Review of the Month
Gavin's note on the 2008 Novac from Romania is the first member review out of the hat this month and I am doubly pleased that it was this review to be turned up by the random pull. It really sums up why we launched The Daily Drinker in the first place. Here's the text:
"Here's another great example why I love the concept of The Daily Drinker! A grape I have not heard of and a wine from Romania - I would probably give this a miss if I saw it in a shop or on a wine list, but what pleasures I would have missed!
I have fond memories of visiting Romania years ago, but the wines I tasted then were instantly forgettable!
Not this one though. That tantalizing smell of ripe cherries on opening the bottle follows through with a delicious, soft and satisfying taste of more red fruits and yes, more cherries. Smooth and well structured.
Having woken my taste buds, it went very well with grilled lamb with rosemary and the following day with duck in a cherry balsamic glaze - yum!
Yet another great find - thank you!"
The aim of The Daily Drinker is to get the maximum number of people to share our journey into the heart of the world's grape portfolio. Reviews like this really make it worthwhile.
The Daily Drinker to Launch Overseas
The first overseas branch of The Daily Drinker is soon to have its inaugural sample-shot. We are launching the service - albeit in slightly modified format - in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Daily Drinker members will receive a mixed 6 bottle case containing three red and three white (two wines) with every shipment, shipments occuring five times a year. Wines will be the same exciting mix of mono-varietal lovelies that UK members are enjoying. If you know anyone in Hong Kong worthy enough for a year's supply of mind-altering grape juice, let us know.
Natural Wine
Natural wine is a hot topic in the wine trade at present. And it's a contentious one. As a trade, it is entirely unregulated and that means that a random purchase of such wine can give rise to serious disappointment, not to mention disease, poisoning or worse (I (semi) jest).
And yet the best of them offer the chance to taste wine completely unmucked about with; pure fermented grape juice as nature intended. One such I found the other day and, after several moments of surprise bordering on concern, I was both fascinated and rewarded.
The bottle in question was a red from the Pineau d'Aunis grape. Pulling the cork was the cue for things to become rather frothy, nay fully fizzy. Concern, as mentioned, was my inital reaction.
But, on reading the back label, I came to understand that the gas was intended, there to protect the wine in the absence of the stabilizing influence of sulphur. With decanting, the gas disdipated, leaving a pure, complex and truly varietal liquid. It is this wine that will be sent out with the August Daily Drinking mailing. Treat it right and I hope that those receiving it will gain insight into the potentially fascinating world of natural wine and the certainly impressive characteristics of this ancient variety.
When is a Daily Drinker wine not a Daily Drinker wine??
When it's a Petit Chablis is the answer. We bought a tranche of this wine last year, selling some in the UK, sending the rest to clients in Singapore and Hong Kong. It's a brilliant wine from a new young producer about whom you are bound to hear more in the future - Patrick Piuze.
About this wine Jancis Robinson stated: "Perhaps the best Petit Chablis I can remember."
We have found a very few more cases that we can offer at £75 inc. VAT per 6. (£67.50 to Daily Drinker members)
Our standard modest delivery charge (£7.50) will cause it to arrive in close proximity to one's corkscrew! And remember that our delivery charge is the same, regardless of the size of the order so why not take advantage and mix yourself a case of Daily Drinker wines at the same time?? Read more about this non-Daily-Drinker wine!
Addition to our range of wine accessories
We have sourced a new product to add to our range of wine accessories - the Luxury Sommelier Wooden Box. A fabulous all-in-one set (foil cutter, corkscrew and thermometer) presented in a well-made solid wooden box.
Looking for something a little bit special for a wine lover? This is perfect. Members' discount applies and P&P included.
Friday, 12 August 2011
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Sampling for The Daily Drinker - N Italian Oddball
Looks like the new house red at the Playboy Club...
Tasting a wine made from the Raboso variety. Never heard of it, but the internet tells me it's from northern Italy and produces deeply coloured wines of strong tannin, but low alcohol. This is, indeed, deeply coloured, with strong (but ripe) tannin, high acidity and low alcohol (11%abv). It also has brett lying all over it like a horse hide bikini. I love it...and would love the way that it would make an Aussie wine maker flop to the floor and start twitching spasmodically...
