Past – 2023

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