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Whisky52 Review: Glenmorangie
Whisky52 has been an excellent addition to the Wine52 and Beer52 family, uncovering new whisky regions and distilleries each month, from some big names. Often with whisky clubs, you’ll end up receiving a few months’ worth of full-sized bottles and become overloaded with whisky you don’t have the time to drink before the next bottle arrives. That’s when you feel you have to cancel. But, with Whisky52, they keep costs and consumption down by sending 35cl bottles each month. This means you have…
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Champagne Tour: By Bike, Mercier Visit and Final Tastings - Part 6
The finale, part 6, combines two days in one where we had an amazing but extremely ambitious self-guided bike tour throughout various crus, our final official tour at Mercier and then last-minute tasting stops before returning on the Eurostar. There are of course quite a few routes that you can manage by bike around Champagne, but as we were based in Epernay, the route along the Marne was an obvious choice. There are a number of bike rentals in Epernay - We went for Facile-e-bike located at the…
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Why You Need The Naked Wines Easter Case This Year
There are a few good reasons to stock up with wines for Easter: it’s an extra long weekend, you’re hosting friends and family, and, of course, you need something worthy of going with your Easter lunch! But, take that one step further with Naked. If you haven’t shopped with them before, you can grab their Easter case for just £79.99 and get a FREE Magnum, all for £80 OFF! That’s only £6.66 a bottle for wines crafted by genuinely passionate winemakers. Why are they genuinely passionate you say?…
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Rex Mundi Wines: World ending or world changing?
Rex Mundi are wines as striking as their label. The flagship is a blend of Shiraz and Grenache from the Languedoc-Roussillon, where the Mediterranean climate is extremely favourable for wine production. Rex Mundi is not, as you might expect, yet another Hollywood celebrity, but Latin for ‘King of the World’. This stems from the Cathar religion, which began in this region of France during the 12th and 14th centuries. This fabled King was in fact some form of Satan who created all matter, thus…
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Champagne Tour: Bollinger and Hautvillers - Part 5
Part 5 returns after the holiday rush, making now an ideal time to revisit my Champagne trip from last May. If you’re planning a summer getaway, I recommend this trip — check out my earlier blogs to get an idea of various other houses I visited as well as some general tips on Reims and Epernay. Continuing the tour, this was to be our very first day where we only visited one Champagne house (terrible I know), before having a bit more free time to explore the region around Epernay. However, it was…
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Wine52 Case Review: Food & Wine of Italy
This month, in celebration of all things Christmas, Wine52 are giving away a FREE case of wine to all new customers, themed around Italian wine and food pairings. This is an intrinsic part of Italian culture with each region, each city and each tiny mountain town having their very own dish, and of course wine, that are matches made in heaven. There’s a reason that pairing food with wine from the same place works so well. The historical growth of both food and wine have grown culturally together…
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Top 10 Best Wines at Naked Wines 2025
I’ve taken the liberty of summing up our users’ own personal favourite wines this year. Through my own judgement based on average rating and number of reviews, hopefully you’ll agree this is a fair list. Find out more about the wines below if you fancy, or just take our web users’ word for it and mix yourself up a case of these top 10 wines! If you’d like to know a bit more about what you’re getting into, I’ve written up some tasting notes all in the name of good journalism. There it is, the top…
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Champagne Tour: Boizel & Moet et Chandon - Part 4
Welcome to part 4, which is a little overdue. We now take the tour from the mighty city of Reims to the smaller commune of Epernay, the principal trading post for Champagne in the region and home to many of the oldest, most prestigious houses. The drive between the two iconic Champagne locations is a joy in itself. Straight through the middle of the national park, I think there was only a 10-minute stretch in a wooded area that you couldn’t see sweeping vineyards and various other recognisable…
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Around The World With Naked
Wine is nothing if not an international phenomenon that has brought people together for millennia. But, it is not just the social side that wine allows you to engage with. It allows you to engage with culture, taste and terroir from the comfort of your own home. We see it as a sensory exploration on a global scale. It’s your quickest, and likely best value, way of exploring a little of each country. Naked take this a step further. They have the wine from all over, but they also work directly…
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Top Reasons To Join Naked Wines
Naked Wines are best known for their pioneering lead on a business model that most importantly benefits the winemakers themselves. The model acts as a sort of investment, allowing their members, known as Angels, to invest a small fee each month into their accounts that can be used on the next order. This both allows customers to save up for their next wine top-up and allows Naked to immediately invest in their winemakers. By bringing their customers closer to independent winemakers like this…
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Champagne Tour: G.H.Martel & Veuve Clicquot - Part 3
Continuing on from day 2s events at Lanson and Pommery Champagne houses in Reims, the first port of call of the day was a slightly less early tasting at G.H Martel & Co for 11:30 followed by Veuve Clicquot later on. These guys are a slightly smaller house in the UK, although fairly big in the US. Their main production has now moved entirely to Epernay, where the house started in 1869, as they outgrew their Reims cellars and needed more space again to mature and produce their Champagne. Despite…
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Award Winning Wines At Naked
We’ve always said that Naked make good, authentic wines thanks to their business model that invests in winemakers and puts them first. And the proof really is in the pudding. Naked’s Angels have helped catapult their winemakers to glory, bagging 4 Gold, 40 Silver and 74 Bronze medals at the International Wine Challenge, Decanter World Wine Awards and International Wine & Spirit Competition. These competitions put their wines directly up against some of the world’s most expensive too, so you know…
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