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2010 Tastings at Butlers Wine Cellar

[ February 10, 2010; 7:30 pm; March 5, 2010; 7:30 pm; March 24, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Brighton’s Butlers Wine Cellar is planning ahead beyond Christmas for some interesting wine tastings in early 2010.
On 10 February 2010 they are looking at Cabernet/Merlot Blends (These two red varieties are often blended together, why is that and why does it work so well? Come and find out through examples form around the world.)
On 5 [...]

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 [...]

A WineDrop in the West Country

WineDrop.co.uk is an independent online wine merchant which offers an extraordinarily wide range of wines, spirits and beers. Their list features wines from all the usual suspects, but also from Greece, Hungary, Romania, Japan, Uruguay and Brazil amongst others.
Brazil is an unusual choice – the Rio Sol Seco Cabernet Sauvignon is “Warm fruit and a [...]

Margaret River wines from Hawkshead Wines

Established 4 years ago in Northampton, Hawkshead Wines stocks a wide selection of wines from Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, Germany,Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and the United States
We are a small but expanding wine business based in Northampton. We supply customers both locally and throughout the UK using overnight courier. Our aim is [...]

Naked Wines from Norwich

Online UK wine merchant Naked Wines looks to be offering a fresh approach to wine buying
– the best independent wine merchants offer interesting and seldom-seen wines and help to establish a link between the consumer and winemaker.
A selection of well-chosen wines from France, Argentina, South Africa, Spain, Chile, Australia and New Zealand and good [...]

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 of their [...]

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
Marco do Pegões 2006 Terras do Sado Tinto [...]

Comic Relief wines 2009

In support of Comic Relief the wine business makes its own contribution through “Wine Relief”. Many outlets will be making their own arrangements, but from 29 January 2009 Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Tesco, Somerfield, Waitrose and Booths will be offering a Big Red Nose red and white for just £4.99 each, with at least £1 of each [...]

Learn about wine with Jancis in 3 minutes

The Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) which is the educational body for wine enthusiasts and professionals has produced 12 3-minute videos with Jancis Robinson MW (Master of Wine):
“The 3 minute wine school is a collection of 12 short films on different wine styles and regions. Registration is quick and easy and it’s FREE”
The videos [...]

Flint’s Burgundy Wines

Self-confessed Burgundy fans Jason Haynes and Sam Clarke set up Flint Wines (named after a dog!) in 2006 since when they have expanded their offerings to include other regions of France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
Their aim is to encourage an honest and informal approach towards wine. They have no intention [...]

Corks of….. Cotham in Bristol

Corks of Cotham, a suburb of Bristol,is an innovative independent wine merchant with a wide range of wines fro Argentina, Austria, England, Germany, Lebanon, Hungary and all the usual sources.
As an independent wine and spirit merchant, we stock a hugely varied and highly sought after range of wines. We source all of our wines ourselves [...]

New World Wines in Auld Scotland

[ December 6, 2008 to December 7, 2008. ] Up in Aberfeldy in Perthshire, (Scotland) New World Wine enthusiasts Kate and Mike McDiarmid will be holding their annual New World Wine Tasting on 6th and 7th December 2008. I tend to associate the Scots with traditional wines, and especially with France their long-time ally in their wrangles with the Anglo-Saxon world. However, this looks to [...]

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 wines from larger, [...]

South African Winemaker’s Dinner

[ October 7, 2008; 7:30 pm; ] 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 the award [...]

More award winners – Australia, Argentina & South Africa

Personally I get a little cynical about these awards – e.g. the Decanter World Wine Awards and the International Wine Challenge Awards – they are just so big that I am not sure what they really mean for an individual wine. In the days of Allez Vins! we were mightily pleased when one of our [...]