Victoria Moore

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Moore

and fashion editors eulogising about the summer collections, M&S has barely been out of the headlines this year. Food sales are strong, but what is going on with M&S wine? Earlier this spring, I went to the retailer's head office in Paddington to taste some 90 samples from its current drinks range and came out with mixed impressions. Here's what I thought.

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Victoria Moore

When luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH acquired a controlling stake in Château d’Esclans – the makers of Whispering Angel – at the end of 2019, the deal crystallised the existence of a new era for Provence rosé. Perhaps you feel all fuzzy and escapist about pale pink rosé from the south of France, like you might about croissants from a village boulangerie or chicken with a million cloves of garlic at a family-run bistro on a dappled square.

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Moore |Laura Hadland |Eleanor Steafel |Rebecca Shepherd

As well as Château d'Esclans, LVMH also owns (since 2019) Château Galoupet, a historical rosé estate overlooking the Mediterranean, and (since 2023) a controlling stake in the well-known Château Minuty, close to St Tropez. Rosé wine specialist Elizabeth Gabay MW has estimated that the production of Whispering Angel alone (d'Esclans has several other brands) is around 14 million bottles and that Minuty's combined brands number around nine million bottles.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Moore |Emma Pryer |Arielle Goldstein |Xanthe Clay

If you've been shopping for fizz recently, you will have noticed newcomers among all the prosecco and crémant. A lot of newcomers. In the past few weeks, I've tasted sparkling vermentino from Australia's Strathbogie Ranges, fizz from Argentina's Famatina Valley, and bubbles from the shores of Lake Garda, to name a few. As a committed crémant drinker, I've approached these newer sparkling wines with suspicion bordering on hostility. It's clear why they are here.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Moore |Ed Cumming |Josh Barrie |Silvana Franco

Waitrose has one of the largest supermarket wine ranges and recent areas of expansion include its No 1 own-label range which has recently doubled in size, and the sparkling wine selection which has been expanded to reflect the huge popularity of wine with bubbles. To secure the best deals at Waitrose you need to navigate a vast schedule of promotions that change roughly once a month in order.