Another week passes and another Supermarket refuses to let shoppers buy wine. This time it was a 33 year old Cambridgeshire man denied by Tesco because he had no I.D. Sometimes life is beyond satire but sometimes we need the absurd to highlight, well, the absurd. Dear Readers, I hand you over to Roy Turse [...]
Archive | May, 2010
Scouting for Nuns
Here we go again, another p*ss poor pop band demonstrate an acute lack of vinous awareness while on tour. After their recent Radio 1 ‘Big Weekend’, Scouting For Girls bassist Greg Churchhouse revealed that the band have to pay for their own backstage festival wine. According to Churchhouse: “We get the best bottle we can [...]
Wineoftheweek is now on the iPad!!
Wineoftheweek can now be viewed on the iPad. I know this because I’ve just received my brand, spanking new (and shiny) piece of Apple hardware and very excited I am too. Here in the UK, we’ve been looking enviously at our American cousins for the past few weeks while we waited for the iPad to [...]
Concho Y Toro do a deal with the (Red) Devil
There are many things to admire about the Chilean wine company Concho Y Toro. Their Casillero del Diablo (‘Devils Cellar’) range has achieved ubiquity whilst maintaining quality and they market their wines with fun and innovation – they’ve even got an iPhone app for heaven’s sake! Furthermore, when The Wine Society chose Concho Y Toro [...]
Why can’t Tesco’s Sir Terry Leahy use Google Adwords?
Calling all Ad Agencies and Google AdWords specialists. Tesco is looking for some advice on how to turn AdWords campaigns off. The problem was identified last week when Sir Terry Leahy (Tesco’s CEO) announced that the supermarket’s customers are extremely concerned about the the impact of cheap alcohol on society. Sir Terry was quick to [...]
What do Coldplay have against Chardonnay?
The wonderful website ‘The Smoking Gun’ is the ideal destination for anyone who doubts that Spinal Tap are a real band. For the last couple of years the good people that run Smoking Gun have been collecting the ‘riders’ that entertainers thrust upon concert venues as part of their agreement to turn up and play. [...]
Are you watching Harry Hill?
What is it about our very human nature that revels in other peoples misfortune? This clip of a FOX News presenter conducting an interview treading grapes still has me smiling. At precisely 55 seconds our hapless interviewer pays dearly for a moment of bravado. The frankly unsettling yelps of agony are simply bizarre. As we [...]
Is this the most pathetic wine packaging ever?
One of the glorious rituals of hot summer days is the purchasing of picnic food and wine before heading up to the local park for a lazy afternoon with the wife, baby. dog and weekend papers. So, at which point would you sacrifice the satisfying popping of the cork from your bottle of Rosé in [...]
What’s that Roy? Say what you see?
When I was a young boy I used to be addicted to the gameshow “Catchphrase’ presented by chirpy Irishman Roy Walker. One of the rounds involved a yellow cartoon character called Mr Chips. Mr Chips would show images of objects and you’d have to guess the word that the images made up. So a picture [...]
When Wine and Fashion Collide…
I don’t want to tempt fate but it looks like Summer is a coming here in the UK and that means picnic season is upon us. From the awesome Etsy comes this Bent Walnut Picnic Wine Tote. Yes, a handcrafted walnut wood bag! The bag is designed around your standard wine bottle size (don’t try [...]
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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...