Sunday, 10 July 2011
The Daily Drinker Summer Sale
The Daily Drinker Summer Sale starts today, Monday 11th July.
15% discount on all sale wines for today only. Tomorrow, the discount goes down to 12.5%, Wednesday 10%, etc etc.
NB. The sale discount is applied on top of your Daily Drinker members' discount.
And remember that you can now make your own mixed case - pick and mix from all our wines, minimum total order quantity is 6 bottles but that can comprise any combination of any of our wines.
Standard delivery charge £7.50 per order, regardless of size.
Shop in our sale now!
15% discount on all sale wines for today only. Tomorrow, the discount goes down to 12.5%, Wednesday 10%, etc etc.
NB. The sale discount is applied on top of your Daily Drinker members' discount.
And remember that you can now make your own mixed case - pick and mix from all our wines, minimum total order quantity is 6 bottles but that can comprise any combination of any of our wines.
Standard delivery charge £7.50 per order, regardless of size.
Shop in our sale now!
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
July News from The Daily Drinker
The Daily Drinker Summer Sale - 5 days only!
Advance warning! Our Summer Sale starts on Monday 11th July but will run for five days only with the discount decreasing each day:
Monday 11th July - 15% discount
Tuesday 12th July - 12.5% discount
Wednesday 13th July - 10% discount
Thursday 14th July - 7.5% discount
Friday 15th July - 5% discount
If you are a Daily Drinker member, this discount is applied on top of your existing members' 10% discount.
Stocks are limited and the sooner you buy the better the price! These are all good wines but we simply need to make some space in the warehouse for all the new wines coming through.
If you would like to preview the sale, go to the the Sale page of The Daily Drinker website. The prices currently listed are full retail prices - the discounts will only start appearing on Monday.
Mixed Cases
Remember that you can now buy all wines, including sale wines, by the mixed case. Simply click on the wine you want, enter the quantity of bottles you want to buy, and keep adding wines until your case is full.
You can buy as many or as few different wines as you want but the TOTAL number of bottles has to be a minimum of six, and a multiple of six thereafter, i.e. 12, 18, or 24.
Our standard delivery charge applies to all orders - £7.50 per delivery regardless of size of order.
This Month's Winner
Congratulations to Patrick from Hertfordshire who is this month's winner of the free bottle.
He reviewed the June white - 2009 Verdeca, Masseria Pietrosa - and gave it 5 stars! If you haven't tried your sample yet, pull that cork without delay.
What's Coming Next?
July's Daily Drinker wines are due to be sent out on Monday - an Italian white and a Portugese red. Both are made from varieties new to The Daily Drinker and to us...
We do continue to try and expand your vinous horizons!
Advance warning! Our Summer Sale starts on Monday 11th July but will run for five days only with the discount decreasing each day:
Monday 11th July - 15% discount
Tuesday 12th July - 12.5% discount
Wednesday 13th July - 10% discount
Thursday 14th July - 7.5% discount
Friday 15th July - 5% discount
If you are a Daily Drinker member, this discount is applied on top of your existing members' 10% discount.
Stocks are limited and the sooner you buy the better the price! These are all good wines but we simply need to make some space in the warehouse for all the new wines coming through.
If you would like to preview the sale, go to the the Sale page of The Daily Drinker website. The prices currently listed are full retail prices - the discounts will only start appearing on Monday.
Mixed Cases
Remember that you can now buy all wines, including sale wines, by the mixed case. Simply click on the wine you want, enter the quantity of bottles you want to buy, and keep adding wines until your case is full.
You can buy as many or as few different wines as you want but the TOTAL number of bottles has to be a minimum of six, and a multiple of six thereafter, i.e. 12, 18, or 24.
Our standard delivery charge applies to all orders - £7.50 per delivery regardless of size of order.
This Month's Winner
Congratulations to Patrick from Hertfordshire who is this month's winner of the free bottle.
He reviewed the June white - 2009 Verdeca, Masseria Pietrosa - and gave it 5 stars! If you haven't tried your sample yet, pull that cork without delay.
