Aussie craft beers boomerang back into favour

Aussies have finally realised that the big brewers, Lion Nathan and Fosters with 85% of the market, aren't given them a classy brew. There is more to beer than ice-cold yellow fizz.

There are now over 140 microbreweries putting out top notch beers, and some of it is finding is way here. From classic pale ales to larger for ageing

Read more at the drinks business

Coopers Pale Ale

  über-exclusive Crown Ambassador Reserve Lager.

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The Ultimate Promotional Gift?

There are lots of thing that available as promotional items, mugs, pens, stress balls, umbrellas. All of which can be branded up for you. but do they hit the spot? Are they remembered by the receiver? Are they appreciated? Are they ignored.? We all know some items go straight in the bin, particularly small memory usb sticks and mouse mats.

So what will be welcomed by the recipient? what will dispose d of with disdain?

Promotional wine and promotional champagne of course.

Everybody loves to receive a bottle, or even two! Your promotional label on the front of the bottle will be both remembered and appreciated.

For high perceived worth and ability to bring a smile to someone's face, its unbeatable. The ultimate promotional gift.

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International Grenache Day

Today is International Grenache Day, a day for celebrating a less well known grape.

Also known as Garnacha in Spain, Cannonau in Sardinia, this is a widely grown grape that hides in the background.

It is a key component in wines such as Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Rioja and thrives in hot, dry soils.

Apart from Spain and France, it is significant in Sardinia and Australia.

Why not try our award winning personalised châteauneuf-du-pape to celebrate?

Wikipedia list the following synonyms:
Abundante, Aleante, Aleantedi Rivalto, Aleante Poggiarelli, Alicant Blau, Alicante, Alicante Grenache, Aragones, Bois Jaune, Cannonaddu, Cannonadu Nieddu, Cannonau, Cannonau Selvaggio, Canonazo, Carignane Rosso, Elegante, Francese, Gamay del Trasimeno, Garnaccho Negro, Garnacha Comun, Garnacha Negra, Garnacha Roja, Garnacha Tinta, Garnatxa Negra, Garnatxa Pais, Gironet, Granaccia, Granaxa, Grenache Noir, Grenache Rouge, Kek Grenache, Lladoner, Mencida, Navaro, Navarra, Navarre de la Dordogne, Navarro, Negru Calvese, Ranconnat, Red Grenache, Redondal, Retagliadu Nieddu, Rivesaltes, Roussillon Tinto, Roussillon, Rouvaillard, Sans Pareil, Santa Maria de Alcantara, Tentillo, Tintella, Tintilla, Tinto Menudo, Tinto Navalcarnero, Tocai Rosso, Toledana and Uva di Spagna.

Synonyms for the hairy Grenache include Garnatca Peluda, Garnatxa Pelud, Lladoner Gris, Lladoner Pelud and Lledoner Pelut.

Grenache grapes from Santa Barbara California
By Josh McFadden
Source originally posted to Flickr as IMG_3353

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Warhol-inspired label for Dom Perignon

Luxury Champagne Dom Pérignon will offer limited edition Warhol-inspired 2002 vintage champagne from the middle of October in top London stores Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Selfridges, at £120 a bottle.

Dom Pérignon wanted to use the Warhol-inspired packaging to “talk about Dom Pérignon alongside one of the most iconic figures within visual art.”

Labelled as A Tribute to Andy Warhol by Dom Pérignon, Emelie De Vitis, marketing manager for Dom Pérignon UK, commented: “Dom Pérignon’s iconic bottle has always lent itself to uber-cool innovative interpretation, having previously inspired the likes of Marc Newson and Karl Lagerfeld.

“The concept of this Warhol-influenced design offers a special opportunity for us to talk about Dom Pérignon alongside one of the most iconic figures within visual art, whilst creating something incredibly stylish, rare and aspirational – what Dom Pérignon is all about,” she added.

  

More importantly the 2002 has been getting rave reviews.

