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The Classic Christmas Hamper – Selfridges
Christmas is coming up and will be here before you know it. That gnawing feeling that you need to buy presents for people is probably growing and causing unnecessary extra stress at this time of year. Well, don’t let it! We have the perfect gift solution right here. Now, full disclosure, Selfridges very kindly gifted us their Classic Christmas Hamper this year and I just had to review it! Compared to many other Hampers on the market, this sits at the mid-range price point and comes with plenty…
Best Black Friday Wines at Waitrose
Waitrose Cellar have everyone's favourite offer for Black Friday with "Buy 6, Save 25% up for grabs, allowing you to save whilst you stock up for the festive season. Whether hosting or being hosted this year, or just having a nice one with the immediate family, you'll want to make sure you have something to enjoy and celebrate with! Waitrose have the best (in our opinion) English Sparkling Wine range of all the supermarkets which is perfect for celebrating with a bit of British home-grown…
The Ultimate Selfridges Gift Guide
I’ve been asked to put together the ultimate Selfridges gift guide, looking at their Christmas shop, Hampers and other luxuries. These will make a gift worth talking about with beautiful packaging and able to create a lasting impression. Of course, this is WinesDirect, so make sure that you’re looking for alcohol gifts of some sort! Selfridges’ exclusive collection of luxury Christmas hampers will certainly please any lucky recipient! Thoughtfully curated, each hamper brims with gourmet…
Fortnum & Mason at Christmas – Make it Special
Fortnum’s is well known for its Christmas charm, whether it is the way they turn their entire store front into a giant advent calendar with numbered windows, the internal décor galore and the seasonal delights, this is one place you ought to visit for your Christmas shop. Of course, we can’t all make the trek into central London but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to experience that Fortnum charm at home. Cue their online Christmas shop! A range of wicker-basket hampers stuffed with…
Selfridges: The Best Wines for Christmas
This year I’ve set myself the goal to create the ultimate Christmas wine list using the special tipples available at Selfridges. For each event of the day, including what the best wine to gift is, as well as all the different foods you’ll want to match your wines to, let Selfridges provide you the best Christmas day wines. What's more, you can save 10% off 6 or more bottles when you buy wine at Selfridges so you’re not only treating yourself to some delicious wine, but also getting a handy…
The Best Waitrose Wine – Top Picks this October
Waitrose Cellar is back with a bang this October and want you to make the most of their buy 6, save 25% offer. This is your chance to stock up for the festive season or just get a few extra to fill your wine rack over the Autumn months. The choice is yours! So, if you’re looking for the best wine offers, Waitrose have quite the offering. Browse their whole range and make great savings on reds, whites, rosés and fizz. In the seasonal spirit, you’ll find Port and dessert wines on offer too. For…
The Best Sainsbury’s Wine – Top Picks this October
That’s right, the offer that many of you know and love, Sainsbury’s 25% off wine, is back for a limited time! From 18th October to 2nd November 2024, you have the chance to save on Sainsbury’s excellent wine range with your Nectar card. Simply swipe your Nectar card at checkout and see how much you can save on some of your favourite bottles. This also includes Taste The Difference Wines as well as all your favourite brands. Our favourite thing about this offer is that it includes wines already…
Wine52: Welcome to Moldova
This case explores the region of ‘Valul Lui Traian’, located in the Southwest and named after Trajan’s Wall. It boasts a winemaking tradition that spans two millennia from the Romans to being a primary supplier for the USSR. Since escaping the clutches of the USSR, Moldovan wine has undergone a renaissance with modern winemaking techniques, machines and theory supplementing their generations of experience to create high quality wines. I have to admit I was excited to see a Riesling. Ask any…
Alcohol to cost: What’s the best bang for your buck?
