It’s a frequent frustration that some of our most interesting wines are the hardest to sell, simply because customers don’t instantly recognise them on the stack. For that reason I have instigated a new feature on the site in which we’ll feature interesting or new wines which might struggle to push up through all the well [...]
Our new summer price list launches today, for once with perfect timing as the sun shines across most of the country!
Highlights include 20% off any 2 bottles from Chile, Italy and Beaujolais, plus a big range of offers on summertime favourites such as rosé, the Loire, Australia and New Zealand.
We’re also launching our first ever [...]
This post comes direct from the heart of London’s theatreland, where today we’ve been holding our Summer Press Tasting. It’s a great opportunity for us to select the best of our new arrivals, new vintages and old favourites and put them to the test with a number of the UK’s top wine writers and journalists.
It also [...]
We’ve just updated the website with a fantastic new promotion on Spanish wine, with 25% off when you buy any 2 bottles or more. This deal covers all our Spanish wines (including Cava and Sherry) priced from £3 to £20 a bottle, and is based on our pre-Budget pricing, so this is a genuine steal [...]
It seems a little strange to follow Richard’s post on the extraordinary world of Bordeaux wines and their associated pomp and ceremony with a thought on slightly more ‘everyday’ wines, but I guess that, eventually, will be my point.
The great thing about taking care (and seeking good advice) when buying wine is that you can uncover [...]
Since the budget sales have soared, and it’s clear that our competitors are experiencing a similar uplift too. While the increase in duty is significant, and will have a very real effect on wine prices, the size of the uplift has taken us by surprise. Is this a sign that the consumer doesn’t like a wagging [...]
Every year at Majestic our staff choose a charity which we support with all our fund raising activities. Last year we raised over £60,000 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and obviously each year we hope to beat the previous year.
This year our staff have chosen to support the Alzheimer’s Society, and Owen Wynne-Jones, manager [...]
The big news this week will obviously be the amount of extra duty Alistair Darling dares to put on wine. Over the last few years the Chancellor has largely chosen to leave spirits and sparkling wines alone, but has consistently loaded the duty onto still wine. This year however we are expecting a hike on everything as [...]
There’s no doubt that one of the wine success stories of the 2000s (I hate the connotations connected with ‘noughties’ 
has been the explosion of New Zealand wines, most notably Sauvignon Blanc. When I first started at Majestic in Summer 2002, I recall my WSET Advanced Certificate book informing us eager new recruits that despite [...]
You may may read in the financial press (or if not you can read the official statement here) that Tim How, our chief executive of many years, has decided to retire in the near future.
I joined Majestic just a month or so before Tim, and my career in the wine trade has been entirely under his aegis, [...]
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