Tastings and Wine Dinners.  Add/Read Comments

Emails clogging the in-box; all of interest and awaiting an airing... Red Carnation Hotels hosts monthly wine dinners in London (Milestone Hotel, W8) and Dorset (Evershot) Summer Lodge Country House. The next tasting is in Dorset (Tuesday 7th March, £80) with organic/biodynamic Champagne £80 per person and at London with the Loire Valley from Yapp Brothers (22nd March, £75).... The Flying Corkscrew (Hemel Hempstead 01442 412311) has Derek Smedly MW hosting a tasting on the 30th March (£10 per person) and a free open-day tasting from April 7th to 9th.... Bibendum (£30 per person email for tickets) has the Nursery Pavilion at Lord's on the 26th April for a Bordeaux Tasting... barrel samples from 2005 and two other vintages of the same wines.