First Press - the UK wine trade’s first fully-interactive Ezine, has just launched featuring an interview with JancisRobinson. First Press has been produced by Nicky Burston of World Wine Agencies. It has a lifestyle look and feel and is easy to download, or email directly to friends. Issue 1 of this new quarterly features wine celebrity interviews and podcasts, up-and-coming news and events and includes a prize draw for tickets to Old Trafford.
Threshers are at it again with their 40% off coupon. Not quite the same deal - 40% off all wines excluding Champagne and sparkling. This ‘viral’ campaign won’t be as big as last time but will obviously help them shift some bottles. Runs from 22nd March - 1st April 2007. Get your Threshers 40% off wine voucher here.
Use the voucher and get yourselves a few bottles of this Saint Veran - unbelievable value!
Cheers
The Bottletalk team
UK vineyards produced their largest crop of grapes last year due to the warmer weather attributed to global warming. This produced record amounts of grapes for the British sparkling wines making a name for themselves worldwide.
Bumper crops were seen in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and Essex vineyards because 2006 was the hottest year on record.
The harvest broke the two million litre mark for the third time since records began in the late 1980s.
Having had a successful Wine Relief tasting night last Saturday, Virtual Wine are now running a Cross-Blog-Auction in conjunction with Hugh MacLeod and Tim Atkin.
Cartoonist and blogger Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid.com and Stormhoek.com has drawn a special Wine Relief cartoon, and wine expert and journalist Tim Atkin has specially selected 12 bottles of wine from his cellar in aid of Wine Relief.
Visit Virtual Wine to place your bid and do your bit for this year’s Comic Relief drive.