Vertical Take-Off

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On Friday November 9th we have our next Tongham Tasters' wine evening.  It will be entitled Chinon Vertical Take-Off.   It will feature our first vertical flight i.e. the same wine but from different years.    These will be wines from the well respected Chinon producer Olga Raffault and will be her top cuvee - Les Picasses and we will be tasting a 2002, a 1998 and a 1990.  We will also be featuring wines from top producers such as Wilfried Rousse, Couly-Dutheil and J-P Druet.   In all we will have wines from at least six different years but I'll add a few more if we have a particularly large attendance.

As well as featuring different producers and different years we will be featuring the two different styles, light and medium, and also oaked and unoaked.  We will also be serving one of the wines chilled to show how this suits this particular appellation.   Thus we will be fully exploring Chinon just as we did with Chablis in our recent Chablis Uncorked evening.

As usual we will be serving our wines alongside some matching food to make a complete evening.

If you want to become one of our tasting team for these lovely Loire Valley Cabernet Franc red wines give John a call on 07717 876743       or email me at tonghamtaster@gmail.com.    The evening will start at 8pm.  Remember that we welcome any newcomers to our evenings.

We will have at least six Chinon wines in our display!