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Roberson’s Wine School

[ April 22, 2010; ] Many people are keen to learn more about the wine they are drinking – and choosing. Of course the best way is often to be a little disciplined about keeping track of what you like or don’t enjoy about an individual wine – building up a memory bank which helps you to understand your preferences [...]

Low Suphite Wine from Good Wine Online

When you pick up a bottle of wine from your favourite merchant (or supermarket) do you ever wonder what it is that you are drinking ?
Unfortunately, the hangover you receive in the morning may not be due to drinking the wine, but what’s in it. Sulphites are naturally occurring in all wines, as [...]

Food & Wine Matching in London

[ February 24, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) is the body which awards the main qualifications for the wine business in the UK – but they also run courses and events for everyone interested in wine.
On 24 February 2010 the Trust is running a wine and food matching course in London.
For many people the matching of [...]

Wines of Uruguay UK

South American wines have come of age and are now part of the British wine landscape – hence a new specialist for the Wines of Uruguay. Bordering the continent’s Atlantic coast and sandwiched between Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay’s wine remain less recognisable than some other countries in the Region, but there is no reason to [...]

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 [...]

Wine and Cheese in Stratford-Upon-Avon

[ December 4, 2009; 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Independent Wine Merchant Vinology has teamed up with top Cheesemonger Paxton & Whitfield to offer their annual Christmas Tasting in Stratford (Warwickshire) on Friday 4 December 2009 between 5pm and 9pm!
Our annual Christmas tasting! Once again this will be taking place at St. Gregory’s Hall at the end of the street on the junction of [...]

Roberson’s Ridge Tasting

[ November 26, 2009; 6:00 pm; ] OK, so I am biased, but I am a great fan of California’s Ridge Winery – and London independent merchant Robersons have got Ridge’ chief winemaker, Paul Draper, to host a tasting in Lonon on 26 November 2009 (7pm). As a huge enthusiast for Californian ZInfandels this is one tasting I would get to if [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A taste of Tuscany in Kent

[ November 18, 2009; ] Kent independent wine merchant Secret Cellar is holding a Super Tuscan Dinner on 18 November 2009 – at The Black Pig in Tunbridge Wells with Nick Adams MW – Tickets £60 each.

You keep asking for food with your wine and so we have duly obliged with what should be an absolute classic. Having [...]

2009 Wine Show in London

[ October 22, 2009 to October 25, 2009. ]
The 2009 Wine Show takes place at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London from 22-25 October 2009.
This major consumer event offers all wine enthusiasts a great opportunity to taste, learn and buy – meet experts, buy direct from producers, wine walks and tasting theatre and a French Market and Wine Growers Fair. Oz Clarke [...]

A new Gluck Book – Great Wine Swindle

Acerbic, consumer-friendly wine critic Malcolm Gluck publishes a new book – “The Great Wine Swindle” on 18 November 2009. Malcolm Gluck is one of the nation’s best known wine critics and a voice of authority on all things concerning wine. His new book is intended to reveal the snobbery associated with wine today and how [...]

Lille Wine Fair 2009

[ November 20, 2009 to November 23, 2009. ] For a great selection of French wines to taste and purchase direct from the winemaker, then head for the Lille Wine Fair in Northern France, which runs from Friday 20 – Monday 23 November 2009.

Although the exchange rate against the €uro means that there are few bargains to be had, the choice of French wines [...]

York Wine Fair

[ September 26, 2009; ] York Wine Fair is held in the Guildhall in York on 26 September 2009 with two sessions – noon to 4pm and then 6pm to 9pm.As part of the York Food and Drink Festival which runs from 18-27 September 2009.
There will be in excess of 100 wines on show at this ‘Trade-Style’ wine tasting. Pick [...]

Nantwich Food & Drink Festival

[ September 25, 2009 to September 27, 2009. ] Nantwich in Cheshire is the place to be from 25-27 September 2009 for the annual Nantwich Food and Drink Festival.
Nantwich Food Festival is one of the top food and drink events in the country and regularly attracts tens of thousands of visitors from all over Britain (and beyond!). Its popularity owes much to the proximity [...]