And so it comes to pass. First Quench, the owner of Threshers and Wine Rack, have announced that they are to go into administration. The news comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched the retail giant lumbering along a path towards irrelevance over the past few years. And yet for those [...]
Archive | October, 2009
Le Beast Seduces Virgin
I first encountered Le Beast earlier this year at the untamed frontier of You Tube. Type “wine” into the video sharing site and you are generally confronted with an endless stream of Gary Vee’s crazed thunderpants, but look closer and an even more beastly presence will reveal itself. Unlike Gary, this beast is small, furry [...]
Is This The First Noir Wine Label?
I can’t recall seeing better wine labels than these. The website lostateminor.com describes the labels as thus “through imaginative illustrations that reflect ‘falling from grace’, the black and white labels convey the story of how two former kings of the wine grape world — Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc — were cast aside as other [...]
Eat My Cheese!!
Now that British alcoholic advertising cannot legally either entertain or appeal to minors (I still miss the Hoffmeister Bear) we have to look abroad for our titillation. This one from our Bud Light drinking American cousins passed me by last year but provoked a brief smile when I stumbled upon it today… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEWtTVaIH0M]
World of WineCraft: Let Battle Commence
When I first moved in with my present wife four years ago, I decided to sell my PS2 and give up a life of gaming. I didn’t see this as a sacrifice, and it certainly wasn’t an act of submission to the impending life of servitude. No. Gaming for me had run its natural course [...]
Morrisons and Asda Compete For “Most Stupid Retailer in UK” Award
It’s not often that WineOfTheWeek copies and pastes articles from the press but this piece in the Guardian is so well put that, ladies and gentlemen, I present below a damning indictment of our once proud nation. Personally I hope this trend of Supermarket madness continues and that consumers seek out alternative, independent retail outlets [...]
Slow Cooked Beef In Red Wine and A Pickled Keith Floyd – A Belated Tribute
“You’ll need half a bottle to go into the dish itself and half a bottle to go into yourself”. Bacchus bless you Sir Keith of Floyd. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evm30HTbD0&feature=player_embedded]
Naked Wine Drinkers Protest Against Climate Change and Get a Nice Tan While They’re At It
There’s nothing I like more than strolling through a vineyard in my birthday suit in support of worthy causes and that’s exactly what hundreds of our French cousins did at the beginning of this month, answering the clarion call of photographer Spencer Tunick who wanted to illustrate the threat of global warming through art. Tunick [...]
Dorset Councillors Reject 24hr Booze Delivery Service
News in from my home county. The BBC reports that Dorset licensing chiefs have pulled the rug from under a round-the-clock alcohol delivery service over fears about potential disorder. The budding businessmen behind the idea are a couple of likely lads named Jacob Scott and Chris Davis. Trading under the company name “After Hours” the [...]
A Glass of Syrah a Day Will Keep The Swine Flu at Bay?
Over the last six months there have been as many news stories extolling the health benefits of wine as there have been warning against the dangers of vinous indulgence. It seems that wine will make you live longer at the same time that its sending you to an early grave. It surely will only be [...]
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Tesco wine chief hoists himself by his own petard. Ouch.
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Caption This Photo: I’m only drinking with you because…
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Concha Y Toro Killed My MacBook Pro
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Caption This Photo!
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Caption Competition!
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Digital Vino? Randall Grahm turns bytes into wine
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Wine enthusiast orders £20,000 worth of wine from Twitter
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Oddbins returns but does it know what it’s doing?
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DrinkOware: Fake Shardonnay from Austrlia. Hic.
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Chewing gum found in ‘fake’ wine bottle
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Gavino: You should by now that my role is stand on the sid...
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Robert McIntosh (@thirstforwine): First we'd have to get more than 300 people to use...
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MorayJ: Customer Recommended Auction Price - geddit!?...
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Gravy Drinker: website may say coming soon, however the wines are...
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Simon: I like to bottle my sons wee and resell it as Blue...
