Even wine professionals such as me find
horizontals and verticals of top-quality wines useful and worth paying
money for. Clive Coates MW runs regular fine wine
tastings in his Chiswick home, global headquarters of his newletter
The Vine. The deal is that 32 tasters squeeze into a
room dedicated to the purpose on his ground floor and enjoy about 10
top-quality wines poured around a theme on a Wednesday evening,
generally by aspiring Masters of Wine.
Clive
descends from on high at 6.45 sharp, opines on the theme in general and
the wines in particular, takes a few questions and then everyone is
free to meander home at around 8.30 (ideally, surely, via a 9pm booking
at the nearby wine-minded restaurant La Trompette (tel 020 8747 1836).
Tasting sheets are provided and there is plenty of room to take notes.
Monsieur Coates is congenitally against blind tasting however, so do
not expect such useful exercises here.
There are
still places left for the following:
- 28 May - Nine vintages
of Ch
Grand Puy Lacoste 1998-1982 £80
- 9 July - Nine
vintages of Griotte-Chambertin, Joseph Drouhin 1999-1976 £90
- 17 September - Ten vintages of Ch Cos d'Estournel
2000-1982 £90
- 24 September - Ten vintages of
Nuits-St-Georges, Les St-Georges, Henri Gouges 1999-1988 £80
- 5 November - Twelve vintages of Ch Magdelaine
2000-1959 £90
- 10 December - Eleven vintages of
Vosne Romanée, Clos des Réas, Michel Gros 1999-1985 £80
Apply to Clive Coates
MW, 76
Woodstock Road, London W4 1EQ (tel 020 8995 8962, email vine.tastings@clive-coates.com). Parking is free here from 6pm and Turnham Green tube
station is less than 10 minutes' walk away. A much younger
Master of Wine Rose Murray Brown MW is currently
signing up wine enthusiasts for her Spring Series of Masterclass Wine
Tastings. Her sales pitch includes the feedback 'Very enjoyable,
relaxed and informative', as this picture suggests. A course of four
weekly tastings will be held in each of Edinburgh, Glasgow and St
Andrews.
The Glasgow and Edinburgh courses are the same, with
themes being Old World v New World Whites then Red,
Cults v Lesser Knowns, and finally Champagne
v Sparkling Wine. The four St Andrews classes
constitute an introduction to wine, with the promise of identifying
best value and hottest producers.
Edinburgh - Thursdays 6-27 March
£120, or £32 per individual session
Glasgow - Wednesdays 2-23 April
£120, or £32 per individual session
St
Andrews - Wednesdays 5-26 March £95, or £25 per individual
session
Apply to Rose Murray Brown MW, Wester
Craigfoodie House (great address), Cupar, Fife KY15 4RU (tel 01334
870730/1, email masterclass@rosemurraybrown.com).
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