What's Coming Next?
July's Daily Drinker wines are due to be sent out on Monday - an Italian white and a Portugese red. Both are made from varieties new to The Daily Drinker and to us...
We do continue to try and expand your vinous horizons!
Thursday, 2 June 2011
June News from The Daily Drinker
Mix Your Six
Ever keen to offer Daily Drinker members a better service, we have been working both with our logistics company and our web designers to develop a facility whereby members can purchase mixed cases. This we have now achieved!
Daily Drinker members can now order a case of six different bottles for delivery. Why? Perhaps you'd like to hold an impromptu wine tasting for your friends, family or colleagues at work. You could use the Daily Drinker wine information to dazzle those you know with your incisive wine knowledge!
Or perhaps you are looking for wines for a party/wedding/bar mitzvah and want to sample serveral before making your choice. A mixed case of Daily Drinker wines would be ideal.
Orders must be placed for multiples of 6 bottles, with a minimum of a 6-bottle case, but may be mixed as you see fit! Click here to read more about it.
1985 Early Landed Cognac by Hine
We have now made this extraordinary spirit available by the bottle on the Daily Drinker website and it may be included in a mixed case of wine.
The early landed cognac business has been taking place for centuries. Instead of ageing above ground in warm and dry warehouses in France, casks of the spirit are shipped to the UK - typically to Bristol - two years after distillation and are therafter aged in very deep and damp cellars. There, over a period of 22 years or thereabouts the strength of the spirit naturally falls to c. 45%abv, at which stage it is bottled.
These are unique spirits, a great deal more ethereal and elegant than their French counterparts.
Only two cognac houses still involve themselves in this buiness: Hine and Delamain i.e. the best two brandy producers in the region.
Bottles of these brandies usually retail for £60 plus a bottle. Luckily for us (and, perhaps, you!) we have managed to intercept someone who bought barrels of the stuff many years ago and is now extremely keen to divest himself of the stock (to save storage charges, if nothing else). We can thus offer the 1985 Early Landed Hine for an exceptionally keen price of £45 a bottle inc. VAT (£40.50 with your Daily Drinker member's 10% discount). Click here to read more.
June's Review Writer and Winner of a Free Bottle
Garry from Wiltshire's comment on the 2010 Domaine de Millet rosé has earnt him a free bottle! Garry said, "Delicious - an excellent wine to enjoy with friends and family in the garden on a sunny weekend... Went very well with our Steak and salad. Yum!"
It doesn't need to be Shakespeare! Get reviewing for a chance for free hooch!
To leave a comment, go to our website, log in using your user name and password and then click "Write a review". Easy as that!
N.B. If you need reminding of your user name or password, do contact us.
Domaine de Millet Rosé
And on the subject of Millet...this wine has proved a huge success in the houses of Daily Drinker members across the land, as well as here in Wiltshire.
We are considering ordering further stock. If you would like to refresh the pink regions of your wine rack, let us know!
Caspar & Victoria Bowes
Ever keen to offer Daily Drinker members a better service, we have been working both with our logistics company and our web designers to develop a facility whereby members can purchase mixed cases. This we have now achieved!
Daily Drinker members can now order a case of six different bottles for delivery. Why? Perhaps you'd like to hold an impromptu wine tasting for your friends, family or colleagues at work. You could use the Daily Drinker wine information to dazzle those you know with your incisive wine knowledge!
Or perhaps you are looking for wines for a party/wedding/bar mitzvah and want to sample serveral before making your choice. A mixed case of Daily Drinker wines would be ideal.
Orders must be placed for multiples of 6 bottles, with a minimum of a 6-bottle case, but may be mixed as you see fit! Click here to read more about it.
1985 Early Landed Cognac by Hine
We have now made this extraordinary spirit available by the bottle on the Daily Drinker website and it may be included in a mixed case of wine.
The early landed cognac business has been taking place for centuries. Instead of ageing above ground in warm and dry warehouses in France, casks of the spirit are shipped to the UK - typically to Bristol - two years after distillation and are therafter aged in very deep and damp cellars. There, over a period of 22 years or thereabouts the strength of the spirit naturally falls to c. 45%abv, at which stage it is bottled.
