Wine with Leslie: How to build a wine collection and what to add to it

Leslie's picks this week are all wines that drink well now but are contenders for laying down for a few years.

Last week I wrote about the (admittedly first-world) problem of missing out on my Autumn French holiday and the annual Foire Aux Vins sales. Thankfully there is some compensation with the bargains on offer in Dunnes Stores, O’Briens and SuperValu.

When I was starting a wine collection in the 1990s it was thanks to the sales at Leclerc, Géant and Intermarché that I was able to lay down some good Bordeaux and some interesting wines bought at cellar doors, mainly in the Loire and in Gascony.