Tipping’s Tipples: Top 10 tips for buying wine
Mike Tipping has been writing about wine on a regular basis for 12 years now.
He lives in York with his family but travels widely in pursuit of wine, visiting vineyards and wineries and meeting winemakers, as far afield as Chile but mainly in Europe.
Today we are delighted to welcome Mike as YorkMix‘s wine writer.
Says Mike:
Usually when people find out that I write about wine they ask me what my favourite wine is. I usually answer, the one I haven’t opened yet.
Mike’s first column will appear next week. But to start thing off, here are…
Tipping’s top 10 tips for buying wine
1. Supermarket own label wines often offer really good value
2. But beware supermarket promotions…
…you won’t always be getting a bargain.
3. Pick wines from lesser known areas
They usually offer far better value than famous name regions (such as Burgundy and Rioja).
4. Ask before you buy
5. Like books and their covers…
6. Try before you buy
Go to a wine tasting or two.
7. Don’t stick to the same old, same old
Wine is a voyage of discovery, so live a little.
8. Remember inflation
Appreciate that your £5 maximum spend will not get you as good a wine as it did in 1993.
9. Take note of wine critic recommendations
(Particularly this one).
10. For every rule there is an exception
(applies to all of the above except the last).