These are unique spirits, a great deal more ethereal and elegant than their French counterparts.
Only two cognac houses still involve themselves in this buiness: Hine and Delamain i.e. the best two brandy producers in the region.
Bottles of these brandies usually retail for £60 plus a bottle. Luckily for us (and, perhaps, you!) we have managed to intercept someone who bought barrels of the stuff many years ago and is now extremely keen to divest himself of the stock (to save storage charges, if nothing else). We can thus offer the 1985 Early Landed Hine for an exceptionally keen price of £45 a bottle inc. VAT (£40.50 with your Daily Drinker member's 10% discount). Click here to read more.
June's Review Writer and Winner of a Free Bottle
Garry from Wiltshire's comment on the 2010 Domaine de Millet rosé has earnt him a free bottle! Garry said, "Delicious - an excellent wine to enjoy with friends and family in the garden on a sunny weekend... Went very well with our Steak and salad. Yum!"
It doesn't need to be Shakespeare! Get reviewing for a chance for free hooch!
To leave a comment, go to our website, log in using your user name and password and then click "Write a review". Easy as that!
N.B. If you need reminding of your user name or password, do contact us.
Domaine de Millet Rosé
And on the subject of Millet...this wine has proved a huge success in the houses of Daily Drinker members across the land, as well as here in Wiltshire.
We are considering ordering further stock. If you would like to refresh the pink regions of your wine rack, let us know!
Caspar & Victoria Bowes
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
May News from The Daily Drinker
Our First Randomly-Generated Name Pull
Our first winner of an extra monthly bottle - a reward for reviewing a wine on The Daily Drinker website - is Maggie who recommends drinking April's red, the Bulgarian Mavrud, in the garden with a barbecue. I haven't done so myself yet, but can only imagine that the rich black fruit concentration would go exceedingly well with a finely carbonized sausage.
Patrick left a rather more fulsome note on the delicious Moschofilero - the Greek white labelled Mantinea that was also sent out last month - and has ordered a case. This is a wine we've been drinking here at home and we find that the elegant citrus fruit mingled with real mineral interest is right up our street, especially in the recent hot weather. At 12% abv, one's knees work after a couple of glasses, which is welcome.
Please continue to mull over suitable words to describe your favourite (or otherwise) Daily Drinker wines. Don't be shy now! All you need to do is log in, then click on Write a Review. (Email us if you need a reminder of your log-in details.)
And What of Those 2010 Bordeaux Wines?
I have to report that Bordeaux has experienced another extraordinary harvest. Following hot on the heels of 2009 - a vintage that the Bordelais themselves described as the best ever - comes a year that might, in the long term, turn out to be even more impressive.
Both vintages have produced red wines that are exceptionally deeply coloured, have unprecedented levels of both tannin and alcohol, yet in essence the wines are really pretty dissimilar. Whilst '09 gave rise to sumptuous, ripe wines that were relatively easy to taste this time last year, the 2010s are big monoliths: less flattering in their youth; sculpted, chisselled obelisks. They are more akin to the 2005s than the '09s.
Which is better? Who knows...and who cares, say I? We'll all have lots of lovely claret to drink for the next 40 years. Assuming we can afford it, that is.
Daily Drinker Hunting
I was at the Barbican last week for a tasting of wines that had been shown at the International Wine Challenge, but that are yet to find representation in the UK. Part of the reason that I wanted to go along was that listed among the many hundreds of bottles that were to be open on the day were wines from Brazil, China, India and Russia. Yes, I am to host a wine tasting of the produce of the BRIC countries later in the year. Okay, it is something of a gimmic, but this is for a fabulous charity called EMpower whose main benefactors are some of the leading emerging markets bankers in London and beyond.
How did I get on? Well, it had been Russia that was most concerning me and I managed to taste a range of wines from a Russian producer and a number of them were extremely good. The list included a couple of wines made from indigenous grape varieties, so I am hopeful that I may have found some interesting samples for Daily Drinker members going forward!
