Easter At Sparkling Direct

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Easter is just around the corner and if you are stuck for gift ideas then look no further than Sparkling Direct who have a fantastic selection of Easter gift ideas that are ideal for wine, spirit or chocolate lovers. They all come with free delivery and are at fabulous prices so don’t delay and get your Easter gifts today.

Red Wine Gift Basket
Red Wine Gift Basket
This gift consists of a bottle of Campo Crianza Wine together with a Lily embosed tin of Chocolate Chip Cookies(250g). Presented in a wooden gift box and complete with your personal message.
Our Price £27.99

White Wine Easter Gift
White Wine Easter Gift
This gift consists of a single bottle of Sauvignon Blanc Wine, together with a selection of Easter foods to include Cinnamon Star shaped biscuits(175g), Hand Baked Fruit Cake Slice (160g) and a box of Assorted Chocolates(150g). Presented in a rustic gift basket and complete with your personal message.
Our Price £29.99

Red Wine Easter Egg
Red Wine Easter Egg
A single bottle of Italian Nero d’Avola Wine together with half a white chocolate egg, hand piped with milk chocolate and packed with an assortment of milk and white luxury Easter chocolates. Supplied in a rustic basket complete with a personal message of your choice.
Our Price £31.99

Champagne Easter Egg
Champagne Easter Egg
A bottle of Bourgeois-Diaz Rose Champagne together with half a white chocolate egg, hand piped with milk chocolate and packed with an assortment of milk and white luxury Easter chocolates. Supplied in a gift basket complete with a personal message of your choice.
Our Price £39.99

Smirnoff Red Label Vodka and Luxury Chocolate Gift
Smirnoff Red Label Vodka and Luxury Chocolate Gift
A single bottle of Smirnoff Red Label Vodka together with Cottage Delight Handmade Chocolate Truffles. Presented in a wooden gift box lined with wood wool. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
Our Price £46.99

Laphroaig 10 Year Old and Luxury Chocolate Gift
Laphroaig 10 Year Old and Luxury Chocolate Gift
A single bottle of Laphroaig 10 Year Old single malt whisky together with Cottage Delight Handmade Chocolate Truffles. Presented in a wooden gift box lined with wood wool. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
Our Price £57.99

Glenmorangie Original and Luxury Chocolate Gift
Glenmorangie Original and Luxury Chocolate Gift
A single bottle of Glenmorangie Original single malt together with Cottage Delight Handmade Chocolate Truffles. Presented in a wooden gift box lined with wood wool. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
Our Price £57.99

Hennessy VS Cognac and Luxury Chocolate Gift
Hennessy VS Cognac and Luxury Chocolate Gift
A single bottle of Hennessy VS Cognac together with Cottage Delight Handmade Chocolate Truffles. Presented in a wicker gift basket. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
Our Price £57.99

Taylors First Estate Port and Luxury Chocolate Gift
Taylors First Estate Port and Luxury Chocolate Gift
A single bottle of Taylors First Estate Port together with Charbonnel et Walker Port & Cranberry Truffles. Presented in a wooden gift box lined with wood wool. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
Our Price £36.99

Baileys Original and Luxury Chocolate Gift
Baileys Original and Luxury Chocolate Gift
A single bottle of Baileys original together with Charbonnel et Walker Mint Truffles. Presented in a wooden gift box lined with wood wool. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
Our Price £36.99

    Easter Alternatives From Sparkling Direct

    Author: admin  //  Category: Booze Recommendations, Food Gifts, Gifts, Rose Wine, Spirits, Vodka, flowers, red wine, sparkling wine, white wine

    If you are in need of an Easter gift for an adult then look no further than Sparkling Direct who have a vast range of sparkly gifts for adults. From champagnes to wines to spirits, they have a great range of alternatives to an Easter egg!

    Laurent Perrier Rose Champagne and Luxury Chocolate Gift
    Laurent Perrier Rose Champagne and Luxury Chocolate Gift
    A single bottle of Laurent Perrier Rose Champagne together with Cottage Delight Handmade Chocolate Truffles and presented in a wicker gift tray. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
    Our Price £78.99

    Bourgeois Diaz Champagne and Luxury Chocolate Gift
    Bourgeois Diaz Champagne and Luxury Chocolate Gift
    A single bottle of House Champagne – Bourgeois-Diaz NV together with Handmade Chocolate Truffles and presented in a wooden gift box. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
    Our Price £48.99

    Directors Cut Chardonnay Wine Gift
    Directors Cut Chardonnay Wine Gift
    A great wine from Francis Ford Coppola’s vineyard in California. This 2006 Chardonnay is from the Directors Cut range and comes presented in a wooden gift box complete with your own personal message.
    Our Price £27.99

    Hawkes Bay Pinot Noir Gift
    Hawkes Bay Pinot Noir Gift
    A single bottle of Hawkes Bay Pinot Noir 2006 Wine. This is presented in a wooden gift box and is lined with wood wool. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
    Our Price £25.25

