Imagine that you have no imagination. Imagine that you are unable to make even the simplest of decisions without pictorial guidance. Welcome to the ‘Rethink Table Wines” packaging concept from the design agency RethinkCananda. The labels feature illustrations of various tables. So, we have a ping pong table, a pub garden table, a poker table, [...]
Archive | October, 2010
Twitter launches wine, yours to drink in 140 sips
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone recently announced that they are ready to sell their first wines. The Twitter wine venture began last year with a tie up with wine maker Crushpad and the the non-profit Room to Read. The idea is to sell the wine in order to promote education and literacy under the name of [...]
Who you calling a Cenosilicaphobiac?
Cenosilicaphobia is the fear of an empty glass. The Cenosilicaphobiac Cat is the name of a wine. Here’s the story of that wine presented to us by the consistently wonderful d’Arenberg: Growing up, fourth generation winemaker, Chester Osborn, had a large ginger cat with blood shot eyes named Non Alcoholic Booze. In typical Australian fashion [...]
Close Encounters with Musical Wine Glasses
This isn’t the first time that WineOfTheWeek has featured the bizarre art-form that is musical wine glasses and we can’t promise it will be the last! The video features Dutch artists Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug and was performed after just eight weeks of practice. Utterly bizarre thing to do. But also utterly bewitching.
A glass of wine makes hospital food taste better
As reported in the Globe and Mail, this article kicks off with our favourite opening sentence of recent times. Here’s Wendy Leung’s piece concerning one hospitals attempt to make wine part of the hospital experience: Would you care for a nice glass of riesling with your watery tapioca pudding? Or perhaps a splash of shiraz [...]
One Caterpillars mission to drink red wine
An animated caterpillar is on a mission to scale a wine glass. Go on little man! You can do it! Funny Short 3D Animation – Caterpillar & Glass Of Wine Uploaded by BettyReese. – Watch more comedy videos and sitcoms.
Scots just want a comfy sofa and a glass of wine
WARNING: NO ONE IS GOING TO BELIEVE THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS. The Scotsman newspaper is reporting that Scottish pub-goers are more likely than their English counterparts to want a comfy sofa and a good selection of wine in their local bar. Not content with suggesting a hitherto unheralded alcoholic sophistication the article goes on to report [...]
Tesco introduce The Zork to sparkling wine
Zork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games. Set in a sprawling underground labyrinth the user controlled a nameless adventurer whose goal was to find treasures hidden in caves. Zork is also the name of a resealable top for sparkling wines and Tesco have just announced that they will be adopting the closure [...]
Starbucks to serve wine?
CNN are reporting that Starbucks is to start serving wine at one of of its “learning lab” locations in Seattle. In a brief statement announcing the reopening of the store, Starbucks said it is offering wine and beer, as well as an “expanded food menu,” at the location. The statement didn’t provide any details on [...]
Why David Cameron’s Big Society does not include wine
David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ seems to depend on the willingness of volunteers to give up their free time in order to apply their skills for the public good. As the Coalition government lit the ‘bonfire of the quangos’ last week, much media scorn was directed towards the ‘Foreign Office’s Government Hospitality Advisory Committee on the [...]
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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...
