October 16, 2015
Following our very successful Winter Tasting last year and taking into account your comments about more space, and more tickets, we are delighted to announce that this year’s Tasting will be held in the stunning Book Rotunda at the Library of Birmingham on Thursday, 5th November from 5.30pm – 8.30pm.
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October 06, 2015
"Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin—such blasphemy I never heard...this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted…” — Edward John Trelawny, Adventures of a Younger Son
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September 23, 2015
There's nothing like a trip to Italy to seriously put paid to any attempt at dietary restraint and so it came to pass that 3 days later and 5lbs heavier, I have just returned from a trip to Piemonte.
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September 09, 2015
As a lucky few of you may be aware, Gardet, our favourite Champagne house, celebrated their 120th Anniversary this year by releasing the mind-numbingly brilliant Anniversary Cuvée (an even luckier few may have managed to nab a bottle).
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August 20, 2015
Some of you may have seen reports (The Guardian) on the tasting held by Which? That discovered, amazingly enough, Supermarket own-brands taste better than some mass produced big brands (considering they included Gordon’s this is hardly surprising).
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