This was an interesting question we posed ourselves, but it seemed more than fitting in these trying times. As many will know, the UK gov recently decided to up alcohol duties, hilariously backfiring and harming their tax revenue, but sadly hitting the burgeoning English wine & already near-broken hospitality industries. This has made this question all the more important for consumers! To be clear, drinking with the sole purpose of getting drunk is not the point of this article, nor something we…
Wine52 Goes Sud-Ouest
The Sud-Ouest (South-West) wine region in France covers several appellations with a climate relatively similar to that of Bordeaux. Much like in Bordeaux, the Atlantic Ocean has quite an influence on weather conditions, helping moderate the hot summers. Besides some better known regions you may have heard of such as Cahors and Bergerac, there are also 14 IGPs to look out for. The best known is probably Cotes de Gascogne where the white variety Colombard often features or indeed takes up a…
The Wine Flyer – Fly into your Wine Savings
We are extremely happy to announce our latest partnership with The Wine Flyer. Owned by British Airways’ parent company IAG, The Wine Flyer is all about rejuvenating that holiday feel into your wine buying. Their premise is simple: The best experiences we have with wine are often related to those moments abroad, be it at a local restaurant or in the vineyard itself. The Wine Flyer want to reconnect you with the right wine to transport you out of the moment back to those memories. Their mission…
Wine52 uncovers Uruguay’s Tannat wines and more
Uruguay is not often (or ever) the first place you think of when it comes to wine. Even if you drill down to South American wine, Chilean wines & Argentinian wines are the obvious answers and you’d be forgiven for thinking the only ones. However, South America across the board has a rich winemaking history, driven by European migrants from Spain and Italy. It’s just that Chile and Argentina have a better consolidated industry and better export capability. The industry in Uruguay is often…
Sustainability focus: Naked Wines
As we are all aware, sustainability is one issue that will simply not go away. The first things that come to mind when you think sustainable range from reusing pots, recycling plastic and cutting down on car journeys, but the wine world actually plays quite a role itself. Not just in leading the way in logistics and distribution sustainability, but also farming techniques helping reduce harmful chemicals, wastewater and even using drones. Check out my article on sustainability in Bordeaux for…
Supermarket Wine Offers: 25% off 6
The Supermarket “Save 25%” on Wine deal is one of our favourites at WinesDirect and certainly the most popular amongst our users too. What’s more, these deals see you save a whole lot more because this 25% saving is often applied on top of wines already on offer. We have seen total savings reach a whopping 70% and up before! Unlike most websites who will just tell you when a deal is on, we will show you the saving and exact cost per bottle so you don’t have to work out the maths yourself. A…
The Wine52 Loire Valley Tour
Wine52 know a thing or two about French wine and the Loire is an absolute gem for reasonably priced, quality wine from the French wine scene. Winemaking in the Loire goes back a long way, from the Romans to Louis XIV, who had his home there at the Château de Chambord. The wine’s popularity came largely thanks to the easy access to the Atlantic along the River Loire which made it a great trading hub for easy boat transport. It is also rather close to Paris meaning that Loire wines were, and still…
Introducing Mr. Wheeler Wine
Mr. Wheeler Wine goes all the way back to the Victorian era in 1883, where a certain George Wheeler’s passion for fine, quality wine began with the opening of their store in Colchester. Fast forward to today and you’ll find George’s great-great grandson at the helm – it’s a family business after all. Mr. Wheeler have often been at the forefront of the wine market from providing early cellarage services to being the first wine retailer outside of London to receive an almost full page spread in…
Go Naked this Summer
Yes, go Naked this Summer, perhaps not physically (unless you fancy a trip to the Brighton naturist beach) but with your wine choices. Naked are the wine merchant that give you the naked truth (time to stop using that word?) about their wines, where they are from, how they are made and even the story and winemaking background of each and every winemaker behind the wines that you’re bound to fall in love with. The big word that might put you off is “subscription” but when it comes to Naked, they…
Warehouse Wines: Specialists in Value
Warehouse Wines are quite the find for those in the know. In essence, they work directly with producers, ship directly from them and cut out the marketing tripe. No middleman and no extra fees! This means that the money spent on the juice itself is reflected far more at Warehouse Wines than your average retailer. Sure, you might look at a bottle elsewhere worth £3.50 and think “wow, what value”, but if it tastes like the plonk it is, then it isn’t value. It’s simply cheap plonk. This is where…
The best from Master of Malt this Father's Day
We all know that Dads are hard to buy for and they probably don't need yet another pair of socks. Luckily, Master of Malt are primed for you to find the perfect gift for Father’s Day! They have a huge range of gifts, tasting sets and every spirit imaginable. We have gone through and selected our top 10 to help you choose the best present for Dad. Find your inspiration among our top picks and offers to celebrate this special day. Make sure that you don't miss their Daily Deals either. Each day…
The Laithwaites Wine Festival 2024
This year a few of us from WinesDirect were kindly invited along to the Laithwaites Wine Festival in May to get to meet producers, distributors, importers and celebs alike. And then not forgetting the important business of tasting the wines of course, including classics like Cabalié and The Black Stump Durif Shiraz but also a number of the fine wines and more unusual varieties and countries that were there. This festival is arguably the best I have ever been to and is open for everyone. You may…
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