We will tailor your event precisely to your needs and wishes, but the main options are these:

Wines specifically chosen to match the dishes prepared, usually one or two wines per course (depending on the menu), so that your guests can experience combinations that work best for them and realise why. A short chat between courses can discuss the previous matches and introduce the next without interfering with the flow of your meal. Specific wine and food pairings can be discussed with your chef in advance.

Themes have included a Wine "Tour de France", Sparkling and Champagne, New World, local wines - either purely Provence, or along the coast from Catalonia to Liguria, including Languedoc, and Provence, to fine wines from Bordeaux or Burgundy, we can tailor a tasting to your exact requirements.

This generally works for people for whom an element of competition is desirable. After a short introduction about the basics of how to taste wine, with a few clues dropped, everyone tastes six or so wines completely 'blind' (bottles wrapped up). They then complete a simple answer sheet. At the end the wines are unveiled, the scores calculated and a winner - rarely the person who "knows most about wine" - emerges. Takes around two to three hours.


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