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Wine enthusiast orders £20,000 worth of wine from Twitter

by on 08. Feb, 2012 in WOTW News

Berry Bros. & Rudd have posted some impressive online numbers this week as they continue to reap the rewards of their investment in tech and the web. In 2011 the 300 year old fine wine retailer sold over £25m of wine online and, among the stat ladled press release Wineoftheweek just received, is this gem: During 2011, [...]

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5 iPad wine apps reviewed and rated

by on 12. Jul, 2010 in Apps, WOTW News

The iPad has been out in the world for a couple of months now so we thought it time to make an early assessment of the first wave of wine apps to hit the iTunes store. Let’s start be saying that “best” is an extremely relative term when it comes to describe the early contenders. [...]

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Which Wine Would Feature in The Movie of Your Life?

by on 04. Feb, 2009 in WOTW News

I recently saw Dean Spanley at the cinema and for the second year running found myself watching a movie that used that sweetest of Hungarian tipples, Tokaji, as a plot construct. In this latest example, Fisk Junior (Jeremy Northam) shares a bottle of Tokaji with the Dean (Sam Neill) and discovers that his drinking companion [...]

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