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 Andrés Iniesta has his own [...]
Archive | July, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Classic Laural and Hardy wine clip
Ollie leaves Stan in charge of bottling their home-made wine. Another fine mess ensues. Oh dear.
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 [...]
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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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...
