Best Sainsbury’s wines this winter:
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Sainsbury’s, Mâconnais, Mâcon-Villages
A delicious unoaked Chardonnay that punches well over its weight for the high quality. Sophisticated, fresh and mineral yet packed with juicy, tangy green apple flavors on an extensive taste buds. This would sit proudly on any type of table and shows you don’t need to pay the planet for white Burgundy.
Drinking Window 2018 – 2020
2. Sainsbury’s, Sauternes, Taste the Difference, Bordeaux, 2015
Made by the premier cru Château Guiraud, this is a rich and unctuous Sauternes, with 76g/L of recurring sugar, however, avoided being cloying by a seam of the bracing level of acidity. The 65% Sémillon and 35% Sauvignon Blanc from 35-year-old creeping plants see one-year’ oak aging, providing a refined toasty vanilla side to the apricot, honey, and barley sugar taste.
Drinking Window 2018 – 2025
3. Sainsbury’s, Taste the Difference Brut, Champagne NV
champagne Louis Kremer produces this white wine as well as the non-vintage Preference the Distinction Brut Rosé and Demi-Sec, all of which are trusted buys. Some 20% of book glass of wines are made use of here which includes actual nutty, cozy complexity to the fresh, yeasty citrus and green apple taste.
Drinking Window 2018 – 2020
4. Sainsbury’s, Taste the Difference Grüner Veltliner 2017
Made for Sainsbury’s by Markus Huber, the 10th generation winemaker in his household, from 25-year-old creeping plants on limestone and gravel soils in Traisental. Just what you would certainly get out of a Grüner, with ripe peach, creamy lemon and grassy-green freshness on an abundant, crucial taste.
Drinking Window 2018 – 2019
5. Sainsbury’s, Taste the Difference Petit Chablis 2017
Made by the trusted Union des Viticulteurs de Chablis, with this white wine having a little less storage tank aging but a smidge much more recurring sugar which rounds out the green apple tastes. Traditional fresh citrus acidity and a great mealy texture.
Drinking Window 2018 – 2019
6. Sainsbury’s, Taste the Difference Coteaux Granitiques, Beaujolais, Villages 2017
Beaujolais is not just a white wine for the summer season! Here, grapes from 50-year-old vines on granite (as the name suggests) are vinified by the Boisset-owned négociant residence of Mommessin and left unoaked, permitting the dense, succulent raspberry and softly spiced red cherry flavors to shine, together with velvety fruit tannins and fresh level of acidity.
Drinking Window 2018 – 2019
7.Sainsbury’s, Taste the Difference Fairtrade Azana Red, Wellington 2017
This modern Shiraz-based mix (and the equally good Chenin-dominant Azana white) is made by Corlea Fourie, head winemaker at Bosman Household Vineyards, so you are assured of a sophisticated drop. Concentrated, spicy, dark fruit and a tip of oak, however, it remains fresh and dynamic.
Drinking Window 2018 – 2019
8. Sainsbury’s, Taste the Difference Barbaresco 2014
Sainsbury’s has had a number of good vintages of this Barbaresco, and this set, now with four years of container age to contribute to the one year in French and US oak barrels, is consuming effectively– best for a mushroom pie or risotto. Supple yet grippy tannins, fresh level of acidity and a complicated touch of balsamic to the dark sour cherry fruit.
Drinking Window 2018 – 2022
