Highlights from our walk around tastings last weekend 🍷🍷🍷
We had so much fun showing off some of our favourite bottles to our lovely customers, and it was a joy to see everyone chatting amongst themselves over a glass of something delicious.
We’ll be releasing the dates and themes for our Thursday night tastings for the rest of the year very soon, including our popular Champagne and Icons events, so keep your eyes peeled!
We’ve been promoting the wonderfully diverse region of Bordeaux as part of #BordeauxWineMonth, opening dozens of bottles across our stores for our customers to try. From a fresh, aromatic white to a beautiful terroir-driven Claret to a luscious Sauternes, there truly was something for everyone, as well as every meal!
It was a joy to see everyone getting involved, whether they were listening intently to our team tell the stories behind the bottles at one of our ticketed events, or simply chatting among themselves over one of the many samples we offered while they popped into buy a bottle. A fantastic reminder (just in case we needed one!) that there is a treasure trove of fantastically-priced goodies to be found around the Gironde, and we’ll always be happy to help you discover them!
The Moulin de Peyronin Blanc and Chateau Cantenac were particular hits. Did you taste any Bordeaux wines with us? Let us know your favourites in the comments!
Such a fabulous weekend celebrating all things Cava for this year’s #cavaweek - thank you to everyone who came along, sampled this underrated fizz and took a bottle or two home with them once they realised what all the fuss is about! @cava.do
We’ve had quite a few wines land in our stores over the past couple of months, and what better way to introduce them to you than to give you a little discount? We’ve put together a case of 12 and taken 10% off; head to the link in our bio and it’ll take you straight there!
We were thrilled to be invited to @westwellwines in Kent by @uncharted_wines last week, and while both the weather and the train timetable were decidedly “British”, thankfully the wines certainly proved that this little island can shine at something!
We were welcomed with a flute of their Pelegrim sparkling wine, which set the tone with its minerally core rounded out with tasty notes of toast, pears and apricots. Our full glasses accompanied us on our tour of the vineyards on the chalk/sand soils at the foot of the North Downs.
Just as the rain really started to come down, we were taken through their cellar door for lunch and to taste more of what the estate has to offer, including a white and a rose made from Pinot Meunier, a white and orange wine made from Ortega, all of which are fantastic examples of what these grapes can achieve in the right hands.
We have the Pelegrim on our shelves, and we may well have one or two more in-store soon!
Thanks to everyone involved for making it such a wonderful trip.
Boom! 💪 Gasp was a blast!!! Thank you all who could make it down to our latest celebration of poetry in a glass.
An extra special thank you to the amazing producers who made the trip and shared their wisdom and vinous vibrations. @moritohackney you are just cracking as well! Thank you! 🙏
We’ll take the weekend to unwind over a glass and start planning the next one on... Say from Tuesday we think 🤩
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of Theatre of Wine and to celebrate we are realising a long-held dream to host a wine festival.
Over the weekend of 22 & 23 October, St. Alfege Church hall in Greenwich will be laid out with more than 60 of our favourite wines.
Tickets are just £15 per session across two days and three sessions.
Saturday 22 October
Afternoon: 12pm-4pm
Evening: 4pm-8pm
Sunday 23 October
Afternoon: 2pm-6pm
We look forward to welcoming friends new and old to share their stories of Theatre of Wine and taste great wines together.
Link in bio!
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Another Thursday and another pretty epic lineup for our table of tasters in Tufnell Park.
This tasting was a slightly unusual one: no theme, just a lineup of wines picked out by @jasonmillar that all had some personal significance. We tasted our way from Crete to Catalunya, via the gorgeous roussanne Comme un Saphir from Stephane Vedeau at Clos Bellane and the delicate, translucent Wanderer’s Heart from Thorne & Daughters, one of our favourite South African estates.
We popped the corks of a couple of icons too. Raventos’ tiny production of Mas del Serral (100 months on lees) establishes a new ambition for sparkling wine in Catalunya — this was a really special wine for lovers of grower champagne to check out. The immensely rich, polished and hedonistic Valbuena 2016 from Vega Sicilia was a treat but the Edelstone 2005 from Henschke was wine of the night. An explosive wine with huge perfumes of sage and star anise, glossy black fruit and yet succulent, unexaggerated and totally winning.
Of course there was a nebbiolo… the gorgeous Sperino Lessona 2015 which was full of dusky red fruits, sandalwood and nutmeg.
We tapered off with a gorgeous Colheita 2008 from Niepoort. Surely no one makes better tawny port than this great family estate.
Last of all, the incomparable 14 Year Old rum from Doorly’s on Barbados. And it was a big pour!
We’re taking a tasting break in Tufnell Park for August but sign up to the mailing list to find out about new September tastings when they’re released. Link in bio. 📝
There were quite a few expert tasters who picked out the Chablis in a thee-bottle blind tasting over the weekend, but there was only one prize up for grabs. Check out the video to see Joao pick out the lucky winner! 💯 🏆
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Following on from yesterday’s rare as hen’s teeth Jura wines, today we’ve got our mitts on some super sought-after IPA from the Big Apple!
Other Half, the now infamous cult brewery of New York City, was founded in 2014 in direct resistance to the sea of mass-market bland IPA that they believed was swamping the palates of US beer drinkers.
This is hop heaven, and we are unbelievably excited to bring you a tiny allocation of some of the East Coast's rarest beers, fresh from the states. The Ganevat of hop-forward modern craft beer has landed…
I HEARD IT THROUGH THE CANNING LINE...
Very soon our top-secret new brewing collaboration with Pretty Decent Beer Co will be making its way into tank, slowly fermenting, maturing, and becoming utterly delicious. Here’s a sneak peek of what you can expect... keep your eyes peeled for more info soon!
Photography: @jonnywberg
@prettydecentbc
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#theatreofwine #prettydecent #beerlover #beergeek #beertime #craftbeer #beergeek #instabeer #kentishtown #archway #tufnellpark #leytonstone #leyton #forestgate #greenwich #n7 #n19 #nw5 #e11 #e7 #se10
You can't predict when you will uncover a jewel, especially from somewhere as over-heated as Burgundy, but we struck gold over lunch at a classic Lyonnais Bouchon with a remarkably full flavoured glass of Marsannay 2013 from Domaine du Vieux College. Eric Guyard is the seventh-generation vigneron of this estate with 25 hectares in Marsannay, Fixin and Gevrey-Chambertin. The estate has been in organic conversion and from 2014 all the wines are certified. Eric sent us samples of three of the dozen or so cuvées they make and again we couldn't believe the concentration and depth of flavour. We snapped them up!
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Here’s Tom talking us through the new vintage of their Marsannay Rosé. If you like what you hear, you’re in luck, as it pairs perfectly with this beautiful sunshine and we have plenty on our shelves ready for you to collect. Cheers! 🍷
