Six Wines At Seven Pounds
September 3, 2008
How much should you spend on a bottle of wine to take to a friends place for dinner?
A group of leading wine connoisseurs has agreed that a £6.99 (or thereabouts) bottle of wine should be enough to buy what they would consider a decent wine in a UK shop. The judges, taking part in Decanter magazine’s World Wine Awards came up with this 7 quid amount amid fears that consumers regularly paid over the odds in an attempt to impress their hosts.
So what are these six wines then and where can you get them from? I’m glad you asked….
White
- Tesco Finest Denman Vineyard Reserve Semillon - available at Tesco
- Hardys Nottage Hill Riesling - available at Waitrose
Red
- St Hallett, Gamekeeper’s Reserve - available at Waitrose
- Domaine Vistalba, Vinalba Reserva Malbec - available at Robersons, London.
Rose
- Marques De Caceres, Rosado - available at Majestic
- Vina Concha y Toro, Casillero del Diablo Shiraz Rose - available at Oddbins
I wouldn’t fancy ordering some of them over the phone!
So, next time you’re invited to friends for dinner you now know what wine take. As for chocolates, the jury is still out over Ferrero Rocher
Mini Wine Miniatures
April 16, 2008
Many wine drinkers find it more than a little daunting when it comes to choosing a new wine to drink. Recognising this, French company WineSide has come up with the novel idea of offering mini sample bottles of wine.
WineSide offers sweet and classic wines in patented, flat-base glass tubes with screw tops carefully engineered to protect the wines’ flavour. The sweet wines—which include Sauternes and Muscat, for example—are available in 6cl tubes, while the Pomerol, Chateau Neuf du Pape and other classic wines can be purchased in tiny 6cl or 10cl sizes. WineSide’s collection represents a range of appellations and producers; tubes are available individually or by the box, which can be chosen to provide an introduction to a variety, year or region.
Budget News: Wine Up By 14p A Bottle
March 12, 2008
In the Budget today, Chancellor Alistair Darling has increased the duty on a bottle of wine by 14p - to be applied by this coming Suunday.
Beer is alsoup - by 4p a pint, spirits up 55p a bottle and cider is up 3p a litre.
Do you think an additional 14 pence on a bottle of wine will make you consume less wine?
The Sunday Times Wine Club
October 6, 2007
With regular promotions and exclusive big discounts, The Sunday Times Wine Club is a very popular to buy quality wines at great prices. With a really easy to browse website that is packed with exclusive web deals, bin-end offers and informative editorial on wines from around the world, finding wines at a price that suits your pocket has never been easier.
If that wasn’t enough there’s a no-quibble returns policy, a choice of delivery options and regular offers such as buy one, get one free.
Join The Club
Latest Sore Throat Cure: Wine
August 23, 2007
The Telegraph recently reported that wine could make a good anti-bacterial mouthwash to fight tooth decay and a sore throat.
Italian, Prf Gabriella Gazzani and colleagues at the University of Pavia showed in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that red wine (and less so white wine) were effective in inhibiting the growth of several strains of streptococci bacteria involved in tooth decay and some cases of sore throat.
Sounds more pleasurable than a salt water gargle!
Sunday Times Wine Club
May 16, 2007
We’re pleased to announce that we are now authorised partners of The Sunday Times Wine Club and we can offer you their current web deals. With a current offer of buy a case, get a case free we strongly suggest that you pay them a visit and have an enjoyable browse through their current wine offers.
In partnering with The Sunday Times Club, we bolster our offering of leading online wine merchants and we continue to offer a great choice of both merchants and quality wines.
Say Hello To Baileys Wine
April 25, 2007
A quick hello goes to our latest wine merchant, Baileys Wines.
Baileys Wines are an independant merchant specialising purely in Spanish wines. We feel that they compliment the larger, national merchants that we also promote here at Wine Junction. Offering a great selection of Spanish wine, coupled with a great, easy-to-use website, you’ll quickly find that Spanish wine that you’re after!
Wine Relief 2007
February 28, 2007
In conjunction with Comic Relief (aka Red Nose Day), 2007 sees the reintroduction of Wine Relief.
So what is Wine Relief? Well it’s quite simple. When you buy wine from leading wine merchants from 31-Jan until 16-Mar 2007 10% of the sale of selected wines is donated to Comic Relief to help tackle poverty and social injustice in the UK and Africa. Since the launch back in 1999 Wine Relief has raised about £2 million for good causes.
I note that Virgin Wines aren’t listed within the merchants detailed but I can confirm by looking at their website that they do also support Wine Relief too.
Order Wine By Text
January 17, 2007
After encountering a great wine in a restaurant or at a friend’s house, instead of vowing to remember the name and vintage, Dutch consumers can now dash off a text to BuyYourWine.com. The online wine seller will then get back to them with a price and delivery details.In the US, WineZap offers a similar service. If someone emails or texts them the vintage and wine name, WineZap will email or text them the current low, high and average prices for that wine. If a user adds their zipcode, WineZap includes a list of the nearest retailers that stock the wine, as well as their prices.
Both companies are currently offering the service at no charge. Another example of catering to people’s insatiable desire for relevant information, when and where they want it. Wine-by-text is a great little add-on both for merchants like BuyYourWine, and for intermediaries like WineZap, and it could of course be expanded with such obvious options as letting customers send in cameraphone pictures of wine labels or barcodes.
Websites: www.buyyourwine.com / www.winezap.com
More On Corks vs Screwcaps
January 17, 2007
Following on from our earlier post on the best way to bottle wine, the BBC website has a good article on the merits of screwcaps vs corks.
I’m favouring screwcaps at the moment.