Austria to Bordeaux...
We recently returned from a week sliding about on the white stuff in Austria (a week that included a good amount of drinking such local wines are Gruner Veltliner and Zweigelt) to find that the first 2010 Bordeaux wines are starting to trickle out. It seems like no time since we were embroiled in the long slog that was the 2009 campaign...and here it comes again! If you would rather not receive emails relating to these wines, please email us.
What's next?
May's Daily Drinker samples are well up the pipeline and, being rendered meteorologically optimistic by recent sunshine, the first rosé of 2011 is to be included; a rosé made from an extremely unusual grape of which I had never heard (I have learned not to be surprised when this happens!).
Delivery problems resolved
We have been made aware that some of the delivery drivers dropping off Daily Drinker samples have not been paying attention to members' "if out" instructions and have, frustratingly, been refusing to leave parcels in safe places.
After quite some to-ing and fro-ing, we are happy to report that this issue is now entirely resolved. If you would like to add any "if out" instructions for your deliveries, do contact us.
Caspar & Victoria Bowes
PS. Don't forget that we are still offering one free bottle if you introduce a friend - that is one free bottle to you AND one free bottle to the new Daily Drinker member.
Our first winner of an extra monthly bottle - a reward for reviewing a wine on The Daily Drinker website - is Maggie who recommends drinking April's red, the Bulgarian Mavrud, in the garden with a barbecue. I haven't done so myself yet, but can only imagine that the rich black fruit concentration would go exceedingly well with a finely carbonized sausage.
Patrick left a rather more fulsome note on the delicious Moschofilero - the Greek white labelled Mantinea that was also sent out last month - and has ordered a case. This is a wine we've been drinking here at home and we find that the elegant citrus fruit mingled with real mineral interest is right up our street, especially in the recent hot weather. At 12% abv, one's knees work after a couple of glasses, which is welcome.
Please continue to mull over suitable words to describe your favourite (or otherwise) Daily Drinker wines. Don't be shy now! All you need to do is log in, then click on Write a Review. (Email us if you need a reminder of your log-in details.)
And What of Those 2010 Bordeaux Wines?
I have to report that Bordeaux has experienced another extraordinary harvest. Following hot on the heels of 2009 - a vintage that the Bordelais themselves described as the best ever - comes a year that might, in the long term, turn out to be even more impressive.
Both vintages have produced red wines that are exceptionally deeply coloured, have unprecedented levels of both tannin and alcohol, yet in essence the wines are really pretty dissimilar. Whilst '09 gave rise to sumptuous, ripe wines that were relatively easy to taste this time last year, the 2010s are big monoliths: less flattering in their youth; sculpted, chisselled obelisks. They are more akin to the 2005s than the '09s.
Which is better? Who knows...and who cares, say I? We'll all have lots of lovely claret to drink for the next 40 years. Assuming we can afford it, that is.
Daily Drinker Hunting
I was at the Barbican last week for a tasting of wines that had been shown at the International Wine Challenge, but that are yet to find representation in the UK. Part of the reason that I wanted to go along was that listed among the many hundreds of bottles that were to be open on the day were wines from Brazil, China, India and Russia. Yes, I am to host a wine tasting of the produce of the BRIC countries later in the year. Okay, it is something of a gimmic, but this is for a fabulous charity called EMpower whose main benefactors are some of the leading emerging markets bankers in London and beyond.
How did I get on? Well, it had been Russia that was most concerning me and I managed to taste a range of wines from a Russian producer and a number of them were extremely good. The list included a couple of wines made from indigenous grape varieties, so I am hopeful that I may have found some interesting samples for Daily Drinker members going forward!
Austria to Bordeaux...
We recently returned from a week sliding about on the white stuff in Austria (a week that included a good amount of drinking such local wines are Gruner Veltliner and Zweigelt) to find that the first 2010 Bordeaux wines are starting to trickle out. It seems like no time since we were embroiled in the long slog that was the 2009 campaign...and here it comes again! If you would rather not receive emails relating to these wines, please email us.
What's next?
