October 19th There’s more to American wine than just Chile and Argentina, or indeed Brazil, Canada and the USA. A whole swathe of vinous territory stretches in between, and we’ll be exploring that at our next tasting with Will Parker. It’s a great pleasure to welcome back Will who has been scouring the wine shops
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The latter part of the year is with us, with more great wines for us to enjoy. Tastings we are thinking about for the rest of 2026 include Paso-Primero, South Africa & Central and Upper Loire. If you have any feedback or suggestions for how we might improve or things you’d like to see us
September 21st It’s a great pleasure to welcome Christos back to Charlemagne. Over the last few years he has built up Criterion Wine Tours into a dynamic and enterprising business offering wine tours to many of the worlds prestigious regions. We are lucky to catch him between tours and will be benefitting from his recent
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June 15 As we move towards our summer break and look forward to days of alfresco dining (if we haven’t started already!) we thought we’d get in the mood with a selection of delicious wines and tasty foods. Following the format of previous years, this will be untutored but with notes to guide you through
There will be no Charlemagne Wine Club tasting this month, as the venue is unavailable.Watch this space for details of the June tasting. Details on attending CWC tastings can be found on our About CWC wine tastings page.
20th April Our tasting this month focuses on the wines of Brazil with Nicolas Corfe from Go Brazil Wines and Spirits. Established in 2010, Go Brazil showcases the best of modern Brazilian wine-making and incorporates a wide range of wine styles, producers and regions. Nic presented to us some years ago – in April 2023
We don’t have a tasting in March as The Forester is not available that evening. However, Ealing Wine Cellars have a tasting on the 11 March, which we can highly recommend. Please book direct with EWC. Here’s what Caroline at EWC sent us ….. I wanted to personally invite you to our Spring Wine Tasting
For this month’s tasting it is a pleasure to welcome Lucia Dovalova and Darren Kirkham from The Naughty Grape. Their mission is to share Slovakia’s hidden gems with wine enthusiasts, and to highlight the country’s rich wine-making heritage. They personally visit Slovakian vineyards, and work exclusively with family-run wineries that produce small-batch wines using low-intervention,
Happy New Year, we hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas, with some good wines to go with it. We start 2026 with David sharing with us some lovely wines from South America. Here’s what he’ll be presenting…. Our first tasting of the new year takes us on a trip around Chile’s wine regions
Thanks for all your support and attendance during the year, we will meet again in January and are working on a schedule of tastings for 2026. As ever we are keen to hear from you about your ideas for tastings, whether of wines from specific regions, styles of wines, winemakers you’ve enjoyed, anything really that
Presented by Nick Forth Monday 17 November Start: 8pmUpstairs at The Forester, 2 Leighton Road, W13 9EP The wines of Northern Tuscany and Liguria are much less well-known and appreciated than the famous wines from Chianti, Montalcino and Montepulciano, and the Super-Tuscans of the Maremma, but there are some lovely wines to be found there.
Northern Portugal – The Art of Blending Monday 20 October Start: 8pmUpstairs at The Forester, 2 Leighton Road, W13 9EP If you were to ask the “ordinary man/woman in the street” to name any Portuguese wine style they would most likely identify Vinho Verde or Port, if at all. Ask further what grape variety or
Monday 15 September Start: 8pmUpstairs at The Forester, 2 Leighton Road, W13 9EP Tamra Washington is both the Chief Winemaker at Seresin Estate in Marlborough, New Zealand and, with her husband Simon Kelly, the proprietor and Chief Winemaker at Kelly Washington Wines. Seresin Estate is a long established, bio-dynamically managed property focused on its portfolio