South African Wine Tasting & Dinner – Saturday 19th March 2011 After the success of our Chilean tasting and dinner last year we are now jumping continents to sample the fantastic wines of the Cape with help of wine expert, Patrick Pigny from Enotria Wines. This small event for just 18 people will take place [...]

We talk them up, not mark them up. You can often feel very intimidated when you are handed a wine list that is almost as thick as the Old Testament – where do you start? The list at Gliffaes is comprehensive rather than extensive and the wines are priced very reasonably. I work on a [...]

 This time last week I was feeling very smug; the hotel was fully booked for this weekend with a group of Texans off to wedding near by. We were laying on a lavish dinner for 60  on Friday night, the night before the wedding, for the brides family, and  with all the Texans out at [...]

Keeping a wine list of over 80 wines fresh and interesting for guests means going to tastings. This is not a great hardship and its is about this time of year that most wine merchants hold their annual tastings. Yesterday was the turn of multi award winning merchants, Tanners of Shrewsbury to throw open the [...]