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Threshers – the conclusion?
Threshers is not giving away anything in regards to their voucher promotion; a simple marketing idea that appears to have run away with itself. The viralRead More
Bad News For Threshers? Not In The Slightest!
The newspapers, as is their wont, are putting the bad news spin on the Thresher promo… but really how bad is it for the company? PerhapsRead More
Threshers Voucher 40% Off Wines… too successful for the company?
Has Threshers been caught unawares over the 40% Off Voucher? As Rob mentions in the comments to my original post the campaign has now appeared onRead More
Food and Wine Matching – more on Combinations #6
The more thought I have given to the latest wine/food matching challenge – a wine to accompany an early autumnal dish of roast pigeon with aRead More
Wine Tasting Note: Cape Heights Limited Release Tinta Barroca 2005, Western Cape, South Africa
Wine 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 –Read More
Wine With Roast Partridge – Combinations #6
Following 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,Read More
Wine Tasting Note: Ironstone Vineyards Honeywood Sauvignon Blanc, 2005, Lodi, California.
The 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 theRead More
Wine Tasting Note: Gosset Brut Excellence Champagne
Gosset Champagne 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 aRead More
Wine Tasting Note: A1 Muvedre, 2005, Alicante, Spain.
Wine 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 heartyRead More
Red Wine tastes of Port, White Like Peaches in Brandy.
Hugh 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 newRead More
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