There is an undoubted trend towards wines with less obvious oak and more aromatic fruit, but I couldn’t resist recommending this.
Rioja is in some respects slightly confusing at the moment, with some producers veering towards a modern, rather ‘international’ style, while others are resolutely traditional. Well, this Marques de Murrieta Blanco Gran Reserva 1998 is certainly in the [...]
Saturday’s Times included an interesting article by Jane MacQuitty discussing the current pressures on wine prices: the strength of the euro, drought in Australia and, of course, next month’s budget.
Britain has one of the highest levels of tax on wine in Europe and since you are likely to hear a lot about duty and the [...]
We are delighted to have been named High Street Chain of the Year at the Off Licence News Awards held last night at London’s swanky Dorchester Hotel.
Reading Jamie Goode on white Bordeaux I was struck that he has reached the same conclusion as us on this unfairly neglected wine style; that there is some excellent quality and really interesting wine available for very modest prices in Bordeaux. On one buying trip we’d tasted far too many tannic reds during the day and decided to [...]
Well, perhaps not in terms of weather, but certainly in terms of Majestic’s promotions! We’ve just loaded all of our new offers on to the website.
The new list (which is available for download) will be mailed out later this week and should arrive with customers by the weekend. It includes deals such as 20% [...]
Monday is the last day to take advantage of our winter offers. The ‘generic’ 20% off New Zealand, 20% off Chile, and 20% off California deals will be ending along with most of our other offers.
The website will update around 4pm on Monday with our new Spring offers, which are valid in-store from Tuesday morning [...]
Subscribe