Spring Wine Offer 2015

Right then.  Some of you have done dry January and by the time you get this others will have nearly completed their Lenten deprivation.  By the beard of Zeus, some of you will have done both.  Eeeek.  Well done. Now that, surely, is enough flagellation for the time being.  Demonstrating considerable dedication to duty you have earned yourself a well-deserved, pretty enormous glass of wine.  I would suggest two - no, hang it, several - but the Joy Police may spot this and declare such a notion to be irresponsible.  So I won’t.

What’s it to be?  A fresh, lively white to cut the last of the winter dust?  Maybe a dark, fruit-filled red to ease down your Easter lamb or a subtle, white Rhône inspired smoothie for a free-range fowl?  Doubtless you’ve also been on a bloody diet for added torture; time to wave that off with a dish of savoury pasta and unhealthy gratings of cheese for which a keen, cleansing Italian red will touch the spot.  If you like the sound of any of that read on, for you will find all the wet part of it in the following offer.

There’s more to this offer than meets the eye.  Yes, the wines are delicious.  Yes, you get a bit of discount and yes, as ever you can slice it into reds only, whites only or mixed rations, all at the same very reasonable price.  However, for every dozen bought we will donate £8 to Cancer Campaign In Suffolk and for every half-dozen we will give them £4.  We trim your price and our margin; between us we will try to send a significant contribution to this valuable local cause. 

This is a great local charity that aims to help you, the population of Suffolk, regardless of gender, colour, creed or age and it deserves whatever support we can give.  If you would like to know more, tune into www.cancercampaigninsuffolk.co.uk or email Karen@cancercampaigninsuffolk.co.uk  or call them on 01473 211884.

If you need a box or two of wine this spring, choose one of these options – because you’re not just buying wine.

That’s the worthy bit; you’ll be thirsty now.

If you cannot make it to the shop we will be pleased to battle through “Gridlock Ipswich” to bring your wine to you.   Local deliveries are FREE for orders of £70 or more.  Delivery details may be found here.

The offer starts NOW and runs until May 30th 2015 and is available subject to stocks remaining unsold.  We will do our best to buy enough stock in advance to hold these prices for the full length of the offer, but reserve the right to make any adjustments should they become necessary.

Plan ahead: you have a long Easter weekend and two bank holidays in that period and it wouldn’t do to go dry!

For full details of delicious wines of real character at reduced prices, please click here.

April Sampling Club Selection

Now here’s a change: I don’t think we have ever taken you to Sardinia before, so grab your toothbrush and off we go!  Sardinian wines do have a tendency to be rather dearer than you might expect; we call it Swiss Syndrome - decent enough but £2 per bottle more than it should be.  However we have happened across this pair of neat, practical, well made wines at an introductory level, which offer a glimpse of what the island’s producers can achieve.  Your red is made from the grape they call Cannonau, though we know it better as Grenache Noir.  Castanzu, which sounds like a particularly productive sneeze, is the name of the producers which includes the collaboration of a dynamic company from Piemonte and the UK importer, together with local contract growers.  The wine is a neat and tidy middleweight to enjoy with bread and olives, pasta or a plate of salami variants.

The white is made from the Vermentino grape which is also grown here and there in the Languedoc where it may appear under the name of Rolle.  It is frequently used as a bulker in a blend but deserves better when grown with more care and attention for, as the vines age and harder pruning reduces crop size, it develops a depth of flavour and individuality that is admirable.  This modest example is starting to show early signs of these delicious traits, but this is a young project - these are the first commercial versions - and as other growers join the team and expert supervision starts to count, we can expect better things to come.  Drink, inevitably, with sardines, clams with linguine or as a glassful in the sun.  If we get any.

RED: 2009 Cannonau di Sardegna, Castanzu

Price per bottle: £6.95 (sealed case price: £6.60) Half price for one sample (club members only) £3.48

There’s a clean fruity nose and cheerful Grenache fruit.  It’s not a massive red, which Grenache can be, but has plenty of fresh, red fruit flavours.

                                              

WHITE: 2010 Vermentino di Sardegna, Castanzu

Price per bottle: £6.95 (sealed case price: £6.60) Half price for one sample (club members only)£3.47

Dry and crisp with a note of light spice and a touch of something herby, maybe a distant hint of tarragon, with plenty of zip and racy freshness.            

                                  

APRIL OFFERS – A CHARITY CASE

For the last few years we have put out a selection of wines which, with a little help from a supplier and by reducing our margin, allows us to make a donation of £5 per every 6-pack purchased to charity.  Our chosen charity remains the Cancer Campaign in Suffolk which provides support to cancer patients and their families.  What they raise in Suffolk stays in Suffolk - it is a truly local charity dealing with a disease that, sadly, touches most of us in one way or another.  When you need a few bottles - and you might with Easter and the various bank holidays coming up - please consider this half-case.  Just by steering your purchase in this direction you can do a tremendous amount of good.

The 6-pack comprises the above two wines and two other pairs:

2010 Percheron Chenin/Viognier and 2011 Percheron Shiraz/Mourvèdre from South Africa

2010 Montevista Viognier Reserve and 2010 Montevista Carmenère Reserve from Chile.

As ever these can be taken as mixed, all red or all white variations with no change in price.

The price is £39.95 which shows a discount to you of just under 7.5% off listed rates.

You can order online now.

This offer will run, subject to stock remaining unsold, until 31^st May 2012

(which is actually the date of our summer tasting).