Thieves have stolen an entire vineyard in the south of France. The incident took place near Béziers in the Hérault region and it is thought that the theft amounts to 35 tonnes of grapes. Police say that two harvesting machines were used to strip the vines of their ripened fruit, and have speculated that the [...]
Archive | September, 2010
There’s something lurking in Bing Crosby’s wine cellar…
Baseball makes as much sense to me as Cricket must do to an American. Bing Crosby on the other hand, makes a whole lot of sense to me. So when a long lost recording of what is regarded as one of the greatest baseball games ever played turned up in Bing’s former wine cellar, WineOfTheWeek [...]
Tesco refuses to sell dad wine because 8 year old daughter had no I.D.
Yet another example of gitmo supermarket behaviour reached WineOfTheWeek at the weekend with the news that a father who went shopping with his daughter was unable to buy a bottle of wine because his eight year old child did not have ID. Despite explaining his daughter was only eight, Navid Asadi claims that Tesco staff [...]
How to REALLY drink wine. What the experts don’t want you to see…
Up until 1m 40 seconds, this video had us a tuttin’ and a huffin’. It just felt like another dull lecture on how to savour your wine. But then carnage breaks out and WineOfTheWeek embraced the spirit of this extremely unique wine taster. Stick with it and your patience will be rewarded. How to…Drink Wine [...]
Teenage girl sinks three bottles of wine a day
Britain’s Daily Mail never misses an opportunity to expose the working classes for the dirty, drunken yobs that it believes them to be. Their latest assault focuses on a 17 year old from Chesterfield who has tragically developed an alcoholic addiction that even George Best would have balked at. Amy Lewis first hit the bottle [...]
Canadian cows enjoy red wine with their feed
Angus cattle in British Columbia are being fed red wine with their grain. And while Chefs in the province of Okanagan say that it makes for a unique beef taste, Canadian food inspectors seem puzzled on how to react. Janice Ravndahl of Sezmu Meats claims that the beef produces has an enhanced flavor, “You don’t [...]
May I bring Sir the iPad?
Throw out your wine menus and roll in the iPads is the message coming from a recent article in the New York Times. Interviewing a number of restaurateurs who have been experimenting with transferring their traditional wine menus to the digital platform, the paper claims the device has lead to a 10% rise in wine [...]
Is this the best Village Shop wine list in the world?
Buying wine from a local shop is usually a thoroughly miserable experience. Unless you live in Constantine Bay. “Constantine Bay Stores – Fine Wine and Provisions” stands next to the local surf shop and is a stone’s throw from the Treglos Hotel (where WineOfTheWeek is currently staying with Junior). And it stocks a whole bunch [...]
Camel trail leads to Cornish Valley Vineyard
Wineoftheweek finds itself on holiday in Cornwall this week and we’ve taken the opportunity to introduce Wineoftheweek Junior to his first vineyard. The little man is a mere 6 months old but he’s already showing signs of a sophisticated palette. In fact, only this morning he devoured a combination of banana and camomile with real [...]
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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...