May's Daily Drinker samples are well up the pipeline and, being rendered meteorologically optimistic by recent sunshine, the first rosé of 2011 is to be included; a rosé made from an extremely unusual grape of which I had never heard (I have learned not to be surprised when this happens!).
Delivery problems resolved
We have been made aware that some of the delivery drivers dropping off Daily Drinker samples have not been paying attention to members' "if out" instructions and have, frustratingly, been refusing to leave parcels in safe places.
After quite some to-ing and fro-ing, we are happy to report that this issue is now entirely resolved. If you would like to add any "if out" instructions for your deliveries, do contact us.
Caspar & Victoria Bowes
PS. Don't forget that we are still offering one free bottle if you introduce a friend - that is one free bottle to you AND one free bottle to the new Daily Drinker member.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
April news from The Daily Drinker
New Monthly Newsletter
This is the first of our monthly newsletters from The Daily Drinker which we will be sending to all Daily Drinkers by email and posting here on the blog.
Our aim? Simply to keep you up-to-date with news from The Daily Drinker, from the wine trade in general, and any special offers or things we deem to be of interest.
Introduce new Daily Drinker members and be rewarded!
We reckon that The Daily Drinker is fun, innovative and educational. Caspar certainly feels that he’s learning more during his DD research than he has for years. And we would like others to share in the learning.
Do you have any friends, relatives, colleagues who might be interested? Recommend our service and if they sign up for any Daily Drinker membership (except Trial) we will send you an extra bottle with your next samples…AND they will receive a welcome bottle at the same time as their first pair of samples.
All they need to do is let us know who introduced them. If they sign up on line, http://www.thedailydrinker.co.uk/, they just need to select "A friend" when asked how they heard about us, and we will do the rest. Go on, spread the word, make someone else as happy as you!
Post a review on our site to win a bottle of wine
When designing the new(ish) Daily Drinker website we included a facility whereby members could leave comments/reviews on the wines should they feel the urge. It seems that not many of you do feel sufficient urge, so we would like to have a go at motivating you!
The names of Daily Drinker members who post a wine review of more than 10 words will go into a Random Name Generator (also known as a “hat”). The first name out of the RNG each month will receive an extra bottle of wine with their next Daily Drinker samples. The member will be able to choose red or white, but beyond that, it will be up to us - let us surprise you!
And please do not feel that you are under-qualified to comment about wine. We won’t be giving awards for creativity, but do let your imagination roam freely. If we may quote the Monty Python wine sketch as an example to get you going: “This is a bottle with a message in it, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down & avoiding.”
We hope that the comments are a tad more favourable than that above, but good or bad, please post! To post you have to log in, then click on Write a Review. Simple as that.
New vintage in Bordeaux
It’s that time of year when the wines of Bordeaux start to make their way to the uppermost parts of a wine merchant’s mind. The en primeur tastings, at which the world gets to sample the new vintage – 2010 this year – are taking place in and around that French city next week and Caspar is off there on Sunday. He’s concerned for the future wellbeing of his teeth. By all accounts the vintage is hard work to taste, with wines that contain massive levels of fruit, acidity and tannin. He intends to ask his dentist to work on his blackened stumps on return.
What's coming next??
April's Daily Drinker wines are due to be sent out next week. We are convinced that this is the most exciting pair of wines we have ever mailed to DD members.
Both are from countries that wouldn't necessarily appear high on one's list of targets or on the shelves of one's wine merchant: Greece and Bulgaria.
Both countries offer a range of indigenous and interesting grape varieties and are ripe for plundering for the selection of DD samples. Both countries are experiencing something of a renaissance. And from both countries we have managed to find very, very interesting bottles. We do hope that you enjoy them..
Product codes
In response to member requests, we have appended to each Daily Drinker wine’s code the month when that wine was sent out, i.e. ZAGR090 APR11.
Thanks for reading and happy drinking!
Caspar & Victoria Bowes
This is the first of our monthly newsletters from The Daily Drinker which we will be sending to all Daily Drinkers by email and posting here on the blog.
Our aim? Simply to keep you up-to-date with news from The Daily Drinker, from the wine trade in general, and any special offers or things we deem to be of interest.
