Moving on up: Aldi’s wine evolution

A third supermarket has emerged in the competition for best offering of fine wines

Irish supermarkets have been engaged in an all-out wine war – and now Aldi is entering the fray

The supermarket wine landscape is one of the most competitive in Irish wine sales. The top two spots in our Sunday Business Post Gold Star awards, for example, have represented a knife-edge battle between Dunnes Stores and SuperValu for almost a decade.

The crown has changed almost every other year as last year’s number two would respond with, say, a revamping of their wine selection, or a store remodelling or as SuperValu did ...