Jancis Robinson: Extraordinarily firm, confident, intense nose. Definitely the savoury side of Dom. Nothing remotely sweet or fat - though it's as intense as a Montrachet. Wonderful quality of mousse - surely slightly less bubbly than it has been? More like a Montrachet with a bit of carbon dioxide laced into it than a typical champagne. Broad and long with a hint of orange peel. Great persistence. This already delivers but has such backbone and great acidity and light grip (only noticeable at the very end of the tasting experience) that it surely has a long life ahead of it. Really reaches every hidden cell of the palate. A very assured performance. LVMH at its very best?

Wine Advocate: The 2002 Dom Perignon is at first intensely floral, with perfumed jasmine that dominates the bouquet. With time in the glass the wine gains richness as the flavors turn decidedly riper and almost tropical. Ripe apricots, passion fruit and peaches emerge from this flashy, opulent Dom Perignon. The wine’s volume makes it approachable today, but readers in search of more complexity will want to cellar this for at least a few years to allow for some of the baby fat to drop off. Geoffroy describes the vintage as very ripe and adds that some of the Chardonnay showed the ill-effects of the hot growing season in it the somewhat burned, dehydrated fruit that came in that year.

Certainly better than tomato soup.
Of course our personalised champagne is very nice too....

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Methuselahs of Cristal go on sale

Famous champagne producer Louis Roederer is releasing a limited number of methuselahs of 2002 vintage Cristal Champagne in Harrods, for £10,000 each!

A methuselah holds the equivalent of eight bottles, so not something for a quiet night in.

As a single bottle has a price tag of about £1100, you'd be paying a hefty premium for the stunning impact that you'd get.

Or jut impress people with some personalised champagne at a fraction of the price

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UK launch of Champagne’s most expensive brut NV, Angel, took place last week.

The new brand sells for£640 a bottle for the Non Vintage on-line, and £800 for the vintage. It'll cost a lot more in clubs!

 The aim is to offer a champagne that has a more feminine style. The champagne has the backing of pop singers Mariah Carey, a shareholder, and Sinitta

Produced by Patrick D'Aulan, from the former Piper Heidsieck owning family, the Grand Cru grapes are from the Coopérative Regionale des Vins de Champagne (CRVC), the region’s second largest cooperative with 680 members and 880 hectares of vineyards.

The Champagne bottle packaging is particularly bling, with four layers of a "platinum finish" paint, solid silver labels and inset Swarovski crystals! So it might be more about being seen than enjoying good champagne.

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Of course Euromarque can offer you your own quality branded champagne at a fraction of the cost.

Full details on The Drinks Business

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Cork taint can be transmitted by new oak barrels, not just corks

New research in France shows contaminated new oak barrels are a much underestimated source of cork taint - TCA.
Tests undertaken by analysts at Laboratoire Excell in France suggest that there are several sources of TCA (Trichloroanisole) contamination of oak wood – although so far nobody seems to know where it comes from.

The French coopers association,Tonneliers de France, have reacted in the typically French way and dismissed the study out of hand.

Full story on Decanter.com

 

Cork taint is is often detected by test equipment even when human tasters can't detect it, So the impact of this research is not yet clear.

Obviously if personalised wine labels ever found TCA in our wine, we would replace customer bottles immediately.

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Real ale sales rising in Britain, lager sales dropping

Real ale is making a comeback. Traditional beer, unsullied by the industrialisation of the 60's and 70s has increased its market share to 20.6%. Not huge, but enough to stop lager growth for the first time in 50 years, Hopefully the tide has turned against mass produced cold fizz.

The new edition of the Good Beer Guide, lists more than 700 real ale brewers in the UK, the highest number since the  War, and four times as many as in 1971, when the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) was founded in a last-ditch effort to save the proper beer from oblivion.

Read more at the Guardian of all places!

The best way to clear you palate after a wine tasting is with a nice pint of real ale. Livens up the taste buds and clears away the tannins.

Some times a beer hits the spot even better than personalised wine.

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Branded Wine

Branded wine is one of those terms that means different things in different markets.

In the wine world it means the big brands. Wines that are sold on the basis of a name/brand rather than the vineyard and grower. In a sense its the simpler end of the market because the supply is pretty much endless as its blended from many sources to achieve a standard result year after year after year.

Where as grower wines are limited in supply to just what that vineyard can produce in that one year. Next year could be quite different depending on weather and the skill of the wine-maker.

