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 [...]
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A useless date with wine
This week’s pointless wine gadget comes from the website ‘Le Moutin Noir & Co’. It’s a wine bottle stopper with twistable date rings that allows you to keep a track of when you’ve opened your wine. We have a major issue with this. Firstly how bloody long are you expecting to keep an uncorked wine [...]
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It’s Ryder Cup time! The Top gifts of golf and wine
WineOfTheWeek loves the Ryder cup. WineOfTheWeek also hates Rupert Murdoch. WineOfTheWeek will not have Sky in the house. Therefore WineOfTheWeek cannot watch the Ryder Cup live. WineOfTheWeek will be listening to the Ryder Cup on BBC Radio 5 Live. To celebrate the arrival of the greatest sporting event of them all here’s some top notch [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Drink it all. You will not”: Star Wars Winestoppers
I’ve never forgiven George Lucas for The Phantom Menace. He should never have made it and we, the Star Wars generation, should never have gone to see it. You b*stard George. You utter b*stard For me, it’s even had the effect of de-valuing the original movies to such an extent that I just won’t have [...]
Wineoftheweek is now on the iPad!!
Wineoftheweek can now be viewed on the iPad. I know this because I’ve just received my brand, spanking new (and shiny) piece of Apple hardware and very excited I am too. Here in the UK, we’ve been looking enviously at our American cousins for the past few weeks while we waited for the iPad to [...]
When Wine and Fashion Collide…
I don’t want to tempt fate but it looks like Summer is a coming here in the UK and that means picnic season is upon us. From the awesome Etsy comes this Bent Walnut Picnic Wine Tote. Yes, a handcrafted walnut wood bag! The bag is designed around your standard wine bottle size (don’t try [...]
And Bacchus said “Let there be light!!”
Let’s get this straight. Your saying that as the bottle tips into the glass, the glass lights up? And then, as you tip the glass over, the light dims? But surely this way madness lies? Utterly bizzare inventions are music to our ears here at wineoftheweek. Or rather in this case, light to our eyes. [...]
Wine in a Wet Suit
Here’s a question. You’re out swimming with your wife in the cold, dark waters of Lake Michigan. Except you’re not cold. Your neoprene wetsuits are keeping you warm. At which stage do you suddenly think “I wonder if this extraordinary man made material will also keep wine cool?”. Well, the only people who can answer [...]
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Tesco wine chief hoists himself by his own petard. Ouch.
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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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