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items: Best Malbec wines taste tested 2025
items: The best champagne taste tested 2025
items: 8 best canned wines – our top whites, rosés, reds and spritzers
items: Best prosecco taste tested, 2025
items: 14 best non-alcoholic and low-alcohol beers, taste-tested 2025
items: Best port
items: The best sherry for Christmas and beyond
items: Best pinot noir
items: What is orange wine and which one should I buy?
items: Best rosé wine – taste tested

Best Malbec wines taste tested 2025
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date: 2025-10-27T10:21:47.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
subject: best malbec wine
subject: best malbec wine from Argentina
subject: Henry Jeffreys
subject: Malbec
description: Drinks experts Henry Jeffreys and Jonathan Hatchman share their best Malbec to buy, from Argentina and beyond. We've got wines for any budget, with blowout bottles and plenty under £10
encoded: A wine merchant once let me into a secret about ordering from an unfamiliar wine list: go for the Rioja or the Malbec, and you can’t go wrong. Malbec is one of the very few grape varieties, like Sauvignon Blanc or Chardonnay, that has become a brand name familiar to non-wine buffs. What’s all the more remarkable is that 25 years ago the word ‘Malbec’ was almost unknown. In its home in south west France where it went into an often rather tough wine called Cahors, it was called Cot. In Bordeaux, however, it was known as Malbec but there was very little of it. Once an important variety, it had largely been superseded by Cabernet Sauvignon and Franc, and Merlot. But there were acres and acres of the stuff in Argentina, where it was brought by French immigrants in the 19th century. In the 1990s Argentinian producers managed to harness all that sunshine to transform this often awkward grape into something that people loved, full-bodied but with smooth tannins, lushly fruity and perfumed with violets. A new wine style was born, Argentinian Malbec. It’s become such a success that in south west France, they now call the grape Malbec instead of Cot, and it is generally made in a fruitier, more friendly style than in the past. Most Malbec on the shelves comes from Argentina or France, but we have included a couple from other countries too. Read on to discover the pick of the best Malbec wines, ranging from under £10 to £30 a bottle. For more unbiased expert buyer's guides and taste tests, visit our review section to find 400+ round-ups of everything from the best English wine and prosecco to rosé. To learn more about wine, explore our complete wine varieties guide and discover all you need to know about Chenin Blanc, Garganega, Vermentino and much more. For regular wine deliveries direct to your door, discover our Good Food x Laithwaites partnership for discounts on exclusively curated wine cases chosen by experts and the Good Food team. Best Malbec at a glance Best overall Ma…

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The best champagne taste tested 2025
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date: 2025-10-23T12:09:55.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
subject: best buys
subject: best champagne
subject: best fizz
subject: best prosecco
subject: best sparkling wine
subject: best wine
subject: budget prosecco
subject: budget wine
subject: Cava
subject: cheap champagne
subject: expensive vs cheap champagne
subject: Henry Jeffreys
subject: posh champagne
subject: Sparkling wine
subject: supermarket champagne
description: Our wine experts put the best champagnes to the test in order to find the best bottles – from supermarket bubbles to some fairly posh plonk, you're sure to find your new favourite fizz.
encoded: It’s the drink of parties and celebrations, of weddings and christenings, the drink that conjures up memories of special occasions and a touch of luxury. Champagne is no everyday drink so, when buying a bottle, it’s worth buying the best – so we’ve rounded up the best champagnes to buy so you can find the ultimate bottles to pop. There’s plenty of choice when it comes to fizz these days: from affordable prosecco and cava to unique English sparkling wines and even non-alcoholic sparkling options, but champagne remains the most decadent option. The strict rules limiting the region of the same name where it can be made in northern France, along with production rules, explain why its price tag is often higher as well as why it retains such a distinct character. Some champagne houses may be familiar names, such as Taittinger or Veuve Clicquot, but we’ve tested a range of lesser known, budget-friendly and even best supermarket champagnes, too, to find a brilliant affordable bottle of bubbly. Our selection varies from £14.99 to £50, for fizz to suit any budget. All champagnes have been tested by wine writers Henry Jeffreys and Jonathan Hatchman. Henry is a drinks and wine writer who writes for Master of Malt and his work has appeared in the The Guardian, The Spectator and The Financial Times. For more, visit our reviews section to find more than 400 practical buyer's guides, including taste tests of gin, vodka, rum and brandy, plus round-ups of the best rhubarb gins, pink gins and citrus gins. For regular wine deliveries direct to your door, discover our Good Food x Laithwaites partnership for discounts on exclusively curated wine cases chosen by experts and the Good Food team. Best champagnes at a glance Best grower champagne: Château de Bligny Grande Réserve, £34.99 Best value champagne: Champagne Louis Dumont NV, £19.99 Best Blanc de Blancs champagne: Laithwaite Brut Premier Cru Blanc de Blancs, £32 Best richly flavoured champagne: Champagne Gaston Declos 25th Anniversa…

