Vertical Take-Off

Harrier jump-jet at Dunsfold

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!

INVITE TO OUR NEW ZEALAND WINE TASTING DINNER

SATURDAY 19th NOVEMBER 2011, 7PM

                                              

TONGHAM VILLAGE HALL

£22.50 per head inclusive of all food and wine

8 Courses – 7 Different Wines to Taste

Contact Jane Etherton to book your place and participate in the life of your village. Tel 07983 154295

All profits go towards the upkeep of Tongham Village Hall, 75 The Street

Registered Charity No.200365

November's Tongham Tasters' Get-together



Countdown to November 11th



Our next Tongham Tasters get together is at 8.00pm on Thursday 11th November. Ian will be buying the wine this month and he is going for 3 Rieslings (2 dry and 1 slightly sweeter) and 3 fruity reds from around the world – should be interesting. Rieslings are of course the white grape of choice for most wine writers – so if you want to understand why, come along. Fruit is the modern taste preference for reds after years of oak etc, so again we wait to see what Ian has chosen with interest. As usual we will be conducting a blind tasting of these 6 wines.





Please email tonghamtaster@gmail.com or ring John on 07717 876743 if you wish to come along to this month’s event and let us know a week in advance if possible. We appreciate everyone bringing along their own 6 wine glasses as this prevents one person from doing all the washing up or running out of glasses. Remember we only have 14 places available for each event so early notification will prevent disappointment.  As usual we will share the cost of the evening and it is limited to £10 per head.

As usual we welcome wine enthusiasts of all types and levels of experience from absolute beginners upwards.