Red Wine
Whether you are looking for something light and fruity or big and beefy, use our red wine guide to find some of the best wine clubs and red wine deals available in our short list with a special emphasis on great red wines. These exclusive wine deals give you huge savings on your favorite reds as well as encouraging you to discover some new favorites as well. Click on "more info" button or enter the voucher code in the retailers checkout page, to secure these outstanding deals on red wines. We have also compiled a brief red wine guide, giving you details on the red wine types and the key wine producing regions.
Top Red Wine Deals
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Laithwaites Australia Direct Reds - SAVE £55. Australia Direct gives you a fantastic introductory offer of 15 mixed bottles of red wine with 100% guarantee of complete satisfaction or your money back. Delivery for all orders is £6.95. |
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Sunday Times Rioja Club - SAVE £55. Sunday Times are offering an introductory case of 12 mixed bottles of the regions best Rioja at a saving of over £55. This case has a combined age of 23 years and includes such items as Gran Reserva and fruit laden gems from top bodegas. You won't find a better wine deal omn Rioja of this quality anywhere. |
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Virgin Wine Discovery Club Reds - SAVE £60. Virgin Wines has teamed up with Top 10 Wine Clubs to give our readers a massive £60 off plus an extra 3 bottles than the standard case free and with 20% off future orders. |
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Laithwaites Le Chai au Quai - SAVE £65. An introductory case of 12 unique mixed bottles of all red wine from the Dordogne region in Bordeaux, France. With this wine club you can become a keyholder giving you access to exclusive wines, invitations, tastings and visits. |
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Naked Wines Voucher - SAVE £40. Naked Wines have a great range of quality wines and support small winemakers. Browse their selection of red wines and use code TOP10WINE to claim your £40 discount on your total order. |
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Vintage Roots - SAVE £20. Vintage Roots, organic wine specialists, have teamed up with Top 10 Wine Clubs to give you a special red wine deal for our customers with £20 OFF your first order, just use code TOPV. Just make your own selection of quality organic red wines. |
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Tesco Seriously Sumptuous Reds - SAVE 50%. Save 50% off a case of 6 different bottles of red wine. |
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Laithwaites Taste of Spain Reds - SAVE £45. Laithwaites is offering an introductory case of 12 mixed bottles of Spanish red wines from easy drinking younger reds to rich oak-aged gems. 100% guarantee of complete satisfaction or your money back. |
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Sunday Times Big Reds - SAVE £32. A fantastic introductory case of 12 mixed bottles of big red wine with between 14-15% alcohol content, full of ripe fruit and smooth as velvet. |
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Wines U Like Red Wines - SAVE 25% OFF orders over £59.99. Redeem by using code TOP10 upon checkout. An excellent selection of red wine for all palates. Specialists in South African, New Zealand and Italian wine, they are very helpful with suggestions over the phone to put together a selection that best suits you or your occassion. |
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Waitrose Christmas Selection Reds - SAVE £27. Offers you savings of £27 on this mixed case of red wines with 3 varieties specially selected for the Christmas season. |
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Winehound I Love Red Wine - Specialists in boutique wines, Winehound offers a mixed case of 12 red wines from France, Spain, Australia and Chile. |
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Red Wine Guide
Here is a guide to some of the best known and not so well known red wine grape varieties:
Cabernet Sauvignon
Perhaps the world's most famous grape, this king of the reds makes many of the most distinctive, glamorous red wines. CABERNET SAUVIGNON covers a wide spectrum of aromas and flavours. It tends towards green vegetative flavours when not fully developed, but as it ripens it tends towards the flavour of blackcurrant and, when very concentrated, cassis. In California and Chilean cabernet, you can often spot mint or eucalyptus. Its affinity with oak lends secondary characters with a range of vanilla, cedar, sandalwood, tobacco, coffee, musk and spicy notes.
Merlot
Long kept in the shadows by cabernet sauvignon, but still a very popular red wine, MERLOT's soft texture helps to give it a deliciously plummy, almost fruitcake-like flavour and a mellow smoothness which makes it more approachable than its sister grape, the CABERNET SAUVIGNON. Like cabernet, it can be a little grassy and bell-pepper-like from cool climate regions and it develops blackcurrant, blackberry, blueberry, chocolate and spice-like characters when fully ripe. Chilean MERLOT often produces juicy reds with blackcurrant pastille flavours.
