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The aim of www.shop-search.co.uk is to helps you save money when buying wines. We provide a regularly updated directory of wine merchants and retailers that sell online.

This site provides one of the fastest and easiest way to find who is selling wine, and an easy method of comparing prices between wine retailers. A fe point worth considering when buying wine :

When buying wine you can either buy a relatively cheap wine (and these days some of these are extremely good) but they are designed to be drunk immediately. Alternatively you can buy a quality wine and store it. As good wine improve over a number of years, stays at a peak and then declines, the idea is to buy it on the way up, store it until it reaches its peak.

Most wines are now sold ready for drinking and do not need to be left to mature, however, most will improve in flavour if kept for a while before drinking if stored in the right conditions, with the exception of very light-bodied or cheap red wines.

Given the right conditions the length of time a wine should keep varies with its type and year of production. The weather affects the acidity and tannin content of grapes and these, in turn, affect the way it keeps. An ordinary wine from a good year may keep as long as a good wine from a poor year. As we are not all wine experts the best idea is to seek help and advice from a good wine merchant. Some rough rules to remember are that

Not all wines improve with keeping and a new Beaujolais is designed for a short life. It needs to be drunk within six months, anylonger than this and it will taste like vinegar. Among good wines the typical pattern of a good red Burgundy is 6 years maturing, 6 peak years and 6 gently declining.
Bordeaux takes longer than the same quality from Burgundy. Probably 8 years for a good one and some may take as long as 15 years. White wines mature faster and fade faster. A good white Burgundy could be ready in 3 years, half the time of it's red counterpart and only sweet ones.