In a new wine guide – The Best Wines in the Supermarkets 2010 – the Co-operative has come top of the food retailers, beating Asda, Booths, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose.
Five wines stocked by The Co-operative scored perfect marks. The definitive guide, written by well-known wine critic Ned Halley, features the writer’s pick of his favourite wines from each major food retailer in the UK. He scored the wines out of 10 using his own system.
The wine critic has praised the Co-op for its new “shiny supermarket-style stores with an increasingly upmarket range of products”, and he has also highlighted the Co-op’s leading Fairtrade wine range, as well as its wine ingredient labelling policy.
A total of 32 Co-operative wines feature in the guide. The five that scored 10/10, which were included in his overall top wine selection, are:
• The Co-operative Fairtrade Argentine Malbec Reserve
• The Co-operative Explorers Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc
• Finca La Solana Monastrell
• River 216 Gewürztraminer Riesling
• Chateau Roumieu Sauternes
