Natural Wine is pretty much the biggest growing trend in the wine world at the moment.  Using organically farmed grapes, the wines are vinified without the addition of any additives, preservatives, or filtering.  Nothing is added and nothing is taken away.  The range and most importantly the quality of wines available is growing all the time. Natural wine is one of our specialities, so please come along and join us for an evening of superb food and outstanding wines at…

Rococo Video On Saturday 2nd September we are delighted to be teaming up with Rococo Gardens, Painswick.  It’s a stunning location for a tasting, so come and sample a range of our top wines for summer! We will be opening 35+ bottles of some seriously good wines, all with a story behind them.  There will be wines from across Europe, South America and South Africa, wines we are very proud to be selling and taste amazing. This is a chance…

Call my Quaff is a fun game involving blind tasting 6 wines, each with two tasting descriptions.  One will be the truth, one will be a lie.  It is up to your team to decide which is which.  Bonus points for guessing the bottle price, there will be a prize for the winning team!  We recommend teams of 2-4 players, no previous knowlege of wine is required.    Click for tickets

A new, occasional pop-up that we will be hosting amongst our usual Friday tastings.  This is a great way to try something new.  We will be opening 4 tasty bottles and will talk and taste through each of them.  You then pick your favourite and have a full glass of that too.  Needless to say we won’t be opening Pinot Grigio, the aim is to try something different!  Pop in any time from 5pm – 9pm.  Bring your own food, order…

We are delighted to announce our next beer tasting is with the outstanding Mills Brewing!  Join us on Saturday 30th September to talk and taste through a range of these incredibly tasty and very sought after beers.  Hosted by Jonny Mills, this is not one to miss.  Click for tickets

We absolutely love the wines of Jura, they are something different, very distinctive and very gastronomic.  Located in the mountains of far eastern France, right on the Swiss border their most famous wine is a very sought after, sherried style made from the local grape Savagnin. Ranked among the greatest wines of France, Vin Jaune is France's answer to Fino Sherry.  Made exclusively from the Savagnin grape variety, it matures in oak barrels for 6 years and 3 months and…

The days are getting shorter, the nights are coming in, and a change to autumnal oranges and browns is starting to take form in the hedgerows and woods. This year’s apple and pears are almost fully ripe and the harvest will begin soon if not already, with fermentation just around the corner. The movement of dairy flocks of cows, sheep and goats would now traditionally be moving down from their high altitude pastures to the lowlands below. Here in Stroud…

Bodegas Manzanos is a family owned collection of Rioja vineyards and wineries dating back over 130 years.  They are based in the towns of Haro and Azagra, Rioja, and also in Bells, Navarra.  This range of wines is a modern take on the traditional landscape of Rioja, championing the native grape varieties, Tempranillo, Viura and Garnacha.  For this evenings exclusive tasting we will be learning all about the story behind the wines from these outstanding producers.  We will be opening…