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Sorry, Charlemagne Wine Club will not be able to have a tasting in May, as David and Nick are both unavailable.

Not long until our next tasting and we have some treats in store from some of the finest producers in Australia. We’ll be sniffing out the Shiraz, craving the Cabernet and running up the flag for Riesling. We’ll taste the difference between regions and how age affects what’s in the bottle. It’ll be fun. This

We hope to see you on Monday 18th March at 8pm for a tasting of some fabulous mature Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines from 1995 to 2009, and we have 2 bottles of each wine available so please bring your friends along. Booking, as usual, by email. All reactions: Details on attending CWC tastings can be found on

Just in case you haven’t received Nick’s email, our February tasting will now become our March 18th tasting. Renovations at the Forester have taken longer than expected and the pub will not be opening until early March. We hope to see you then for a tasting of some fabulous mature Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines.

For our Christmas tasting we are planning to present a range of seasonal wines with a selection of snacks and nibbles to go with them – to include meats, cheeses, biscuits and sweets. Not too much presenting, leaving us to chat and relax! We’re still finalising the wines but I’m planning to include – an

Chinon and St Nicolas de BourgueilThe staple red wine of many Paris bistros is a fresh, fragrant, medium bodied and fruity Cabernet Franc from the Loire Valley, It’s probably because of this popularity that it remains undervalued as a serious grape variety, pushed to the background by its more vibrant offspring Cabernet Sauvignon. In Bordeaux

Join us for our next tasting on Monday 16th October, upstairs at the Forester in Leighton Road. Charlie Carter was to have hosted this tasting but due to unforeseen circumstances has had to hand over the baton to Leti Narracci, ‘wine educator extraordinaire’ and coincidentally Charlie’s colleague at Enotria & Coe, the UK’s leading wine

As the Summer draws to a close please join us as we head south to the warm and fertile valleys of Chile for our next tasting. Chile has many natural advantages for organic farming. Its numerous valleys are flanked by the Andes to the east and the Pacific to the west. It also has the

According to the Wine Society …….“If you were to try one new wine every evening, it would take you eight years to taste your way across the wine regions of France!” While we’re not working to quite that timescale for our next tasting we do plan to offer a few more wines than usual. France

This month Nick Forth will be presenting a range of Italian wines made from grapes that are little-known outside the regions where they are grown, including nascetta, pignolo and pelaverga. While they may be new to many of us, they have recently received plaudits from luminaries such as Jancis Robinson, leading sommeliers and in Decanter

Our tasting this month takes us to much warmer and sunnier climes though, with a look at the wines of Brazil in the company of Nicholas Corfe of Go Brazil wines. Nicholas presented to us just over 3 years ago and the wines were delicious and very well received. A lot has happened in the

Alsace presented by Christos Ioannou

David Carter will be looking at Grenache (or is it Garnacha, or Cannonau, or ….?) and sharing with us a range of wines from around the world to show its versatility and what lovely wines it makes. He sums it up neatly below. It’s a grape that comes in three shades, Blanc, Gris and Noir.