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 is an introductory tutorial designed for beginners to the fine wine world wishing to learn about the rapidly dynamic and ever-evolving world of English wine.
With similar soils to the famous land of Champagne and an ever-warming climate, England has for some time now been on the radar of many fine wine experts. Our reputation hangs mostly on the supremely high-quality sparkling wines being produced in different regions. Yet, viticulturalists and winemakers alike are growing ever more confident in their ability to craft small quantities of superb still wine from familiar grape varieties such as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, but also English speciality varieties such as Bacchus.
As ever, to keep you going through the evening, we will provide a delicious selection of olives, English cheeses, charcuterie and freshly baked sourdough bread.
Wines to be tasted: the exact line-up of wines for this tasting is still to be determined and will be published closer to the time of the event.
Dress code: smart casual
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