See if you can get some ‘General Eurovan Winters’ still – theres a ‘Eurovan 2’ that doesn’t have a good a tread.
A winter tyre that also has good blocky tread sort of kills two birds with one stone – grip on loose surfaces year round and better compound for snow and ice too. Some of the all-terrain tyres can be quite a hard compound and don’t perfom as well in the cold. It can’t really be overstated just how much difference that compound can make – particularly if you’re on rural, ungritted roads. AT tyres are good if you’re the first vehicle up the road, but if a few people have been there before you and packed the snow down its the winter compound that keeps you moving.
In that respect – you sort of have to shop visually, lots of manufactures seem to change their tread pattern from year to year but give them the same name, so on the basis of a recommendation you could get a tyre thats pretty different to the one suggested