When WineOfTheWeek was at college, we got our alcoholic kicks from copious amounts of snakebite and black. I can say with absolute certainty that the University we attended did not have any form of wine cellar. If you are currently a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, then you may be pleased to know that your [...]
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The government is after our wine!!
Here at WineOfTheWeek we like to keep the red flag flying high. Up until today our commitment to revolution has been limited to our ability to get up from the comfort of our armchair. But now things have changed. Yesterday George “nice but dim’ Osborne punched us in the stomach by announcing he was taking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“What do I have to do to get served around here?”
Another week passes and another Supermarket refuses to let shoppers buy wine. This time it was a 33 year old Cambridgeshire man denied by Tesco because he had no I.D. Sometimes life is beyond satire but sometimes we need the absurd to highlight, well, the absurd. Dear Readers, I hand you over to Roy Turse [...]
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 [...]
Average Wine Drinker Puts on Half a Stone a Year
The headline to this post was taken from The Daily Telegraph last week, and upon reading it my first thought was “I’m ok then. I don’t drink average wine” And yet with further examination, it seems that this story has nothing to do with the quality of the wine and has everything to do with [...]
How To Live to One Hundred and Ten, Drink 1500 Bottles of Wine a Day
The Red Wine Pill is in the news again. A study has shown that the resveratrol capsule provides more health benefits than drinking hundreds of glasses of the “sweet nectar of the gods.” About Seventeen years ago, the CBS program 60 Minutes first examined the so-called “French paradox”, which suggested that the French – despite [...]
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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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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...
