Saturday Kitchen’s Peter Richards recommended one of our wines on Saturday 11th: Torres Floralis Moscatel Oro was paired with the Hell dish of Fig and Frangipane Tart with Fig and Vanilla Cream. This wine is a brand New Arrival to our Spanish range – which has 25% off this autumn! Torres Floralis Moscatel Oro £9.32 [...]
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Majestic Success at the International Wine Challenge
Friday 10 September 2010 – 10:19
The International Wine Challenge Awards 2010 were held earlier this week at the Park Lane Hilton: Wow – what a night! We’re incredibly proud to announce that Majestic was awarded ‘Merchant of the Year’, the highest accolade amongst UK wine retailers. We also scooped the award for ‘High Street Chain of the Year’ for the sixth [...]
The Wine Gang Reviews Majestic’s Fine Wine
Tuesday 7 September 2010 – 10:03
We were really pleased that The Wine Gang took some time to come and sample a selection of wines at our Fine Wine Centre in St John’s Wood recently. Here’s what they had to say about the tasting and the wines they tasted: “The quality of the wines in this tasting was very impressive. This [...]
Double Success for Majestic at the Decanter Awards!
Thursday 2 September 2010 – 17:53
We were delighted to walk away with 2 trophies from last night’s Decanter Awards: The overall ‘Wine Merchant of the Year’ and the Decanter Readers Award for ‘Best Large Merchant’. This is the third year running that we have won both of these awards which we have to admit we’re very proud of! The judges had [...]
Friday fun: Cast your vote!
Friday 13 August 2010 – 11:16
So we all have our own little way of choosing that perfect bottle of wine – fancy sharing your method? Then just select upto 3 options on our new poll. Once you’ve cast your vote, you’ll be able to see the results of other readers!
Jane MacQuitty: Best Summer Red Wines
Monday 19 July 2010 – 10:26
Majestic Wines picked up 7 mentions in Jane MacQuitty’s 50 Best Summer Whites a few weekends ago and the weekend later, we followed this up with an even more impressive 8 listings in her 50 Best Summer Reds featured in the Saturday Times! Jane also noted our Château La Bouscade, Old Vine Carignan from Minervois [...]
Saturday Kitchen Recommends: Nero d’Avola 2008 Terre dell’Isola
Monday 5 July 2010 – 9:28
Saturday Kitchen’s Olly Smith has recommended one of our wines on Saturday 3rd: Nero d’Avola 2008 Terre dell’Isola to accompany red mullet with a red wine reduction and squid. This wine is a real bargain and features as ‘Our pick’ in our Wines Under £5 category at the moment. Coming from Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, [...]
Jane MacQuitty: Best Summer White Wines
Thursday 24 June 2010 – 10:13
It’s that time of the year where Jane MacQuitty samples scores of wines in order to ascertain the star players for her Summer Top 100 featured in The Saturday Times. This season, it’s been split in half, with the 50 Best Summer White Wines having been released a week ahead of the reds. We’ve been [...]
Majestic Meets the McGuigans
Tuesday 22 June 2010 – 7:21
Recently, the opportunity to film the harvest in the McGuigan vineyards at the Hunter Valley presented itself, so we sent in a wine enthusiast (who handily happened to be a camera man!) to go and meet Neil McGuigan who kindly gave us an interview, whilst Chief winemaker, Peter Hall, showed us around. With a long family [...]
Website problems!
Wednesday 16 June 2010 – 9:40
Update 9:56am: We found all the products and we’re pleased to say we’re back up and running! 9:40am: A large number of products on our website have temporarily vanished…. we’re working hard to get them back as soon as possible! Our Mixed Cases, Top 10 Offers & Fathers Day Gifts are still viewable. In the [...]
