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 [...]
Police seize hoard of drugs hidden in wine bottles
An international drugs trafficking ring that hid cannabis is bottles of wine has been rumbled by the authorities. A ‘joint’ operation involving Europol, Danish Forces and Guardia Civil arrested a 7 people and seized 270 kilo’s of hash in Marbella, Mijas and several locations in Denmark. The operation began in August when Danish police noticed [...]
Lebanese create the worlds biggest wine glass. No one knows why.
The Lebanese clearly have time on their hands. Answers on a postcard please.
Fight!! Tonight Only! Naked Wines vs FindWine
Two of Britain’s newest wine retailers go head to head tonight in a dramatic ‘Clash of the wine tiddlers’ taste-off. Naked Wines and FindWine are the digital darlings of the UK wine scene and they’ve decided to hold a taste-off in a bid to find out which of their respective business models delivers the best [...]
Cambridge University has £1.67 million wine collection
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 [...]
Gordon Ramsey speaks out over £250,000 wine cellar
Gordon Ramsey today issued a statement explaining his controversial £250,000 wine cellar. The celebrity chef is having the cellar installed in his £2.8million seven-bedroom West London home. Here is the statement in full: F*** Off. Gordon Ramsay is a cock. Sorry, a ‘cook’.
Alcohol more harmful than heroin shocker!
Every now and then a report comes out highlighting that alcohol is a) a drug, and b) quite a powerful one. Professor David Nutt, formerly the drug advisor to the Labour government who was sacked for his unpalatable views, has reiterated his stance that alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than LSD and ecstasy. And [...]
Ping Pong Table Wine
Imagine that you have no imagination. Imagine that you are unable to make even the simplest of decisions without pictorial guidance. Welcome to the ‘Rethink Table Wines” packaging concept from the design agency RethinkCananda. The labels feature illustrations of various tables. So, we have a ping pong table, a pub garden table, a poker table, [...]
Twitter launches wine, yours to drink in 140 sips
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone recently announced that they are ready to sell their first wines. The Twitter wine venture began last year with a tie up with wine maker Crushpad and the the non-profit Room to Read. The idea is to sell the wine in order to promote education and literacy under the name of [...]
Who you calling a Cenosilicaphobiac?
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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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...
