PAST TASTING EVENTS
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Roberson Wine School 4: The 'When' of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 12th May 2012
Price: £0.00The fourth Wine School tasting of the series will look at the ‘when’ of wine, focusing on the impact that vintage conditions and maturity have on the development of a wine and when the best time is to drink up. Why do some wines age and others don’t? Why do people obsess about 2005 but not 2004? Among other things...
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Battleground Champagne: Growers vs grande marques
Date: 7pm, Thursday 26th April 2012
Price: £40.00We had a great response to our grower Champagne tasting last year and many of you were particularly interested in a blind tasting that pitted the best examples against the grande marques that we all know and (some of us) love. One of the things that independent merchants like us love to tell customers is that growers give you much...
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Pingus & Friends: The wines of Peter Sisseck
Date: 7pm, Thursday 19th April 2012
Price: £120.00Despite being Danish, Peter Sisseck has well and truly established himself as one of the modern legends of the Spanish wine scene. His work spans a number of projects, but it is the wines made at his Pingus estate that have cemented his reputation and become rare and wildly expensive collector’s items. This tasting will look at Sisseck’s various projects,...
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Roberson Wine School 3: The 'Who' of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 7th April 2012
Price: £0.00The third Wine School tasting of the series will look at the impact that the winemaker has on the quality and style of wine. Whether they are technically minded or ‘non-interventionist’, the decisions they do or don’t make will dictate what sort of wine is produced. There are all sorts of different approaches to winemaking and this class will look...
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Organic, Biodynamic and Natural Wine: A walkabout tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 5th April 2012
Price: £20.00We can't promise that you won't have a headache in the morning (although Remi swears this is true) but this tasting will showcase 30+ of the most innovative, interesting, unique and characterful wines in the world – made by responsible winemakers that care about the environment and representing the essence of the land that they farm. Some of them are...
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Château La Conseillante: The Vertical Tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 29th March 2012
Price: £110.00Tucked away in a privileged corner of the Pomerol appellation, with Petrus, Evangile, Vieux-Château Certan and St Emilion’s Cheval Blanc for neighbours, is Château La Conseillante. This 12 hectare property has quietly gone about producing some of Bordeaux's finest wines since its inception in the 1750s, and in recent years it has risen to become one of the darlings of...
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The Wines of the Rhône Valley
Date: 7pm, Thursday 22nd March 2012
Price: £40.00With the constant press attention given to Bordeaux and Burgundy, France’s third major fine wine region doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. It is no understatement to say that some of France’s finest terroir and finest wines are to be found in the Rhône Valley, with the sheer variety and difference between the north and the south providing for...
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St-Emilion: The terroir masterclass
Date: 7pm, Thursday 8th March 2012
Price: £95.00One of the most famous appellations in the world of wine, St Emilion’s terroir is nuanced and varied to the extent that there are at least five completely distinct sectors that yield wines of very different character and quality. This tasting will take an in-depth look at the appellation, focusing on the variance in soil and topography and illustrating the...
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Roberson Wine School 2: The 'Where' of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 3rd March 2012
Price: £0.00The second Wine School tasting of the series will look at the impact that ‘place’ has on the quality and style of wine. The appellation system used in France (and beyond) is a product of the concept of ‘terroir’ and all of this will be discussed (and tasted) in detail, in addition to the differences between many wines from the...
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Cult California
Date: 7pm, Thursday 1st March 2012
Price: £90.00Nowhere do wine producers generate hysteria like California. It is the home of the cult, boutique wine – made by a winemaking ‘genius’, in tiny quantities, with an artistic label and ridiculous price tag. Most of these wines are the preserve of reclusive collectors and once released, they disappear into a cellar somewhere to bask in the glory of their...
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Super Bourgognes: World class generics from world class producers
Date: 7pm, Thursday 16th February 2012
Price: £40.00Not many of us can afford to indulge in Burgundy’s most famous names all the time, but that doesn’t mean we don’t expect to pop such corks ever again. On the contrary - when Coche-Dury’s Bourgogne Blanc is as good as most producers' Meursualt 1er Crus, then we should celebrate the fact that the best generic Bourgognes can offer incredible...
