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A new online merchant: Winegrapevine.co.uk

A new UK wine website has launched this month (November 2009) just in time for Christmas – winegrapevine.co.uk.
The site offers wine lovers a choice of around 200 award-winning or highly acclaimed bottles – all independently verified as being lower in price than elsewhere online. To help narrow down the choice, the website features a personal [...]

Pinot Noir Tasting in Bristol

[ November 10, 2009; ] Corks of Cotham, one of Bristol’s independent wine merchants, has opened a restaurant called “Flinty Red” and is to host a tasting of Pinot Noir there on Tuesday 10 November 2009:-
One of the world’s top red varieties and the nirvana of winemakers worldwide, but who produces the best?

This is your chance to decide as we [...]

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 [...]

English Winemakers at Bristol Food & Wine Fair

[ July 10, 2009 to July 12, 2009. ] Exhibiting at Bristol’s Wine Festival (10-12 July 2009) will be Domaine Treloar, a small vineyard in the Roussillon region of southern France.

We are a small, high-quality vineyard and winery in the Roussillon, France’s most exciting wine region.Owned and operated by Jonathan Hesford and Rachel Treloar.
As Vignerons Indépendants, we grow all the grapes, make the wine [...]

Summer Wines and Art in Cornwall

[ June 23, 2009; ]

Constantine Stores in Falmouth, Cornwall is hosted a tasting of wines for summer together with an opportunity to view some works from a local artist on 23 June 2009 at the the Great Atlantic Gallery in Arwennack Street, Falmouth.
A tasting of wines suitable for summer drinking. Fresh zingy whites, seriously good roses and delicious [...]

Bath’s Tasting Room

Just outside Bath is Tasting Room Wine Merchants at Larkhall who will be at the Bristol Wine Festival 10-12 July 2009.
More than just a wine merchant – we offer you much more than wine alone!
Bath’s specialist independent wine merchant, sourcing and importing from family run domains,
getting the best quality at the right price and buying [...]

English Wine Week 2009

[ May 23, 2009 to May 31, 2009. ] English Wine Week 2009 takes place from 23-31 May 2009 , and will feature numerous events across the country to celebrate English Wine (and food) – and offers a great excuse to visit a vineyard, meet producers, attend special events and taste the wines.

From Devon to Kent. from East Anglia to the north you will [...]

Avery’s new Pioneer wines

Averys is launching a new range of wines celebrating a tradition of pioneering that goes back to 1793. The wines of Averys Pioneer Range are selected by John Avery MW from winemaking countries he began working with back in the 1960s and 70s. He has been identified by Stephen Spurrier in Decanter as being one [...]

Whisky Tasting Course – 17 Jan 09

[ January 17, 2009; ] Something to warm the bleak winter days is a Whisky Tasting course in the Cotswolds at Farncombe Estate Centre, near Broadway on 17 January 2009. This all day course run by Barry King of For the Love of Whisky will be
…structured to take in some of the important milestones in the history of whisky. [...]

John Gordons in Cheltenham – Wine Shop and Bistro

Down in elegant Cheltenham is a wine merchant who also offers the opportunity to try a glass of wine, a coffer and a bite to eat – an ideal combination, esepcially in a town where they take local food produce seriously.
When we are not selling wines and spirits you may find us also serving glasses [...]

John Gerard Wines in Dorset

Another Western Australia specialist, albeit with an idiosyncratic diversion into Irish Whiskey. Based in deepest Dorset they also offer regular tastings -
We hold regular, free, local tastings here at Castle Hill Cottage, Cattistock at which new wines, as well as some on our list, are open for tasting. Our customers have been able to taste [...]