Summer products

Seasonal products usually interest many of Vínbúðin‘ customers and they are eagerly awaited. Now the sales period for summer products has started and will last until August 31. Almost 80 summer products are expected to be available in Vínbúðin stores this season, most of them are beer but a few other types of products can be found in the mix as well. Enjoy!

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Vínbúðin an exemplary organization

The results of the Public Organization of the Year 2022 survey were announced yesterday, on February 17th. The public organizations of the year are three, in different categories according to size, but in addition, exemplary organizations received recognition.

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Natural wine

Natural wine is a certain ideology of winemakers that originated in the 1960s in the province of Beaujolais, France. Winemakers Marcel Lapierre, Jean Foillard, Charly Thevenet and Guy Breton wanted to go back to the methods used before World War II. Natural, organic farming free of all synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and additives was the method in those days and "The Gang of Four", as these four winemakers were sometimes called, encouraged those old methods.

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Tapas and wine

The origins of the deilicious Spanish dish tapas is not quite known, but the most likely explanation is that when wine was served in Spain, a slice of bread or thin meat was placed over the glass to keep the flies away. This is not an unlikely explanation since the word 'tapas' is derived from the Spanish/Portuguese verb tapar, 'to cover'.

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Visiting Iceland

You can buy alcohol in Vínbúðin Alcohol is not like any other product on the market. Therefore the operation is based on clearly defined responsibilities and on the fact that we do not strive to maximize the profits or encourage sales within the stores.