Tourism chiefs have produced a curious list of national characteristics designed to help Britons avoid offending foreigners when they visit England for the 2012 Olympic games. The list is a truly bizarre set of generalisations, many of which feel like they have been lifted directly from Fawlty Towers. What has this got to do with [...]
Archive | August, 2010
Alabama bans pornographic wine label
It’s not often that WineOfTheWeek finds itself on the SoCal Glamour Girls website but a google alert (you gotta trust those links right?) recently had us clicking through to this rather different approach to wine news reporting. In a departure from their usual ‘All American Girl in Black Latex’ videos the saucy minx’s at SoCal [...]
CAMRA declare war on wine and disappear up their own tankards
In yet another example of agenda driven research, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and the Beer Academy have joined forces to hit the world of wine in the face. The research shows that 34% of men and 29% of women incorrectly believe that beer has more calories than wine when in fact a half [...]
Scientists prove that champagne should be poured like beer
Have you ever asked yourself this question: “Since dissolved CO2 is known to be of great importance in champagne and sparkling wine tasting, would not it be pertinent to revisit the way champagne should be served?” No? Well if your Dr Liger-Belair and colleagues you’ve been thinking of nothing else recently. To such an extent [...]
The secrets of the Foreign Office wine cellar
William Hague doesn’t seem keen to be involved in the rest of the government’s belt tightening exercises. First he was adamant that the country’s international embassy network should be exempt from cost-saving scrutiny. Now his department is playing mum over the contents of their wine cellar. The total cost has been revealed as £864,000, but [...]
Why building your own vineyard is a complete waste of time
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a multitude of gaming consoles, must be in want of a life. And yet gaming is evolving. It’s no longer the preserve of teenage boys or men over the age of thirty who wish they were still teenage boys. Gaming is everywhere. [...]
Vending machines pending in Pennsylvania
It’s the Japanese who blazed a trail for selling anything and everything from vending machines, but the Americans are catching up. Pennsylvania has gone hi-tech to keep it’s tough controls on selling alcohol, whilst allowing non state-owned supermarkets to sell it for the first time. To get hold of your favorite tipple you need to [...]
Anyone fancy a wine glass full of lard?
This just in from the Press Association: ’A regular Chinese takeaway contains the equivalent of a wine glass full of lard.’ WineOfTheWeek loves it when a brand commissions a research company to produce blindingly obvious findings that they then hand over to a PR company to sex up and pimp around to lazy journalists. It’s [...]
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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...
