Best places to buy wine in the UK

Recently wine has become more and more popular in the UK, but as this has happened the way people buy wines has changed. A few years ago it was common to buy wines on the high street at off licences, but with the economic problems most of them have now disappeared, partly due to competitive supermarkets.

The problem now is that the supermarkets have been buying in rubbish wine, Sainburys use to be a great place to buy wine, but over the past 18 months the price of the wine has gone up but the quality has gone down. I recently went to Tesco to buy some wine and was surprised just how awful the selection was, there was no decent wine on sale.

Even Majestic seem to have got into the idea of trying to sell cheaper bad quality wine, I would say that it is better to go to Majestic than the big supermarkets and you have less chance of coming away with a terrible bottle of wine, but recently we have had a couple of bottles that have not been good.

Here are a list of some of the best places to buy wines.

• Waitrose - The best supermarket to buy wines, sometimes they have some good offers on their fine wines section.
• Portland Wines - North West wine shops that stock some great wines.
• Bat and Bottle - Buy online or visit them in Oakham, they specialise in Italian wines.

I will continue to add to this list as we find more places to buy wine.