Wine Tasting It was a pleasant surprise to be able to restart wine tasting with the weather kind enough to allow a limited number of us to be together in a garden. We brought our own wine glasses (well, actually we always do!) and had the wine poured by one person rather than passing the […]

We have heard of wine tasting groups running over video conference, but feel that opening 4 bottles on one night in a household might be irresponsible! If your supplies are running low there are local shops offering deliveries such as Duncan Murray and Majestic. Several of our group use The Wine Society and Naked Wines […]

The March meeting tasted four table wines from the Douro region, the home of port wine in Northern Portugal.  While table wine has always been produced in the region, for a long time only the fortified wine – port – was found outside the region itself.  Over the last 30 years, especially since Portugal joined […]

The group’s first meeting of the New Year started the theme of “Lesser known wine areas” with red wines from Portugal’s Alentejo – the bit of Portugal south of the Tagus river and north of the Algarve.  Naomi brought us four wines across a wide spectrum of prices, all sourced from The Wine Society – a […]

The November meeting completed the group’s theme for the year of “New World, Old World” when Peter brought us (all wines this time were sourced from Sainsburys) two bottles of Chianti and two bottles from the New World to compare.  This was the most ambitious comparison of the year as there is no obvious New […]

In October  Pat brought us four wines made from the Malbec, or Cot (or apparently 2,000 other synonyms) grape – two from France and the other two from Chile and Argentina as part of our New World, Old World theme.  We started in Chile with Lastarria 2018, 13% £6.99 Majestic.  This was rated overall as […]

We reached the end of our white wine summer comparisons as part of the year’s “New World, Old World” theme by tasting 4 wines made from the Chardonnay grape.  All of this month’s wines were from Majestic and prices are for their “Mix Six”.  The first two both came from South Africa.  They were “Trebuchet” […]

Wine Tasting The theme for this month was a comparison of White Bordeaux wines with their New World equivalents. The Sauvignon Blanc grape’s main home in France is in Bordeaux where it is often blended with Semillon to make dry white wine. Many New World countries have adopted these grapes and the blending of them. […]

We now believe that there are nearly enough people to set up another group so we welcome anybody interested in joining this. The existing group met in May to taste wines made from the Sauvignon Blanc grape – two from the Loire valley in France and two from New Zealand.  The overall winner was Domaine […]