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 [...]
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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 [...]
Theresa May wages irrational war on alcohol consumption
Home Secretary Theresa May played to the gallery at today’s Conservative Party conference by pledging to “tear up Labour’s disastrous Licensing Act”. As well as confirming her determination to go after below-cost sales of alcohol she also confirmed plans to give local people more say in licensing issues, to introduce fees for late-night policing, and [...]
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 [...]
Alabama bans pornographic wine label
It’s not often that WineOfTheWeek finds itself on the SoCal Glamour Girls website but a google alert (you gotta trust those links right?) recently had us clicking through to this rather different approach to wine news reporting. In a departure from their usual ‘All American Girl in Black Latex’ videos the saucy minx’s at SoCal [...]
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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...
