Speculation about Alistair Darling’s pre-budget decrease in VAT had us all on tenterhooks yesterday morning. However, much to our surprise (no leaks in this direction) he partnered the 2.5% decrease in VAT with an 8% increase in the rate of excise duty on wine. The effect of this rise is to more than offset the decrease [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Fine Wine Tasting – My Picks
Sunday 16 November 2008 – 11:35
Following on from Jeremy’s post Friday 14th November… I often get asked by friends what I do for a job, and when I tell them I work for Majestic, the response is generally ‘you get paid to drink wine’. To an extent, this is true, although I must point out that we taste rather than [...]
Fine Wine tasting
Friday 14 November 2008 – 14:52
We held our first dedicated fine wine tasting for a select band of journalists in our St Johns Wood Fine Wine Centre yesterday, the aim being to highlight how much our offering has improved this year and to introduce Clayton Smith, the Fine Wine Manager, to the tasters. Since Clayton started in St Johns Wood [...]
Great value from the Languedoc
Monday 10 November 2008 – 9:25
I’m not the first person to recommend this wine (see the press comments on the product page) but I was very impressed with a bottle of Domaine Haut-Lirou, Pic St Loup, drunk last night with roast beef. Although made mainly from Syrah, it has a broader, more savoury character than the 100% Syrah wines from [...]
Jane MacQuitty of The Times on Majestic
Monday 3 November 2008 – 9:00
An short but interesting article in The Times on Saturday, with some historical detail and a number of interesting wines. I joined Majestic in 1991, my first (and almost very short) retail role. The next week we were within 24 hours of being closed down, until the takeover by Wizard Wine that Ms MacQuitty mentions. [...]
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