We are very excited to have been invited to host our pre-Christmas tasting on the 39th floor of the Leadenhall Building in the City – affectionately nick-named the Cheesegrater. This fantastic space is not open to the public – with...
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We had a fantastic sell out tasting and dinner at Gordan Ramsay’s Maze restaurant in Mayfair last night with special guest Samuel Guibert, who is the Owner and Head Wine Grower of Mas de Daumas Gassac Grand Cru wines. We were particularly...
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Once again we have a fantastic En Primeur offer on Mas de Daumas Gassac wines from Languedoc. As you probably know, 2014 has shown many challenges for Mas de Daumas Gassac. Two heavy rains arrived on September 15th & 22nd in the south of...
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Last night on tour and we had a very entertaining dinner at Caveau des Arches in Beaune. Highly recommended.
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The last vineyard trip on the 2014 was to Chateau de Meursault. Chateau de Meursault has one of the largest wine cellars in Burgundy and hold a minimum of 1 million bottles there are any one time. After the tour and tasting, we had our annual car...
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Lunchtime day 2 was a visit to Aloxe Corton. (once Charles had given us the correct address!) Michael and Fiona Ragg who are the owners and winemakers at Mischief and Mayhem gave us an excellent tasting before lunch. We then took a fantastic...
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Day 2 took up to Cote de Nuits in the north end of Burgundy. Drouhin Laroze in Gevrey Chambertain was our first port of call where we had a tour of the winery, cellars and finally a tasting of some select wines in their range. Drouhin Laroze are...
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After the tasting in Chablis, we head due South to Chateau de Vault de Lugny. The tourists enjoyed a champagne reception, followed by a gourmet meal. A very nice way to end the first day on tour.
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One of the highlights of the TDV was visiting Chablis. Domaine Laroche was in a completely different style to the gigantic Champagne de Castelnau site we had been at a few hours earlier. Etienne Madelin looked after us superbly and we were...
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First stop on the TDV this year was in Reims to Champagne de Castelnau. Champagne de Castelnau is in fact the Waud Wine Club house champagne and has sold incredibly well since we added it to our list at the end of 2013. Champagne de Castelnau is...
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To top off a very busy week within the club, we had 50 members out at Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen for a wine tasting and dinner. Fresh off the back of the London Wine Fair at Olympia, we were lucky to have Mark Levesson Gower...
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Charles Waud, Jeremy Waud, Stephen Waud and Richard Kelly had a fantastic day at the London Wine Fair on Monday 2nd June at the Olympia Exhibition Centre. We were there primarily researching wines for our next two taster cases later this year...
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