Organic and Biodynamic Winemakers Lunch, Friday 25th April 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 wine drinkers increasingly aware of their environmental impact, organic and biodynamic winemakers are the champions of sustainability in the wine world today. For some vignerons, low-impact farming represents a return to the way things were. For others, this is an act of modernisation, steering wine production towards a cleaner and more sustainable future.
Join us for a lunch in our Townhouse to taste the sparkling and still wines from some of the world’s most accomplished organic and biodynamic winemakers. Covering a wide range of regions and grapes, guests will enjoy wines from Germany, Loire, Spain, Piedmont and Oregon, with a few others for good measure.
For the occasion, executive chef Stewart Turner will prepare a delectable four-course meal prepared with sustainable and locally sourced produce.
Wines to be tasted:
Apéritif: Champagne Leclerc Briant, Rosé, Extra Brut
2022 Riesling, Trocken, Kiedrich, Eva Fricke, Rheingau, Germany
2021 Anjou Blanc, Grandes Rogeries, Terra Vita Vinum, Loire
2021 Lingua Franca, Estate Chardonnay, Eola-Amity Hills, Oregon, USA
2021 Nuits-St Georges, Aux Saint-Juliens, Domaine de Montille, Burgundy
2019 Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Cuvée des Cadettes, Château La Nerthe, Rhône
2018 Barolo, Via Nuova, E. Pira di Chiara Boschis, Piedmont, Italy
2020 Molino Real White, Telmo Rodríguez, Málaga, Spain
Dress code: smart casual
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