Join us for our "Vintage Pairs" Blind Tasting on Saturday 22 August 2020

The idea is simple – I put together a tasting of 10 wines, and serve them blind. We guess where the wine is from and what it might be, reveal it, enjoy it, and talk about it. In each pair the two wines will be either the same wine in a different vintage (our classic approach), or the same producer and same vintage, but two cuvées or vineyards from the same grape variety(ies); or the same vineyard and same vintage, but two different producers of the same wine. As we begin each pair I will announce which type of pair it is. 

Here is what we served at the last 3 events –

Session Twenty-eight (19th February 2020)
2016 Domaine Michel Bouzereau Meursault 1er Cru ‘Charmes’
2016 Domaine Michel Bouzereau Meursault1er Cru ‘Perrières’
2015 Domaine François Bertheau Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru ‘Les Amoureuses’
2015 Domaine Amiot-Servelle Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru ‘Les Amoureuses’
2012 Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino Annata
2007 Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino Annata
2009 Domaine Jamet Côte-Rôtie
1999 Domaine Jamet Côte-Rôtie
1989 Château Rieussec Sauternes
1989 Château d’Yquem Sauternes

Session Twenty-nine (8th April 2020)
2010 Domaine des Lambrays Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru ‘Clos du Cailleret’
2009 Domaine des Lambrays Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru ‘Clos du Cailleret’
2017 Domaine Christian Clerget Chambolle-Musigny
2017 Domaine Christian Clerget Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru ‘Les Charmes’
2016 Cigliuti Barbaresco Vie Erte
2016 Cigliuti Barbaresco Serraboella
2014 Opus One
2014 Ao Yun
2013 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Trockenbeerenauslese
2011 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Trockenbeerenauslese 

Session Thirty (3rd June 2020)
2013 Weingut Dr. Loosen Ürziger Würzgarten Trocken Grosses Gewächs Réserve
2013 Weingut Dr. Loosen Prälat Tocken Grosses Gewächs Réserve
2016 Weingut H.J. Kreuzberg Devonshiefer Spätburgunder ‘R’ Auktion
2016 Deutzerhof Grand Duc Reserve Spätburgunder ’30 Monate Barrique’ Auktion
2001 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Falletto di Serralunga d’Alba
1998 Bruno Giacosa Barolo Falletto di Serralunga d’Alba
1996 Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
1996 Château Montrose
2016 Maximin Grünhaus Herrenberg Eiswein
1993 Maximin Grünhaus Herrenberg Eiswein

Of course, the wine selection for Saturday 22nd August will be completely different. But I assure you it will be interesting, and good value for the modest ticket price – we won’t reveal in advance what we will be tasting as that spoils part of the fun.

The event is a tasting – not a dinner – and so we start at 6.45pm prompt, and are finished by 8pm, so you can get to your dinner afterwards. Think of this as the most fun ‘cocktail hour’ of the month!