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 [...]
At yesterday’s Drinks Business Awards 2013 prize giving Jascots Wine Merchant was awarded a Special Commendation for its Environmental policies, management and practices. The commendation read: “Rightly commended by the judges, Jascots Wine Merchants has since 2010 employed sustainable practices, working with the Carbon Trust to reduce its CO2 emissions and increase recycling both [...]
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 [...]
Morning Reader, We put on a bit of a show for one of our most favourite clients last week who were entertaining their top punters and prospects and it all went really rather well. We kicked off with Bolney’s delightful, light, dry Pink Bubbly with it’s delicate flavours of raspberry and hedgerow and elegant, jolly [...]
By Luke Hadlow. On a rainy day at Jascots’ HQ in Park Royal, Gordon Russell of the Esk Valley Vineyard came all the way over to London and brought with him some New Zealand sunshine…and a selection of the finest wine I have ever tasted. We all assembled in the tasting room and Gordon gave [...]
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.”
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 [...]
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 [...]