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The Wine Society summer 2023

Julia Harding
Julia Harding MW
Friday 4 August 2023
Per Se Uco Valley

A selection of new wines and new vintages and, as ever, lots of good-value wines. Plus outstanding Malbec from the Uco Valley, the location of the vineyard pictured here (photo: PerSe).

As Jancis wrote earlier this year in What’s new at The Wine Society?, this UK retailer, run uniquely as a co-operative over almost 150 years, has promised to hold its prices until the end of the year despite the UK duty increases introduced this week. (See Jancis’s article for more about the way the member-owned business works.)

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