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8 best canned wines – our top whites, rosés, reds and spritzers
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date: 2025-08-07T12:01:54.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
subject: best wine
subject: canned wine
subject: Henry Jeffreys
subject: Picnic
subject: Red wine
subject: Rose
subject: Summer
subject: White wine
subject: wine in a can
description: Forget bottles: these days, it's all about wine in a can. Read our expert reviews to discover the 10 best canned whites, rosés, spritzers and red wines ideal for taking to picnics and parties.
encoded: Summer is in the air, which can mean only one thing: it’s picnic time! For all your al fresco sipping needs, we’ve rounded-up the best canned wines out there. This category has come on in leaps and bounds: there are now specialist companies like Canvino and the aptly named Canned Wine Company. And, some of the wines below are genuinely superb, not just nice for swigging in the sunshine. And, why not? Canned wines aren’t just for picnics, taking on trains or drinking at festivals. Cans are handy for when you might fancy just a glass of something nice midweek rather than opening a bottle. We’re just catching up with the Americans, who have long been putting quality wines in cans. It helps that canning technology has improved hugely in recent years, too – you’re not going to get any odd metallic tastes. Some of these wines come from supermarkets, but many can be purchased direct from the producer, which is worth thinking about if you’re buying in bulk. Each sample was tasted out of a glass and straight from the can. The sweeter, simpler wines tended to taste better chilled from the can, whereas for the more complex ones – especially the reds – are best poured into a proper glass. For more, visit our reviews section and find more than 400 practical buyers' guides, taste tests of gin, vodka and more. For more summer drinks inspiration, read our round-ups of the best canned cocktails, best English wine, best bottled cocktails and best rosé. For regular wine deliveries direct to your door, sign up to the Good Food Wine Club for discounts on exclusively curated wine cases chosen by experts and the Good Food team. Best canned wines to buy at a glance Best aromatic white: Canned Wine Company Verdejo, £5.75 Best premium canned rose: Mirabeau Pret-a-Porter rose, £3.75 Best big red: Banks Brothers Merlot, £21 for three Best Italian pink: Copper Crew Rosato, £10.50 for three Best Garnacha: Kanvas Garnacha Negra, £59.90 for 12 Best canned English: The Uncommon Bubbly wine, £5.95 B…

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Best prosecco taste tested, 2025
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date: 2025-06-30T15:23:14.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
subject: best buys
subject: best fizz
subject: best prosecco
subject: best sparkling wine
subject: best wine
subject: budget prosecco
subject: budget wine
subject: cheap prosecco
subject: Henry Jeffreys
subject: Prosseco
subject: Sparkling wine
description: Italian prosecco is as popular a choice of fizz as traditional champagne or cava. Read our expert review of the best prosecco bottles to find your new favourite sparkling wine
encoded: Prosecco is a phenomenally popular drink in the UK. It's somewhat sweet and soft in flavour and more affordable than other sparkling wines, such as champagne. Prosecco is great to bring along when visiting a friend for dinner, heading to a party or having an impromptu celebration. Pink or rosé prosecco is a staple of boozy brunches, and prosecco's affordability means it can be transformed into refreshing spritzes or decadent cocktails without worrying about the cost. Most proseccos are simple wines. Don’t be afraid to mix them with peach juice to make a bellini, turn it into a spritz or add lemon sorbet and vodka for a sgroppino. But, what makes a good prosecco? We've rounded-up the top bottles to find a prosecco to suit everybody, from the best budget proseccos, to pink prosecco or bottles that are perfect for cocktails. Read on to discover our pick of the best. For more, visit our reviews section and find over 400 practical buyer's guides, including taste tests of rosé wine, gin, vodka and more. Best prosecco at a glance Best prosecco for showing off: The Emmisary prosecco rosé brut, £17.06 Best everyday rosé prosecco: Tesco Finest prosecco rosé 2020, £8.25 Best for parties: Tesco Finest prosecco superiore, £10 Best prosecco for entertaining: The Wine Society prosecco brut NV, £10.44 Best prosecco for complexity of flavour: Sacchetto prosecco extra dry Fili NV, £14.55 Best crowd-pleasing prosecco: Sainsbury's Taste the Difference prosecco di Conegliano brut 2016, £9.75 Best easy drinking prosecco: Romeo & Juliet prosecco di Treviso brut DOC NV, £11 Best off-dry prosecco: Cinzano prosecco, £9.95 Jump to section: What is the best prosecco to buy? How we tasted prosecco Prosecco vs champagne How to open prosecco Best prosecco glasses Prosecco cocktail recipes What is the best prosecco to buy? The Emmissary prosecco rosé brut Available from Amazon (£17.06) Best prosecco for showing off Star rating: 4/5 With its clear glass bottle and gold label, this prosecco will app…

