Monthly Tasting at The Winery

You are invited to our next tasting on Wednesday 7th September from 17.00-21.00h at our shop in Clifton Road W9. It’ll be a wide-ranging tasting, featuring Prosecco, white Burgundy, two dry Rieslings and one Pinot Noir from Germany, and reds from Tuscany and Sicily.

After kicking-off with Marsuret’s Prosecco Saia from Valdobbiadene in northern Italy, we’ll be tasting classy white Burgundy; a seriously stylish Saint-Veran by Thierry and Charles Drouin, the father and son team who live and work in the remarkable amphitheatre-shaped vineyards between the primal rocks of Vergisson and Solutre near Macon.

http://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/drouin-vergisson/

Victoriaberg is back! You can’t miss Queen Victoria’s favourite wine, – it’s the one with the flamboyant Victorian label – made since 2010 by Reiner Flick, one of our favourite growers in the Rheingau.

http://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/flick-wicker/

Second dry Riesling in Wednesday’s line-up will be Schieferboden 2012, a mineral-infused bottling from slate vineyards in the Nahe by von Racknitz, from a stash recently unearthed in our cellar.

http://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/von-racknitz-odernheim/

First up in our red line-up will be a delicious, no-nonsense Chianti by Dreolino from Rufina, northeast of Florence.

http://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/dreolino-rufina/

When we were in Germany a few weeks ago, we went east to Franken, to visit, taste and scoop up some of Christophe Walter’s elegant, refined Spatburgunders.

http://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/josef-walter-burgstadt/

Finally, from Sicily, Mimmo Paone (the man with the bone-crunching handshake) is well-known at The Winery for his “Funnari” Nero d’Avola. More will arrive during Autumn. On Wednesday, we will show the next one up in his range, Mamertino di Milazzo – Nero d’Avola with a splash of Nocera.

http://www.thewineryuk.com/growers/mimmo-paone-condromessina/

We do hope you can join us and, as usual, feel free to bring a friend.