West Coast Tasting, Wednesday 2nd April 2025
Tutored Tastings
Treat yourself, your family or a client to one of our exclusive tutored tastings. One of our experts will guide you through a range of wines or spirits while educating you on the evening’s topic. From style and regional focusses to cheese and wine pairings, these are unmissable chances to broaden your wine and spirits knowledge.
When is a wine ready to drink?
We provide drinking windows for all our wines. Alongside the drinking windows there is a bottle icon and a maturity stage. Bear in mind that the best time to drink a wine does also depend on your taste.
Not ready
These wines are very young. Whilst they're likely to have lots of intense flavours, their acidity or tannins may make them feel austere. Although it isn't "wrong" to drink these wines now, you are likely to miss out on a lot of complexity by not waiting for them to mature.
Ready - youthful
These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.
Ready - at best
These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.
Ready - mature
These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.
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Description
This year, we will host our first-ever West Coast USA tasting in our historic cellars at No.3 St James’s Street.
We are excited to introduce our range of beautifully elegant and poised wines from the Pacific West Coast. This tasting will reset any preconceptions of what a Napa Cabernet Sauvignon or an Oregon Pinot Noir should taste like. These are complex, often savoury-edged wines which have great appeal to lovers of Bordeaux and Burgundy alike. We’ll be joined by leading producers, so you’ll be able to meet the winemakers behind the bottles, taste some of the finest West Coast wines available in the UK and learn more about these fascinating and highly collectable bottles.
This is sure to be one of the highlights of our 2025 calendar. We look forward to seeing you.
Producers in attendance:
Oregon
Lingua Franca
Domaine Nicolas-Jay
Sonoma County
Occidental Wines
Ramey Wine Cellars
Napa Valley
Dunn Vineyards
Haynes Vineyard
Heitz Cellar
Hourglass
Ink Grade
Neotempo
Rudd Estate
Stony Hill
Santa Barbara County
Au Bon Climat
Tensley Wines
Santa Cruz & Monterey
Deauratus
Santa Rita Hills
Racines
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