In the promotional industry branded wine has quite another meaning. It means putting your brand on the bottle not the wine companies.
You've all seen branded mugs, branded pens, and branded usb sticks, well branded wine is the same, only much tastier!

You can have your own branded wine with a minimum order of only 12 bottles (which is barely enough for your mates let alone clients and staff). Whether its your own smiling face on the label, or your logo or even a product picture, its a great way to promote your brand.

Visit the website to see examples of labels that Euromarque have produced and to see the great range of wines that you can brand.

           

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The ultimate beer?

Those nutters at Brewdog have pushed the boundaries of beer to the very limit. After creating the 32% abv Tactical Nuclear Penguin and the 41% abv Sink the Bismark, they have now produced a new world's strongest beer called “The End of History,' at an astounding 55% abv !!! That's the same as barrel strength whisky, where even the fumes can make your eyes water.

At if that wasn't enough to get lots of publicity and opprobrium for the anti- drinking lobby, they decided to present each bottle in a stuffed dead animal. Yes taxidermy beer bottles.

The stoats and grey squirrel used are all road kill, so I suppose they can claim to just be recycling.

 

In the words of the official press relief

"This 55% beer should be drank in small servings whilst exuding an endearing pseudo vigilance and reverence for Mr Stoat. This is to be enjoyed with a weather eye on the horizon for inflatable alcohol industry Nazis, judgemental washed up neo-prohibitionists or any grandiloquent, ostentatious foxes."

The End of History: The name derives from the famous work of philosopher Francis Fukuyama, who thought the fall of the Iron Curtain would end political evolution and make history uneventful thereafter. Lets see, war in the Balkans, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, erosion of civil liberties, yup no excitement nowadays.
This beer is at the end of what's possible (probably) and Brewdog's final high abv beer, therefore the end of beer.

Only 11 bottles have been released, 7 stoats and 4 squirrels in case you wondered, and they have all been sold. So, sorry you have missed out. The tasting note says its blond Belgian ale, infused with nettles from the Scottish Highlands and Fresh juniper berries.

I wonder if there would be a market for personalised wine in weasel? Probably not

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The ultimate beer?

Those nutters at Brewdog have pushed the boundaries of beer to the very limit. After creating the 32% abv Tactical Nuclear Penguin and the 41% abv Sink the Bismark, they have now produced a new world's strongest beer called “The End of History,' at an astounding 55% abv !!! That's the same as barrel strength whisky, where even the fumes can make your eyes water.

At if that wasn't enough to get lots of publicity and opprobrium for the anti- drinking lobby, they decided to present each bottle in a stuffed dead animal. Yes taxidermy beer bottles.

The stoats and grey squirrel used are all road kill, so I suppose they can claim to just be recycling.

 

In the words of the official press relief

"This 55% beer should be drank in small servings whilst exuding an endearing pseudo vigilance and reverence for Mr Stoat. This is to be enjoyed with a weather eye on the horizon for inflatable alcohol industry Nazis, judgemental washed up neo-prohibitionists or any grandiloquent, ostentatious foxes."

The End of History: The name derives from the famous work of philosopher Francis Fukuyama, who thought the fall of the Iron Curtain would end political evolution and make history uneventful thereafter. Lets see, war in the Balkans, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, erosion of civil liberties, yup no excitement nowadays.
This beer is at the end of what's possible (probably) and Brewdog's final high abv beer, therefore the end of beer.

Only 11 bottles have been released, 7 stoats and 4 squirrels in case you wondered, and they have all been sold. So, sorry you have missed out. The tasting note says its blond Belgian ale, infused with nettles from the Scottish Highlands and Fresh juniper berries.

I wonder if there would be a market for personalised wine in weasel? Probably not

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Wine information on our Website

In case you hadn't noticed our business to business website has articles on the regions that we offer wine from.
We thought it a good idea to give you a bit of background on the broader aspects of the wine, not tasting notes but a quick guide the area.

Take a look at our wine 101 page. You'll find information about the famous Bordeaux region and the magnificence of Champagne. We also cover those Australian classics of Chardonnay and Shiraz.

More wine regions will be added over the next few months, so pop back now and again.

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