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, […]
March – no tasting at The Forester (they have another booking) but there should be a tasting with Ealing Wine Cellars in Ealing, No details yet but information will be posted when we know April – Brazil May and June – to be confirmed. If you have any other regions, grapes, producers you’d like to
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
Monday 16 June Start: 8pmUpstairs at The Forester, 2 Leighton Road, W13 9EP End of term is approaching and summer holidays beckon, so it’s time to go a little bit more off piste with what is becoming an annual summer event, a “walkaround” food and wine matching tasting. For those of you unfamiliar with the
There are often preconceived ideas about American wine but our May tasting with Ally Wines offers a chance to discover what is happening “off the beaten path” away from the bigger producers. American Jennifer Williams-Bulkeley is passionate about finding rare and beautiful, small production wines from the most exciting winemaking areas in the
17th March 2025 Join us on March 17th for some delicious dry Riesling and juicy Pinot Noir wines from Germany.. More than 100 years ago, the term “Hock” was associated with German Riesling wines of the highest quality. Beloved of Queen Victoria, they were sold at a much higher price than the famous red wines
17th February 2025We’ll be back at The Forester with a tasting in our more usual format. If you remember those heady days in the 1980’s when you could buy a half decent bottle of Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot, from any wine shop to take to a party, for around £4, you may have wondered,
Monday 20th January 2025 For our January tasting we are trying something new, with an evening at Bobo Social, a new restaurant in Filmworks Walk in Ealing Broadway, near the new cinema. It’s easily accessible by bus and tube, and of course on foot, and it’s on the ground floor so there are no stairs
Christmas heralds a time for tradition and what could be more traditional than a bottle or several of delicious claret? Two great rivers of France, the Garonne and the Dordogne join together in Bordeaux to become the Gironde. There are great differences between the wines from the Right Bank (Dordogne) and the Left Bank (Garonne).