Out of Africa

You are all cordially invited to our April Tongham Tasters’ wine tasting evening at 8.00pm on Thursday April 14th. In honour of our two regular Farnborough attendees, this month the tasting will be in Farnborough Hampshire. The evening has the interesting theme of African wines, both from the south and north of the continent. Our host for the evening will be John S. Should be worth the trip and we are looking forward to the evening.

Click on the picture to find out more about African wines

Nowadays, we tend to think of African wines as New World but in fact South Africa is quite an old wine region dating back to the sixteenth century. Today, South Africa produces some lovely wines, often but not always in an old world style. The wines of North Africa are less well known in the UK than they are in France, but at one time, in the nineteen fifties, the wines of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia represented one third of the world’s production of wine.

As usual we hope to welcome both our regulars and some new faces to our monthly tastings. If you are interested in coming, either send an email to tonghamtaster@gmail.com or ring John Etherton on 07717 876743. Let us know if you need a lift to Farnborough and we’ll try and share transport. Cost of the evening is £10 and will include blind tasting 6 wines and some simple food as palate cleansers. Participation is limited to 14 attendees. If you need any more details click on Wine Circle at the top of this blog for our FAQs.

If it’s Friday it must be the Languedoc!

You are invited to our March 2011 Tongham Tasters wine evening, which, unusually this month, is on a Friday. The date to put in your diaries is March 11th at 8.00pm.

This month, Steve S is hosting the event and choosing the wines. Most of us know that Steve is a big fan of the Languedoc and so no surprise that the theme of this month’s evening is the wines of the Languedoc.

As usual we will be blind tasting 6 wines, enjoying a little food and of course thoroughly enjoying each others company. Cost of the evening is shared by all who come along and is limited to a very reasonable £10 per head – cash on the night.

Participation is limited to 14 as it is being held in one of our homes and we only have one bottle of each wine. As we normally only get nine regulars along to our events there is room for a few additional people to come along and join in the fun. We welcome any new faces and if you want to join us, give Tongham Taster organiser John a call on 07717 876743 or email tonghamtaster@gmail.com.

Vines in the Languedoc

The venue will be in Tongham which is close to Farnham, Aldershot, Seale, Ash and Runfold in Surrey, UK.. Address will be supplied on booking your place. Hope we get to clink glasses with you on the 11th.  If all is stilll not clear click on Wine Circle at the top of this blog for our FAQs.

If keen on the wines of the Languedoc do tune in to this blog for information and recommendations relating to this region each week during March.