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Roberson Wine School 1: The 'What' of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 4th February 2012
Price: £0.00The first Wine School tasting of the new series will begin by teaching you the fundamentals of how to taste, before looking at the ‘what’ of wine – the major red and white grape varieties and the role that their differences play in the character of finished wines. It is a great opportunity for those with basic or intermediate knowledge...
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Roberson Wine School: The ‘When’ of wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 3rd December 2011
Price: £0.00The fourth Wine School tasting of the series will look at the ‘when’ of wine, focusing on the impact that vintage conditions and maturity have on the development of a wine and when the best time is to drink up. Why do some wines age and others don’t? Why do people obsess about 2005 but not 2004? Among other things...
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Food and wine matching masterclass: The alternative Christmas dinner
Date: 7pm, Thursday 1st December 2011
Price: £30.00Our resident food and wine matching expert Paul is a classically trained chef that spent 5 years working in some of London & Ireland’s top kitchens. Then he finally saw sense and made the move into the wine trade and now customers at the Kensington shop regularly rely on his expertise for putting together the perfect matches for their dinner...
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The Christmas Walkabout
Date: 7pm, Thursday 24th November 2011
Price: £20.00With Christmas around the corner, plans for your parties should already be well underway, but the open evening is a chance for us to help you stock your yuletide cellar while eating, drinking and being merry - mince pies are included in the ticket price. Wines from all over the world will be on display, poured by the Roberson team...
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The wines of Giacomo Conterno – back to Monfortino 1955
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 16th November 2011
Price: £180.00There are lots of good Barolo producers and there a few great ones – then there are the masters at the very top of the tree. Of this exalted class, Giacomo Conterno is fabled for producing perhaps the most sought after and long lived Barolo wines, with his Monfortino Riserva taking on almost mythical status. Ever since the ’98 stole...
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Jean-Louis Chave Hermitage: The Vertical
Date: 7pm, Thursday 10th November 2011
Price: £120.00The Chave family, who have been growing grapes on the hill of Hermitage since 1481, are rightfully regarded as iconic wine producers. This is a domaine that consistently turns out world class wines in both red and white and while Jaboulet and Chapoutier often grab many of the headlines, it is Jean-Louis Chave that the connoisseur would point to as...
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Roberson Wine School: The 'Who' of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 5th November 2011
Price: £0.00The third Wine School tasting of the series will look at the impact that the winemaker has on the quality and style of wine. Whether they are technically minded or ‘non-interventionist’, the decisions they do or don’t make will dictate what sort of wine is produced. There are all sorts of different approaches to winemaking and this class will look...
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Grower Champagne Masterclass
Date: 7pm, Thursday 27th October 2011
Price: £50.00It’s a rebellion that the big Champagne houses have been trying to crush for a long time now, but the secret is well and truly out. ‘Grower’ Champagne is one of the most exciting categories in the world of fine wine at the moment and there are scores of top-notch winemakers producing their own interpretations of this famous terroir. Remi...
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Roberson Wine School: Introduction to serious Piedmont wines
Date: 7pm, Thursday 20th October 2011
Price: £50.00Continuing our series of tastings that dig deeper into the world’s finest wine regions, Remi will be focusing on the wines of (arguably) Italy’s best region – Piedmont. Beginning with Moscato d’Asti, Roero Arneis and Gavi di Gavi, we will then take a look at Dolcetto and Barbera before delving into Nebbiolo. This will give us the chance to dissect...
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The Wines of Mas Coutelou - With Winemaker Jeff Coutelou
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 12th October 2011
Price: £30.00Mas Coutelou is perhaps the most popular winery we have ever introduced into our range at Roberson. When Mark and Joe tasted there in 2010, they knew they had discovered something special and by the time we received the first shipment of Jeff’s wines in spring 2011, the whole team was champing at the bit to introduce them to our...
