We offer a range of tasting and experiences, including wine tasting, gin tasting and wine dinners. Please see below for our up coming events, when you find something that you would like to join us on. Please don’t hesitate and call the wine shop today to book your spot. Our events are always well received and always sell out!
Wine Tastings and Events
Friday 25th March 2022 – 7-9pm £20pp
Portugues Wine Tasting
Portugal may be small in size in comparison to its neighbour Spain, however it more than makes up for this with a vast amount more native grapes. Over 600 indigenous grapes, that is a lot to explore!
The evening will be spent tasting through different wine regions, showing diversity in soil, climate and wine production along with tasting through different grape varieties. Portugal really is a unique and wonderful wine country to explore so come along and enjoy the experience.
To Book Call 0194 708 312 Today!
Friday 25th February 2022 – 7-9pm £25pp
Pocket Full of Stones Spirits Tasting
We are delighted to welcome Shaun the founder of Cornish based Pocket Full of Stones distillery and Sian to host an evening The Wine Shop.
They specialise in gin and have a beautiful range including the quirky Squid Ink Gin. Aside from gin they also produce other spirits which they may well bring along to showcase what they can do!
Come and enjoy what will be a tasty evening full of gin, stories and Cornish legends!
Shaun used his experience of working in hospitality in Durban, Belfast, and London to open his own pub in Fitzrovia. Named after his grandfather, the Lukin quickly became known for its eclectic selection of drinks, its friendly, down-to-earth atmosphere, and, thanks to Balazs, its exceptional menu. After years of tastings, pairings, distillery tours, and altogether too much drinking, Shaun decided to put all that knowledge to good use. So in the cellar of the Lukin our first gin, Caspyn, and Pocketful of Stones were born! The decision to set up in Penzance was an obvious one for this surf-loving Durban native who remains the driving force behind our creativity.
Shaun Pocket Full of Stones
I’ve worked for Pocketful of Stones for almost 2 years now, and I love it. To be honest, I didn’t even like Gin when I started (obviously I didn’t disclose this to Shaun before I started) and by day 2 I was on the G&T’s… now I drink it daily!
Sian Pocket Full of Stones
To Book Call 0194 708 312 Today!
Thursday 17th February 2022 – 7pm £60pp
Wine Dinner Babylonstoren
Over the years Babylonstoren have become a firm favourite at The Wine Shop and many would have met Duncan the UK representative at our previous Somerset Wine Fairs events.
We are pleased to be hosting a wine dinner along side the Bath Arms Hotel in Cheddar. The Bath Arms Hotel will provide an excellent five course dinning experience, with each course complemented by a selection of wines from Babylonstoren’s South African vineyard.
Our wine dinners are always a real treat and fanatic value with quality of food and wine on offer.
Welcome & Canapés
Starter
Brixham crab lasagne, seafood bisque
Main Course
Venison loin & rolled leg, pomme anna, spiced pear puree, chestnuts, blackberries
Dessert
Orange cremeaux, salt caramel ice cream
Cheese
Cave aged cheddar & Draycott blue with fig chutney
To Book Call 0194 708 312 Today!
Friday 11th February 2022 – 7-9pm £40pp – SOLD OUT
Champagne Tasting
Sparkling wine and Champagne are special wines, so we are dedicating an evening to indulge in them! Learning about how the bubbles are created, tasting the difference between sparkling methods, grapes and countries. Maybe treat someone special to a night of fizz!
Friday 29th January 2022 – 7-9pm £20pp – SOLD OUT
South African Wine Tasting
Johnny was a real hit at our Somerset Wine Fair earlier this year so we have asked him to come an host a tasting on a country he is very much passionate about.
I first visited South Africa in 1994 when I just left school and fell in love with the country, people, food and wine. I have since been back to SA many times and even got married there in the wines lands 12 years ago to a South African.
So on this tasting I hope to take you on a Lekka wine trip across the wine map of South Africa from the isolated mountains in North West of the Cederberg, across the plains and gentle rolling hills of the Swartland, to the more busy and bustling Franschhoek and Stellenbosch, then onto Constantia tuck in behind Table Mountain where the wine story began in SA and then down to the seaside of Hermanos. The Wines will be from some of the best wine makers be they young or old, from tiny properties to larger ones and this will hopefully show you the dynamism of this amazing country and its wines and I hope to convert you to loving the wines as much as I do.
Cheer Johnny
Saturday 8th January 2022 – 10-1pm Free
Drinks Kitchen
Alli launched Somerset based, The Drinks Kitchen non-alcoholic aperitif in June 2021. The range has already won four Great Taste and Taste of the West awards and has also been recommended in the Sunday Telegraph and Delicious magazine.
Alli will be showing the three different flavours, the well loved Spiced Rhubarb, fresh Herb Verde and for those that love a Negroni, I’m sure you will love the Orange Cinchona.
I have pretty much always worked in the drinks industry. I started by running wine shops in Bath then Bucks and London. Over the last 10 years I headed up marketing and new product development for a large drinks company; developing new brands and recipes for other businesses was something I did all the time with my team.
In 2020 I decided to set up on my own. Although I still adore and drink wine, it doesn’t love me back anymore! So, I decided to create a range of non alcoholic drinks which were packed with amazing and complex flavours as an alternative to alcohol. And so, drinks kitchen was born.
Alli @ Drinks Kitchen
We are delighted to welcome Duncan from South African winery, Babylonstoren to host an evening for us on Thursday 17th February at the Bath Arms in Cheddar.
The wines never fail to please showing elegant complex wines that are balanced showing character of their natural beauty of where the grapes are grown.
