In these difficult times, we’re all used to passing by ‘closed down’ stores on our high streets. Here is what a closed down online shop looks like. Poor old Oddbins.
Professor Richard Wiseman proves wine drinkers are an ignorant bunch
Professor Richard Wiseman, author of Quirkology and other popular science books that expose the frailities of human perception, has lead a study to show wine drinkers can’t distinguish cheap wine from expensive. The experiment, at the Edinburgh Science Festival, challenged 578 members of the public to distinguish between the good stuff and £5 bottles for [...]
The Telegraph sneers at Alex Ferguson’s choice of wine
Last week Sir Alex Ferguson revealed his thoughts about wine to the Italian Newspaper Gazetto dello Sport. Sir Alex is a well know oenophile but is a primarily a football manager and therefore did not deserve the sneering snobbery of the wine critic Victoria Moore in the Daily Telegraph. Here’s what Sir Alex had to [...]
The wine thieves of Westminster still at large
Beware if you are in the pub and spill the pint of Tom Docherty, the Labour MP. He may not take too kindly to it and, possibly, have you imprisoned under anti-terrorism laws. Feeling dirty and degraded already, WineOfTheWeek continues its trawl through the pages of The Sunday Mail to bring you all the news [...]
Fake Jacobs Creek: Could you spot the difference?
Staying with the communist block, we follow up our recent story of the Chinese being duped by fake wines, to the Chinese doing the duping. The Sunday Mail, never one to miss the dastardly deeds of J. Foreigner, reports on fake Chinese bottles of Jacob’s Creek lining the shelves of Britain’s off-licences, selling at the [...]
Georgia in dispute with US over Stalin’s Favourite Wine
Uncle Joe Stalin liked the wine called Khvanchkara so much that he is reported to have served it to Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the World War II summit in Yalta in 1945. Now, 66 years later, Georgia is at war with the United States in a battle to win back the trademark for [...]
Matt Damon refused wine at his local store
In this bizarre story, Matt Damon tells how his local store in New York refused to sell him a case of wine as a result of a dodgy credit card. Nice to know that the rich and famous also have issues with banks. What he doesn’t mention is the name of the $100 a bottle [...]
It’s wine Jim, but not as we know it…
There is a certain amount of hullaballo when it come to the insatiable appetite of the Chinese wine drinker. But amid all the opportunity in the fastest growing market in the world comes a stark warning about the threat of fake wine. The founder of Hong Kong’s Independent Wine Centre went public this week with [...]
Schoolgirl gets an A-Grade for hangover-free wine
The science is in. An Australian schoolgirl from Queensland has won a top science award for making a hangover-free wine. Alix Pichon spent her lunch times mashing and straining peaches at Trinity Anglican School in Cairns and ended up with 12 buckets full of peach wine. At 17, Miss Pichon has been unable to legally [...]
Oh my! Did that just happen?
Man stacks shelves with wine. Shelves collapse. Result? No wine. A truly horrifying video of a moment of vinous disaster. Crash, bang, wallop. Poor, poor man!
