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The Yapp App!

Good to see the wine business keeping up with the latest trends – such as independent wine merchants Yapp Brothers who have developed an App (application) for the iPhone and iPod Touch – so you can browse their list of French regional wines in your hand.
And they are not alone – traditional merchants Berry Bros [...]

Wills Wine – a new online wine website

A difficult time to launch a new wine business, especially as I note that the energetic Andrew Chapman at www.surf4wine.co.uk is not currently trading. But if you can offer something different that coincides with consumer trends, then it can be very successful – and Will Shepherd’s new wine website www.willswine.com may just have got it [...]

Surf 4 Wine’s wine course

Andrew Chapman at Surf4Wine is launching a wine tasting course in Oxford, which will provide a valuable opportunity to taste and compare over 36 wines from all around the world over 6 weeks. Never underestimate the value and pleasure of tasting different wines against each other – the contrast and differences will tell you a [...]

Wine and Breast Cancer Awareness

Not seen a huge amount of support from the wine trade for the Breast Cancer Awareness fund raising (October is Breast Cancer Awareness month). Great therefore to see one merchant – Andrew Chapman Fine Wines – supporting the cause by creating a special mixed case and donating £2 per case to the charity.
“A mixed case [...]

Champagne Devaux Competition

Having just read about Champagne Devaux on Spittoon – and what a marvellous wine for food the Cuvee D is – the linked retailer (Surf4Wine) is running a competition to win a bottle; one of six actually.
Popping up in my RSS reader was details of a competition in conjunction with an Oxford paper. So technically, [...]

Surf4Wine Update

Lots of activity over on Surf4Wine – a spate of very attractive discounts via promo codes for a start (a stash of Wild Duck Creek wines… big, huge wines with high alcohol and lots of flavour crammed in … use the promo code WILD07 to get 12.5% off all Wild Duck Creek wines) and an [...]

Surf4Wine

Operational since 1988 Surf4Wine was one of the pioneers of the internet-based mail order wine merchant scene in the UK.
It’s a dynamic little operation and while they admit that the website has lacked in the update department recently a chat with Andrew Chapman indicates that things are about to improve. Not only is an [...]

Surf4Wine Tasting

The excellent Oxfordshire-based merchant Surf4Wine is hosting a large tasting on Wednesday January 24th 2007. Location? The Old Library, University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4AH from 6 until 8pm.
Tickets cost £5 redeemable against purchases. The wine range sounds very interesting with bottles open from Champagne Devaux, J. C.Boisset (Burgundy), [...]

Surf4Wine: Jean-Claude Boisset Tasting

Oxfordshire based merchant Surf4Wine is hosting a J.C. Boisset tasting on Wednesday 25th October in the centre of Oxford.
Described as a ‘drop in lunch-time tasting’ in attendence will be Grégory Patriat of Jean-Claude Boisset. Their award winning Burgundy, Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Champ Gain, winner of (The 2006 Decanter Wine Awards: Best White Burgundy) [...]