Introduce new Daily Drinker members and be rewarded!
We reckon that The Daily Drinker is fun, innovative and educational. Caspar certainly feels that he’s learning more during his DD research than he has for years. And we would like others to share in the learning.
Do you have any friends, relatives, colleagues who might be interested? Recommend our service and if they sign up for any Daily Drinker membership (except Trial) we will send you an extra bottle with your next samples…AND they will receive a welcome bottle at the same time as their first pair of samples.
All they need to do is let us know who introduced them. If they sign up on line, http://www.thedailydrinker.co.uk/, they just need to select "A friend" when asked how they heard about us, and we will do the rest. Go on, spread the word, make someone else as happy as you!
Post a review on our site to win a bottle of wine
When designing the new(ish) Daily Drinker website we included a facility whereby members could leave comments/reviews on the wines should they feel the urge. It seems that not many of you do feel sufficient urge, so we would like to have a go at motivating you!
The names of Daily Drinker members who post a wine review of more than 10 words will go into a Random Name Generator (also known as a “hat”). The first name out of the RNG each month will receive an extra bottle of wine with their next Daily Drinker samples. The member will be able to choose red or white, but beyond that, it will be up to us - let us surprise you!
And please do not feel that you are under-qualified to comment about wine. We won’t be giving awards for creativity, but do let your imagination roam freely. If we may quote the Monty Python wine sketch as an example to get you going: “This is a bottle with a message in it, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down & avoiding.”
We hope that the comments are a tad more favourable than that above, but good or bad, please post! To post you have to log in, then click on Write a Review. Simple as that.
New vintage in Bordeaux
It’s that time of year when the wines of Bordeaux start to make their way to the uppermost parts of a wine merchant’s mind. The en primeur tastings, at which the world gets to sample the new vintage – 2010 this year – are taking place in and around that French city next week and Caspar is off there on Sunday. He’s concerned for the future wellbeing of his teeth. By all accounts the vintage is hard work to taste, with wines that contain massive levels of fruit, acidity and tannin. He intends to ask his dentist to work on his blackened stumps on return.
What's coming next??
April's Daily Drinker wines are due to be sent out next week. We are convinced that this is the most exciting pair of wines we have ever mailed to DD members.
Both are from countries that wouldn't necessarily appear high on one's list of targets or on the shelves of one's wine merchant: Greece and Bulgaria.
Both countries offer a range of indigenous and interesting grape varieties and are ripe for plundering for the selection of DD samples. Both countries are experiencing something of a renaissance. And from both countries we have managed to find very, very interesting bottles. We do hope that you enjoy them..
Product codes
In response to member requests, we have appended to each Daily Drinker wine’s code the month when that wine was sent out, i.e. ZAGR090 APR11.
Thanks for reading and happy drinking!
Caspar & Victoria Bowes
Thursday, 28 October 2010
New website for The Daily Drinker
Following the recent launch of our new website dedicated to The Daily Drinker - www.thedailydrinker.co.uk - we will no longer be using the blog to publish the monthly Daily Drinker tasting notes.
The new site is intended to be a font of all knowledge on its services and wines. Tasting notes for all currently available wines are accessible directly from www.thedailydrinker.co.uk.
In addition, any Daily Drinker member can post reviews on any wines they have tasted (bad as well as good, please! We have thick skins) via the new site.
We will however endeavour to continue using The Daily Drinker blog but will use it more as a traditional blog, i.e. news of wines tasted, news of forthcoming events, Caspar's general musings on the 10,000+ wine grape varieties which exist in the world... We hope you will continue to follow The Daily Drinker.
The new site is intended to be a font of all knowledge on its services and wines. Tasting notes for all currently available wines are accessible directly from www.thedailydrinker.co.uk.
In addition, any Daily Drinker member can post reviews on any wines they have tasted (bad as well as good, please! We have thick skins) via the new site.
We will however endeavour to continue using The Daily Drinker blog but will use it more as a traditional blog, i.e. news of wines tasted, news of forthcoming events, Caspar's general musings on the 10,000+ wine grape varieties which exist in the world... We hope you will continue to follow The Daily Drinker.
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