20% OFF WINE SALE
For 3 days only S H Jones are having a 20% off wine and 10% off spirits sale – and that means ALL WINE and ALL SPIRITS. Pop into one of our shops between Christmas and the New Year and pick up some great deals. Bear in mind too that once the sale ends VAT
Read more…
Snowy Weather
Because of the current snowy weather we are expecting that we will have disrupted opening hours in our shops until the situation improves. The shops will aim to be open for a MINIMUM from 10am until 5pm. Unfortunately we are now no longer able to guarantee deliveries for before Christmas.
Sweet Surrender
Something a little strange happens over Christmas, I’m not sure exactly what it is, but for some reason we all forget our prejudice against sweet wines and decide that we must have something to go with pudding. I don’t think it’s because in reality we don’t actually like them (as someone who dislikes sprouts I
Read more…
Kiwi Terroirist
Terroir is a word that gets bandied about by French wine makers and viticulturists with some degree of abandon. It may be Burgundians talking about the terroir of a specific site, or complaining that noone else understands terroir quite like they do, especially those Bordelais! Of course France doesn’t have the monopoly on Terroir, you
Read more…
Simon’s self-indulgent tour
Whilst spending a couple of gloriously sunny days on Skye at the beginning of October, and having managed not to plunge to my death off the side of The Quiraing (why is there a cemetery at the bottom of that mountain when the nearest settlement is a good five or six miles away?), I decided
Read more…
S H Jones wins prizes!
We’re very pleased having recently won two prizes. The first prize we won was a runner up prize in a Wines of Chile competition for the best Chilean promotion during the month of September, whilst we heard this week that our South African promotion during the World Cup (remember back then – you know when
Read more…
Elements of Islay
Coming soon to S H Jones whisky shelves, the “Elements of Islay” range of malts looks more like something that you’d see in a school laboratory than in a drinks cabinet. With a range that includes Ardbeg (Ar2) Caol Ila (Cl1) and Bruichladdich (Br1) these cask strength bottlings aim to show Islay malts in all
Read more…
Tasting Chase
William Chase is essentially a farmer, a very successful farmer who has diversified with great success. It seems that everything he touches at the moment comes good. As a potato farmer he took the decision to start producing his own potato crisps and a little while later Tyrrells Crisps were born. Will is the third
Read more…
