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‘Tasting the Diversity’ in Portugal
The ‘Wines of Portugal’ exhibition held at Lord’s Cricket Ground on 10th March 2009 was a good opportunity for us to check how the less well known (in the UK anyway) half of the Iberian peninsula is shaping up. Based on this experience, the answer is ‘pretty well’. The event was organised by the efficient Vini Portugal which promotes Portuguese ports and wines across the world. Portugal is somewhat unusual in that good wine is produced in almost every corner of the country, from the hot and flat(er) coastal regions of the far south (Lagoa, Tavira etc.) all the way…...
The Fine Wine Review - A French Aristocrat and an Aussie Pretender
Slurp consultant Robin Haddock and our mutual friend Andrew joined me for a late afternoon match-up between an aristocratic Paulliac and one of Barossa Valley’s most famous exports.Read more in the latest update to the Fine Wine Review...
New Look for Slurp.co.uk
Today Slurp launched a new and much improved version of its website www.slurp.co.uk. The redesign was necessitated by the significant increase in products listed in 2009. The product listing pages have been streamlined and the search and navigation tools have been upgraded.
The new layout and design should allow for much better visibility of products, and for customers to get to what they are looking more easily. But this new version of slurp.co.uk is by no means the finished article, and a number of further innovations will be delivered over the next two months. (These are…...
The Fine Wine Review
There was no sign of a downturn in the fine wine market at the London Decanter Fine Encounter on February 21st 2009 at the Landmark hotel. The Slurp "delegation" were special guests...Read more in the latest update to the Fine Wine Review...
Slurp Launches Wedding Wine Service at London's Designer Wedding Show
Over the weekend of February 13-15th 2009 Slurp.co.uk launched its bespoke wedding wine service with an appearance at the prestigious Designer Wedding Show in London's Battersea Park. The event ran for three days and the Slurp stand was under siege for large parts of it from people keen to hear more about our unique offering.
Our presentation of four bespoke Wedding Wine Lists for different price points was a huge hit with brides and grooms to be. Slurp's hand-chosen 'Reserve', 'Premier' and 'Grand' wedding wine lists were popular with those looking for some guidance, and our 'Organic Excellence' list of…...
Slurp is 1,000! - Our Range Reaches Four Figures for the First Time
Slurp.co.uk is the UK’s fastest growing online wine company. Today we are proud to announce that we have passed 1,000 products live and available for purchase. Our expansion is happening at a rapid pace, and the company hopes to have doubled its product list again within a couple of months. We have deepened our offering very significantly in countries such as Italy and Spain, where regionally-focused producers are making fantastic wines using many indigenous and local grape varieties. In response to customer demand, we have also beefed up our range in the New World, especially in Chile and Argentina…...
New Year Means New Wines at Slurp.co.uk
Many More Organic and Biodynamic Products!To usher in the New Year—and to try to lift some of the gloom enveloping the country just now—Slurp.co.uk is announcing a HUGE expansion in its range of wines. The expansion will take Slurp’s range close to 2,000 by the end of January, with around 750 new French wines being added today alone.Our new wines enhance and support Slurp’s commitment to smaller producers of non mass-produced products. Wine drinkers who want intensively farmed wines, produced in lake-filling quantities, have the UK supermarkets to satisfy their needs. At Slurp we remain committed to encouraging and promoting…...
1990 in the Sunshine - (May 2008)
Tasting note from Dr Jeremy Howard.
Two friends and I decided to use the unseasonable May weather to try some
Left Bank Bordeaux 1990s. For many Bordeaux lovers, this vintage vies with
1989 for supremacy between 1986 and the vintages of the late nineties. Top
Bordeaux wines from the 1990s are certainly not cheap, but they are a little
more accessible than the astronomic prices one meets when venturing into
the best years of the 1980s (and beyond). Plus I was aware from reading the
…...
Brits buying French Vineyards
The number of British-owned French vineyards “must now be well into
four figures,” says Jancis Robinson MW. And given the lack of
involvement of Alistair Darling in the country’s taxation matters, she
says “it is hardly surprising then that a substantial proportion of the
hundreds of thousands of them who own French property has been tempted
by the apparently bucolic life of a vigneron”. ...
Slurp.co.uk Secures Second Round Funding from Aspiration Capital
Slurp.co.uk has announced the closing of its second round of financing. An undisclosed sum has been raised from venture capital fund Aspiration Capital alongside business angels and existing management.
The funds will be used for a major marketing campaign in 2008 and for the further development of the www.slurp.co.uk website. Slurp is also negotiating with a number of smaller producers about importing and marketing their wines into the UK.
Slurp Managing Director Paul Mitchell said:
"There is no question that people are increasingly looking for an alternative to mass produced, supermarket-style wines. And people love the convenience of shopping for their wine on the…...
Buying Bordeaux to Drink Not Keep
France is one of the oldest wine producing regions in Europe and is the world's largest producer by value. Despite some small exports from Bordeaux, until about 1850 most wine in France was consumed locally. People in Paris drank wine from the local vineyards, people in Bordeaux drank Bordeaux, those in Burgundy drank Burgundy, and so on throughout the country. Then, in 1855 at the request of Emperor Napoleon III in preparation for the Great International Exposition in Paris, a regional appellation system was developed for the Médoc. At the request of the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce, the Union…...
Wine Prices Set to Rise
The Chancellor will make his Budget speech to the House of Commons on 12th March 2008 at 12:30pm and if the rumours are to be believed, Mr Darling is probably going to add between 10-20p per bottle on wine. This is a huge hike and will mean that duty could rise to as much as £1.57 per bottle. Whilst this will make less of a difference on a £10 bottle, it will kill the sub £5 market. So if you are to take the advice of top wine writers like Tim Atkin of the Observer, now is the time…...