    Romantic Flowers
    Romantic Flowers
    A Luxurious mixture of velvety red roses, combined with lime green chrysanth blooms. The Perfect Romance Gift – Wrapped luxuriously for the right occasion. All of our flowers are expertly hand-tied by our team of florists, so no arranging is needed. Colour tones my vary slightly as our flower arrangments are made fresh on the day of despatch, from the best flowers available.
    Our Price £39.99

    Champagne and Flowers Bourgeois-Diaz
    Champagne and Flowers Bourgeois-Diaz
    A single bottle of Bourgeois-Diaz Champagne together with an explosive mixture of colour & flowers – perfect for all occasions. A delightful mixture of roses, alstromeria and lime green chrysanth’s. Our unique Gift card creator, lets you personalise this gift with your own message.
    Our Price £64.99

    Hors douvres Gift Box
    Hors douvres Gift Box
    A half bottle of Chanson Bourgogne Pinot Noir wine together with Pork & Stilton Pate (125g) and Oval Alberts Savoury Biscuits (150g) Presented in a wooden box and you can personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
    Our Price £21.99

    The Langlois Hamper
    The Langlois Hamper
    A wonderous hamper for anyone with a sweet tooth!. Contents include Langlois Sparkling Rose Wine(75cl), Langlois Sparkling Wine (75cl) and a selection of foods to include Strawberry Jam (113g), Clotted Cream (170g) Hand Baked Chocolate Brownie Slices (225g), Apple Crumble Slices (150g), English Toffee Crunch Biscuits (200g), Chocolate and Hazlenut Biscuits (200g), and 2 Langlois Branded Glass Champagne Flutes.
    Our Price £54.99

    Smirnoff Vodka and Teddy Bear
    Smirnoff Vodka and Teddy Bear
    A single bottle of Smirnoff Red Label Vodka together with Bonnie, a fantastic cuddly loveable soft bear from Russ Berrie. Presented in a wicker gift basket. Personalize this gift by adding your own personal message.
    Our Price £38.99

      Majestic Gift Solutions

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      Majestic Wine Gift Solutions
      GIFT IDEAS FOR WINE LOVERS - Exclusively online (not available in Majestic stores)
      Picture of Moët and Veuve gifts MOËT ET CHANDON BRUT IMPÉRIAL NV GIFT, STANDARD PACKAGING = £36, WOODEN PACKAGING = £42
      VEUVE CLICQUOT CHAMPAGNE GIFT, STANDARD PACKAGING = £40, WOODEN PACKAGING = £46
      Gift Solutions is an online-only, dedicated gift delivery service with 1, 2, 3 & 6 bottle gifts, personalised with your message, in a range of packaging options. We have gifts to suit all budgets and tastes, helping you choose the perfect Christmas gift for any wine lover.

      We’re experts in multi-destination orders. So if you’re buying corporate gifts or simply for a number of people, we can take away all the hassle, with one easy-to-use spreadsheet order form, a single point-of-contact and consolidated invoicing.

      Gift Solutions packs are delivered by courier and are not available in-store. If you’re looking for the rest of the Majestic range including 12 bottle cases see majestic.co.uk.

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        Casillero del Diablo Merlot 2008, was £7.49 now £6.24 or buy 2 Chilean wines save 20% = £4.99
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        Cono Sur Sauvignon Blanc 2009 £5.99

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        Jean Sablenay Muscadet 2008, Loire £5.99
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        Round, crisp and fleshy; floral and mint notes marry seamlessly with aromas of tropical fruit.
        Food Match: The ultimate partner to a shellfish platter
        Hautes Côtes de Beaune Pinot Noir 2007 Domaine de Mercey, Burgundy £9.99
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        A brilliant Pinot with morello cherry aromas, light spicy notes and a peppery palate.
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        Viré-Clessé 2008 Pasquier Desvignes, Burgundy £7.99
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        Fresh, delicate tropical-fruit aromatics give way to subtle minerality and intense flavours of fresh stone fruits on the palate.
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        San Gimignano Sangiovese 2006 Passoni, Italy £9.99
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        Attractive aromas of cherries and violets, with hints of vanilla and liquorice. Good structure; fine tannins; smooth, elegant finish.
        Food Match: Chargrilled duck or pasta with a tomato based sauce
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        Country in the Spotlight: Chile
        Camilla Bordewich, Majestic Wine Buyer

        What is it about this remarkable country, sandwiched between the Andes and 3,000 miles of Pacific coast, that makes it such a powerhouse of New World production? And how are its winemakers safeguarding the future of the Chilean wine industry?

        Majestic Buyer Camilla Bordewich investigates.

        Picking Grapes at NightChile’s geography is, in a word, extraordinary. Between the arid deserts of the north and the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego in the far south, lush green valleys and hillsides provide perfect conditions for planting vines. This landscape enjoys incredible natural defences (mountains, deserts and the ocean), and carefully controlled agricultural practices mean the Chileans have had great success in preserving their diverse and unique natural eco-systems….
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        Voice Behind the Vine: Château Musar
        Serge Hochar, Winemaker

        Every vineyard has its own individual story, but some are truly unique. In this interview, we hear from a genuine one-off – a Lebanese legend, Serge Hochar.

