The big retailers may not always have the best prices for fine table wines but, in the main, they do for sweet and strong wines. Indeed, some of the prices for ports and sherries verge on the suicidal. I can but suggest that you take advantage of them, and of all the second and third wines from top Sauternes châteaux that now proliferate on British supermarket shelves.
Since this is the season and the weather for such self-indulgence, it would be equally foolish to pass up this seasonal opportunity to indulge in wine styles that deserve to be drunk more regularly. Wines are listed in increasing price per cl; standard bottles containing 75cl.
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