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Spanish World Cup winner sees wine as his destiny

It used to be a truism that when an English footballer retired from ‘the game’ he either bought a pub or became an alcoholic. And in many cases both. If ever there was a sign that football has changed it comes with the news that Barcelona and Spain’s midfield maestro AndrĂ©s Iniesta has his own [...]

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A night of wine, film and rock & roll baby!

A cast of wine bloggers, digerati, Tool fans and film distributors gathered at London’s Royal Society of Arts on Wednesday night for the UK premiere of the new wine documentary ‘Blood Into Wine’. The event represented this blog’s first foray into event hosting and things were looking a bit hairy when, with less than an [...]

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iPhone App delivers Veuve Clicquot via GPS. Say What?

WineOfTheWeek has been slurping on about the lack of innovation in the SmartPhone sector when it comes to wine brands for some time now. Just as we were planning on opening up the iPhone SDK to create our own Frankenwine’s monster, along comes this super concept from Veuve Clicquot. The idea is simple. If you [...]

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Wine versus Budweiser?

In this advert Budweiser seem to be targeting the whole wine category by using a combination of lab mice, a hot scientist and a dodgy old fella who loves to throw shapes. Is the iconic beer brand suddenly frightened by the enemy within?

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WineOfTheWeek wields its political influence

We here at WineOfTheWeek wear our political allegiances on our sleeves. There is no hiding our full commitment to the first political party that will ban supermarkets from selling wine while simultaneously forcing Blossom Hill and Ernest & Gallo to remove the label ‘wine’ from all their products. As a single interest group, getting a [...]

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Calling all UK wine bloggers, tweeters, diggers…

I’m chuffed to announce that WineOfTheWeek will be hosting the UK premiere of the new wine documentary Blood Into Wine next week at a secret central London location. I’m doubly chuffed to confirm the attendance of the film’s producer, Chris “Topper” McDaniel, who has agreed to do a Q&A after the screening. WineOfTheWeek wants as [...]

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5 iPad wine apps reviewed and rated

The iPad has been out in the world for a couple of months now so we thought it time to make an early assessment of the first wave of wine apps to hit the iTunes store. Let’s start be saying that “best” is an extremely relative term when it comes to describe the early contenders. [...]

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Classic Laural and Hardy wine clip

Ollie leaves Stan in charge of bottling their home-made wine. Another fine mess ensues. Oh dear.

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From grape to glass: an animated wine infographic

Info-graphics, it seems, are all the rage. To you and I they are simple graphical representations of information. To hyperbolic web marketers info-graphics are are a revolutionary new paradigm that will change the way we look at data forever (substitute ‘info-graphics’ in that sentence with any web development you choose and you too can become [...]

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Blood Into Wine: Tool Frontman and his Arizona Wine Mission

Maynard James Keenan is my kinda man. By day, Keenan works the soil in the service of Bacchus the god of wine. By night he kneels at the alter of the rock gods as the frontman of Tool and the hydra-headed Puscifer. Over the years WineOfTheWeek has been guilty of sneering at the long list [...]

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