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Something New

Sean Sellers  in General

Welcome to the new InterWined.

InterWined.com isn’t your average Wine blog.

Here’s why:

Each week, InterWined and its liver drink loads of wine, but it only bothers to write about those that it likes. It isn’t about volume, it’s about quality.

Because it doesn’t accept wine samples or free gifts, most of the wines bought and reviewed on InterWined.com fall within the £5-£10 ($10-$20) range.

This way, when you’re sat in the office, dreaming of 5 o’clock, you can visit the Web site by the grape (to the right of the posts) or by the keyword/brand (in the tag cloud the left) and read a review/recommendation. With InterWined you can even search the comments for reviews and recommendations!

Later, once you’ve bought a bottle of something you fancied and tried, you can come back to the site and write your own searchable review in the comments. You might even decide to stick around and actually read the posts or search the archives — ed.

What’s more, there are ‘How To’ videos and virtual tasting on show in The Tasting Room, a trailer for InterWined’s television documentary series in InterWined:The Series, and links to our clothing shops too.

So take a minute to travel round the site, get a gravatar and leave a comment. (Learn what gravatar means — ed.).

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Duncan
Duncan said: June 22nd, 2007 at 8:16 am

Have to say it looks pretty swish!

Sean Sellers
Sean Sellers said: June 22nd, 2007 at 10:48 am

Thanks Duncan -ed.

Sean Sellers
Sean Sellers said: June 25th, 2007 at 8:55 am

In anticipation of things to come…I thought that I would share with all of you some of the bottles of wine that got me through the developing of this Web site.

1. Salomon’s “Groovey” Gruner Veltliner. Costs £5 and change at Oddbins; excellent for the price - very good. Crisp, light, pale, super refreshing, I nearly drank the bottle in a single sitting. Had to remind myself to take it slow and savour it.

2. Les Figuieres Cotes du Rhone, Viognier and Roussanne. Very good, I liked this more than I expected. It was an Oddbins’ recommendation, on the high end (£10+) for InterWined. A bit nutty, some fruit too. Honeyed.

3. Macon Davaye from Bourgone, a chardonnay, which I don’t usually like, and a recommendation from the wine seller at Oddbins (£9.50). This was creamy in a good way, with none of that oak that seems all the rage in chardonnays.

Enjoy!

Sean Sellers
Sean Sellers said: June 25th, 2007 at 9:07 am

A few more that I tried…you know, there must be a correlation between working on a Wine blog and the amount of alcohol you drink.

Here are a few more that helped me sort out the video.

1. Parducci Petite Syrah, Mendocino, Califorina (£7). Bought this from Oddbins for the name alone. Parducci just didn’t seem like a wine name to me.
It was quite nice from what I remember. Oddbins Web site says a lot about it. I recall the cocoa quality only.

2. Castello di Arcano, Pinot Grigio, 2005, an InterWined recommendation from Planet of the Grapes in Holborn (£8). Even though, the bottle doesn’t say it, this is an organic wine. For those that like their Pinot Grigio, this has to be one of the best I’ve every tried. It was lovely. Lemony, fresh, clean, you know the stuff.

3. Sanctuary, Pinot Gris, 2005, from Marlborough, New Zealand. Got this fro Sainsbury’s; according to the bottle the winery’s Carbon Zero. I’m not the biggest fan of Pinot Gris — too flowery and soapy for me; I am however a big fan of NZ wines. At first taste, very reminiscent of the things that I don’t like. After a day, it tasted much better, the flowery flavours had died down significantly and left the wine tasting a lot more like the Italian Pinot Grigio. Long live oxygenation, I guess.

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