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Burgundy En-Primeur Tasting

[ March 26, 2010; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Fareham Wine Cellar is holding a tasting of en-Primeur Burgundies from Louis Jadot on 20 March 2010
…we are holding a tasting of all of the Louis Jadot 2008 Burgundies we are buying en primeur. There are four (possibly five) red and three white wines and they will all be available to purchase [...]

Yapp's Bin End Sale

[ March 27, 2010; ] Reputable independent wine merchant Yapp Brothers hold their Spring Bin End sale on Saturday 27 March 2010.

Based in Mere in Wiltshire they are especially strong in the Loire and Rhone but many other regions and countries on offer – often from lesser-known vineyards – you can be guaranteed to find something interesting here.

Yapp Brothers, Mere, [...]

Bernard's Wine Route

A Frenchman in North Wales has established a French wine business -FrenchWines_Direct as part of Bernard’s wine route Ltd:
Our French Wines are traditionally made by skilled producers from the most notorious French Wine Regions. The passion for wine runs in the family. “Grand Pere Lambert” my great-grandpa, used to make “Pineau des Charentes” and red [...]

Valentines Day gift ideas

Valentines Day on 14 February 2010 is an opportunity for wine merchants to promote wine and wine-related gifts, and most do offer something more or less suitable.
However Sparkling Direct has an interesting and varied offering for (wine) lovers – and (despite the name) not always involving Champagne or other fizz. For example they are offering [...]

Roberson's Burgundy En Primeur Tasting

[ February 4, 2010; ] If you are in or near West London and you want to taste some great Burgundies then Robersons is the place to head for – they are holding a Burgundy En-Primeur tasting on 4 February 2010 – tickets cost £20
The beginning of the year means Burgundy En Primeur and in the past 12 months the [...]

January Sales – Vin Vino Direct

January Sale times have arrived and numerous wine merchants have special offers.
Online Specialist Vin Vino Direct are offering 15% off their entire range until 22 January 2010.
We have one of the largest collections of French claret wines in the UK…plus, an amazing range of Italian fine wines and French fine wines. We carry wines covering [...]

Christmas Choices from Vineyards Direct

It is always interesting to see what choices people make for Christmas drinking. There is a tendency to save some of your best bottles for opening over the festive season, but there are some other considerations – do the wines go with the food?; will it be something which Great Aunt Maud would like (or [...]

Life’s too short to drink bad wine!

Columnist Simon Hoggart has a new book out with a title to match a strongly shared sentiment : Life’s Too Short to Drink Bad Wine: 100 wines for the discerning drinker. Simon who is a political writer for the Guardian and wine columnist for the Specator magazine, is perhaps more of a wine-lover than a [...]

Cotswold Wine Merchant expands

Chipping Campden based independent wine merchant Bennetts Fine Wines is taking over Shipston-on-Stour merchants Edward Sheldon from 23 November. Edward Sheldon is a long-established business with excellent original premises in Shipston-on-Stour (Warwickshire) with purpose-built cellars.
With our award winning range of wines from Burgundy, Italy and the New World, combined with their depth in Bordeaux and [...]

Christmas Tastings at Fareham Wine Cellar

[ December 12, 2009; December 19, 2009; ] Fareham Wine Cellar is offering 2 Christmas Tastings for 2009 – on 12 December with Catherine Hill of Stratford’s Wines Agencies (Australia and France) and on 19 December 2009 with James Wilson of Hatch Mansfield (Champagne, France, South Africa, Chile, Spain and Australia)
These are the usual informal tastings at our shop. There is no need [...]

French Vins de Pays on offer at Majestic

Vins de Pays (literally “Country Wines” in French) were originally humble and simple wines which could not meet the requirements for a designated Appellation Controllée (AOC) status. However over recent years many producers have been using the Vin de Pays label to experiment and create some superb wines without the traditional restrictions which many French [...]

Wine at the Taste of Christmas

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Taste of Christmas, “the foodie event of the festive season”, is taking place at Excel London from December 4-6, 2009. Top chefs, artisan producers andthe chance to stock up on the festive food and sample your favourite restaurants’ seasonal menus – plus some interesting wine offerings in the Boutique [...]

Wokingham Wine Festival

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The Wokingham Wine Festival (Berkshire) on 5-6 December 2009 provides anopportunity for wine-lovers to taste and buy fine wines supplied by members of the ASDW (the Association of Small Direct Winemerchants). ASDW members offer between them a huge range of fine wines from around the world.

The event is [...]

A good year for Beaujolais Nouveau 2009?

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Beaujolais Nouveau day arrives this year on Thursday 19 November 2009 – i.e. the third Thursday of November. No longer the huge media event it once was, there remains much enthusiasm for it in France, and to a lesser extent in the UK.
Beaujolais Nouveau can be a bit thin [...]

Hix and Buck wine for F Word series

[ November 16, 2009; 6:30 pm; ] A novel combination of a dancer and mining engineer launch Hix & Buck to bring undiscovered French wines to UK and one of their wines has secured a spot on Gordon Ramsay’s new F Word series on Channel 4 TV.

Chix Chandaria, a former dancer, and Dan Roebuck, a mining engineer, have formed Hix & Buck [...]