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The Wine Gang

One of my frequent complaints about wine coverage in the national press, is that the wines most often featured are from the supermarkets and larger wine merchant chains. Inevitably given the wide readership of the newspapers, there is a tendency to concentrate on more obviously popular and readily available wines, keeping both the majority of [...]

Oddbins sold to Ex-Cellar

Just a few weeks after a less-than-glowing review of their wine selection by Tim Atkin the Observer following its acquisition a year or so ago by French owners Castel, we hear that the chain has now been sold to UK-based, and rather small outfit, www.excellar.co.uk.
This is probably good news, as Castel seemed less than committed [...]

Cava in London or in Spain

In Spain:-

This spring Time Out has teamed up with the Spanish-based Institut del Cava to offer one lucky wine enthusiast and a friend the chance to win a luxury, tailor-made, bacchanalian adventure to the beautiful Cava region of Spain.
The trip, on which winners will discover the ‘Route of Cava’, includes seven nights in five-star accommodation, [...]

Recent Wine Tasting Notes – May 2008

Andrew on www.spittoon.biz has the arduous duty of tasting and writing up individual wines, often as part of a wine and food pairing, Amongst the recent offerings:-
Chateau Laures Blanc – Entre Deux Mers AC, Bordeaux, France from Bordeaux Undiscovered
Howard Park Scotsdale Cabernet Sauvignon, Western Australia from Bibendum
Château Les Tonnelles, 2004, Fronsac AC, France from Bordeaux [...]

New Threshers Money Off Voucher

They are looking for a repeat of the huge success of the last viral promotion – Threshers have made available online another 40% off voucher.
Last December’s promotion generated £15 million of extra business for Threshers in the crucial run-up to Christmas. Maybe they can repeat the success in this pre-Easter season. The voucher [...]

Competition: Win A Chocolate Filled Hamper

Not directly wine related but over on SpittoonExtra/The Foodie List you will find details of a competition to win a Hotel Chocolate Hamper worth £50. The competition is open to all, not just UK residents.
Actually I did manage to sneak in one wine related question… [...]

An American Wine Lover In London

Writing over at ‘Good Wine Under $20′, Dr Debs, has posted an interesting piece on visiting the wine aisles of Waitrose. Comparisons with supermarkets in America abound – particularly interesting is her take on the proliferation of scewcaps –
The other thing I was struck by was the preponderance of screwcaps–they were on practically everything, [...]

Love That Wine (perhaps)

The January issue of Delicious magazine has a full page advert for Love That Wine.
Sadly the url isn’t working, displaying at the time of writing, a page not found error. The advert supplies a few hints -

Find Choosing Wine A Bit Confusing? Frustrated by trawling the supermarket shelves and never quite finding the right [...]

Food Blog Awards 2006

The WellFed network (I write and act as editor for two sites in the network Wine Sediments and Paper Palate) are again hosting the (pull)Food Blog Awards 2006(/pull).
There are 18 different categories that a blog can be nominated for by anyone. So get your thinking caps on and look for best Food Photography blog, [...]

Wine Sediments Great Grape Day

Wine Sediments, the collaboratory wine-focused site in the WellFed Network, is having a Great Grape Day on the 20th. It is going to be an on-going monthly event with posts through the day covering one specific grape variety – the inaugural Great Grape Day will be covering Cabernet Sauvignon. [...]