PAST TASTING EVENTS
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Bordeaux 1982: The vintage that changed the world
Date: 7pm, Thursday 4th March 2010
Price: £150.00What a difference a year makes. As one of the best vintages of the 20th century, you would expect ‘82 to have left a legacy, but the impact of this year ran far deeper than simply providing us with some of the best wines ever made. 1982 in Bordeaux was the year that ‘futures’, and wine investment in general, really...
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Sassicaia back to 1967 with winemaker Sebastiano Rosa
Date: 7pm, Tuesday 16th February 2010
Price: £150.00Tenuta San Guido is Italy’s ‘first growth’ (the vines originally came from Lafite!) and the wine that has made this estate a household name around the world is Sassicaia. It is an honour and a pleasure to welcome the winemaker (and heir to the San Guido throne) Sebastiano Rosa to Roberson to talk us through a vertical tasting of this...
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The wines of Prager with winemaker Toni Bodenstein
Date: 7pm, Monday 8th February 2010
Price: £20.00Toni Bodenstein is not only among the world’s most exciting winemakers, he is also one of the foremost experts on terroir. Who better, then, to give us an Austrian masterclass looking at Riesling and Gruner Veltliner? This is an opportunity to taste with, listen to and ask questions of this charismatic and supremely talented individual, that is making some of...
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Burgundy 2008: En Primeur tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 4th February 2010
Price: £10.00The beginning of the year means Burgundy En Primeur and in the past 12 months the Roberson team have worked very heard to uncover more ‘under-the-radar’ producers and eek out small allocations from some of the most respected names in Burgundy. This is your chance to taste them and, we hope, place an order to buy a case or two...
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Roberson Wine School Introduction to Wine
Date: 7pm, Thursday 21st January 2010
Price: £50.00This single evening course aims to give those with little or no knowledge of wine a good grounding in the basics. It is ideal for anybody who is interested in wine and would like to learn more about it, or for those who would like to improve their basic knowledge before coming to our regular Thursday night tastings. Our aim...
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Christmas Open Evening
Date: 7pm, Thursday 3rd December 2009
Price: £20.00With Christmas around the corner, plans for your parties should be well underway. The open evening is a chance for us to help you stock your yuletide cellar while eating, drinking and being merry - mince pies are included in the ticket price. Wines from all over the world will be on display, poured by the Roberson team and our...
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Ridge Vineyards: A Tasting with Paul Draper
Date: 7pm, Thursday 26th November 2009
Price: £60.00Ridge Vineyards is one of the world's most legendary wine producers and their chief winemaker Paul Draper continues to be an inspiration, 40 years since he took the reigns at California's most respected estate. The team at Roberson Wine are honoured and excited to be welcoming Paul to our cellars for a tasting of Ridge wines, including a mini-vertical of...
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Bordeaux: The Haut Brion family
Date: 7pm, Thursday 19th November 2009
Price: £80.00Chateau Haut-Brion is the doyen of Pessac-Leognan and the first superpremium wine to hit British shores way back in the days of Samuel Pepys (he recorded it in his diary as ‘Ho Bryan’). Today there are a number of properties in the appelllation with Haut-Brion in their name and most (but not all) are now owned by the Dillon family....
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Varietal series: Pinot Noir
Date: 7pm, Thursday 5th November 2009
Price: £40.00If there is one grape variety that has captured the hearts and minds of wine romantics all over the world then it is Pinot Noir. From its homeland on the gentle slopes of Burgundy’s Cote d’Or to New World outposts in New Zealand, Australia, California and beyond - Pinot has a cache that other varieties can only dream of. This...
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Burgundy: The wines of Echezeaux Grand Cru
Date: 7pm, Thursday 15th October 2009
Price: £80.00Echezeaux is one of the largest Grand Cru sites in Burgundy and as a result there are a number of producers that own vines in one or more of the ten lieux-dits that make up this 38 hectare vineyard. With a variety of styles and interpretations of the terrroir, not to mention a large disparity in the quality of the...
