An Evening of Exceptional Fine Wine and Cheese with La Fromagerie , Friday 2nd May 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
Our cheese and wine collaboration nights with our longstanding cheesemonger friends, La Fromagerie, have proven to be incredibly popular in recent years and we have, once again, decided to host an evening where we dial everything up a notch and pull out all the stops.
Join senior cheesemonger, Max Melvin, and your fine wine expert host, Michael Dabbs, in the Townhouse for a guided tasting of eight superlative cheeses with appropriately paired fine wines. Expect to traverse across France, tasting only the very finest vinous delights from classical regions such as Champagne, Burgundy, Jura, Rhône and, of course, Bordeaux, but also further flung destinations such as California’s Sonoma Coast and the Barossa Valley in Australia.
For the cheeses, Max will be tasked with bringing the very best that La Fromagerie can muster. In recent instalments this has included an epically indulgent Le Barisien showered in white truffles, a Soumaintrain washed in Chablis and the incredible Rogue River Blue, winner of the 2020 title for World’s Best Cheese and currently retailing for £135 per kilo.
Wines to be tasted:
Champagne Penet-Chardonnet, Terroir & Sens, Blanc de Blancs, Grand Cru, Extra Brut
Champagne Krug, Grande Cuvée, 170ème Édition, Brut
2012 Chablis, Montée de Tonnerre, 1er Cru, Domaine François Raveneau, Burgundy
2017 Marcassin, Chardonnay, Sonoma Coast, California, USA
2022 Vin de Savoie, Le Feu, Domaine du Gringet
2018 Clos-Saint-Denis, Grand Cru, Vieilles Vignes, Henri & Philippe Jouan, Burgundy
2012 Château Margaux, Margaux, Bordeaux
2004 Torbreck, Runrig, Barossa Valley, Australia
1997 Château d'Yquem, Sauternes, Bordeaux.
Dress code: smart casual
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