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 [...]
An article by Victoria Moore in last Saturday’s Guardian newspaper has sparked an interesting conversation on Tom Cannavan’s popular Wine Pages forum surrounding returns of faulty bottles, particularly in the fine wine sector. It centres on whether we, as a retailer, should be held responsible for faulty bottles of fine wine, bought and then stored [...]
“Sausage wine” is a description coined by Tony Mason, Majestic’s Trading Director who retired several years ago. It describes a red wine that is good value rather than expensive, more on the rustic side than fine, but interesting and characterful - in other words, the kind of wine Majestic staff would drink with sausages. I [...]
There is an undoubted trend towards wines with less obvious oak and more aromatic fruit, but I couldn’t resist recommending this.
Rioja is in some respects slightly confusing at the moment, with some producers veering towards a modern, rather ‘international’ style, while others are resolutely traditional. Well, this Marques de Murrieta Blanco Gran Reserva 1998 is certainly in the [...]
Saturday’s Times included an interesting article by Jane MacQuitty discussing the current pressures on wine prices: the strength of the euro, drought in Australia and, of course, next month’s budget.
Britain has one of the highest levels of tax on wine in Europe and since you are likely to hear a lot about duty and the [...]
Reading Jamie Goode on white Bordeaux I was struck that he has reached the same conclusion as us on this unfairly neglected wine style; that there is some excellent quality and really interesting wine available for very modest prices in Bordeaux. On one buying trip we’d tasted far too many tannic reds during the day and decided to [...]
Well, perhaps not in terms of weather, but certainly in terms of Majestic’s promotions! We’ve just loaded all of our new offers on to the website.
The new list (which is available for download) will be mailed out later this week and should arrive with customers by the weekend. It includes deals such as 20% [...]
Monday is the last day to take advantage of our winter offers. The ‘generic’ 20% off New Zealand, 20% off Chile, and 20% off California deals will be ending along with most of our other offers.
The website will update around 4pm on Monday with our new Spring offers, which are valid in-store from Tuesday morning [...]
It’s one of the minor frustrations in being a wine-seller that sometimes the wines we’re proudest of are the most difficult to sell, either because thay are available only in small quantities, are from lesser-known regions, or perhaps appear esoteric and obscure.
One such wine that I’ve drunk recently (having returned to it again and again) is Sassaiolo from the Marche [...]
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