Procrastination is considered by some to be the enemy of productivity. However, combine procrastination with the flabbiness of the Internet and suddenly you have the tools to answer questions that you’d never before thought of asking. Wineoftheweek is currently in a heightened state of procrastination and we were therefore chuffed when someone sent us a [...]
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Bottle of wine sells for $304,375 at Christies. Gulp!
We live in crazy times. We really do. Forget the age of austerity, Forget the imminent collapse of western free market democracy. We live in a world where someone is prepared to pay $304,375 for a bottle of wine. If you’re struggling to pay your mortgage this month please look away now. The 1947 vintage [...]
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.
Chateau Mini Clubman. It’s a car. And a Chateau.
Selling my Mini Cooper S remains one of my few regrets in life. It was a super little electric blue bundle of unbridled energy. It became costly to run and maintain and it had to go. I miss it dearly. So, when I saw pictures of the ‘Chateau Mini’ my pulse starting racing. These cars [...]
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 [...]
Scientists prove that champagne should be poured like beer
Have you ever asked yourself this question: “Since dissolved CO2 is known to be of great importance in champagne and sparkling wine tasting, would not it be pertinent to revisit the way champagne should be served?” No? Well if your Dr Liger-Belair and colleagues you’ve been thinking of nothing else recently. To such an extent [...]
Man plays Mozart on wine bottles. While on rollerblades.
Every man needs a hobby. This man’s hobby involves roller-blading through lines of wine bottles carefully arranged to play Mozart when he hits them with customised spurs on his skates . Yes. That’s exactly what this man’s hobby is. Watch on…
Who said Vuvuzela’s and Wine don’t mix?
The vuvuzela has quickly become the symbol of the 2010 World Cup. While the press and the TV broadcasters moan about them, the rest of us are rejoicing that the hornet like sound has managed to drown out the bloody awful England Band. I was praying that there was some link kind of wine link [...]
How to match Wine and Chocolate. Put Them in a Blender.
After the first successful detonation of the Atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer recalled Hindu Scripture with the declaration, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I wonder if the manufacturers of Chocovine experienced similar emotions when they first blended chocolate and wine? The sales pitch for Chocovine tells us all that we need [...]
The Real Naked Wines – An Arresting Story
The world of wine has been getting its clothes off recently. From the sublime UK online retailer Naked Wines to the ridiculous U.S. wine vod-cast ‘The Naked Wine Show’, wine drinkers are being assaulted with all kinds of nudity. Indeed, even artists have jumped aboard the nudewagon, as photographer Spencer Tunik demonstrated with last year’s [...]
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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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Simon: I like to bottle my sons wee and resell it as Blue...
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Hibbert: Being a devoted fan of Manchester United & tha...
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Leen: I'll take a shot of that spo-dee-o-dee! Anybody r...
