This evening we enjoyed wines from Spain, Portugal, Chile, Australia, New Zealand and Armenia, including two excellent white wines. One of those white wines a 19 Crimes Chardonnay, courtesy of Paul, and was the most popular wine of the evening scoring an outstanding 16 overall. It is the highest scoring white wine sampled at the society since records began. Paul now has the distinction of bringing both the highest scoring white wine and the lowest scoring wine sampled at the society. The other of the two white wines scored a very respectable 15.83, brought by Talbot – a Waitonga Falls Sauvignon Blanc.

Special thanks to Lewis for the Armenian Malbec, a first for the society and following the aims of the society to sample wines from around the world.

A full list and details of the wines sampled this evening can be found here …

This evening we enjoyed wines from the Southern Hemisphere. A theme chosen by Wayne who brought the most popular wine two weeks ago, and again this evening with an Australian Barossa Ink Shiraz scoring an outstanding 16.57. This was closely followed by Tony’s Pepper Box Shiraz, another fine Australian wine scoring 16.43.

Our next meeting will be on Friday 26 June when, as custom requires, we will have a “free choice” meeting following a themed evening.

A full list of the wines sampled can be found here …

With apologies to Wayne. I couldn’t resist. (Web Admin)

This week saw 8 members enjoy a French themed evening – a theme chosen by Tony. The wines of France surprised us all with their quality and were enjoyed by all !

The most popular wine of the evening was a Cairanne Côtes du Rhône, Shiraz, Grenache, Verde blend courtesy of Neale and of great value at £3.99, scoring a commendable 15 overall. This was closely followed by two wines both scoring 14.88 – a Caballié Pays d’Oc and a Calvet Prestige Côtes du Rhône brought by Talbot and Tony respectively. Thank you Tony for choosing a very enjoyable theme. All of the wines sampled were considered good enough to receive a “Recommended” stamp of approval from the society. The evening concluded with a very enjoyable Portuguese Lusus Reserva courtesy of Craig.

A full list of the wines sampled can be found here…

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New Fosse famous five drink again! Enjoying wines from Argentina 🇦🇷. Portugal 🇵🇹. France 🇫🇷. Italy 🇮🇹. Spain 🇪🇸. The most preferred wine 🍷 of the evening was Tony’s, Italian Primativo Di Manduria bought from Lidl for £8.99. Scoring a very respectful score of 16.4.

A full list of the wines sampled can be found here…

This week we enjoyed 8 wines from Portugal – an excellent theme chosen by Tony. The most popular wine of the evening was an Animus Douro Reserva scoring a very respectable 14.57, courtesy of our Chairman Jim, closely followed by Vinceno Douro brought by Ian. The remaining wines, all from Portugal scored well making for a very enjoyable evening.

A full list of the wines sampled can be found here.

The first meeting of the New Year saw 5 members enjoy a curry from the award winning Hungry Elephant Indian Takeaway accompanied by a Matheus Rosé kindly supplied by our Chairman, Jim. After a delicious meal we went on to enjoy wines from Chile, France, Argentina, Italy and Portugal. The most popular wine of the evening was a Castellore Salice Salentino from the Puglia region of Italy, courtesy of Tony and scoring an outstanding 15.2 overall. An additional wine to finish the evening and to celebrate the New Year, a Dark Horse Merlot, completed the evenings meeting. Full details of the wines sampled can be found here…

A extremely enjoyable evening with great company and great wines. Our next meeting is on Friday 6 February which will have a theme of “wines of Portugal” A theme chosen by Tony.

For the last meeting before Christmas and the last one of 2025 we donned our best Christmas Jumpers for a bumper meeting of 9 members enjoying wines with a “southern” theme. The most popular wine of the evening amongst a high scoring evening was Diablo Purple Malbec from Chile courtesy of Wayne scoring a 15.89. This was very closely followed by a South African Roodenberg Black scoring 15.33 brought by our Chairman Jim who kindly supplied a fine bottle of Tawny Port to finish the evening’s get together. Hot on Jim’s heels was a South African Bokenhoutskloof, Cabernet Sauvignon blend scoring 15.11, courtesy of Tony.

Full details of the wines sampled can be found here …

Our next meeting will be on Friday 9th January 2026 when we will also be enjoying a curry to start our 2026 meetings. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. Please enjoy your wines responsibly over Christmas and New Year.

This week 8 members helped Wayne and Alan celebrate their recent birthdays with a very fine curry from the award winning Hungry Elephant takeaway. Alan kindly supplied a bottle of white wine to accompany the curry’s, whilst 2 of our members went with a bottle of Old Speckled Hen to accompany their meals. Neale provided us with an input and update on how many wine connoisseurs apply their ratings of wines using the 20 point system we have used for many, many years. A copy of which can be found here …

After the meal we enjoyed wines from New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, Chile, Italy and France. The most popular wine of the evening was St. Emillion Grand Cru scoring an outstanding 16.13 courtesy of Wayne who also kindly organised and collected our meals. This was closely followed by a 15.63 for Ian’s Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough, New Zealand. Another fantastic evening enjoying great company and great wines from around the world.

Full details of the wines sampled can be found here …

This week saw 7 members enjoy (mostly) 7 wines together with a wine from Georgia estimated to be at least 40 years old, courtesy of Lewis.

The most popular wines of the evening were a Barossa Blood Ink (Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Grenache blend) brought by Neale and a Luis Felipe Edwards Malbec brought by Talbot, both scoring a respectable 13.43. These were closely followed by a Diablo Volcanic, Cabernet Sauvignon courtesy of Jim scoring 13.29. We did however have a record breaking score for a Maison De Tastelune, Pinot Noir scoring 4.71, brought by Paul. The previous record holders for the lowest scoring wines, Neale and Talbot, are very grateful to Paul for pushing them into second and third places respectively. The evening’s frivolities concluded with an additional bottle kindly brought by Neale.

To view more details on the wines sampled this week, click here …