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The Old Wine Walkabout
Date: 7pm, Thursday 6th October 2011
Price: £40.00Mature wine always gets us excited. While it is definitely not true that old=good, it often = very, very interesting and let’s face it, it isn’t every day that you get to pop the cork on a bottle that is 40, 50, or even 90+ years old. Those of you that attend our fine wine events will often have shared...
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Roberson Wine school: The 'Where' of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 1st October 2011
Price: £0.00The second Wine School tasting of the series will look at the impact that ‘place’ has on the quality and style of wine. The appellation system used in France (and beyond) is a product of the concept of ‘terroir’ and all of this will be discussed (and tasted) in detail, in addition to the differences between many wines from the...
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Bordeaux 1961: The Horizontal
Date: 7pm, Thursday 29th September 2011
Price: £80.00There are a few contenders for the title of ‘Vintage of the century’ in Bordeaux, but ’61 is right up there as one of the favourites to take the crown. It is a vintage that is getting harder and harder to taste nowadays, as the prices of the wines are astronomical and there just aren’t many available (it was a...
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Roberson Wine School: The 'What' of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 24th September 2011
Price: £0.00The first Wine School tasting of the new series will begin by teaching you the fundamentals of how to taste, before looking at the ‘what’ of wine – the major red and white grape varieties and the role that their differences play in the character of finished wines. It is a great opportunity for those with basic or intermediate knowledge...
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Southern France Walkabout
Date: 7pm, Thursday 22nd September 2011
Price: £10.00As part of the ‘Sud de France’ festival, the Mediterranean comes to Kensington! Well alright, just some of the wines of the Med, but Languedoc, Roussillon and Provence are the most exciting regions in the world of wine at the moment and now is the perfect time to get to know them better. We will be showcasing over 30 of...
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Summer Walkabout Tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 7th July 2011
Price: £20.00This tasting is no longer available to book online. Please call the shop on 020 7371 21 21 to book your place over the phone. With summer finally starting to kick in, your plans for al-fresco dining and garden parties should be well underway. The summer open evening is a chance to taste over 50 wines of all types from...
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The Bordeaux Vertizontal – ’88, ’89 & ’90 Mouton, Cos, Palmer and Léoville-Barton
Date: 7pm, Thursday 30th June 2011
Price: £200.00We’ve all been to vertical tastings, and horizontal tastings are ten a penny – Now Roberson Wine introduces the ‘vertizontal’, combining the best elements of both! And to get things started with a bang, we will be taking a look at four top chateaux (one from each of the Haut-Médoc’s big appellations) in three brilliant vintages. With all the talk...
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Roberson Wine School: An Introduction to Serious Champagne
Date: 7pm, Thursday 23rd June 2011
Price: £50.00Following on from our Introduction classes to serious Burgundy and Bordeaux, this tasting is for those with intermediate wine knowledge that want to get a deeper understanding of the Champagne region and its wines. The tasting will look at how Champagne is produced and how it has developed through history. We will taste top drawer examples of all styles, from...
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The Wines of Au Bon Climat with Winemaker Jim Clendenen
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 15th June 2011
Price: £30.00The ‘Wild Boy’ of Californian wine, Jim Clendenen was all set to embark on a career in law when he took some time out to travel across France following university. His time in Burgundy and Champagne convinced him that there was a higher calling and on his return to the USA he decided to follow a career in wine. After...
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Great Value Bordeaux – A Walkabout Tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 9th June 2011
Price: £20.00With every passing year the price of top class Claret continues to head skyward, leaving us mere mortals scrabbling around in a desperate attempt to find Bordeaux wines that offer both quality and value. Well fear not, because those wines are out there and our team has been scouring the region to find them. This tasting will showcase approx 30...
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Sauternes with Neal Martin
Date: 7pm, Thursday 26th May 2011
Price: £90.00Neal is not only Robert Parker’s man in London, but also one of the city’s foremost authorities on the wines of Sauternes – he is now the lead critic for the region in the Wine Advocate. As such, he is a regular visitor to all of the major estates and has the inside track on the wines and their producers....
