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Jay Wright (Middle), celebrates his man of the year award with VW Wine Buyers Andy Baker (Left) and Dave Roberts (Right)

Jay Wright, our very own Managing Director , has been named as “Man of the Year” at the Drinks Business Awards 2013. The announcement was quickly followed with celebratory drinks and high fives all around (as well as some spilled drinks as a result).

The award was announced at the Drinks Business Awards ceremony held at the London International Wine Fair yesterday lunchtime. At 43, Jay is reported to be one of the youngest ever recipients of this award.

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Wine aficionado Matthew Jukes takes us through the finer points of the Red Rattler Hilltops Shiraz. This delicious Australian Shiraz is available on our website for £9.99 a bottle!

After a long week here at Virgin Wines HQ, we like to finish it all off with a little treat. This is where “Friday Wines” come in, or as they are commonly known around the office “Frines”. Our Wine Buyer Dave Roberts opens up a few cheeky bottles for us all to try, and then pops around an email so we know what we’re drinking. Tasting measures only, although what constitutes a tasting measure varies depending on how thirsty you are.

This week it’s all about White Wine and we had a chance to see the same grape type perform differently when cultivated in different climates.

We’re going to look at Gewurztraminer If you can’t look away and spell it, you can’t drink it. Well that’s the rule here at VW HQ but we’ll let you off on that one.

None of the following are from what’s widely recognised as the real home of this fragrant grape, Alsace, but it will show you how much there is to enjoy within a single grape variety.

First up…

Vina Leyda Gewurztraminer Reserva 2010

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Name:  Gavin Seymour

Job title:  Personal Wine Advisor

Favourite grape type: Shiraz

Favourite bottle of bubbly for celebrating:  Dom Perignon 2003

Best wine and food combo:  Lamb and Malbec

Wine producing country you would most like to visit:  USA – I think they are producing some fantastic wines at the moment.

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So we have a bank holiday weekend upon us and the good news is that it’s set to be a nice one –possibly up to around 20C on Sunday and Monday. With that in mind, it’s time to think about what wines would go down well for a sunny weekend – one where hopefully we’ll all be able to get outside rather than cosy-ing up indoors, which has been more typical of late!

Here are my top tips for making the most of the bank holiday weekend.

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Whipped up by David W (Social Media, On-line Marketing Guy)

We kicked off our new food series with a delightful light Italian supper. Now we continue with another simple dish, but with a little more kick and a little more heart to it. Every now and again we’ll pop together a delicious recipe, give you all the information you need to recreate the masterpiece and we’ll even recommend a lovely wine to enjoy alongside your meal. If you decide to try your hand at this recipe, why not take a picture and send it along to us, either on our Facebook page or our Twitter page.

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First of all we just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who entered our competition on Twitter over the past 24 hours. We had over 100 entries and some amazing responses to our St George’s day tweet “I Love England Because…”.

We have announced our winner who will receive one bottle of the amazing Ridgeview Cuvee Merret Bloomsbury Brut 2010. However we had so many great responses, we simply had to share some of the best. So here they are in no particular order.

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Widely respected wine guru Matthew Jukes gives us his take on the De Martino Estate Cabernet Sauvignon.