Name: Giffords Hall Tasting Evening
Start: 2020-02-25T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2020-02-25T21:30:00+00:00
Location: Grape Britannia Shop

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Month

September 2019
The Belgian Brewer tasting evening

September 26, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Grape Britannia Shop 34 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

You may be wondering why a wine merchants specialising in English wine is having a Belgian beer tasting event! Well,...

Free
Cambridge Wine Fair

September 29, 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

We will have a stall at Cambridge's premier wine fair, run by Cambridgeshire Wine School. Tickets for the fair can...
October 2019
Fabulous Fizz

October 23, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Grape Britannia Shop 34 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Do you enjoy a glass of wine with bubbles in? Then this is the event for you! We'll be exploring...

£27.50
November 2019
Cheese and Wine Pairing

November 12, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Grape Britannia Shop 34 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

One of the most pleasurable combinations of food and drink - if you match the wine and cheese correctly! We'll...

£22.50
Bar quiz

November 17, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Grape Britannia Shop 34 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

***** SOLD OUT ***** We're delighted to be hosting our first ever bar quiz at Grape Britannia! A fun evening...

£2
Christmas and New Year Wines

November 26, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Grape Britannia Shop 34 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Join us for an evening sampling some exquisite wines selected specifically for Christmas and New Year celebrations. You'll be given...

£27.50
Christmas and New Year Wines

November 27, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Grape Britannia Shop 34 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Join us for an evening sampling some exquisite wines selected specifically for Christmas and New Year celebrations. You'll be given...

£27.50
December 2019
The Belgian Brewer tasting evening – December

December 5, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Grape Britannia Shop 34 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Grape Britannia is thrilled to welcome back Nik Lemmens from Bishop’s Stortford-based The Belgian Brewer after his well-received tasting evening...

Free
February 2020
Introduction to wine tasting

February 4, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Grape Britannia Shop 34 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Do you like wine but feel that it can sometimes seem a bit mysterious and that descriptions on the label...

£17.50
Giffords Hall Tasting Evening

February 25, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Grape Britannia Shop 34 Chesterton Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Grape Britannia are delighted to welcome to our shop Linda Howard from Giffords Hall Vineyard in Suffolk. Linda will take...

£22.50

Featured Wine

English Sparkling Wines

Renegade Urban Winery Jamie Nat Fizz 2023

Aromatic, fresh, punchy wine, majoring on elderflowers and peaches

Hand harvested in Herefordshire then shipped by Renegade in refrigerated trucks at 2˚C direct to the London winery Dry. Elderflowers. Peach. Apricots. Aromatic and Fresh. English sparkling wine the way it could be!! So Jamie is a ‘Nat Fizz’ (Naturally Fizzy). The French call this style ‘Pet Nat’. Essentially this wine ferments and goes fizzy in the bottle using only the naturally occuring yeasts and underlying sugar present in the grape juice. Renegade don’t add anything at all to this wine. They press the grapes, ferment the juice in chilled stainless steel tanks before transfering the still fermenting wine to bottle before the end of the first and only fermentation. In case you are not aware, Champagne, Cava, Prosecco, Cremant and almost every other sparkling wine style globally undergoes two fermentations. This is a hard wine to make in a consistent, clean, fresh, predictable and repeatable style. It is not a wine you can make in a bulk, industrial style. It is a tough one to get right. Renegade only make around 2,500 bottles of this wine a year. They add nothing at all. So no fining, addatives, sulphur, filtration or sugar, water, animal based products or riddling agents. Literally this is grape juice fermented in a bottle. And the name? Jamie works as a machine operator in Essex. He’s a lovely bloke and this bottle is Jamie at 43 yrs old. When Renegade started making wine in 2016, they were copycat winemakers, asking the growers how they should make wine with their grapes. They soon realised this was a mistake. Taking advantage of the relative lack of legislation in the UK over terms and styles of wine, and drawing on London’s history of innovation, they sought instead to lead the charge on new wine styles and winemaking approaches, using both ancient and modern techniques. Renegade now make around 12-14 wines a year, from classical  styles with a twist to wines that are entirely unique. Alongside the core range, they make a variety of new styles each year. And who’s on the bottle? As a UK producer, Renegade wanted to celebrate the best thing about the UK. The weather? No. The people! Each label shows the eyes of a different person who lives in the UK. They may not be born in the UK, they may not have gone to school in the UK, but they’re part of this country. They each form a key part of the rich tapestry that makes the UK special. As as urban winery based in London, many of the faces are Londoners. But anyone can apply to be on the labels. Faces of Renegade have been students, plumbers, researchers, the unemployed, the retired, newspaper editors, receptionists, teachers and HR executives. They are aged between 19 and 70+. They are white, black, Asian, mixed race. They are straight, gay, transgender, queer. They are from all walks of life. Could it be you next?

£29.99

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Events

September 2019

The Belgian Brewer tasting evening

Cambridge Wine Fair

October 2019

Fabulous Fizz

November 2019

Cheese and Wine Pairing

Bar quiz

Christmas and New Year Wines

Christmas and New Year Wines

December 2019

The Belgian Brewer tasting evening – December

February 2020

Introduction to wine tasting

Giffords Hall Tasting Evening

English Sparkling Wines

Renegade Urban Winery Jamie Nat Fizz 2023

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