        Château Musar WinesNote from the Buyer:…The cult wines of Château Musar are famous for their incredible ageability, and are prized by collectors for their untamed character and startling complexity – the perfect counterpoint to the modern, polished ‘international style’ of winemaking.

        Q. How long has your family been producing wines in the Lebanon?
        A. My father Gaston Hochar started our winery in Ghazir in 1930. Therefore 2010 will be our 80th year of production – 80 years since the creation of this great adventure.

        Q. Can you recommend your favourite food matches with your wines?
        A. Personally I adore Château Musar White 1969 with foie gras. Our whites should not be chilled and are perfect food wines…
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          Our range of fantastic value fizz is perfect for seasonal parties and functions. The quality provided by some of the top-end sparkling wines are an increasingly popular and more affordable alternative to Champagne.
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          Jane MacQuitty’s Top 100 Winter Wines
          NewspaperJane MacQuitty is one of the country’s most influential wine writers having written for The Times since 1982. We’re thrilled to announce that Jane has nominated 21 of Majestic’s wines to feature in her Top 100 list this winter. This is quite a scoop and is testament to all the work our buyers have put in to ensure our range offers quality and diversity across all price points.
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          STAR BUY – under £6 white!
          Rueda Blanco 2008 Marqués de Riscal £7.49
          Buy 2 bottles save £3 . . . £5.99
          “Gorgeous, thrilling, grapefruit and lime zest-spiked white, underpinned with rich, fat, yellow plum spice, made primarily from the verdejo grape and topped up with viura — the white grape of the Rioja region. Marques de Riscal is one of the great traditional Rioja wine houses which, unlike others in this classic region, has branched out to pioneer vineyards in cooler spots, most notably in 1972 in Rueda, northwest of Madrid, and still the source of Spain’s finest contemporary whites. 2008 was cooler and wetter in Rueda than usual, so this zingy white is even more tongue-tingling than previous vintages. Spain’s answer to sauvignon blanc.”
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          Alamos Chardonnay 2008 Catena, Mendoza £6.99
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          “My idea of the perfect, big, bold, nutty, buttered toast and tropical fruit-laden New World chardonnay — and all that for not much more than a fiver. Third-generation winemaker Nicolas Catena was the first in his family to spot the potential of his country’s cool climate and high-altitude vineyards in the Nineties and the results have been impressive — as anyone tasting this terrific young, rich, smoky, sappy Côte-d’Or-like, French oak-aged chardonnay can discover for themselves.”
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          Costero Syrah 2008 Viña Leyda £8.69
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          “From the moment I first tasted a Leyda valley chardonnay and pinot noir, from the San Antonio region south of Casablanca, it was clear that this corner of Chile was going to be the home of great things. Viña Leyda were the pioneers here and, at just 14 km from the Pacific Ocean, this sea breeze-cooled region wrings more fruit flavour from its grapes than most. Tuck into this wonderful fat, earthy, oaky, clove and violets-scented, l4 per cent alcohol-fueled syrah and see for yourself.”

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          Jackson Estate Stich Sauvignon Blanc 2008 Marlborough £9.99
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          “Jackson Estate’s standard sauvignon has now been sub-titled Stich in honour of founder John ‘Stich’ Stichbury’s 20th Marlborough vintage in 2008. The Stichbury and Jackson families are behind this label, with the latter having farmed this patch of Wairau River dirt for more than a century. This zesty, grassy, white currant and tropical fruit-laden sauvignon is a blend of seven different Marlborough vineyard sites and a good sub-£8 buy.”

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          Mâcon Rouges ‘Les Roches Rouges’ 2008 Louis Jadot £8.99
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          “The Mâconnais is best known for its white wines, comprising around two thirds of the vineyards here, but the reds can and do have as much right to a place on the festive table. Pinot noir usually yields to the more popular gamay grape in the Mâconnais, but this juicy red is made from the former and as such delivers delicious light, leafy, gamey, style and makes an easy-going lunchtime red with baked spiced ham, or a good mixed buffet bottle. Great value for money.”
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          Jane MacQuitty, The Times
          Saturday 14 November 2009
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          The Robert Mondavi StoryPicture of Robert Mondavi

          Kat Barlow, Manager at Majestic Wine Greenwich, gives us the background on Robert Mondavi: a name synonymous with Californian Winemaking.

          Napa Valley was one of the last regions to be developed in California. Despite this it is now arguably it’s most famous. Napa has undergone massive investment and has attracted pioneering winemakers, such as Robert Mondavi.

          Mondavi Winery at SunriseIn 1968 Mondavi introduced the world to Fumé Blanc. It all started 2 years previously with a vineyard, a vineyard planted with a good crop of the particularly unpopular Sauvignon Blanc grape. It was not even Mondavi’s vineyard; it was however his success. Mondavi decided to buy this crop of Sauvignon Blanc from a local grower and have a little play around. The end result was a refined and dry wine reminiscent of the great Loire wines but with a big American twist – oak. It seemed only fitting that he dedicated this new style of wine to the French producers that had influenced its creation and thus the term Fumé Blanc was coined.
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