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Corton Grand Cru – Back to 1926
Date: 7pm, Thursday 19th May 2011
Price: £90.00Corton is the biggest Grand Cru on the Côte d’Or and one of only two that produces both red and white wines. It is also a patchwork of different lieu-dits, each with their own terroir characteristics and some with enough of a personality to have their name affixed to Corton on the label. One of the hill’s previous owners was...
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The Great Roberson Walkabout Tasting
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 11th May 2011
Price: £20.00The Roberson team have been holding walkabout tastings for years now and they always prove to be really popular events. This one will definitely be the best yet as not only are the wines better than ever, but we will also have a number of wine makers here to pour their wines for you and answer all of your questions....
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Wine School: The ‘When’ of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 7th May 2011
Price: £0.00The Roberson Wine School has been educating budding wine experts for two years now and we have decided on a few changes for the 2011 academic year. First of all, the Introduction to Wine workshops have been moved to Saturday afternoon and are now completely free of charge. Second, we have split the syllabus up into separate tastings so that...
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Antinori’s Super Tuscans – Tignanello and Solaia
Date: 7pm, Thursday 28th April 2011
Price: £120.00Although Bolgheri’s Sassicaia and Ornellaia tend to hog the Super Tuscan limelight, the revolution really began in Chianti and with the Marchese Antinori’s Tignanello. Not long after he pulled Tignanello out of the Chianti Classico DOCG, he introduced Solaia and these are now two of Tuscany’s most acclaimed and sought after fine wines. The lineup for this tasting is as...
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Wine School: The ‘Who’ of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 16th April 2011
Price: £0.00The Roberson Wine School has been educating budding wine experts for two years now and we have decided on a few changes for the 2011 academic year. First of all, the Introduction to Wine workshops have been moved to Saturday afternoon and are now completely free of charge. Second, we have split the syllabus up into separate tastings so that...
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Roberson Wine School: The Wines of Bordeaux
Date: 7pm, Thursday 31st March 2011
Price: £50.00Following on from our Introduction to serious Burgundy, this tasting is for those with intermediate wine knowledge that want to get a deeper understanding of the Bordeaux region and its wines. If you've always wanted to get to know the region better but been daunted by the knowledge required, then worry no longer. This tasting will take in dry and...
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Côte Rotie: The Finest Wines of the Roasted Slope
Date: 7pm, Thursday 24th March 2011
Price: £90.00One of the world’s finest appellations, Côte-Rotie has a reputation that is founded on some of the greatest wines on the planet (not to mention some of the highest scores). Despite the fact that there has been viticulture in this part of the Northern Rhône for nearly two millennia, it has been relatively recently that Côte-Rotie has matched and, some...
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Roberson Wine School: Natural Wines
Date: 7pm, Thursday 17th March 2011
Price: £20.00Forget organic or biodynamic – natural wines are the latest trend to sweep the wine world while saving the planet. But are they any good? Is this just a fad or is it true that some of the purest examples of varieties and terroir can be produced by using traditional methods in the vineyard and the winery, with almost zero...
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2000 Grand Cru Burgundy: The Vintage We Should Be Drinking
Date: 7pm, Thursday 10th March 2011
Price: £100.00Throughout the course of many tastings and tireless (ahem..) research, the team at Roberson have often felt that the 2000 Côte de Nuits Grand Crus (and their top 1er Cru colleagues ) offer a wonderful combination of enjoyment and value. To that end, we have decided that the time is right to look at a horizontal of some of the...
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Roberson Wine School: The 'Where' of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 5th March 2011
Price: £0.00The Roberson Wine School has been educating budding wine experts for two years now and we have decided on a few changes for the 2011 academic year. First of all, the Introduction to Wine workshops have been moved to Saturday afternoon and are now completely free of charge. Second, we have split the syllabus up into separate tastings so that...
