Tastings and Dinners
We offer an extensive programme of wine tastings and wine dinners in our historic cellars at 3, St. James's Street, London SW1 and across the UK. These events include informal walk-around events, tutored tastings and producer dinners.
An extensive programme throughout the year includes: informal walk-around tastings of over 20 wines; specialist tutored tastings and master-classes by Master of Wine speakers; producer dinners hosted by leading wine figures; food and wine tastings.
Locations:Our 300-year old vaulted cellars at 3, St. James's Street, London SW1; City of London; Wine and Fine Food Shop in Basingstoke; other historic locations throughout the UK.
Tickets for all these events are now available for purchasing online. - Please see below.
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Description
Waterford Estate's Kevin Arnold, one of South Africa’s preeminent winemakers, will lead a tasting of six of the estate’s most famous wines; while Graham Boynton, a journalist who specialises in African politics, takes you on a socio-political journey through four centuries of the Cape’s wine industry.
In 1652, the Dutch East India Company commissioned a surgeon named Jan Van Riebeck to build a fort and a farming community in the Cape, Africa’s southernmost port. Over the next 200 years or so, South African viticulture flourished. Constantia’s natural sweet wine was mentioned in the pages of Austen and was Napoleon’s favourite tipple. However, under Apartheid’s iron grip, winemakers had to smuggle foreign vines into the country in their babies’ nappies and inside their trouser legs, and the industry struggled.
Today, the dramatic physical beauty of the Cape winelands and the range of premium wines produced there are the envy of the world.
Wines to be tasted:
2015 Waterford Estate Chardonnay, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2015 Waterford Estate Grenache Noir, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2006 Waterford Kevin Arnold Shiraz, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2014 Waterford Cabernet Sauvignon, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2006 Waterford Estate, The Jem, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Dress code: smart casual
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