by Matt Philpott I popped into Lay & Wheeler’s Rhône 2010 En Primeur Grower’s Tasting last week to try some wines that I have been pretty excited about for a long time now. Sometimes I’ve been let down, even if only a little, having built up a vintage in my head prior to tasting it. [...]
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Chargrilled steaks with red wine butter and shoestring chips recipe
Monday 5 March 2012 – 9:29
Every Tuesday on the Majestic blog we feature a recipe from the delicious. magazine website matched up with the perfect wine pairings. It’s Bottoms up Tuesday! This week Debbie Major makes a stunning steak with skinny chips – this classic brasserie recipe is perfect supper party food, partnered with some perfect wine matches from William [...]
Keeping it Local
Thursday 1 March 2012 – 15:22
Majestic Tastings From all the tastings Majestic stores do in their local area, I chose Laura and Rachel from Stourbridge who held a tasting for 17 members of Kidderminster Medical Group. Nice picture! The Majestic Blog, Grape to Glass recipe match Have you tried the February recipes from delicious. magazine with the perfect Majestic wine [...]
One-pan roast herby fish recipe
Monday 27 February 2012 – 16:06
Every Tuesday on the Majestic blog we feature a recipe from the delicious. magazine website matched up with the perfect wine pairings. It’s Bottoms up Tuesday! This week the delicious. team make an easy one-pan roast herby fish dish, a healthy and delicious midweek meal and Mike from Majestic HQ matches it up with his [...]
Majestic Wins! Econsultancy Innovation in Multichannel Marketing
Friday 24 February 2012 – 15:29
Congratulations to all at Majestic, last night we were the winners of the Econsultancy award for Innovation in Multichannel Marketing. Shortlisted against other big names in E-commerce and retail, such as Google and House of Fraser, we are delighted to have come away the winners. This award comes as a result of the effort everybody [...]
Majestic raises £55,000 for Maggie’s Centres
Thursday 23 February 2012 – 12:04
As part of a year long partnership, Majestic has raised £55,000 for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, our Charity of the Year 2011. This fantastic sum was raised by collection tins in stores, mobile phone and sat nav recycling, staff activities, raffles and social events over the year. Staff fundraising activities included the Brighton Marathon, Reading [...]
Smoked salmon and caper linguine recipe
Friday 17 February 2012 – 11:44
Every Tuesday on the Majestic blog we feature a recipe from the delicious. magazine website matched up with the perfect wine pairings. It’s Bottoms up Tuesday! This week Lizzie Kamenetzky makes a quick and easy, no fuss smoked salmon pasta that is perfect for a mid-week meal, and it’s made with just five ingredients. Ingredients [...]
Staff Recommended
Thursday 16 February 2012 – 17:10
One of the things we love to do at Majestic is give everybody a personal experience, whatever their wine need. The Staff recommended wines on the Majestic website bring a little bit of that personal in-store experience online with the Majestic managers tasting videos. Whether it’s Hansi eulogising about Champagne or Nicola bringing Malbec to [...]
Crunchy cumberland sausage cassoulet with mixed beans
Monday 13 February 2012 – 16:22
You can’t beat homemade hearty meals at the weekend, and with the cold snap still upon us this week’s Grape to Glass recipe match by Charlie at delicious. magazine is rather fitting. Crunchy cumberland sausage cassoulet with mixed beans: it’s a shortcut supper, matched up with Paul’s wine pairings in ‘Cuisine classique C’est magnifique’, it [...]
Vendange at Château Mouton Rothschild
Thursday 9 February 2012 – 13:36
This months staff trip highlight sees Kate and Jonny from our St John’s Wood and Mayfair stores spend a few days in the life of Château Mouton Rothschild at their 2011 harvest… When the invitation arrived to join the pickers at the 2011 harvest of Chateau Mouton Rothschild, it set our taste-buds tingling and filled us [...]
