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28/03/2013
Fabulous holiday gîte on organic wine estate Clos de Caveau What better way to appreciate fine organic wines, than to actually stay on an organic vineyard. Well now you can, and not only that but you can receive up to 50% off your gîte hire price by purchasing some of the estate’s top notch wine. […]
14/03/2013
The Equation of Your Wine (Pre Budget March 2013) Let’s not get too bogged down in the maths, but it’s worth taking a look at the three examples below with selling prices at £4.99, £6.75 and £9.90 to demonstrate that as you pay more per bottle, an increasingly higher percentage, is actually for the stuff […]
07/03/2013
Fair Trade Wine is one of the fastest growing Fair Trade brands with sales up by 12% last year. At Vintage Roots we support the movement whenever we can, but are limited (by our own choice) to listing just those fair trade products that are also organic. You’ll see two different symbols from different certifiers […]
07/02/2013
Curiously Intriguing Carmenere The Carménère grape (as you might tell from the accents) was originally planted in France, in the Médoc to be more precise, where for many years it worked well with Cabernet Franc and later Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon to produce classic Bordeaux wines. The name Carménère originates from the French word for […]
31/01/2013
Some Faces Behind The Wines The Vintage Roots tasting team have recently returned from Montpellier and the annual French organic wine fair that is ‘Millésime Bio’. Unbelievable to think it was the show’s 20th anniversary (we’ve been 19 times!) and this year there were 690 exhibitors (that’s a lot of wine!) and 3500 attendees. Three […]
24/01/2013
All about wine delivery We deliver over the whole country, with selected courier companies and locally with our own vans, here’s some great feedback we’ve recently received: “Just wanted to say thank you for your amazing delivery service in the week running up to Christmas. Ordered 2 cases on Sunday for 2 different addresses. Both […]
17/01/2013
Competition has now finished In 2012, we were delighted to see ‘Wild Thing’ as the wine of choice at the ‘Go Wild’ Charity Gala at Goodwood, at Pride in the Park in Derby and of course at numerous local trade events. Talking of ‘far flung’, our UK Sales Manager, Linda Ward, was delighted when at […]
10/01/2013
These days there seems to be more interest in low-alcohol wines or reasonable alcohol level wines. Harking back to the old days when we started our organic wine business in 1986, all of our wines were European and were between 11.5% and 13%. Since then there has been a tendency for a steady increase of […]
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