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Fareham Wine Cellar Portfolio Tasting

Fareham Wine Cellar has featured several times in our scan of good independent wine merchants, and now comes a chance to taste many of the wellc-chosen wines on offer at their bi-annual Portfolio Tasting on 27 October 2010.

With 150 or more wines on taste, and producers/negociants to talk with – this will be [...]

Adnams free tasting weekend - South Africa competition

Adnams, the respected East Anglian brewer, hotel keeper and independent wine merchant hosts a free tasting weekend on 11/12 June 2010 – AND is also offering a chance to win a superb holiday on a South African vineyard estate (after the World Cup)

Win a wine lover’s dream holiday to South Africa Buy any [...]

BBC4 goes behind the scenes of the International Wine Challenge

The last episode of BBC4′s “Wine” series goes behind the scenes of the International Wine Challenge (IWC)  “the most comprehensive and influential blind tasting in the world”

The chairmen of the IWC, Tim Atkin, Charles Metcalfe and Derek Smedley will be tasting the wine produced by two unlikely South African winemakers at the end [...]

February offers from Majestic

Majestic Wine Warehouses are offering some new discounts for February 2009:

20% off Portuguese Wine when you buy any 2 Portuguese wines 25% off South African Wine when you buyany 2 SA wines 10% off Spirits when you buy any 2 bottles of spirits 50% off some Champagnes and Sparkling wines

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The Wine Room

UK Online merchant The Wine Room has an impressive portfolio of over 900 wines

The Wine Room exists primarily to bring you wine that you would not necessarily have heard of, from regions you may not even know exist. We offer you carefully crafted wines from small, family owned vineyards as well as [...]

South African Winemaker’s Dinner

Alastair and Jayne MacBrayne. at Dorjé’s Wine Company present a Fish Banquet with Ronell Wiid, the award winning winemaker of Hazendal Estate, Stellenbosch, in South Africa, who is making a special visit to the Virgins and Castle in Kenilworth,Warwickshire. Tuesday, October 7th, 2008.

We will be showing three white wines, three red wines and [...]

Meerlust Wine Dinner

South African wine specialist SA Wines Online is organising a wine dinner. They write -

The iconic Meerlust Estate needs no introduction and we invite you to join SA Wines Online and Hannes Myburgh, 8th generation owner of Meerlust Estate, at the exotic South African restaurant, Chakalaka, on 20th February 2008 for a wine [...]

Great Wine Online

Just one range of wines available from Great Wine Online as this is the UK outlet for the Rickety Bridge Winery of South Africa.

Currently they list 10 wines ranging in price from £6.95 for a Chenin Blanc up to the estates top cuvee Paulina’s Reserve 2003 for £16.95. The wines are of great [...]

SA Wines Online

As the name suggests an independent merchant that specialises in offering wines from across South Africa.

A few years ago, when I had a hand in organising small wine fairs, SA Wines Online often attended; their wines being highly popular. They operate out of South West London with sales through the functional website. Delivery [...]