How To Buy Wine

Wine Blast with Susie and Peter

Are you a bargain hunter, a new-experience seeker, a drinker-in as well as taker-out, someone with thirsty friends or friends to impress?
Whoever you are - we can help you buy wine better.
Buying wine isn't easy. So much choice, so little time - but getting the right bottle, and the right experience, makes a big difference. To help inform, guide and hopefully inspire you, we draw not only on our personal experience (confession: we buy too much wine) but also Peter's experience of chairing the Decanter Retailer Awards, a major UK competition whose 2021 results have just been announced.
We ask Pierpaolo Petrassi MW of UK supermarket Waitrose and Paola Tich of small independent merchant Vindinista for their go-to 'bang-for-buck' wines. Plus we discuss discounts, wine in cans, subscription plans, diversity in wine, own labels, sustainability, virtual events and POTENTIAL WINE SHORTAGES.
Somehow, lampshades and frozé also get a mention. To correct the karma, we recommend a great value red from Majestic and a Croatian white from Tanners. Enjoy!
As ever, show notes for this episode are on our website. You can catch us and say hi via Instagram or Twitter.

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1. People think we live off free wine (00:00:40)

2. Truth is: we buy too much wine (00:01:27)

3. On chairing the Decanter Retailer Awards (00:01:57)

4. This episode is about buying wine to drink not invest (00:03:06)

5. Why this is a great time to look at this subject (00:03:32)

6. NEWSFLASH about potential wine shortages at Christmas (00:05:11)

7. How covid-19 has changed wine retail (00:05:25)

8. Why this is a good time to buy wine (00:08:12)

9. Interview with Paola Tich of Vindinista (00:09:26)

10. Susie goes large in Wilding (00:23:05)

11. Independents as inspiring specialists (00:26:50)

12. Interview with Pierpaolo Petrassi MW of Waitrose (00:28:14)

13. On discounts and own labels (00:38:41)

14. Virtual wine events (00:42:10)

15. Subscription plans (00:45:28)

16. Majestic wine (00:46:55)

17. Diversity in wine (00:47:40)

18. Recycling cork scheme (00:49:12)

19. Wine tip: Croatica Grasevina £9.95 from Tanners (00:51:00)

20. Wine tip: Les Routes Catalanes Rouge from £7.99 Majestic (00:51:19)

21. Enter our English wine giveaway! (00:51:53)