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14 best non-alcoholic and low-alcohol beers, taste-tested 2025
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date: 2025-03-27T15:12:34.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
subject: adnams
subject: alcohol free beer
subject: alcohol free drinks
subject: big drop stout
subject: erdinger
subject: gadds
subject: heineken
subject: Henry Jeffreys
subject: light beer
subject: non alcoholic drinks
subject: non-alcoholic beer
description: We tasted non-alcoholic and low-alcohol beer, from lager and pale ale to deep, rich stout. Discover our top buys and find your new favourite booze alternative
encoded: As a country, we are drinking less often, so now seems like a perfect time to look at alcohol-free alternatives to beer. Some of these products really impressed. Low-alcohol beers can be made in two ways: some are brewed using special yeasts and low-sugar malt to produce very little alcohol, whereas others have the alcohol removed. Alcohol doesn’t just affect you physically, it also acts as a vehicle for flavour and provides texture. To compensate for the lack of mouthfeel in alcohol-free drinks, brewers can add sweetness – some of the big brand 0% lagers taste of popcorn – or turn up the hops. The latter can work to an extent, but bitter hops without the warmth of alcohol can quickly get too much. Read our review of the best non-alcoholic spirits and aperitifs for more booze-free inspiration, plus discover our pick of the best low- and no-alcohol wines. For plenty more round-ups, guides to going alcohol-free and inspiring mocktail recipes, visit our alcohol-free drinks hub. Jump to section Non-alcoholic beer Low-alcohol beer The best non-alcoholic beer taste-tested 2025 Guinness 0.0% Available from Amazon (£18.21/8 x 440ml), DryDrinker (£16.65/6 x 440ml) The long-awaited zero ABV version of one of the world’s great beers is here and… it’s pretty tasty. It tastes recognisably like the alcoholic original with a coffee-like bitterness and a sweet milky finish. The famous Guinness head isn’t quite there but this is enjoyable nonetheless. Available from: Amazon (£18.21/8 x 440ml) DryDrinker (£16.65/6 x 440ml) Heineken 0.0% lager Available from Tesco (£4.99/6 x 330ml), Amazon (£18/24 x 330ml) This was a real surprise – it's fresh and clean, with no sweetness or strange flavours and tastes very much like the alcoholic version. It contains about 1g sugar per 100ml, which is less than some full-strength lagers. It's the best of the big brands. Available from: Tesco (£4.99/6 x 330ml) Amazon (£18/24 x 330ml) The best low-alcohol beer taste-tested Brewdog Nanny State hoppy ale…

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Best port
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date: 2025-01-23T12:00:43.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
subject: best ports
subject: Henry Jeffreys
subject: Port
subject: ruby port
subject: vintage port
subject: white port
subject: wines
description: Discover the best ports to buy. From ruby and tawny to vintage, there's a port to suit your taste and budget. See how our wine expert, Henry Jeffreys, rated them during our taste test
encoded: Port is made by taking very ripe grapes grown in the Douro Valley, crushing them to extract as much colour and flavour as possible, and leaving them to ferment. While there is still lots of sugar, brandy is added to kill the yeasts and stop fermentation, leaving a wine of about 20% alcohol that’s intensely sweet, fruity and bold. The cheapest ruby ports spend a couple of years in wood before being bottled. At the top of the tree sit vintage ports, which are only made in the best years. Ideally they need around 15-20 years minimum in bottle before being ready to drink. There are also single quinta ports, which come from a particular year but mature quicker, and late bottled vintage (LBV), matured in large wooden vats for six years before bottling ready to drink. There are also tawny ports, which aged in barrels with oxygen contact like sherry, until they lose their colour and take on a nutty quality. They can be superb, and sold ready to drink with no need to decant. Finally, you can buy white ports that make great aperitifs, especially when mixed with sherry. Keep an eye out for offers around Christmas time – sometimes you can pick up some bargains from larger retailers. Some say port should just be drunk in December, but it can be enjoyed year-round. Tawnies, in particular, are surprisingly versatile and pair well with any season. Read on to find which ports are best. For more, visit our review section and find over 400 buyers' guides, including taste tests of gin, whisky, vodka, rum, brandy and more. Best port to buy at a glance Best budget port: ASDA Extra Special LBV 2019, £14.99 Best port for a light, nutty finish: Waitrose No.1 Reserve Tawny Port, £15.99 Best port for complex, vintage depth: Krohn Porto Colheita 2006, £35.99 Best port for cocktails: Graham’s Blend No 5 White Port, £21 Best value port: Tesco Finest 10-year-old tawny port, £14.50 Best tawny port: Sandeman 20-year-old tawny port, £47.95 Best port to buy 2025 ASDA Extra Special LBV 2019 Available …

