Co-op unveils new wines together with first Greek wine

Buyers popping to Co-op this autumn will discover a plethora of recent and thrilling wines in shops, together with its first ever Greek wine.

The main comfort retailer’s new supply – available in shops from this week – contains the extension of Co-op’s own-brand “Irresistible” vary with its first Greek wine and a brand new premium Chilean Fairtrade Chardonnay. New branded traces have additionally been added, boosting the retailer’s rising sustainable and moral wine providing.

Demand for Greek wines are presently seeing a development out there and the brand new Co-op Irresistible Assyrtiko 2023 (13% ABV, 75cl, £10) (ve) is a refreshing and crisp white wine made utilizing Greek nationwide treasure ‘Assyrtiko’ grapes. This unique mix is produced by household vineyard, Kir-Yianni in Macedonia – the primary Greek vineyard to affix Worldwide Wineries for Local weather motion, supporting the constructing of wildlife corridors.

And new to its Fairtrade vary, the Irresistible Fairtrade Chardonnay 2024 (13.5%, 75cl, £8.75) (ve) is a crisp recent cool-climate white with vivid peachy fruit flavours from the vineyards of Casablanca Valley, near the Pacific Ocean.

Two new Fairtrade branded traces have additionally been added – Mount Rozier Fairtrade Shiraz Malbec 2024 (11% ABV, 75cl, £6.75) (ve) and Stormhoek Cape Custom Fairtrade Glowing Rosé 2024 (9% ABV, 75cl, £6.00) (ve), each from South Africa.

Sarah Benson, Co-op wine purchaser, mentioned: “We now have been championing Fairtrade for the final 30 years at Co-op, and are dedicated to rising the supply by introducing newness and pleasure to the wine aisles. We additionally proceed to hunt out nice worth and high quality from new trending areas, and Greece is a good instance of space that’s rising in recognition that’s pushed purely by tourism.”

Additionally new to the vary, The Lot Sequence French Crimson 2022 (13.5% ABV, 75cl, £8.85) solely joins Co-op’s vary in partnership with co-operative, Les Vignerons de Saint Chinian. The wine is designed to have fun the regional and stylistic range on supply in South of France. Every classic will see a rotation of parcels, beginning with a Minervois.

Benson continued: “The idea of The Lot Sequence is that we’ll proceed to rotate the wine to showcase the good worth, good high quality that Southern French wines have to supply.”

The brand new wine sees Co-op trial a brand new revolutionary label, which supplies the bottle an embossed look while being 31% lighter and saving 140g of glass per bottle.

A primary for the UK market, the ‘Glass Label’ doesn’t must be faraway from the bottle and is totally recyclable.

The transfer is a part of Co-op’s lightweighting bold work, which has already been applied throughout its Chile, South Africa, Spain and Australia ranges and has seen it cut back its carbon footprint of wines by as a lot as 34% with the typical bottle weight throughout its total personal model vary at 404g.

Co-op full new additions are:

Stormhoek Cape Custom Fairtrade Glowing Rosé NV (9% ABV) 75cl, £6.00 (ve)
Co-op Irresistible Fairtrade Chardonnay 2024 (13.5%) 75cl, £8.75 (ve) – in-stores from w/c 14 October
Co-op Irresistible Assyrtiko 2023 (13% ABV) 75cl, £10 (ve)
Mount Rozier Fairtrade Shiraz Malbec 2024 (11% ABV) 75cl, £6.75
Yalumba Gen Natural Sauvignon Blanc 2023 (13% ABV) 75cl, £11 (ve)
Yalumba Gen Natural Viognier 2023 (14% ABV) 75cl, £11 (ve)
Hidden Vines Braucol 2023 (13% ABV) 75cl, £8.85 (ve)
The Lot Sequence French Crimson 2022 (13.5% ABV, 75cl, £8.85)