Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

SOMETIMES it would strike you that wine buffery is like some sort of kooky cult religion.

I repeatedly encounter wine fans who seem to adhere to a strict orthodoxy in terms of which shops (or types of shop) they reckon are worth visiting to buy wine.

While loyalty to shops you like does makes sense, it doesn’t follow that the rest of the retailers don’t sell good wine. Yet that’s the type of prejudice you’ll often hear levelled against the big supermarkets and discounters, generally articulated by people who don’t shop there.