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St Patricks Day Tasting

[ March 17, 2010; ] Evuna, Manchester’s Spanish-focussed Wine Bar/Restaurant/Wine Club will be celebrating St Patrick’s Day (17 March 2010) with an organic wine tasting.
Why Organic ?
Organic wines are made from grapes which are cultivated without recourse to synthetic fungicides, herbicides or fertilizers.
We believe that to produce quality wine you need quality grapes, and organic grapes do not have dependencies [...]

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 [...]

Murcia Wine Club

A new online specialist for Spanish Wines has arrived with Murcia Wine Club. Based in Spain and catering to an international market, there is an extensive range of Spanish Wines. However, prices are in €uros and there is no online ordering – you need to send an email. Calculating delivery costs also looks complicated.
Murcia Wine [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Evuna’s November Tasting in Manchester

[ November 4, 2009; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Spanish specialist Evuna are holdig a pre-Christmas tasting on 4 November 2009 from 6pm to 9pm:
Taste 10 boutique wines, all from small family run vineyards and take the hassle out of Christmas shopping.
Tickets are £25 a head including Tapas.
You can book by calling 0161 819 2752.
Evuna – 277-279 Deansgate, Manchester M3 4EW
T: 0161 819 2752 [...]

Averys Summer Sale

Averys, a long-established independent wine merchant based in Bristol have launched their summer sale:
The 2009 European harvest will soon be underway and we need to clear out our cellars to make way for new arrivals. The August Summer Sale is the biggest and best sale of the year at Averys and this year the team [...]

Wine tasting for singles!

[ September 9, 2009; ] Wine usually generates a very sociable atmosphere, hence Manchester’s Fine Spanish wine merchant Evuna has come up with a wine tasting evening for singles – an opportunity to learn about some great Spanish wines and to meet people at the same time!
Ever thought speed dating seems a bit unnatural ? Evuna have teamed up with [...]

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 [...]

Utiel Requina wines from Decanter Wines

Spanish specialist independent wine merchant and importer Decanter Wines offers a small but very interesting ranige of Spanish Wines.
As well as a good range of young and older Riojas, there are good selections from the Spanish end of Douro Valley including some excellent Ribera del Duero DO.
The DO (denomination of origin) for Uiiel-Requina is a [...]

A Taste of Iberia in Brighton

[ July 24, 2009; ] The Butlers Wine Cellar is hosting a tasting of Portuguese and Spanish Wines in Brighton on 24 July 2009, including some more unusual grape varieties.
Portugal is…..One of my (Henry) favourite wine making countries at the moment. It doesn’t always get it right or produce wine of excellence, but I think there is a lot of [...]

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 [...]

Tasting Tempranillo

[ May 27, 2009; ] On 27 May 2009 Manchester’s Spanish Fine Wine specialist EVUNA (wine bar/restaurant) is providing a rare opportunity to try some serious tasting of wines based on Spain’s classic Tempanillo grape:
Typically the Tempranillo grape is dark berried in fruit with a rustic edge. When aged, more savory aromas are experienced. We will taste together the same [...]

Galician wines and food

Galicia in northern Spain is a little known area with its wines and food even less known. But now independent wine and food merchant Flavours of Spain has extended its range of fine wines with two UK exclusives from Galicia :-
With spectacular landscapes, clean air and a sweeping coastline, Galicia has an array of culinary [...]