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 …
IWFS LONDON WINE BLOG December 2021
I didn’t go to any wine tastings this month. So I thought that I would write instead about some interesting wines from Greece that I have recently discovered. (And not a word about resin.) The new wine makers in Greece are often young people who have joined their parents’ wine business or taken over the family production with ambitions, strategies …
IWFS LONDON WINE BLOG November 2021
London Branch’s AGM was held last month at the Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall. It was followed by a dinner at which wines from the club cellar accompanied the first two courses, as follows: Kings cured smoked salmon mousse with blini, capers and horseradish cream The choice of wines, both described in the wine list as “full bodied and …
IWFS LONDON WINE BLOG October 2021
We enjoy many varied wine events in London Branch. This month we were privileged to have the rare opportunity of participating in a horizontal tasting of wines from the finest Bordeaux châteaux, vintage 1995, for the provision of which we were most grateful to member Lancelot Jaundoo. These are the wines we tasted. They were all wonderful, still showing some …
IWFS LONDON WINE BLOG September 2021
One event to report this month, a delightful lunch for London Branch members at a one-star Michelin French restaurant just east of the City of London, Galvin La Chapelle. The weather was very warm outside, the sun beating down. But we were comfortably cool in an exceptional setting from the ground floor upwards, past the mezzanine floor where we were …
IWFS LONDON WINE BLOG August 2021
Two tastings to tell you about, both good for our tasting skills in different ways. A rare opportunity for us to try Russian Wines, for those of us curious about wines that we do not usually encounter. These wines – not even available to buy in the UK – were made for Russian tastes. Some were from local grapes, others …
IWFS LONDON WINE BLOG July 2021
It’s a while since I’ve been able to tell you about more than one wine tasting in one blog. Happily we’re beginning to resume normal service, with London Branch’s second face-to-face event this year – and what an event that was – as well as a Zoom tasting. Our 9th event by Zoom was on Cabernet Sauvignon from the New …