Oddbins – current favourites?

'Get the basics right – that includes the staff, it includes the product, it includes the price – we get those three things right – actually that's the basics of wine retail. It's not a complicated business, ultimately.' So said Simon Baile six months ago in this video. This March, their latest press tasting would put two of those three basics to the test – the product and the price.

The wines I selected to taste were those which I thought their customers would most likely buy. The reasoning is included in the first line of each note. They...