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Château Rayas and Friends
Date: 7pm, Thursday 3rd March 2011
Price: £150.00The late Jacques Reynaud was largely responsible for establishing the reputation of Château Rayas as one of the world’s finest wine making estates and the birthplace of the greatest examples of Grenache. He was described by Robert Parker as part recluse, part philosopher, part gourmet, part superb winemaker, part myth and legend (not to mention a cross between Yoda and...
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Chateau Léoville-Las Cases: The Vertical, Back to 1961 and 1955
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 16th February 2011
Price: £120.00Léoville-Las Cases is arguably the finest estate in St Julien and a fully signed up member of the ‘Super Seconds’. Once part of a much larger estate that was split around the time of the French Revolution, Las Cases has established an enviable reputation for the elegance, balance and longevity of its wines. This vertical tasting will take a look...
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Roberson Wine School: Nebbiolo Masterclass
Date: 7pm, Thursday 10th February 2011
Price: £30.00Considered by many to be Italy’s finest grape variety, Nebbiolo is responsible for some of the world’s most captivating wines, but is also a fickle traveller that has struggled to establish itself outside its’ Piedmontese homeland. This tasting will look at the different styles of wine that Nebbiolo is used to make, from bright and fruity wines from the Langhe...
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Roberson Wine School: The 'What' of Wine
Date: 5pm, Saturday 5th February 2011
Price: £0.00The Roberson Wine School has been educating budding wine experts for two years now and we have decided on a few changes for the 2011 academic year. First of all, the Introduction to Wine workshops have been moved to Saturday afternoon and are now completely free of charge. Second, we have split the syllabus up into separate tastings so that...
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Tasting Stars: Serious Vintage Champagne
Date: 7pm, Thursday 3rd February 2011
Price: £150.00We sell a lot of Champagne at Roberson, and never tire of telling our customers how superbly the best examples can age. As Feb 3rd is Chinese New Year (any excuse…), why not indulge in some of the world’s most luxurious and celebratory wines. There will be ten vintage wines on tasting, none younger than 20 years of age and...
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Burgundy 2009 En Primeur: A Free Tasting
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 12th January 2011
Price: £0.00The beginning of the year means Burgundy En Primeur and in the past 12 months the Roberson team have visited the region a number of times to taste with producers and secure allocations of some great examples of the 2009 vintage. This is your chance to taste them and, we hope, place an order to buy a case or two...
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The Christmas Walkabout tasting: The World of Wine
Date: 7pm, Thursday 2nd December 2010
Price: £20.00With Christmas around the corner, plans for your parties should already be well underway, but the open evening is a chance for us to help you stock your yuletide cellar while eating, drinking and being merry - mince pies are included in the ticket price. Wines from all over the world will be on display, poured by the Roberson team...
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The wines of Pomerol with Neal Martin
Date: 7pm, Thursday 25th November 2010
Price: £180.00Neal Martin is the UK correspondent for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate and author of the brilliant Wine-Journal. He is also in the process of writing a book on the wines of Pomerol, so when he asked me if we had thought about putting on a Pomerol tasting, I jumped at the chance to get him involved. Those of you that...
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The wines of Domaine Armand Rousseau
Date: 7pm, Thursday 18th November 2010
Price: £150.00Very few producers in the world could claim to make wines that are as elegant as those of Domaine Armand Rousseau. The pre-eminent domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin crafts Pinot Noir of such nuance and refinement that collectors all over the world go weak at the knees just thinking about them. Every journalist with an interest in Burgundy raves about Rousseau, with...
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The Italian Walkabout Tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 28th October 2010
Price: £20.00The most popular walkabout tasting we've ever done was last year's Italian event and it's easy to see why: 50+ fantastic wines from across this beautiful country, with everything from Prosecco and the fresh, crisp whites of the north, to Barolo, Chianti and the Super-Tuscans. The best way to learn about wine is to taste as much of it as...
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The Roberson Wine School Introduction to Wine
Date: 7pm, Thursday 21st October 2010
Price: £50.00This single evening course aims to give those with little or no knowledge of wine a good grounding in the basics. It is ideal for anybody who is interested in wine and would like to learn more about it, or for those who would like to improve their basic knowledge before coming to our regular Thursday night tastings. Our aim...
