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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 [...]

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 [...]

Adnams beer and Suffolk coast clean-up

[ September 20, 2008; ]

Earn youself a pint of Adnams beer and contribute to the improvement of the environment by joining in Adnam’s Coastal Clean-up in Southwold, Suffolk on Saturday 20 September 2008.
As part of our commitment to our community and the environment in 2003 we adopted a 1km stretch of Southwold’s beach between Gun Hill and the Harbour [...]

Worcester Beer, Cider and Perry Festival

[ August 14, 2008 to August 16, 2008. ]
The Worcester Branch of the Campaign for Real Ale will hold its Ninth Annual Beer, Cider & Perry Festival from Thursday 14 August to Saturday 16 August 2008 on a site in the centre of Worcester Racecourse.

Being in the heart of cider- and perry-making country there should be a good range of styles to choose [...]

CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival

[ August 5, 2008 to August 8, 2008. ] The Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court is Britain’s biggest real beer festival and brings together a wide range of real ales, ciders, perries and international beers. Organised by CAMRA the Campaign for Real Ale -
There will be at least 450 beers available during the festival including golden ales, fruit beers, stouts, bitters and [...]

Kent Beer Festival 2008

[ July 17, 2008 to July 19, 2008. ] CAMRA’s (Campaign for Real Ale) Kent Beer Festival takes places from 17-19 July 2008 on a farm near Canterbury. With over 130 real ales and ciders, including foreign beers, music, food and a family area this looks to be a fun, and well-organised event for beer lovers.
“Beer on the farm” is the unofficial motto of [...]

Taste of Leeds – June 2008

[ June 5, 2008; June 6, 2008; June 7, 2008; June 8, 2008; ] The Channel4 sponsored Taste festival comes to Leeds Milllenium Square from 5-8 June 2008, offering visitors a great opportunity to taste fine foods and wines available in the region.
Imagine a picnic in a park. Now multiply it by thousands of people. Invite all the best restaurants in the area to contribute the food, and discerning [...]

Taste of Edinburgh – May 2008

[ May 29, 2008; May 30, 2008; May 31, 2008; June 1, 2008; ] The Channel 4 sponsored Taste festival comes to Edinburgh (The Meadows) from 29 May – 1 June 2008, offering visitors a great opportunity to taste fine foods and wines available in the region.
Imagine a picnic in a park. Now multiply it by thousands of people. Invite all the best restaurants in the area to contribute [...]

English Vineyard and Brewery for Sale

If you have always dreamt of managing your own vineyard and are looking for an established estate then the sale of Old Luxters/Chiltern Valley Wines on the South Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border may be of interest.
Perhaps an English estate was not your first choice but there is more to Old Luxters than just wine. They have a [...]

Surf4Wine

Operational since 1988 Surf4Wine was one of the pioneers of the internet-based mail order wine merchant scene in the UK.
It’s a dynamic little operation and while they admit that the website has lacked in the update department recently a chat with Andrew Chapman indicates that things are about to improve. Not only is an [...]

Say YES to a Full Pint

Ok so this is beer related, but I am sure many a wine lover also drinks a beer occassionally, as I do. CAMRA has just released new research showing that a shocking 26.6% of pints served in pubs are short measure by more than 5%. This is costing consumers a whopping £1.3 million every single [...]

Chiltern Valley Vineyard: By Royal Appointment

The Chiltern Valley Brewery and Vineyard, almost the closest vineyard to my home town of Henley, has been awarded a Royal Warrant of Appointment to the Queen – the first for an English vineyard.
The Warrant is given to only a few dozen businesses each year. Each has to have supplied the goods or services to [...]

The Flying Corkscrew

An award winning merchant with a mighty fine range, well arrange in a spacious store. Although a few under £10 wines can be found, prices are generally above this level; so not a store for those use to supermarket ‘bargains’.
With awards such as Regional Wine Merchant of the Year and, in 2004, Independent [...]

Oxford Bottled Beer Database

It is a bit old-fashioned looking and really the preserve of the ale-geek but the Oxford Bottled Beer Database is a treasure. As the name suggests it is full of beer tasting notes and ratings mostly submitted by users.
Spot a brew you haven’t supped before? Then head to the OBBD for details.
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