We were thrilled to see that Jane MacQuitty recommended 10 Majestic wines in her ‘30 Best White Wines for under £5′ article in The Saturday Times on 6th March, as well as awarding our Fairhall Cliffs Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand as a ‘Best Buy’. We couldn’t agree more – it currently heads up our ‘Top [...]
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Saturday Kitchen Recommends Bourgogne Chardonnay, Domaine Jomain
Saturday 6 March 2010 – 11:38
Saturday Kitchen’s Susy Atkins has recommended one of our wines this morning to accompany braised chicken wings with seared scallops and hazelnuts!
Susy’s picked a stunning wine and this is my personal favourite white burgundy under £10 at the moment: A very classy wine which belies it’s price-tag.
Bourgogne Chardonnay 2008 Domaine Jomain
£10.99
Buy 2 bottles Save £4 [...]
Save the wine column: update!
Friday 26 February 2010 – 17:40
Further to the post last week reporting the web reaction to Tim Atkin’s column being cut by The Observer, it seems to have borne fruit. The Times have a new food and drink supplement on Thursdays, and Tim has been signed up to write for it:
I’m delighted to announce that I will be joining The [...]
Saturday Kitchen recommends Papa Luna
Saturday 20 February 2010 – 16:01
Saturday Kitchen’s Susy Atkins has recommended one of our wines this morning to accompany mutton kebabs: a relatively new addition to the Majestic fold and something a little different to Spain’s ubiquitous Riojas.
Papa Luna 2007 Calatayud
£9.99
Buy 2 bottles Save £5 = £7.49
Flying Scotsman’ Norrel Robertson is a well-travelled and studied Master of Wine, who has [...]
Kangarilla Road Parcel
Thursday 18 February 2010 – 10:01
A quick heads up that we’ve just launched a web exclusive parcel of wines from one of our favourite Australian producers, Kangarilla Road.
Kangarilla Road is a brilliant winery in McLaren Vale. You may be familiar with the Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz that we have stocked for many years, but winemaker Kevin O’Brien is not [...]
Parlez Vous France Save?
Wednesday 10 February 2010 – 10:37
“Sometimes, I go out by myself, and I look across the water”, so sang Amy Winehouse (as did The Zutons before her, although their name doesn’t have quite the same wine-related ring to it). And sometimes I do too. I last visited Calais on a little food and wine shopping spree just before Christmas, and [...]
The Award Winning Wine Course
Monday 8 February 2010 – 14:51
Our free introduction to wine, The Wine Course, has now been officially recognised by industry experts and won Innovation of the Year at this year’s Drinks Retailing Awards. What’s most pleasing about winning this prestigious award is that it recognises the achievements of every team at our 152 stores for running The Wine Course with [...]
Double success at the Drinks Retailing Awards
Wednesday 3 February 2010 – 9:15
The annual Drinks Retailing Awards are organised by trade publication Off Licence News, and at last night’s ceremony we continued our history of performing well by bagging a brace of awards.
As well as being named High Street Chain of the Year, we were delighted to pick up the Innovation of the Year award for The [...]
New offers and Grape to Glass Spring Edition
Monday 1 February 2010 – 16:54
We have just updated our website with a raft of new promotions for February, including 25% off South African wine, 20% off Portuguese wine, deals on virtually all our Argentinian and Spanish ranges, and of course unbeatable offers on Majestic favourites Champagne and New Zealand (including the brilliant new Fairhall Cliffs Sauvignon for just £4.99). [...]
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