The 10 wines I always buy from M&S (that won’t cost you more than £16)

Prawn sandwiches, Percy Pigs and pants, is there anything that M&S can’t do well?

Their current abundance of wines really impresses. Yes, there are the standard pinot grigios and malbecs, but also on offer are some more esoteric wines and styles: orange wines, pet nats, chilled reds, and little-known grape varieties from lesser-known regions.

All of this amounts to greater opportunities for us, the customer, to discover something new. As M&S buyer Celani Dingwall explained to me: “We’re focused on making the M&S wine aisle feel like a place of discovery – bringing customers new, exciting and sometimes unexpected wines.”

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They’ve long had a reputation as the high street retailer that represents quality at a more premium price point, but they’re managing to source that quality with their “entry-level” wines too. Not an easy task. I was genuinely impressed by the wines available at £10 and under. This is an achievement when you remember that a £7 wine is now the new £5 wine, thanks to our government’s unrelentingly punishing taxation system.