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Legends of Southern France
Date: 7pm, Thursday 24th September 2009
Price: £50.00After years in the vinous wilderness, Southern France has emerged and blossomed into a truly great fine wine region with some of the world’s very best terroir and winemakers. Many of these producers have been making spectacular wines since the early ‘90s but is only recently that the world has sat up and taken notice. This truly exciting tasting will...
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Varietal series: Riesling Masterclass
Date: 7pm, Thursday 25th June 2009
Price: £30.00In the first of a series of tastings that will focus on specific grapes, we begin with what many consider to be the most noble of all the white varieties: Riesling. Taking in wines and producers from all over the old and new worlds, the tasting will begin by looking at the role geography plays in the differences between styles....
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Stars of Piedmont: 1998 Barolo & Barbaresco
Date: 7pm, Thursday 18th June 2009
Price: £80.00For lovers of Italian wine, Piedmont is a land of incomparable terroir, producers of unsurpassed skill and wines of unrivalled quality and complexity. The best of these wines come from the crus of Barolo and Barbaresco and this tasting will compare the top examples from the wonderful 1998 vintage. Only the most prestigious names have made the cut and we...
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Summer Open Evening
Date: 7pm, Thursday 4th June 2009
Price: £20.00With Summer just around the corner, your plans for al fresco dining and garden parties should be well underway. The Summer open evening is a chance to taste around 50 wines of all types from all over the world and raise a toast to the clear skies and impending heat wave. A wide range of red, white, rosé and sparkling...
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Château Léoville-Barton: A vertical tasting back to 1961 with Anthony Barton
Date: 7pm, Thursday 28th May 2009
Price: £100.00The Roberson team are delighted and honoured to be welcoming Anthony Barton to our cellars in Kensington for a vertical tasting of the wonderful wines of Château Léoville-Barton. One of wine’s most respected figures, Anthony will be on hand to talk us through a string of fascinating vintages and give us the inside track on what is one of the...
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Sylvain Cathiard: Master of Malconsorts
Date: 7pm, Thursday 21st May 2009
Price: £80.00When Clive Coates MW released the new edition of ‘Wines of Burgundy’ last year, eyebrows were raised at some of his choices for domaines that he considered to be in the top echelon of Burgundy producers. One of those was Sylvain Cathiard of Vosne-Romanée, who Coates described as having “a touch of genius in the winemaking”. This was confirmed at...
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King of the Hill: Hermitage
Date: 7pm, Thursday 14th May 2009
Price: £80.00Few geographic landmarks mean as much to the wine aficionado as the Rhône Valley’s hill of Hermitage. Some of the best winemakers in the world specialise in making red and white wines from this wonderful terroir and what better way to get to know them than a comparative tasting of some of the best? In order to crown someone ‘King...
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French Walkabout Tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 16th April 2009
Price: £20.00Despite the ever growing number of pretenders to its crown, France remains the global benchmark for quality wine. And rightfully so in our opinion, as nowhere else can you get such diversity or value for money - if you know what to look for of course! The next installment in our wildly popular series of regional walkabout tastings will feature...
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Old World Legends: The wines of Vega Sicilia with winemaker Xavier Ausas
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 1st April 2009
Price: £120.00There are only a few wineries that can lay genuine claim to being iconic, but one of those is without question Spain’s ‘first growth’ - the indomitable Vega Sicilia. It was our pleasure to welcome the Vega Sicila team to Roberson for a tasting of their range of wines, including all the new releases and some back vintages of their...
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Cabernet legends of Napa Valley
Date: 7pm, Thursday 19th March 2009
Price: £80.00Ever since the Judgement of Paris tasting in 1976 the wine world has been forced to sit up and take notice of California’s superb Cabernet Sauvignons. The Napa Valley inparticular has been a hotbed of quality and innovation, and nowadays there are plenty of French accents to be heard as some of the most famous names in Bordeaux have made...
