From Vineyards Direct – any good?

British wine buyers are currently spoilt for choice thanks to a rash of new independent online wine retailers – a backlash, perhaps, against the power and limitations of the four major supermarket chains that are responsible for about 70% by volume of all the wine sold in the UK.

We try to support these often-barely-profitable enterprises as much as possible and you can find many of them listed in the UK section of our Where to buy listings and some of the newer ones in my recent selections of 100 sure-fire reds and 75 sure-fire whites. Some of them...