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  • 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.

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Victoria Moore
Victoria Moore @PlanetVictoria
15 May 25

If you're a Telegraph subscriber, come on over here and tell us all what's going in your glass tonight: https://t.co/7XFsgQwRJL

Victoria Moore
Victoria Moore @PlanetVictoria
8 May 25

I'm online at the Telegraph fielding questions on Greek wine. So far, the readers are mostly not keen - "Fine if you’ve got a scraper and a door that needs stripping," Come on over and beg to differ (if you do) https://t.co/p5EJmzoOnV

Victoria Moore
Victoria Moore @PlanetVictoria
8 May 25

Santorini assyrtiko used to be carafe wine. Now it's one of the most expensive grapes in the world (for a generic PDO). I'll be online from 5.30pm fielding questions about affordable Greek wines. If you have one, pop it there now and I'll answer it later. https://t.co/p5EJmzoOnV