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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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