The Wine Society autumn/winter 2024

The Wine Society outdid itself for value in the wines it showed to the media last month. The proportion of wines I marked GV, VGV and even VVGV for various shades of value felt like the highest ever.

While prices at the traditional merchants seem to be shooting up, this co-operative buying organisation, whose shareholders are its customers rather than outsiders wanting to maximise profit, has been trying to hold down prices as much as possible while investing in the likes of increased warehousing capacity for its members’ reserves and...