5 / 5 ( 2 votes ) Debating about where to go on holiday? How about a 5-star weekend in Provence on us? We’re thrilled to offer one lucky customer the chance to win a 5* trip to Provence with Château de Berne. But HURRY you must enter by 6 June, 2017! Nestled in […]
Waipara Valley is a special place to make wine. Three hours drive to the south of famous Marlborough, it has a decidedly cooler climate – in fact, it should be too cool to make quality wine at all! The secret is the towering Southern Alps range. These do for Waipara what the Vosges do for […]
5 / 5 ( 1 vote ) Mendoza is the new home of Malbec. Well, we say new, Argentina have had plantings of Malbec in Mendoza since 1868. It was introduced by French ampelographer Michel Pouget, along with several other varieties, in a bid to improve viticulture in the South American country. Malbec is a native […]
5 / 5 ( 1 vote ) Do you really know what wine you like? More to the point, how can you be sure? To answer that question, we created our first own label range: Definition. I caught up with the man with the plan, Jamie Patterson. What is Definition? Definition is our first ever own […]
You wait a whole week for a wine Buyer’s recommendation, and then two come along at once. It’s a double bill for you to try in-store this weekend, alongside – no doubt – some really excellent bin-end wine bargains. Both of these wines were sourced by Suzie, who has both Alsace and Italy in her […]
Brent Marris is one of New Zealand’s most successful winemakers. He has been involved in winemaking since aged 12, when he began helping on his father’s vineyards. That was in 1973. By 1978, Montana Wines – now Brancott Estate – had recruited the Marris family as their first contract growers. From then on, Brent was […]
Chardonnay. Victim of fashion, champion of versatility, or destroyer of variety? It’s been the darling of the wine world, then the scourge. It was everywhere, then it was everywhere. It is the most versatile grape variety planted worldwide. It is a blank canvas on which the winemaker can daub the terroir and paint their masterpiece. […]
5 / 5 ( 3 votes ) Meet Gavin, Store Manager of our Edinburgh Causewayside store. Gavin has been manager in Causewayside for just over a year, after a turn leading the team in Stirling. Like many ‘Old-School’ Majestic sites, our Causewayside store used to be a garage, but few can lay claim to being in a […]
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