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The wines of Chateau Branaire-Ducru with owner Patrick Maroteaux
Date: 7pm, Thursday 14th October 2010
Price: £80.00Branaire-Ducru has always been one of St Julien's best properties, but since the Maroteaux family took over, it is an estate that has gone from strength to strength. Patrick Maroteaux has been described by Robert Parker as a man that "has been doing everything right" since he assumed control and it is our distinct pleasure to welcome him to Roberson...
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Gaja Barbaresco: The vertical
Date: 7pm, Thursday 7th October 2010
Price: £60.00One of the wine world's true individuals, Angelo Gaja is revered around the world for the wines he makes in his native Piedmont (not to mention Tuscany). No one has done more than the Gaja family to demostrate the quality potential of Barbaresco - even though Angelo withdrew his single vineyard wines from the DOCG in protest at their refusal...
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Southern France Walkabout tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 30th September 2010
Price: £20.00The Mediterranean comes to Kensington! Well alright, just some of the wines of the Med, but Languedoc, Roussillon and Provence are the most exciting regions in the world of wine at the moment and now is the perfect time to get to know them better. We will be showcasing about 50 of our favourites from across the South of France,...
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Pichon vs Pichon: The Baron and the Comtesse
Date: 7pm, Thursday 23rd September 2010
Price: £130.00Two of Pauillac's heavyweights and both fully signed up members of the 'Super Seconds', Pichons Baron and Lalande were originally part of the same estate. Following the revolution and introduction of the Napoleonic code, the estate was split four ways - the son Raoul took his share and renamed it Pichon-Longueville (known affectionately as Pichon-Baron), while his three sisters combined...
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Domaine de la Grange des Peres: The vertical
Date: 7pm, Thursday 16th September 2010
Price: £50.00Grange des Peres is not the most famous domaine in the Languedoc, nor is it the most expensive - but it is undoubtedly the most sought after by collectors and enthusiasts, both for their spectacular red and the impossible to find (but eqully impressive) white. Mark is well known for getting carried away with certain producers or appellations and there...
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Roberson Wine School Introduction to Wine
Date: 7pm, Thursday 22nd July 2010
Price: £50.00This single evening course aims to give those with little or no knowledge of wine a good grounding in the basics. It is ideal for anybody who is interested in wine and would like to learn more about it, or for those who would like to improve their basic knowledge before coming to our regular Thursday night tastings. Our aim...
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Summer Walkabout tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 8th July 2010
Price: £20.00With Summer just around the corner, your plans for al fresco dining and garden parties should be well underway. The Summer open evening is a chance to taste over 50 wines of all types from all over the world and raise a toast to the clear skies and impending heat wave. A wide range of red, white, rosé and sparkling...
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Wines of the Cote d'Or: An introduction to serious Burgundy
Date: 7pm, Thursday 24th June 2010
Price: £50.00The wines of Burgundy are wrapped up in the most complex system of appellations, with a never ending stream of producers and vintages to get to know - remember not to confuse the brothers with the uncles and the cousins! It is home to the most profound wines on the planet, but also the easiest place in the world to...
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Bordeaux 1989: The horizontal
Date: 7pm, Thursday 17th June 2010
Price: £120.00Following on from our superb '82 tasting in the last programme, we will be taking a look at some of the top Bordeaux properties in the fantastic 1989 vintage - a year that has proved one of the most popular whenever we have done vertical tastings. There is no better way to get to know a vintage than a thorough...
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The wines of Frog's Leap: With Genral Manager Jonah Beer
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 9th June 2010
Price: £20.00Since its inception in 1981, Frog's Leap has established itself as one of California's leading wineries, making superb white and red wines that are among the Napa Valley's best. We are absolutely delighted to welcome Jonah Beer from Frog's Leap, who will talk us through a selection of their potfolio, including the iconic Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon. The guys at Frog's...
