Majestic staff are known for being the best trained in the business, giving our customers qualified opinions and genuine recommendations. A new staff initiative, designed to run alongside the WSET Diploma course, sees a series of seminars being held at Majestic HQ, with staff from all across the UK coming to meet the people directly responsible for [...]
Author Archives: John Abbott
Cristal et al
Tuesday 11 August 2009 – 13:42
Champagne is something Majestic does well. With such a comprehensive range both online and in-store, it’s great to be able to give guidance and recommendations, thanks in part to having had the opportunity to try the Champagnes in advance. Such an opportunity presented itself this week when 30 Majestic staff were invited to an exclusive [...]
It ‘Vin de Pays’ To Know
Monday 29 June 2009 – 10:07
An interesting bit of news for you. Come the start of August, Vin de Pays - the wide-reaching term for French wine between table wine and appellation-approved quality wine - will be no more. In its place will be the new Indication Géographique Protegée system – designed to give current Vin de Pays producers a foot-up to sit alongside existing [...]
Rosé-tinted specs…
Monday 1 June 2009 – 9:18
It would be true to say that there are many things that divide opinion amongst wine consumers. Oaked or un-oaked, ‘malo’ or single ferment, cork or screwcap. Mixed triviality weightings in the wider context perhaps, but each is important in understanding the nuances of the wine in bottle. An understanding of how a wine is [...]
Here’s One We Tried Earlier
Thursday 12 March 2009 – 16:42
It’s no secret that one of my favourite things about working for Majestic is the interaction we have with our customers. That a customer will accept your recommendation without a second thought is a real responsibility etched on a relationship forged through trust, honesty and, perhaps most importantly, a good track record. It is an [...]
Food for thought
Wednesday 4 March 2009 – 17:28
Exciting, isn’t it? Interspersed among cold breezes and a little rain are the most glorious sunshine bursts. Bright one day, mild the next. Swinging pendulously, the weather isn’t the only indicator that summer is but a few months away. The latest Majestic price change has come into effect and, like Spring’s ‘new-life’ mantra, discovery and [...]
The Hopeless Romantic
Tuesday 24 February 2009 – 9:30
In a week that saw the French government condemn wine on health grounds, one story shook me like no other. In a bid to make room for the promising 2009 vintage, it seems that several New Zealand wineries are considering pouring away hundreds of thousands of litres of wine from the vats, rather than selling [...]
Congratulations, South Africa
Tuesday 17 February 2009 – 8:08
No sooner does South Africa’s wine industry celebrate its 350th birthday, than we are presented with a superb opportunity to sample the fruits of its labour – excuse the pun – as a leading New World wine producer. I have to confess, I had often been sceptical of South African wines, due in part to [...]
Globally Heart-Warming
Tuesday 10 February 2009 – 21:27
Britain might have come to a standstill in the recent barrage of snow, but it seems a little producer in Spain decided to make the most of the bad weather and created a rather historic ice-wine, the first to come from Rioja. (I’ve penned a translated summary for the non-Hispanic). While the English vines are [...]
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