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2-day sale at Waitrose Wine Direct

For just 2 days only (8-9 March 2010) Waitrose Wine Direct is offering up to 25% off  its 40 Best Selling wines and spirits -  and  there are more offers running to midnight on Tuesday 16 March 2010 – with up to 21% off  Champagne,  and up to 33% off red and whie still [...]

French Wine offers at Waitrose

The French Wine Festival at Waitrose (online and in its stores) runs from 26 March to 27 April 2008 and will feature a total of 48 wines.

Waitrose will be featuring 13 specially sourced small parcel wines from a wide range of less well-known appellations like Quincy, Bergerac, Provence and Lirac and the [...]

Sainsburys New Plastic Wine Bottles

Sainsbury’s is trialling its own label PET wine bottle in a project supported by the government funded Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).

Initially, Sainsbury’s will offer two own label wines in the new PET bottle: A New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc and an Australian Rosé which, if successful, will be rolled out to other [...]

Kumala Recall

Constellation Europe, the UK distributors of the Kumala brand, is recalling the Eternal Chenin Blanc Chardonnay Semillon wine sold in Tesco supermarkets. The company cites a ‘potential for the bottle neck breaking when the cork is removed’.

Hardys Shuttle In Sainsbury’s

The innovative single-serve ‘Shuttle’, first mentioned over on Spittoon last December will soon be available from Sainsbury’s.

Shuttle is a single-serve 25cl wine bottle in which the plastic wine glass also serves as the screwcap closure for the bottle. Initially launched in Australia its popularity was such that Hardys took the decision to launch [...]

Aldi Wine Buyers Blog

Aldi is not high on my list of wine shops – in fact I have no idea where the nearest Aldi store is to me. I can’t recall ever seeing a wine from their range appear on a ‘recommended’ list either. The fact they only have 45 wines listed might go some why [...]

Stormhoek Roadtrip

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Sainsbury’s Champagne

After appearing as the Which? Best Buy Champagne in December sales of Sainbury’s Taste the Difference Vintage Champagne grew by 3000 per cent! Sales were so high that half a years stock has already been sold.

The Which? tasting saw own-label Champagnes beating the big names brands, including bestsellers Moët & Chandon. Sainsbury’s [...]

Sainsbury’s Closes Discount Code Scam

The Mirror has reported on some ‘special’ code released on the internet that allows users of Sainsbury’s website to gain huge discounts off drink prices.

One user claims to have had his bill reduced from £448.52 down to just £182.52.

Sainsbury’s has gotten wind of the scam – this is a scam rather than [...]

Win A Bordeaux Wine Trip

The Secret Sommelier has been touted as the UK’s most popular wine blog… I beg to differ… but a tie up with Sainsbury’s – the site is heavily linked with Sainsbury’s – has the site offering a weekend for 2 wine tasting in Bordeaux. ‘Lesser’ prizes in the competition are mixed tasting cases [...]