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King of Chablis: The wines of Domaine Raveneau
Date: 7pm, Thursday 3rd June 2010
Price: £80.00The wines of Chablis are renowned throughout the world, but one domaine stands head and shoulders above all the rest - Domaine Raveneau. Many would tell you that Raveneau makes the finest white wines in the world, but with his wines being as rare as hen's teeth it is only the privileged few that can form a comprehensive opinion. Until...
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The Wines of Finca Allende: Winemaker tasting with Miguel Angel de Gregorio
Date: 7pm, Thursday 13th May 2010
Price: £20.00Rioja is one of the world’s most traditional wine regions, full of old school producers that make wine in the same way that their forefathers did. But that is not all there is to Rioja and for those of you that are not interested in over-oaked, dried out wines in bottles gilded with gold wire, there is a fascinating group...
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The Wines of Volnay: The Finest Reds of the Cote de Beaune
Date: 7pm, Thursday 6th May 2010
Price: £60.00Volnay is a village that rightfully has a reputation for producing some of the most elegant Pinot Noir in the world and this tasting will give you a thorough grounding in the best producers and vineyards in this jewel of the Cote de Beaune. We will be tasting: Volnay 1er Cru 'Fremiets' 2001, Jean Boillot Volnay 1er Cru 'Pitures' 1996,...
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The Great Roberson Walkabout Tasting
Date: 7pm, Tuesday 27th April 2010
Price: £20.00The Roberson team have been holding walkabout tastings for years now and they always prove to be really popular events. This one will definately be the best yet as not only are the wines better than ever, but we will also have a number of wine makers here to pour their wines for you and answer all of your questions....
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Roberson Wine School Introduction to Wine
Date: 7pm, Thursday 22nd April 2010
Price: £50.00This single evening course aims to give those with little or no knowledge of wine a good grounding in the basics. It is ideal for anybody who is interested in wine and would like to learn more about it, or for those who would like to improve their basic knowledge before coming to our regular Thursday night tastings. Our aim...
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Bordeaux En Primeur: A first taste of the 2009 vintage
Date: 7pm, Thursday 15th April 2010
Price: £20.00The 2009 Bordeaux en primeur campaign is shaping up to be the biggest and most competitive since 2005, but do the wines live up to the hype? And is it going to be possible to secure that allocation of your favourite chateau? What about storage? How do you open a bond account? What are the wines that are going to...
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Burgundy Icons: The ten most revered estates
Date: 7pm, Thursday 18th March 2010
Price: £150.00Roberson wouldn’t be Roberson and, more to the point, Mark wouldn’t be Mark without at least one serious Burgundy tasting in every programme. And it doesn’t get more serious than this - a tasting looking at the 10 most prestigious domaines in Burgundy, with some unbelievable wines that you wont get the chance to taste again in a hurry! The...
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Bordeaux 1982: The vintage that changed the world
Date: 7pm, Thursday 4th March 2010
Price: £150.00What a difference a year makes. As one of the best vintages of the 20th century, you would expect ‘82 to have left a legacy, but the impact of this year ran far deeper than simply providing us with some of the best wines ever made. 1982 in Bordeaux was the year that ‘futures’, and wine investment in general, really...
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Sassicaia back to 1967 with winemaker Sebastiano Rosa
Date: 7pm, Tuesday 16th February 2010
Price: £150.00Tenuta San Guido is Italy’s ‘first growth’ (the vines originally came from Lafite!) and the wine that has made this estate a household name around the world is Sassicaia. It is an honour and a pleasure to welcome the winemaker (and heir to the San Guido throne) Sebastiano Rosa to Roberson to talk us through a vertical tasting of this...
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The wines of Prager with winemaker Toni Bodenstein
Date: 7pm, Monday 8th February 2010
Price: £20.00Toni Bodenstein is not only among the world’s most exciting winemakers, he is also one of the foremost experts on terroir. Who better, then, to give us an Austrian masterclass looking at Riesling and Gruner Veltliner? This is an opportunity to taste with, listen to and ask questions of this charismatic and supremely talented individual, that is making some of...
