2015 Vintage: A 10-Year Retrospective Dinner, Thursday 8th May 2025
Dinners
Join us for one of our fine dining evenings. A perfect way to find out more about a specific wine region or style, or to simply relax over a more leisurely affair absorbing the knowledge of your expert host over several courses of the finest food and wine.
Food will be prepared in-house by our fantastic team, with Head Chef Stewart Turner at the helm; while our range of wine specialists will guide you through the glass in your hand.
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
With exceptional quality across several European wine regions in 2015 – Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Piedmont included – these wines have now reached the 10-year mark, offering a fascinating opportunity to evaluate their development. Join us in our Townhouse dining room to explore an international flight of wines with a decade of maturity.
We will begin with a pair of Burgundies from esteemed producers Domaine Jean-Noël Gagnard and Domaine Denis Mortet. Next, we will compare an international duo of Bordeaux blends: Haut-Bailly from Pessac-Léognan alongside one of South Africa’s most celebrated red wines, Mvemve Raats de Compostella. For the main course, we will taste the exceptionally rare Brunate Barolo from Giuseppe Rinaldi paired with a Brunello di Montalcino Riserva from luminaries of the region, Biondi Santi. And finally, with our cheese course, the flagship wine of cult Rhône producer Château de Beaucastel, the Hommage à Jacques Perrin. Throughout the evening, you will be encouraged to share your thoughts on their evolution and, of course, declare a vote for your favourite.
As ever, our executive chef, Stewart Turner will ensure the evening reaches the pinnacle of gourmet excellence, presenting a four-course meal thoughtfully paired with the wines.
Wines to be tasted:
Apéritif: 2015 Champagne Pol Roger, Brut
2015 Chassagne-Montrachet, Les Petits Clos, 1er Cru, Domaine Jean-Noël Gagnard, Burgundy, France en magnum
2015 Gevrey-Chambertin, Les Champonnets, 1er Cru, Domaine Denis Mortet, Burgundy, France
2015 Château Haut-Bailly, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux, France
2015 Mvemve Raats de Compostella, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2015 Barolo, Brunate, Giuseppe Rinaldi, Piedmont, Italy
2015 Brunello di Montalcino, Riserva, Biondi-Santi, Tuscany, Italy
2015 Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Hommage à Jacques Perrin, Château de Beaucastel, Rhône, France en magnum
Dress code: smart casual
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