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The best sherry for Christmas and beyond
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date: 2024-11-18T16:04:35.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
description: Discover the best sherries to buy. From oloroso to manzanilla and PX, there's a sherry to suit your taste and budget.
encoded: Sherry, a fortified wine from Andalusia, can take a bit of getting used to if you normally drink fruity wines like sauvignon blanc or pinot grigio. Sherry is not primarily about fruit. Instead there’s flavours of nuts, bread and savoury yeasty notes. Once you bring food into the equation, however, sherry makes perfect sense. The crispest, freshest styles are fino and manzanilla. They go particularly well with things like olives, prawns and, you might be surprised to hear, fish and chips. Richer, darker, dry sherries like amontillados, olorosos and palo cortados go brilliantly with hard cheeses like manchego and cured meats like jamon serrano. While cream sherries or sweet olorosos are superb with a slice of seed cake or blue cheeses. Finally, there’s no better pudding than a glass of super sweet PX served alongside vanilla ice cream. Sherry also makes an excellent aperitif, after-dinner sipper and cocktail ingredient. I’d highly recommend a bamboo – fino mixed half and half with vermouth and served straight up like a martini. Whatever the style, sherry is worth getting a taste for as it offers some of the best quality to price ratio in the wine world. For more, visit our reviews section and find over 400 practical buyer's guides, taste tests of gin, vodka and more. For regular wine deliveries direct to your door, sign up to the Good Food Wine Club. Best sherry to buy at a glance Best sherry for a sweet yet balanced sip: Gonzalez-Byass Cristina, £17.99 Best sherry for seafood pairings: Barbadillo Solear Manzanilla, £12.99 Best sherry for bold, savoury sips: Williams & Humbert 12 Year Old Amontillado, £24.99 Best sherry for rare, complex flavour: Morrisons Palo Cortado, £7 Best refreshing sherry: Hidalgo PX Triana, £19.99 Best nutty sherry: Morrisons The Best Oloroso sherry, £6.50 Best dry sherry: Bodegas Hidalgo La Gitana manzanilla sherry, £7.99 Best PX Sherry: Best Gonzalez Byass Matusalem oloroso sherry, £25.49 Best sweet sherry: El Maestro Sierra PX sherry, £22 B…

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Best pinot noir
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date: 2024-08-14T14:49:23.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Review
description: The best pinot noir offers a delicate balance of red fruit flavours, fragrant aromas and a smooth, silky texture. We round up the best bottles at every price point
encoded: Ah, pinot noir! No grape has such romantic connotations. Say those two magical words and you’re transported to the rolling hills of Burgundy. Pinot noir is one of the hardest grapes to get right. It’s thin-skinned, susceptible to disease and picky about where it’s grown. The climate has to be just right, too cold and it won’t ripen properly so the wines will taste hard and fruitless. Too warm and it can go jammy and lose the all-important fragrance that is the essence of pinot noir. It’s also very sensitive to over cropping (taking too many grapes from one vine) in which case the wine will be watery. Pinot noir needs to be carefully handled in the winery too, the skins can make the wine tannic and harsh, and oak needs to be used with a light hand. Too much of anything means you won’t get the magic. Its home is Burgundy, but you will very rarely see the words pinot noir on the bottle there. Instead, wines are organised in a hierarchical structure from Bourgogne Rouge at the bottom to grand crus at the top like Richbourg which can cost thousands of pounds a bottle. In the past, Burgundy was something of a lottery but changing climate, better winemaking and vineyard work means that the cheaper wines are much more reliable – though also more expensive. The flipside is that in warm years the alcohol on the pricier ones can be excessive. Pinot noir needs a coolish climate. Outside of Burgundy, high quality examples are made in Chile, New Zealand, Australia (particularly Tasmania), Oregon, California, Germany, Austria, and increasingly in England. The grape is also grown elsewhere in France, especially in the Loire. We tasted a variety of samples from all over the world with a £25 maximum so we could include some burgundy worth drinking. Overall, the quality was extremely variable. Unlike say malbec, buying an affordable pinot noir is a hit-or-miss affair. Some of the Californian ones were unpleasantly jammy, whereas others had the opposite problem being vegetal and bitter…

