Virgin Wine Advent Calendar
£99.99
The Virgin Wine Advent Calendar 2026 swaps last year’s all-red box for a mixed line-up: of the 24 mini 187ml bottles, 11 are red, 9 white and 2 rosé, with a Casa Defra Prosecco mini and a full-size 75cl Aubel & Fils sparkling for Christmas Day. These are own-label wines you won’t find on a supermarket shelf, poured in 187ml single serves, not thimble tasters. It comes in four versions this year, Mixed, Red, White and a new Gin calendar, and suits adults and wine explorers who enjoy discovering new bottles over sticking to one label.
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AI Summary
- 24 mini 187ml bottles plus one full-size 75cl for Christmas Day, 25 doors in all
- Mixed line-up of red, white and rosé with a Prosecco mini, finishing on a French sparkling Blanc de Blancs
- Four versions this year: Mixed, Red, White and a new Gin calendar (24 x 5cl gin, no wine)
- About £4.00 a pour across the 25 doors, or redeemable for 18,500 Virgin Points
- Premium, own-label wines for adults and wine explorers who like variety over a single cellar name
Virgin Wine Advent Calendar 2026
The Virgin Wine Advent Calendar 2026 lines up 24 mini 187ml bottles behind its first 24 doors, then hands you a full-size 75cl bottle for Christmas Day. The headline news this year is the mixed line-up: reds, whites and rosé across December, with a little fizz along the way, where last year’s calendar poured 25 reds and nothing else.
Each day is a single-serve pour, roughly a large glass, so you taste 24 different wines across the run-up to Christmas and keep one proper bottle back for the big meal. The finale behind door 25 is a full-size French traditional-method sparkler, a Blanc de Blancs rather than another red.
What’s inside the Virgin Wine Advent Calendar
Twenty-five doors, and every one holds wine. The 24 miniatures hold 187ml each, about a generous glass, and the spread leans towards reds with a solid run of whites and a pair of rosés. Behind the last door sits the full-size 75cl sparkling bottle for Christmas Day.
Counting the minis with the full-size bottle, you get roughly 5.2 litres of wine, near enough to seven standard bottles. Divide the £99.99 launch price across the 25 doors and each pour works out at £4.00; measured against full bottles, the calendar lands at about £14 a bottle, where supermarket own-label parcels and the novelty of a fresh wine a day start to pull apart.
The full 2026 line-up for the Mixed version is listed door by door in the SPOILER tab.
From 25 reds to a mixed box: how this year differs
Last year the calendar was a single-colour run, 25 reds from eight countries with a full-size anniversary Cabernet Sauvignon to close. For 2026 Virgin Wines has switched the flagship to the Mixed selection, so reds now share the box with whites, two rosés and a Prosecco mini, and the Christmas Day bottle is now a sparkling Blanc de Blancs.
The other change is at the top of the range. Virgin Wines ran three versions last season; this year there are four, with a new Gin Advent Calendar joining the Mixed, Red and White editions. The price holds at £99.99 across all of them, up from the £99.90 last year’s calendar carried.
My verdict on the Virgin Wine Advent Calendar 2026
What wins me over first is the switch to mixed. A box of 25 reds is a hard ask for one household in December; a run that moves between red, white and rosé, then finishes on fizz, is far easier to actually drink down to the last door. The 187ml format helps: it is a real glass rather than a teasing 50ml taster, and that is the measure the wine trade treats as fair.
Where I’d pause is the disclosed detail. Virgin Wines publishes the Mixed line-up but names the bottles with its own labels, and one mini is still unconfirmed at the time of writing, so you are buying partly on the range’s track record. The wines are single-serve too: fine for tasting, less so if you want a glass to share. As a buy it tilts towards the wine-curious, and the French bubbly behind door 25 is the piece doing the most work on the price.
As Virgin Wines puts it, this is ‘the UK’s original wine advent calendar’. Seven years of following these boxes says the format is settled; the real call in 2026 is whether you want one colour or the full spread, and the mixed box makes that easy.
Versions of this Advent Calendar:
- Mixed Wine Advent Calendar (24 x 187ml plus a 75cl bottle, reds, whites, rosé and sparkling)
- Red Wine Advent Calendar (all red, same 24 minis plus full-size format)
- White Wine Advent Calendar (all white, with a little fizz and rosé)
- Gin Advent Calendar (new for 2026, 24 x 5cl gin minis, no wine)
- Discover all versions
Virgin Wines code and delivery:
- Discount code: no promo or discount code is available at the moment.
- Delivery: free on orders over £150; otherwise £7.99 per Advent Calendar.
Find all the Advent Calendars with a discount code here.
Virgin Wines, the pick-your-own wine club
Virgin Wines built its name on letting drinkers set their own taste profile and sending wines to match. Much of its range is sourced directly and sold under its own labels, which is why the bottles in this calendar carry names you won’t find on a supermarket aisle.
That buying model is what makes the calendar work: a single box can carry Argentine Malbec, French Pinot Noir, Portuguese whites and an Italian Prosecco without stocking any of them as a retail line. The mixed box is the clearest expression of the club’s spread-it-around approach.
Where to buy the Virgin Wine Advent Calendar 2026
The calendar is sold at virginwines.co.uk, where it is already available to order, or redeemable for 18,500 Virgin Points. There is no discount code at the moment, and delivery is free over £150, otherwise £7.99 per calendar. Compare the versions and the best offer at the top of this page.
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