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Bordeaux: First growth showdown
Date: 7pm, Thursday 5th March 2009
Price: £150.00The five first growths of Bordeaux's left bank are widely held to be the benchmark by which all other red wines in the world are judged, but it is rare that we get to benchmark them against each other - especially from a vintage that is drinking well right now. In order to develop our understanding (ahem...) the Roberson team...
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Burgundy: Grands Crus VS 1er Crus: The promotion/demotion debate
Date: 7pm, Thursday 26th February 2009
Price: £100.001855 was the year of classifications in France - not only was the famous Bordeaux 5-tier system established, but wine expert Dr Jules Lavalle ranked the best terroir of the Cote-d’Or into three groups, forming the basis for what was to become Burgundy’s maze of appellations almost a century later. Unlike the Medoc classification, which has seen only one mover...
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Languedoc & Roussillon masterclass with Robert Joseph
Date: 7pm, Thursday 19th February 2009
Price: £20.00Roberson are delighted to welcome one of the UK’s most respected authorities on the wines of France - former Daily Telegraph columnist and best-selling author Robert Joseph. Having tasted, written about and judged French wines for over 25 years, Robert recently launched his own range with winemaker Hugh Ryman. Robert will be guiding us through one of the wine world’s...
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Burgundy: 2007 En Primeur from three fantastic growers
Date: 7pm, Thursday 12th February 2009
Price: £15.00(Ticket price is refundable against any en primeur purchase on the night) This walkabout tasting is your chance to sample 2007 red and white Burgundies from three fantastic growers. Many of the wines on show will be barrel samples that are yet to be bottled and you will have the opportunity to order the wines ‘en primeur’ - at a...
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Roberson Open Evening: Fuel for your Yule
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Price: £15.00With Christmas round the corner, plans for the ubiquitous parties and celebrations should be well underway. Our open evening is a chance to get together with our regular (and soon to be regular) customers in order to eat, drink and be merry - mince pies are included in the ticket price. With wines from all over the world on display,...
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St Emilion: Premier Grand Cru Classé (B)
Date: 7pm, Thursday 20th November 2008
Price: £50.00St Emilion is still reeling from the suspension of its revised (2006) classification, which resulted in the 1996 status-quo being restored while the authorities fight it out in the courts with the aggrieved parties. While all this goes on, we are taking the opportunity to look at the estates in the second tier of the classification in order to get...
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Old World legends: Tenuta dell’ Ornellaia
Date: 7pm, Thursday 6th November 2008
Price: £80.00The Antinori family are responsible for some of Tuscany’s most prodigious and prestigious wines, and Lodovico Antinori was the man who established Ornellaia - a winery that has gone on to become an Italian legend. From Lodovico’s first vintage in 1985, through a tumultuous takeover by California’s Mondavi family, and now under the ownership of the Frescobaldi family, Tenuta dell’...
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Château Lynch-Bages: A vertical tasting with Sylvie Cazes
Date: 7pm, Tuesday 21st October 2008
Price: £120.00Château Lynch-Bages has always been a favourite with British claret lovers and has been one of Bordeaux’s highest performing Châteaux for decades, far outperforming its status as only a 5ème cru classé. We are privileged and delighted to welcome to Roberson the President of Château Lynch-Bages and the Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux, Sylvie Cazes-Regimbeau, who will preside over...
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Roberson Walkabout Tasting: Italy
Date: 7pm, Thursday 9th October 2008
Price: £15.00The latest in our series of informal walkabout tastings will focus on one of the wine world’s most compex and fascinating countries - Italy. This tasting will feature over 30 red, white & sparkling wines from all over Italy, with a chance to meet some Italian wine experts and suppliers and ask your questions to the Roberson team.
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Gevrey-Chambertin: King of Wines and Wine of Kings
Date: 7pm, Thursday 25th September 2008
Price: £80.00With more land under vine than any other commune in the Cote-de-Nuits and more Grands Crus than any other village in Burgundy, Gevrey-Chambertin is the home of some of the world’s best producers and most delicious red wines. This tasting will focus on the benchmark Pinot Noirs produced at Domaine Armand Rousseau but will take in wines from other top...
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