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Image description: a bottle of wine which reads ‘Bianco di Bisenzio’ against a white wall with pink and blue paper chains hanging in the background. The Oxford Wine Company can be found on Turl Street, Little Clarendon Street, and Botley Road. This week, they have kindly sent us a mouth-watering 2019 Italian white wine for […]
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Image description: A bottle of white wine called ‘Essence: Riesling Raimund Prüm’ on a table with a yellow mug. For March’s review, The Oxford Wine Company were kind enough to provide me with a lovely screw top bottle to save my house from another embarrassing episode with a corkscrew. I am admittedly not someone who […]
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Image description: label of bottle of wine: Argentinian Aguaribay Malbec from Baron Edmond de Rothschild I have been a staunch supporter of The Oxford Wine Company since I first set foot in their Turl Street shop as a Fresher. I remember being pleasantly surprised as despite the fact that I was a student obviously looking […]
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Image Description: The Oxford Wine Company’s Turl Street storefront Lockdown #3 is here, and everyone knows what that means. Yes, we have to face the dire reality of taking yet another term from home. And yes, uni exams are still going ahead despite GCSEs and A-Levels being cancelled (thanks, [redacted] College, I’m blaming you for […]
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Image credit: Louis Thomas As the renowned Chinese poet and Tang dynasty government official Bai Juyi quipped, “the grand household snorts at syrupy wine, the exalted scholar laughs at petty poetry”. The first of this sentence was stolen from Wikipedia, the latter half from Janet Z Wang’s presentation to Bacchus, the University’s wine society (of […]
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Image credit: Louis Thomas Clad in my regalia (a Moss Bros tuxedo with a cummerbund to act as a crude gastric band), I marched from my poky little flat, in which I have been surviving on toast, Southern Comfort and leftover offal, to the Cherwell Boathouse for the twentieth anniversary dinner of Bacchus, the University’s […]
Continue ReadingBuying wine on a budget can be a minefield. One moment you’re congratulating yourself for locating a sub-£3 bargain, the next you’re discovering it was actually just cordial in a glass bottle. Ready your glasses oenophiles, the OxStu has stooped to the bottom shelf so you don’t have to. La Prensa Spanish White Wine (11%, […]
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Despite the name, The Oxford Wine Café serves decent coffee. The mocha is really sweet, definitely suffering from a bit too much sweetener and not enough coffee, but was still good. If you’re a tea drinker then they have an excellent range on offer, including the cringe-worthily named ‘Girlie Grey’, all priced around £2.50. The […]
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As term grinds on, the constant cycle of academic and social commitments can take its toll and many find that they just want a quiet night in amongst friends. Cramped, communal kitchens may rule out anything resembling a traditional dinner party but there are plenty of ways to eat, drink and be merry together nonetheless. […]
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