Wine Relief 2007

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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.

Virgin Wines Web Upgrade

Europe’s largest online wine retailer Virgin Wines is upgrading computer systems to improve security and ensure constant availability of its web site.

Site security is a concern of all online retailers of course and is not restricted to online wine retailers. Virgin Wines IT director, Stuart Hunt says

The security of customer data is the most important part of our business, ahead of selling wine, because people need to be confident when putting credit card details online.

Selling wine online is what Virgin Wines needs to do of course – they have no high street presence. They appear to know how to do that though because they sell more than 300,000 cases of wine over the internet each year.