It was great to see so many new faces at Cork & Bottle in Leicester Square at the last Wine on Wednesday on 1st Feb. A great venue, particularly considering its location, 'hidden' in the middle of the throng of ticket touts, tourists and questinoable steak-houses where - "you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy" - not really but you get my meaning. Many thanks to the 18 people who braved the surroundings and were able to find the place (a few people walked past it once or twice) had a great time. Due to the large number of people, we managed to try a large selection of different wines, including a celebratory bottle of champagne.
A couple of my personal favourites were the Chakana Reserve Malbec and the Bob Berton Black Shiraz which we ended up drinking a few of to end the evening once Kev's crew had headed off to go dancing. (I must confess, however, that Argentinian Malbec and Australian Shiraz are two of my favourite wines, considering this, I will add that the shiraz was particularly good for the price. While I'm on the topic of value-for-money, subsequent to this event I tried The Bishop by Ben Glaetzer, another excellent Australian Shiraz which I can highly recommend. Similarly, Majestic Wines recently released the Jim Barry McRae Wood Museum Release 2000 Shiraz which I managed to buy them out of - if you see this wine give it a try).
Well, I'm going to have to pull my finger out and get better at organising events so watch this space, I want to make sure and utilise the winter weather. Come summer we'll have to have some olympics WoW events for anyone keen to fight the crowds and public transport.
I'll be updating the blog soon with the next event, likely to be the 7th March.
Cheers,
JG.
Tuesday, 21 February 2012
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