A Tribute to our late Chairman, Andrew Brodie Many of you will remember the wonderful wine dinners that Andrew Brodie used to organise in London with Jack Rubyn, chairman of the Marin County Branch in California. Following Andrew’s untimely death in 2016, Jack sponsored a special dinner in his memory at Pied a Terre led by Mathieu Germond, who was …
Is Château d’Yquem the best?
A comparative tasting of some of the best mature sweet wines in the world. Château d’Yquem is considered the best – or one of the best – sweet wines anywhere. As well as d’Yquem, we shall taste mature, rich challengers from other top Sauternes and from an Alsace Grand Cru, a Tokay Aszú, a Pedro Ximenez from Jerez, a German …
London Branch Celebrates IWFS 90th Anniversary at Windsor Castle
To celebrate the 90th Anniversary of IWFS, London Branch decided that it needed a very special venue. We were delighted when one of our members offered to use his personal connections to enable us to use the Vicars’ Hall at Windsor Castle. With the opportunity to use such an iconic venue it seemed appropriate to bring the event forward to …
Lunch at the Greenwich Pensioner
Many of you will have attended some of the excellent lunches that Persephone Lewin has organised for us over the last few years. Now she has bought her own historic public house, and undertaken extensive renovations to bring it up to today’s standards. She has just reopened as a gastro pub and very kindly invited us to join her for …
A tasting of Chateau Musar and some Left Bank Clarets
Back in 2020 we sadly lost Carole Goldberg, one of the stalwarts of the London Branch of the IWFS. Always unpredictable, sometimes challenging, Carole was tremendously enthusiastic about the Society. Over the years she had organised many memorable tastings. This tasting for London Branch members, held at the Army and Navy Club in Mayfair, was titled “Carole Goldberg Revisited Part …
London Branch Excellence Award for Sam’s Riverside
Sam’s Riverside is a high class ‘local’ restaurant, situated on the banks of the River Thames, next to the Riverside TV studios. It has great view of the River and Hammersmith Bridge. London Branch held a lunch there in October 2022, and was so impressed that it decided to to arrange a repeat visit and present Sam with an Excellence …
Zone Zinfandel Exclusive
A unique wine tasting for London Branch members was held at the Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall. Ian Shane, an IWFS member of London Branch since 1988 (and also of New York since moving there in the late 1990s), took us through these wines selected from his cellar. We had the privilege of comparing Zinfandel wines all from the …
Wines from the Cellar of the late Hugo Dunn-Meynell
The late Hugo Dunn-Meynell was Chairman and then Executive Director of IWFS over 15 years in the 1980s and 90s. Amongst his many achievements, he transformed the Society to its great benefit, bringing financial soundness, modernised management, a dedicated staff and branches in many parts of the world. He and his wife, writer Alice Wooledge Salmon, Tish, co-authored The Wine …
A TASTING OF FINE 2008/9/10 CLARETS
This wonderful tasting, held at the Army and Navy Club in Pall Mall, led by Jeffrey Benson, featured ten wines from the cellar of one of our members, Lancelot Jaundoo. We tasted the clarets in flights of three. Château d`Angludet, Margaux : 2008, 2009, 2010 This estate had been neglected since before the Second World War until Peter Sichel acquired and …
A Tasting Dinner with Savoie Wines
It is some years since Laurent Faure last entertained London Branch to one of his wine tasting dinners at le Vieux Comptoir, so we were well due for a return visit. This time the wines were from the Savoie region of France. These are mostly consumed locally, and only tiny quantities ever find their way to the UK. Those on …