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What is orange wine and which one should I buy?
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date: 2024-06-21T12:37:58.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Review
description: Intrigued by orange wine? Wine expert Henry Jeffreys shares everything you need to know including his picks of the best to buy this summer
encoded: Orange wine seems to be everywhere these days, in the news, on social media, some people are even drinking it. But it’s not immediately obvious what orange wine is. It’s not red, white or pink, it’s orange. How? What is orange wine? Well, the first thing to say about orange wine is that it’s not made from oranges. There is an alcoholic drink from Spain called vino de naranja but that is something completely different. Orange wine is made from grapes. Orange wine or amber wine as it's sometimes known is like a cross between a white wine and a red wine - but it’s not rose! It’s made from white grapes which are fermented on their skins. How is orange wine made? To make a white wine, the juice is separated from the grape matter before fermentation, but with an orange wine, the skins and pips go into the vat. Just like a red wine. This means that some of the colour leaches into the wine turning it from the green/gold colour of a white wine to orange. The skins also contain tannin, think of that woody drying sensation you get from drinking a red wine, which you will feel when drinking an orange wine. Such wines are also known as amber or skin contact wines. The amount of skin contact will affect the flavour and colour of the wine. Some oranges wines undergo all their fermentation on the skins with weeks or even months of extraction. Whereas others might just spend a few days fermenting with skin contact before the juice is run off and continues to ferment on its own. So some orange wines have a deep colour and are full of tannin, whereas others just have a whisper of orange. Where does orange wine come from? Far from being a new technique, in the past many wines would have been made using this technique. Some ancient wines were made by putting grapes of any colour, red or white, into an amphora and letting them ferment. This sort of technique is still used in some countries or was used up until very recently before modern winemaking techniques came in in the 1960s. The co…

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Best rosé wine – taste tested
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date: 2024-06-12T10:16:58.000Z
creator: Henry Jeffreys – Wine expert
subject: Drinks
subject: Review
subject: best rosé wine
subject: cheap rosé wine
subject: Henry Jeffreys
subject: pink champagne
subject: pink drinks
subject: Rosé wine
subject: rosé wine tasted
subject: summer cocktails
subject: Summer drinks
description: When the sun is shining, there’s nothing better than a chilled glass of delicious rosé wine. We put our wine expert to the test in order to find the best rosé bottles under £25
encoded: Rosé is currently the most fashionable wine in the world. It has to be a very particular kind of rosé, mind; the colour should be what is known as onion skin, sometimes so pale, barely a pink at all, and it absolutely has to be from Provence. Names such as Miraval, Whispering Angel and Made in Provence are much-coveted designer labels. The Provençal style is now aped all over the world. You get that beautiful colour from very gently pressing red grapes so that only a tiny bit of colour, and indeed flavour, from the skins gets into the wine. Happily, it doesn’t all have to taste the same, a Greek rosé made in this way will taste very different from a southern French one, for example. But it’s not the only way to make rosé, just a little north of the Mediterranean, in the southern foothills of the Rhône valley, they make pinks with some serious heft, wines that are nearly red with tannin and lots of fruit. They also make darker styles of rosé all over the world, particularly in Spain and Italy. Currently, the Provençal style is in ascendant, around 95% of the wines I tried for this test were of that type, but whisper it, there’s a dark rosé revival on the horizon as people look for wines with a little more character. On a baking hot summer’s day, it’s hard to argue with the pale style. The flavours should be subtle, walking a tightrope between elegant and almost not there. They won’t knock your socks off like vintage champagne or a Barossa Shiraz but with the best you will find yourself having a sip, then another and before you’ve realised it you have finished the bottle. For more, visit our reviews section and find over 400 practical buyers' guides, taste tests of gin, vodka, best English wine and more. For regular wine deliveries direct to your door, sign up to the Good Food Wine Club for discounts on exclusively curated wine cases, chosen by experts and the Good Food team. Best rosé at a glance Best Italian rosé: Tormaresca Calafuria, £15 Best South African rosé: V…

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