Events For 2010
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Tastings
The Oxford Wine Company would be delighted to organise a wine tasting for you or your company during any weekday evening. More>
Call My Bluff
"An Evening's Entertainment" More>
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Wednesday 9th June 2010 7.00 for 7.30pm
MASSAYA PREMIUM LEBANESE TASTING
Presented by Sami Ghosn
The Tasting Tunnel, The Wine Warehouse, Standlake.
£18 per person including a light buffet.
Contact Theo Sloot for booking and further information:
theo@oxfordwine.co.uk 01865 301144
The story of Massaya’s Tanaïl Estate goes back to the early 70's as the Ghosn family acquired an Estate planted with vines. At first, they made homemade Arak from grapes grown on the property. In 1975, the civil war raged in Lebanon forcing the Ghosn’s to leave their home. Seventeen years later Sami Ghosn, by then an architect working in Los Angeles, returned to Lebanon and revisited the war-ravaged family estate. The land worked its magic and he decided to give up everything in order to devote himself to bringing the domain back to life. He revived the distillation of homemade Arak spirit and entrusted the marketing to his brother Ramzi, who was at that time living in France, managing his own restaurant company. The famous blue bottles of Arak turned into an instant success and the Tanail estate was reborn from the ashes but Sami Ghosn had still greater ambitions which have now come to fruition. Today Massaya is a French–Lebanese collaboration that began as recently as 1998. On the Lebanese side is Sami Ghosn, whilst the French partners are Daniel Brunier (Vieux Télégraph) and Hubert de Boüard de Laforest (ex-Cheval Blanc). Their first release was from the 1999 vintage, and these are clearly wines that have a good deal of complexity and style to them, born out of a huge amount of collective world class winemaking experience. Sami Ghosn is a fascinating speaker and tells the story of his top class estate with real passion and personality. The wines (which are excellent) will speak for themselves. This will be a fascinating tasting.
September 2010 7.00 for 7.30pm (DATE/THEME TO BE CONFIRMED)
TASTING TUNNEL TASTING
The Tasting Tunnel, The Wine Warehouse, Standlake.
£18 per person including a light buffet.
Contact Theo Sloot for booking and further information:
theo@oxfordwine.co.uk 01865 301144
Tuesday 19th October 2010 6.45 for 7.00pm
THE OXFORD TIMES WINE CLUB – BOXWOOD WINERY VIRGINIAN DINNER TASTING
Presented by Rachel Martin and Sarah McCleery
A white wine reception followed by a three course themed meal with top wines at The Cherwell Boathouse Restaurant in Oxford.
The Cherwell Boathouse, 50 Bardwell Road, Oxford OX2 6ST
www. cherwellboathouse.co.uk - 01865 552746
£49.95 per person (OPEN TO ALL)
Contact Theo Sloot for booking and further information.
theo@oxfordwine.co.uk 01865 301144
Situated in the midst of picturesque Loudoun County estates of Virginia, Middleburg’s Boxwood Winery is dedicated to making wines in the Bordeaux tradition, and as such the hillsides around the winery are densely dotted with vines of Bordeaux varietals, all certified by the French government. Rachel Martin (pictured), daughter of the owners, studied winemaking and sensory evaluation in California and Bordeaux. She now manages and oversees the operations at the winery. Painstaking work goes into achieving the complexity for which Rachel and her team, which includes famous Bordeaux consultant winemaker Stephane Derenoncourt, strive. One hundred percent of the grapes used in their wines are estate-grown, all the harvesting is done by hand, and the primary sorting is done in the vineyard, meaning that only clean, ripe fruit is brought to the winery for further sorting before processing. Derenoncourt, acclaimed winemaker and consultant to top rated wineries in Bordeaux and beyond, determines the final blends for Boxwood’s wines. Rachel Martin, who is dedicated to the Bordeaux tradition and passionately devoted to promoting Virginia wine on an international level, feels Boxwood’s wine is “a terroir-driven wine unique to Virginia, which can go up against any high quality wine in the U.S. The world now knows about Virginia wine,” she says, “and it’s been very well-received.” Well known English wine journalist Stephen Spurrier would agree with her – he has enthusiastically written up her wines after their launch in the UK last year. These are wonderful cool climate Bordeaux styles that are much closer to Bordeaux in style than many equivalent wines from the west coast of the US. Rachel herself is a great speaker and has become the ambassador for Virginian wines worldwide.
The evening will feature a specially themed Virginian three course dinner to go with the wines created by head chef Carson Hill.
Friday 26th November 2010 6-9pm
THE ANNUAL OXFORD WINE FAIR
The Oxford Centre, 333 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7PL
ENTRY FOR TICKET HOLDERS ONLY - £5 per person refundable on purchases of 12 bottles or more - all tickets must be applied for in advance.No tickets will be available on the door.
Contact Theo Sloot for booking and further information.
01865 301144 or theo@oxfordwine.co.uk
The immensely popular and largest regular wine event i n the Oxford area with around 100 wines to taste from all over the world presented by our suppliers and producers. Great fun, great value – what better way to spend Friday night? Invite your friends along and make an evening of it. 15% discount on all wines ordered o n the night.
Tuesday 7th December 2010 6.45 for 7.00pm
THE OXFORD TIMES WINE CLUB – AYALA CHAMPAGNE DINNER TASTING
Presented by Hervé Augustin and Sarah McCleery
A Champagne reception followed by a three course themed meal with top Champagnes at The Cherwell Boathouse Restaurant in Oxford.
The Cherwell Boathouse, 50 Bardwell Road, Oxford OX2 6ST
www. cherwellboathouse.co.uk - 01865 552746
£49.95 per person (OPEN TO ALL)
Contact Theo Sloot for booking and further information.
theo@oxfordwine.co.uk 01865 301144
Ayala is a Champagne House founded in 1860 that was bought by Bollinger in 2005. Hervé Augustin came across from Bollinger and brought vision and experience to Ayala. His brief was not to reproduce Bollinger next door, but rather to do something completely different. This he has done. ‘Zero Dosage’ (no additional sugar) is the new hallmark of the house. In typical non-vintage Brut champagne, there is up to 15 grammes of sugar per litre added as dosage (a special mixture of sugar and reserve wine) to top up the bottle and tweak the style at the end of the production process. To go for zero dosage (absolutely no sugar at all) is highly unusual. Hervé believes it brings his champagnes into focus as premium quality wines where the quality and origin of the grape becomes the over-riding and single most important factor in the taste. This is pioneering work and there is absolutely no doubt that these Champagnes are top quality. For this unique event we will be tasting Hervé’s range from the Ayala Brut Nature (zero dosage), the Brut Majeur and the Rich Majeur (demi sec) as well as his rose and vintage Champagnes.
The evening will feature a specially themed three course dinner to go with the wines created by head chef Carson Hill.
