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25th anniversary London tasting in pictures
On Sunday 16 November 2025, 100 wine-lovers gathered in London to toast the 25th anniversary of this website. It was a celebratory tasting of 25 champagnes and 25 English sparkling...
Team JR
Thursday 20 November 2025
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Oxford v Cambridge at the tasting table
England's two most prestigious universities go head to head in this annual blind wine tasting. Centre of the picture above is Jessica Crow, tasting for Cambridge. As the Cambridge team...
Tom Parker MW
Tuesday 11 March 2025
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When we held Barolo Nights in New York last...
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As regular visitors know, our UK tasting events are designed to showcase wines we think deserve more attention than they...
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Tam met New Zealander Kirsten Creasy (right) in the Languedoc in May and suggested that she would make an ideal...
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Masters of Wine and MW students are offered a discount on a special opportunity to get to grips with some...
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Our next London tasting event will be held at Caravan King’s Cross, our usual hospitable location, on Sunday 23 September...
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See Jancis's account of our Purple Paulée last Friday night, also published today. On Sunday night, 100 keen Riesling fans...
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See our recent Riesling Night in pictures (and video), also published today. As part of last week's London Burgundy Week...
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Today we’re giving Purple Pages members a chance to buy reduced-price earlybird tickets to our ground-breaking mature Riesling tasting in...
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See also Jancis's tasting notes taken at this tasting. We're thrilled to report that our California wine tasting in London...
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3 December 2017 It was a hugely enjoyable evening and tasting and we raised about £10,000 thanks to everyone's generosity...
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4 December See California fundraiser tasting in pictures. 2 November On the evening of Saturday 2 December we are hosting...
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See also Jancis's tasting notes.
Last Sunday night we held our eighth London wine tasting event at Caravan King's Cross...
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Twenty-four winemakers from the Douro Valley will be in London next month and, as last year, the organisers are offering...
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14 September 2017 Tickets for Barbaresco Night go on general sale today, although there are currently fewer than 20 remaining...
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We are looking forward very much to our first Sherry Night, on Sunday 23 April in London. We're planning to...
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About 100 Brunello fans braved torrential rain to attend our second Brunello Night at Caravan King's Cross (and third overall...
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