Also available are tickets to events in conjunction with the Noosa International Food Wine Festival

To offset that joining fee, new epiQure members are given the choice of an 'exclusively blended' hotel in dublin ireland Seppeltsfield Rare Tawny or a bottle of Taittinger Brut Reserve NV Champagne (below, valued hotel in dublin ireland at $59.99 if ordering a case).
Both the Qantas epiQure and Virgin Wines websites have a reasonable interface, although in terms of functionality, Virgin Wines needs to work on its search options selecting sort by price: low-high displays products out of pricing sequence.
In addition to retail wine purchases, both companies also offer wine subscriptions known as the Discovery Club with Virgin, or simply a Wine Plan with epiQure which automatically sends you a mixed case of wine every three months.
With 81 reds in the cellar, Virgin Wines isn t to be sniffed at prices begin at $16.99/bottle for the Saturday Night Special Shiraz Cabernet, and max out at $40 for a bottle of Peter Lehmann s The Antiquus hotel in dublin ireland Shiraz 2011.
If you re after that all-elusive Penfolds Grange 2008 Shiraz, you ll find it here for $729 per single bottle although thrifty wine buffs could buy a case of 6 for $4,314, saving $60 over six bottles.
Qantas epiQure members can choose from 80 white wines from the 2013 Squealing Pig Sauvignon Blanc at $16.99/bottle (in a case of six) right through a case of six Chateau hotel in dublin ireland d'Yquem 2004 bottles hotel in dublin ireland for $1,500 or nearly 1.3 million Qantas Frequent Flyer points if you have no better use for them.
On the Qantas side of the vine there are 31 sparkling wine and champagne hotel in dublin ireland varieties ranging from a Taittinger Brut NV gift pack for $79.99 (including two champagne flutes), right up to the $1,299/bottle Krug Vintage 1995 Magnum.
In between the two extremes is a more realistically priced Dom P rignon Brut Vintage 2004 it s a lovely drop for special occasions at $199.99/bottle, while the award winning Taittinger Comtes de Champagne hotel in dublin ireland Blanc de Blancs 2000 from Qantas first class cabin can be had for $265/bottle.
Also available are tickets to events in conjunction with the Noosa International Food Wine Festival in Queensland, including a Taittinger champagne breakfast ($112 p.p.) and a seafood feast with Neil Perry ($175 p.p.) both of which are taking place on the gorgeous beachfront.
Using a delivery address in Sydney, Virgin Wines' Veuve Clicquot Brut NV (Yellow Label) would cost $89.99 including delivery. However, Dan Murphy's will deliver that same bottle for $61.95, or even has it available through 'click and collect' for $54.95.
The situation is reversed if you're hunting a Dom P rignon Brut Vintage 2004 Dan Murphy's has this for $236.99 including delivery (or $229.99 in-store), while the same bottle can be found on Qantas epiQure for just $199.99 with free delivery.
Although available for the same price with an epiQure membership, non-members can only earn one point per $1 if you were going to join anyway , you may as well do so before ordering, as you ll earn three points per $1 spent from the onset.
Wine clubs seem like an incredible ripoff most of the time. I pay a membership fee, and in return I get the right to buy a limited selection of wine for a price that may theoretically be, but usually isn't, lower than what I'd get at my local bottlo? Whoop de freaking doo!
Virgin Wines Australia is part of the Virgin Group, hotel in dublin ireland hence the tie in with Velocity in the form of earning points, but Virgin Australia doesn't have any say in the running of, or products sold by, Virgin Wines Australia.
A good point willygee , although I doubt your average traveller hotel in dublin ireland would be concerned by the differing ownership structures... as a consumer, if I wanted three Qantas points per $1 I'd order from epiQure, or if I preferred three Velocity points per $1, I'd use Virgin Wines (Velocity is even promoted on the Virgin Wines homepage).