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JASCOTS shortlisted for the ‘National Wine Retailer of the Year’ category in the 2013 Decanter Retailer of the Year Awards

  Today (23.05.13) Jascots has been shortlisted for the ‘National Wine Retailer of the Year’ category in the 2013 Decanter Retailer of the Year Awards.’ Decanter Magazine said, “A huge number of nominations were received for retailers in each of the five different categories. Earlier this month our panel of judges gathered to evaluate each [...]

Wimbledon 1 : Jascots 1

Forever looking for something to “sex up the document”, I started introducing a food & wine matching element to our International Wine Championship Qs last year and, this being subjective rather than factual, I have had one or two discussions about which wine tastes best with what foods. There’s unanimous thinking that everything and anything [...]

More images from last week’s trade tasting

 

Yesterday’s Trade & Press Tasting – Photos hot off the press

Quote of the day… Steven Spurrier:  “….no wonder you are so successful in the ontrade. Every single one of your wines is so pure, so well made and so good to drink.”

Amazing Visit to Von Buhl

Having been at Jascots for 8 months, I was extremely excited at the prospect of going on one of the famous buying trips. Little did I realise what I was getting myself in for, when told that the whole sales team was heading off to Germany consisting of ten lovely gentleman and myself.  So I [...]

SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL

I loved Armonio de Mas Neuf 2005 from the Costieres de Nimes when I first tasted it and the inaugural 2002 vintage was utterly divine while the 2003 was plain bonkers it was so powerful from that incredibly intense heat of the Summer. We the bypassed the 2004, but, took quite a big position on [...]

Three years in Bordeaux

On Monday, I nipped down to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, not to give a rendition of Nessun Dorma but to taste some of the marvellous 2010 Bordeaux Cru Classes that will be hitting UK shelves in early 2013. Having been in Bordeaux earlier this year for the 2011 en primeur campaign I [...]

Jenny Mackenzie blogs from Jascots’ Private Client Tasting

Thursday, 08 November 2012 12:06 When a company is old enough to have seen one recession already, it should know how to weather a second. Jascots geared up for the expected rise in business during the 2012 Olympics by offering 24/7 London delivery as just one example of proactive customer service. The predicted tourist boom [...]

Louis Barruol of Chateau de Saint Cosme in Gigondas in the Rhône Valley

Last week, Jack and an assorted bunch of Jascoteers hosted a gastronomic dinner with the very Gallic special guest in the form of Louis Barruol of Chateau de Saint Cosme in Gigondas in the Rhône Valley. We were very fortunate to be serving a vast array of wines from this esteemed estate, where Monsieur Barruol [...]

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