The Next Tasting

February 2024
We are taking a break in January....... returning in Febuary with a Valentines themed selection celebrating the impending arrival of Spring. Watch this space for details.

Previous Tastings

Christmas Portfolio Tasting

Friday 1st December 7pm

Last year was such a success with the three rooms in the Manor house, this year there will be four.

Tickets available now: Christmas Tasting Night: Friday 1st December 2023

Jolly Good Claret

Thursday 23rd November 7pm at Howbery Park Manor House

Karl Walton with colleagues from Maison Ginestet will be presenting 8 wines for your delectation.

Tickets here: Jolly Good Claret: Thursday 23rd November Tasting at Howbery Park 7pm

Château Calvimont Blanc, AOP Graves 2018

Château Dallau , AOP Bordeaux Supérieur 2018

Château Calvimont Rouge, AOP Graves 2019

Château Carcanieux, AOP Crus Bourgeois du Médoc 2015

Château Castelbruck Cuvée Bruyères, AOP Margaux 2020

Château Mangot L'Autre Mangot, AOP Saint-Emilion 2020

Seigneurs d'Aiguilhe, AOP Castillon-Côtes de Bordeaux 2016

Sauternes, Ginestet Classique

October 19th Tasting: Wines from Waterkloof, South Africa.

This will be presented by Louis Boutinot, longtime global evangelist for this industry-leading, enviro-conscious and very classy winery.

Waterkloof is an independent, organic and regenerative wine estate owned by former sommelier, wine importer and French wine producer Paul Boutinot.

This stellar estate, situated a stones-throw from Cape Town and its wild, windswept Atlantic Ocean coastline, has somehow managed to attain the largest number of features of any wine producer, not only in Decanter's Weekday Wine Section (Decanter is the UK's most subscribed hard-copy wine publication), but also in Jancis Robinson MW's 'Wine of The Week' page on the UK's most subscribed wine website jancisrobinson.com (Jancis is Financial Times wine writer and a wine advisor for The Royal Family).

Louis Boutinot (Paul's son) will be here with stories and insight a plenty, all served alongside a selection of fine, distinctive, food-friendly wines handcrafted in tiny quantities by talented young winemaker Nadia Langenegger and her team at Waterkloof. 

1) Circumstance Cape Coral Rosé 2022

2) Circumstance Sauvignon Blanc 2022

3) Waterkloof Sauvignon Blanc 2022

4) Circle of Life White 2022

5) Circle of Life Red 2020

6) Circumstance Mourvèdre 2018

7) Circumstance Syrah 2018 and 2019

8) Waterkloof Boreas 2020

Musing on Malbec 28th September

Whether from Argentina, France, Chile, South Africa or Australia Malbec seems to be a perennial favourite. Here we will look at the grape in all its native glory. Comparing country, soil type and manufacturing method and prove does it really have to be oaked and from Mendoza Argentina?

8 Malbecs from around the World to be tasted. Now all that remains is to pick 8 from the 34 we sell!

  £15 a ticket, £10 refundable against orders placed on the night (minimum £100 value). 7pm Thursday 28th September in the De Mornay Room, Howbery Park Manor House.

Buy tickets here: September 28th Tasting at Howbery Park - Musing on Malbec

Northern Spain 23rd August 

The wines of Northern Spain, showcased by our very own product manager and salesman in chief, Paul Fritz-Johnson, and based on highlights from his wine trip last year and all the pics he took.

Regions sampled will include Rioja, Rias Baixas, Utiel Requena, Rueda and Menade.