Booths is known for its dedication to sourcing quality local produce. The selection below, which includes some top performers from this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards, showcases this northern retailer’s quality, range – and good value.
Booths is a small, family-run chain of supermarkets with 28 stores in the northwest of England. It’s known for its commitment to working with smaller-scale, quality-focused producers and for its broad product range.
In 2022 Booths opened a wine bar in Lytham, Lancashire, and introduced new fine wine concepts in Ilkley, Ripon and Windermere – always with a commitment to sustainability.
The supermarket stocks a range of award-winning wines worth seeking out, including Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) 2024 Best in Show medal winner Chapel Down, Rosé, Kent, England NV. The judges were impressed by the wine’s aromatic fruits and clean and emphatic palate, awarding it one of the 50 sought-after accolades.
Scroll down to see our Booths shopper’s guide for DWWA-winning wines
Shoppers can also find four Gold medal winners available at Booths – offering diverse origin and styles. From Nelson in New Zealand, Heaphy, Sauvignon Blanc 2023 was highlighted for its fragrant and zesty character – priced at £14 it received a Value Gold medal. From France, Château Maris, La Touge, Minervois La Livinière 2021 (£18) received 95 points from the experts, who noted on its purity and stony mineral length. Ernie Els, Major Series Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 (£20) is a benchmark Cabernet Sauvignon from Stellenbosch, South Africa with inviting blackberries, violets and refined tannins. For fortified wine lovers, the retailer offers 95-points awarded Hidalgo La Gitana, Pastrana Manzanilla Pasada, Sherry, Spain NV.
At Booths one may find a number of Silver awarded wines too. Of the 16 Silver medal winners Booths stocks, there is a variety worth seeking out, including delicate and fruity rosés from Provence, complex Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand and Chile and robust, full-bodied wines from Rioja in Spain
Needless to say, this award-winning retailer is firmly on track for quality, variety – and good value, too. If you have a Booths nearby, make a note of the award-winners below before your next shop…
Shopper’s guide: award-winning wines from Booths
Best in Show
Chapel Down, Rosé, Kent, England NV
Best in Show, 97 points
£31.99
The UK category is always a focus of great interest during our second week of judging – so there was excitement among the Co-Chairs when it became clear that, for the first time, an rosé sparkler was the English wine which had fought its way through to our Best In Show selection. A sign of climate change? Perhaps: red grapes are ever-easier to ripen here. But perhaps its success is also a function of the complex blend crafted by the winemaker – one that includes Pinot Blanc and Pinot Noir Précoce (Frühburgunder in Germany) as seasoning for the 61 per cent of Chardonnay, the 23 per cent of Pinot Noir and the 9 per cent of Pinot Meunier. Whatever the reason, we found the wine hard to resist. Its petal pink couldn’t look prettier in the glass, while the aromatic fruits are satisfyingly restrained and subtle, and the palate clean and emphatic. The English-season acidity – always prominent, but satisfyingly ripe here — is lent interest by a mineral-salt undertow as well as a soft sherbet charm. Alcohol 12%
Gold
Heaphy, Sauvignon Blanc, Nelson, New Zealand 2023
Value Gold, 95 points
£14
A bracingly pure style, bustling with fragrant gooseberries, passionfruit and vivacious nettle greens and underpinned by a zesty lemon core of sustaining acidity. Svelte and mouth-watering. Alc 12.5%
Château Maris, La Touge, Minervois La Livinière, France 2021
Gold, 95 points
£18
A complete wine with enthralling red fruit and spice which enrich the elegant texture and finely grained array of tannins. Structured and pure with a stony mineral length. Alc…
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