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Comment on Oddbins returns but does it know what it’s doing? by MorayJ

MorayJ — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:12:10 +0000

Customer Recommended Auction Price – geddit!?

Comment on Oddbins returns but does it know what it’s doing? by Gravy Drinker

Gravy Drinker — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:05:16 +0000

website may say coming soon, however the wines are very much there! I shop in the Crouch End branch and the wines they have given me recently are frankly amazing!

If you want to shop at Majestic I suggest you save some time and just fill up your trolley at a supermarket, such will be the quality of plonk you get.

Welcome back Oddbins!

Comment on DrinkOware: Fake Shardonnay from Austrlia. Hic. by Simon

Simon — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:09:41 +0000

I like to bottle my sons wee and resell it as Blue Nun….

Comment on The Telegraph sneers at Alex Ferguson’s choice of wine by Hibbert

Hibbert — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:14:46 +0000

Being a devoted fan of Manchester United & that of wine, I look up to both Sir Alex & Victoria Moore, both being masters of knowledge within their own professions.

It seems that these two professionals have crossed swords indirectly here, but Victoria has broken her professionalism, maybe allowing the wine to get the better of her! I’m a devoted fan of Victoria’s articles in the Guardian (She is much missed) and her book ‘How to drink’.

Sir Alex’s comment is a third the size of Victoria’s, being rather vague on the topic at hand, as others mention, speaking for the Italian audience.

Victoria does a tremendous job at looking at wines for all audiences, her advice is my primary listening.

The motto of this story is… How would you purchase wine if you were a millionairre?!
There is an old saying…

To live with a little is to live with a lot. YES, this does get very philosophical, but big brand wines do not mean best, neither does price. Therefore, I side with Victoria here.

This has been blown out of proportion. This is merely just two comments about two people passionate about wine.

Comment on Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee…What Wine Songs are on Your iPod? by Leen

Leen — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:18:33 +0000

I’ll take a shot of that spo-dee-o-dee! Anybody remember 60′s rock song “Bottle Of Wine” fruit of the vine?

Comment on Tesco wine chief hoists himself by his own petard. Ouch. by J Robertsi

J Robertsi — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:58:14 +0000

I signed up for one reason only: a 40 GBP voucher with an Amazon order. This required purchasing about £70 of wine to use.

I bought three highly-rated (by on-site reviewers) and strongly recommended wines; a rioja, a south-american wine (cabernet) by mistake and something allegedly italian.

The quality of wine is of course largely a matter of taste. But I’m over 60 now and have sampled a lot of wine in my life; I was one of those who first got interested in rioja 40 years ago, and I have had wine at up to some hundreds of pounds per bottle (*usually paid for by others, of course!).

IMHO, all the wine I bought was crap. If this was for sale in a Spanish or French supermarket it would lead to attacks by revolting locals.

All of the wines shared the same characteristics:

- too much alcohol
- reasonable entry
- disgusting exit and aftertaste

I tried them all on my (Spanish) wife, who thought them all foul. I thought them all likely to be mixtures,

Maybe they have good wines I did not try: I suspect they are relying on the English habits of not complaining and pretensions of being wine tasters…

Personally I would recommend Lidl as selling better wine at the price.

Even better, drive to Spain through France and fill up with the best supermarket selections on the way back!

Comment on Caption This Photo: I’m only drinking with you because… by russell

russell — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:05:41 +0000

its cheap and your worth it

Comment on Tesco wine chief hoists himself by his own petard. Ouch. by Gavino

Gavino — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:42:26 +0000

Fair enough Alex – although, as you can tell from the nonsense I write within this blog, I make no claims to be impartial!

I should also say that I buy my wine from neither Naked Wines or Tesco. I’m a fuddy-duddy Wine Society man all the way

Comment on Tesco wine chief hoists himself by his own petard. Ouch. by alex

alex — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:58:45 +0000

Gavin Williams Profile: “As an independent consultant my clients have included Liberty, McArthurGlen, Value Retail, FirstQuench, Naked Wines, Octopus, Rawk, as well as consultancy with eCommerce specialists Biglight.”

err…No longer working for Tesco….consults for Naked Wines. So, no bias there then.

Funny yes. Impartial no.

Comment on Tesco wine chief hoists himself by his own petard. Ouch. by Dave Menzies

Dave Menzies — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:48:31 +0000

I used to be tempted by the “half price” offers that are widely used supermarket ploys, making you think that you are scoring a £12 bottle for half that or less. Were they ever full price? If so they obviously didn’t sell and they very seldom are as good as wines I buy when I’m in France for a few euros.