Professor Richard Wiseman, author of Quirkology and other popular science books that expose the frailities of human perception, has lead a study to show wine drinkers can’t distinguish cheap wine from expensive. The experiment, at the Edinburgh Science Festival, challenged 578 members of the public to distinguish between the good stuff and £5 bottles for [...]
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Super wine
The average drinker may find a glass of vino relaxing and finds that it slows things down to a mellow pace, but this isn’t the case for your average bit of superconducting material. Scientists experimenting with immersing superconductors in liquids to see how this affects their superconductivity started their trials with water and ethanol and [...]
Alcohol more harmful than heroin shocker!
Every now and then a report comes out highlighting that alcohol is a) a drug, and b) quite a powerful one. Professor David Nutt, formerly the drug advisor to the Labour government who was sacked for his unpalatable views, has reiterated his stance that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than LSD and ecstasy. And [...]
Sarah Palin to Speak at US Wine Event
Us Brits used to enjoy the superiority we felt while watching American politics from afar. The religious fundamentalism, the assertions of manifest destiny, the illicitly stained dresses of interns and mistresses, the militias in the woods shooting defenceless squirrels, the obscene level of corporate influence, the willing delusion to see America as a peaceful nation [...]
Threshers and Wine Rack Stare Into The Abyss
And so it comes to pass. First Quench, the owner of Threshers and Wine Rack, have announced that they are to go into administration. The news comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched the retail giant lumbering along a path towards irrelevance over the past few years. And yet for those [...]
Morrisons and Asda Compete For “Most Stupid Retailer in UK” Award
It’s not often that WineOfTheWeek copies and pastes articles from the press but this piece in the Guardian is so well put that, ladies and gentlemen, I present below a damning indictment of our once proud nation. Personally I hope this trend of Supermarket madness continues and that consumers seek out alternative, independent retail outlets [...]
Slow Cooked Beef In Red Wine and A Pickled Keith Floyd – A Belated Tribute
“You’ll need half a bottle to go into the dish itself and half a bottle to go into yourself”. Bacchus bless you Sir Keith of Floyd. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evm30HTbD0&feature=player_embedded]
Naked Wine Drinkers Protest Against Climate Change and Get a Nice Tan While They’re At It
There’s nothing I like more than strolling through a vineyard in my birthday suit in support of worthy causes and that’s exactly what hundreds of our French cousins did at the beginning of this month, answering the clarion call of photographer Spencer Tunick who wanted to illustrate the threat of global warming through art. Tunick [...]
A Glass of Syrah a Day Will Keep The Swine Flu at Bay?
Over the last six months there have been as many news stories extolling the health benefits of wine as there have been warning against the dangers of vinous indulgence. It seems that wine will make you live longer at the same time that its sending you to an early grave. It surely will only be [...]
When is a half price wine not a half price wine?
Back in 2006, Jean-Manuel Spriet, the then chief executive of Pernod Ricard UK, sent shockwaves through the wine trade by admitting that many of the “half price” wine deals in supermarkets were actually a rip-off. The fact that a leading player in the wine business had admitted that consumers were being conned caused many a [...]
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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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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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6 litre bottle of 1961 Latour sells for £135,000
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Who Madoff with all the wine? Bernie did!!
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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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