Curated wine highlights at Tesco: Explore new additions for the sunny season
Make a beeline for the best wines on offer at the UK's biggest supermarket. Decanter's France editor Natalie Earl highlights 20 standouts from the current range.
Alongside new vintages of its core range, Tesco introduced 39 entirely new wines to its spring offering, many of which are at the cheaper end.
We’ve picked out a curated selection of the wines to look out for during your next shop.
Although there have been a few esoteric additions – a tasty sparkling Vinho Verde and a Romanian Merlot, for example – the current range gives a sense of returning to comfortable classics.
Coming in hot is a slew of new Bordeaux wines (ranging between £8-£30) worth checking out, and the brilliant new addition of Balfour’s Blanc de Blancs sparkling English wine at £26.
If I was dashing into Tesco to pick up a bottle for an impromptu spring picnic, I’d grab the Nepenthe Grüner Veltliner from Australia's Adelaide Hills – it’s zingy, with loads of citrus flavour and great freshness.
In a hurry? Here's our 'save or splurge' cheatsheet:
Sparkling save – £13.50
Sparkling splurge – £22
White save – £9
White splurge – £18.50
Red save – £9.50
Red splurge – £22
The recommendations that follow are new wines and new vintages tasted by Decanter's Natalie Earl at Tesco’s spring/summer 2026 press tasting in London.
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Natalie is Decanter's France editor, commissioning and writing content on French wines (excluding Bordeaux) across print and digital. She writes Decanter's coverage of Languedoc wines, as well as a monthly magazine column, The Ethical Drinker, which unpicks the thorny topic of sustainability in wine. She joined Decanter in 2016.
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