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Adnams free tasting weekend - South Africa competition

[ June 11, 2010 to June 12, 2010. ] 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 12 bottles of [...]

Rothschild wines at the greengrocers?

A new vegetable and foodie store opens in Fulham in July with wines sourced from Baron Philippe de [...]

Find food to match your wine!?

[ April 23, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] Manchester’ Spanish specialist Evuna is offering a slightly different spin on Wine and Food matching with an event which lets you select a range of  dishes to go with a range of Spanish Rioja wines from Campo Viejo – Viva el Vino!
On Friday 23 April 2010, Evuna will be hosting a Gourmet Wine and Food [...]

London wine and food matching

[ June 2, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] There can be little doubt that choosing the right wine for the dish (or vice versa) can enhance the enjoyment of both – and getting it wrong can be a disaster.
For many people the matching of food and wine can be an anxiety, these Food & Wine matching workshops help you make the best combinations [...]

Wine and Tapas in Worcester

Matching the right wine with the appropriate food is often a challenge, so it is imteresting to find an independent wine merchant runing its own Tapas Bar  as in the Worcester Wine Company and Bacco’s Tapas Bar/Café.
The Worcester Wine Company and Baccos Café/Tapas Bar promise you a fantastic experience whether you choose to buy a [...]

Wine and Food matching in London

[ April 6, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ]
For many people the matching of food and wine can be an anxiety, these Food & Wine matching workshops help you make the best combinations effortlessly. The workshop starts with an explanation of the principles behind food and wine combinations; which work and which don’t. Then the practical work begins, tasting examples of various food [...]

Food & Wine Matching in London

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[ 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 [...]

Austrian Winemaker Dinner

[ February 9, 2010; 8:30 pm; ] Nick Dobson Wines is sponsoring a “Meet the Winemaker Dinner” on Tuesday 9 February 2010 at Café Strudel in Richmond, West London,
The evening includes a “fabulous gourmet meal” designed specially by Chef Yacine Benghazal (ex Marco-Pierre White) to accompany 7 different wines from the highly reputed Weingut Günter Triebaumer from Rust on the shores of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Meat and Wine Co’s London Australia Tasting

[ November 3, 2009; 7:00 pm; ]

London’s “Meat and Wine Co” are hosting a tasting at their new premises in London’s new Westfield Shopping Centre at Shepherds Bush.

Entitled ” KNOW YOUR AUSTRALIAN WINES BLINDFOLDED … PUT IT TO THE TEST!” the event takes place in the Restaurant on 3rd November 2009 at 700.pm and costs £20 per person
If you’re confident of [...]

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 [...]

Learn about Argentinean Wine and Tango!

[ September 12, 2009; ]
Wines of Argentina and Decanter Magazine are putting on a “Wine Encounter” on 12 September 2009 designed to showcase Argentinean Wines in the UK – but also to offer a range of other Argentina related events  including food master classes (featuring wine and steak! ) and for the more energetic some Tango lessons to really [...]

Wine Auction for Action Against Hunger!

[ October 10, 2009; ] Another slightly bizarre  juxta-position between poverty and excess this autumn will involve famous chefs such as Heston Blumenthal, Angela Hartnett, Fergus Henderson and Herbert Berger – who are combining their forces this October to host the celebrated Action Against Hunger Fine Wine Auction and Dinner 2009.

Fergus Henderson(above) of the Michelin-starred St John, has posed [...]

A wee wine tasting in Edinburgh

[ February 3, 2009; ] Independent Edinburgh wine merchant l’Art du Vin was conceived and nurtured out of a passion for food and wine by Philippe Larue, Richard Bouglet, Edward Bowen;
Our focus is to supply quality wines that are made with passion, integrity and uniqueness of origin whilst being true to environmental and ethical issues. We have a wide range [...]

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