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Threshers – the conclusion?
Posted on December 15, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in UncategorizedThreshers is not giving away anything in regards to their voucher promotion; a simple marketing idea that appears to have run away with itself. The viral has left many questions open for those involved in marketing and analysing viral activity...
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Bad News For Threshers? Not In The Slightest!
Posted on December 2, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in UncategorizedThe newspapers, as is their wont, are putting the bad news spin on the Thresher promo... but really how bad is it for the company? Perhaps the scale of the interest and rapid spread of the 40%...
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Threshers Voucher 40% Off Wines… too successful for the company?
Posted on December 1, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in UncategorizedHas Threshers been caught unawares over the 40% Off Voucher? As Rob mentions in the comments to my original post the campaign has now appeared on the BBC website; they report 800,000 downloads for a campaign that was...
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Food and Wine Matching – more on Combinations #6
Posted on October 1, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in UncategorizedThe more thought I have given to the latest wine/food matching challenge – a wine to accompany an early autumnal dish of roast pigeon with a grape and walnut sauce – the more I think that a Pinot Gris...
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Wine Tasting Note: Cape Heights Limited Release Tinta Barroca 2005, Western Cape, South Africa
Posted on October 1, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in UncategorizedWine Tasting Note: Cape Heights Limited Release Tinta Barroca, 2005, Western Cape, South Africa. Currently on offer at Waitrose £4.66 Combining an obscure grape variety – the Portuguese Tinta Barroca – with pure smooth drinkability is guaranteed a high ranking...
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Wine With Roast Partridge – Combinations #6
Posted on September 27, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in UncategorizedFollowing EatingLeeds experiments with matching the dish (Roast Partridge with Grapes and Walnuts from Sophie Grigson’s Country Kitchen) with a red wine that didn't quite work, a white was selected for the Combinations dinner at the cottage last...
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Wine Tasting Note: Ironstone Vineyards Honeywood Sauvignon Blanc, 2005, Lodi, California.
Posted on September 19, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in UncategorizedThe wine aisle in Tesco seldom excites; even the slightly dusty 'fine wine' display in my local branch. But in an attempt to break-away from the Waitrose/Oddbins bias that has been creeping into Spittoon recently I picked up a Sauvignon...
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Wine Tasting Note: Gosset Brut Excellence Champagne
Posted on September 15, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in Uncategorized Wine Tasting Note: Gosset Brut Excellence Champagne, NV, Champagne, France.Independents around £30.Straw yellow in colour with a fine stream of bubbles. There is a touch of maturity to this bottle – reflected in the straw yellow colour,...Continue reading this entry → -
Wine Tasting Note: A1 Muvedre, 2005, Alicante, Spain.
Posted on September 14, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in UncategorizedWine Tasting Note: A1 Muvedre, 2005, Alicante, Spain.Brindisa £5.75.(Muvedre must be Mourvèdre ala Monastrell!)The conditions around Alicante on Spain’s Mediterranean coast are ideal for producing hearty high alcohol wines. ‘Traditional’ styled wines can be light in colour and...
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Red Wine tastes of Port, White Like Peaches in Brandy.
Posted on September 11, 2006 by Andrew Barrow in UncategorizedHugh Johnson, one of the UK's top wine experts has "declared war" on the fashion for ever-greater alcohol content in our favourite liquid, branding the new super-strength vintages as "boring" and without "useful purpose". The Australian"Wines that 20...
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