. Oth…

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