Zinfandel
California's specialty, In its pink incarnation, ZINFANDEL, sometimes known as white ZINFANDEL, tends to be light, sweetish and bland. Take it seriously though and it produces powerfully-constructed, brambly, reds with raspberry and blackberry-like flavours and plenty of tannins and spice. It is believed to be the same grape, or virtually the same grape as southern Italy's Primitivo, which is equally capable of producing heady, robustly spicy red wine.
Pinot Noir
Red wines from this prima donna grape can be unreliable, but good ones have great charms and finesse PINOT NOIR is one of the most sensuously fragrant red wine grapes in the world with a variety of scented aromas based on red berry characters closest to raspberry and strawberry. It can be a little minty and vegetal when less than mature, but when ripe usually tastes of raspberry or strawberry as well as cherry and, when exotic, loganberry, mulberry and fraise du bois. If overripe, it becomes jammy. As it matures in bottle, it often develops silky textures and alluring undertones of truffles, game and leather. Pinot Noir is known as one of the most expensive red wines to produce, this can often be reflected in it price on the shelf.
Grenache
This increasingly fashionable grape makes appealing rosés as well as red wines. The light-coloured GRENACHE is a quintessentially Mediterranean red variety and as a result it often mingles the classic Mediterranean scents of thyme, fennel and rosemary with white pepper and its warming, raspberryish fruit flavours. It tends to be low in tannin and hence soft and supple and, at its pinnacle in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, it takes on heady aromas and spicy, robust fruit flavours which can border on the raisined.
Syrah/Shiraz
Its homeland is the northern Rhône in France, where it is known as syrah, but Australia calls it Shiraz. SYRAH produces dark red wines whose purest incarnation produces a wine with memorable aromas which can be smoky, floral, peppery, minty or spicy and often linked to a kind of medicinal or creosote-like character. Cool climates, whether northern Rhône or Victoria and parts of Western Australia, bring out the mint, pepperiness and the spice in this red wine, while the warmer it gets the more it changes from raspberry to blackberry, becoming chocolatey and, with age, tarry and gamey.
Nebbiolo
The godfather of Italian reds, this grape not only packs a real punch but ages with great style and gravitas. thick-skinned NEBBIOLO grape of Barolo and Barbaresco fame is one of the most delightfully aromatic of red grape varieties and for that reason sometimes compared to PINOT NOIR, but the aromas and flavours are very different. Structured by high acidity and no shortage of tannin, NEBBIOLO's bouquet encompasses violet, smoke and rose-like perfumes with flavours of truffle, fennel, liquorice and, most famously, tar.
Sangiovese
SANGIOVESE, the main Chianti grape, produces a variety of styles from youthfully lively young reds with juicy, cherryish flavours with mouthwatering acidity to the richer, more concentrated, long-lived, oak-aged style with dark cherry, plum, savoury and herby, bayleafy flavours.
Tempranillo
TEMPRANILLO is Spains most famous grape. As Tinto Fino or Tinto del Pais it provides the backbone of Ribera del Dueros lively, deep flavoured reds. In Rioja it is often blended with Garnacha. In tinta Roriz it is it has long been used for Port and is increasingly respected as a table wine. As it is an early budding variety it can be suseptible to frost in the early season but none the less it is widely valued for fine wine.
Cabernet Franc
CABERNET FRANC is a less intense softer progenitor of Cabent Sauvignon. In many parts of the Medoc and Graves regions it is widely planted as an insurance against Cabinet Sauvignons potential failure to reach full maturity. As this variety is much more resistant to cold winters than Merlot it has made very solid wines in the southern hemisphere, especially New Zealand. The grapes tend to produce wines with a Leafy Aromatic aroma.
Malbec
The MALBEC grape is somthing of a "black sheep" in France grown only for blending with other varieties, as when it is used on its own it can tend to make more rustic "rough and ready" wines. However when it was taken over to Argentina it very quickly found a new hoem and thrived so well that is soon became the countries most succedssful and widely planted grape. The Argentinian Malbec will produce a rich spicy flavor making velvety, concentrated and lively wines.
