Christmas wines: stock up now before they sell out

Thanks to Covid, your favourite wines are selling out more quickly than ever. Time to start squirrelling for Christmas, or take a chance on comparable varietiesOne of the more frustrating things about writing this wine column – for you as well as for me – is that, for one reason or another, some wines I recommend don’t always turn out to be available: not every wine is stocked in every branch, for example. But there’s a new problem and, on the face of it, an unlikely one