Our Wine Tasting sessions are awesome – we talk about WHY wines from different regions, grapes, and methods of production taste as
Sicilian melon, smoked buffalo, prosciutto and homegrown basil love to be paired with our fresh minerally white wines.
they do and we help you understand HOW you can find the styles of wines you can love without pretense or pardon.
To get involved, email, call or send a contact note using this website.
For more on How to Taste Wine and some of our notes on Wine Tasting, click here!
Food and wine matching platters
You can order a matched tasting platters to go with your selected wines for £10/person. Like all food we serve at Artisan & Vine, the food and wine matching platters consists of seasonal British foods including a range of cheeses, charcuterie, vegetables and bread. We are able to cater for dietary requirements and guarantee a thoughtful match with wines.
There are three main wine tasting formats that we run at Artisan & Vine:
1. Weekly wine tastings
This Summer we’ve increased our regular wine tasting schedule to include day time and week end time slots. Most wine tasting sessions will be themed around “how to taste wine”. Specialist themes, winemaker dinners and vineyard day trips are described below. Please click here to see the full schedule of available wine tasting dates and times and to book your place!
The usual price of a Regular Wine Tasting session is £20/person to taste 5 wines, with a 50ml portion of each wine. Each session lasts for approximately 90-120 minutes.
Upcoming themes are:
Monty Waldin, of Channel 4's "Chateau Monty", and author of various books and articles, is one of our "Natural Heroes" Meet the Winemaker dinners where you can gain fantastic insights into what natural wine is about.
Best of English Meet the Winemaker Series is a highlight in Artisan and Vine's 2011 wine tasting calendar, a must for all wine enthusiasts!
Wed, 14 Sep, Food and Wine Matching, £20/person, includes canapes
Sat, 17 Sep, Vineyard Day Trip: Ridgeview Wine Estate, Sussex*. £59/person includes pre-departure coffee, tea and danishes, luxury coach transportation to and from the vineyard, tour of vineyard and winery, a tasting of the vineyards wines, and a delicious local lunch. Departs from Artisan & Vine 9:30am and returns by 5pm.
Wed, 28 Sep, How to Taste Wine, £20/person
Wed, 19 Oct, North and South American wines, £20/person
*For the purposes of gift certificates: all wine tasting sessions listed are a Regular Wine Tasting unless denoted as a Special Wine Tasting by an asterix *. If you would like to use a certificate or voucher for a Special Wine Tasting, a supplement is required. Please call or email us if you’d like to discuss upgrading your voucher.
2. Custom wine tastings
These can be booked for any time for parties of 6 or more people. The cost and focus of the tasting is customised. Prices start from £20/person for 5 x 50ml sample wines.
3. Flights of wine
At any time you can enjoy a flight of wine at Artisan & Vine. Our flights consist of 3 x 125ml samples, from £15/flight. Wines available for flights are chosen by a&v.
