Euromarque Personalised Wines Blog

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

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

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.

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.

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.

           

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

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

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.