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Burgundy 2008: En Primeur tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 4th February 2010
Price: £10.00The beginning of the year means Burgundy En Primeur and in the past 12 months the Roberson team have worked very heard to uncover more ‘under-the-radar’ producers and eek out small allocations from some of the most respected names in Burgundy. This is your chance to taste them and, we hope, place an order to buy a case or two...
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Roberson Wine School Introduction to Wine
Date: 7pm, Thursday 21st January 2010
Price: £50.00This single evening course aims to give those with little or no knowledge of wine a good grounding in the basics. It is ideal for anybody who is interested in wine and would like to learn more about it, or for those who would like to improve their basic knowledge before coming to our regular Thursday night tastings. Our aim...
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Christmas Open Evening
Date: 7pm, Thursday 3rd December 2009
Price: £20.00With Christmas around the corner, plans for your parties should be well underway. The open evening is a chance for us to help you stock your yuletide cellar while eating, drinking and being merry - mince pies are included in the ticket price. Wines from all over the world will be on display, poured by the Roberson team and our...
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Ridge Vineyards: A Tasting with Paul Draper
Date: 7pm, Thursday 26th November 2009
Price: £60.00Ridge Vineyards is one of the world's most legendary wine producers and their chief winemaker Paul Draper continues to be an inspiration, 40 years since he took the reigns at California's most respected estate. The team at Roberson Wine are honoured and excited to be welcoming Paul to our cellars for a tasting of Ridge wines, including a mini-vertical of...
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Bordeaux: The Haut Brion family
Date: 7pm, Thursday 19th November 2009
Price: £80.00Chateau Haut-Brion is the doyen of Pessac-Leognan and the first superpremium wine to hit British shores way back in the days of Samuel Pepys (he recorded it in his diary as ‘Ho Bryan’). Today there are a number of properties in the appelllation with Haut-Brion in their name and most (but not all) are now owned by the Dillon family....
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Varietal series: Pinot Noir
Date: 7pm, Thursday 5th November 2009
Price: £40.00If there is one grape variety that has captured the hearts and minds of wine romantics all over the world then it is Pinot Noir. From its homeland on the gentle slopes of Burgundy’s Cote d’Or to New World outposts in New Zealand, Australia, California and beyond - Pinot has a cache that other varieties can only dream of. This...
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Burgundy: The wines of Echezeaux Grand Cru
Date: 7pm, Thursday 15th October 2009
Price: £80.00Echezeaux is one of the largest Grand Cru sites in Burgundy and as a result there are a number of producers that own vines in one or more of the ten lieux-dits that make up this 38 hectare vineyard. With a variety of styles and interpretations of the terrroir, not to mention a large disparity in the quality of the...
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Legends of Southern France
Date: 7pm, Thursday 24th September 2009
Price: £50.00After years in the vinous wilderness, Southern France has emerged and blossomed into a truly great fine wine region with some of the world’s very best terroir and winemakers. Many of these producers have been making spectacular wines since the early ‘90s but is only recently that the world has sat up and taken notice. This truly exciting tasting will...
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Varietal series: Riesling Masterclass
Date: 7pm, Thursday 25th June 2009
Price: £30.00In the first of a series of tastings that will focus on specific grapes, we begin with what many consider to be the most noble of all the white varieties: Riesling. Taking in wines and producers from all over the old and new worlds, the tasting will begin by looking at the role geography plays in the differences between styles....
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Stars of Piedmont: 1998 Barolo & Barbaresco
Date: 7pm, Thursday 18th June 2009
Price: £80.00For lovers of Italian wine, Piedmont is a land of incomparable terroir, producers of unsurpassed skill and wines of unrivalled quality and complexity. The best of these wines come from the crus of Barolo and Barbaresco and this tasting will compare the top examples from the wonderful 1998 vintage. Only the most prestigious names have made the cut and we...
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Summer Open Evening
Date: 7pm, Thursday 4th June 2009
Price: £20.00With Summer just around the corner, your plans for al fresco dining and garden parties should be well underway. The Summer open evening is a chance to taste around 50 wines of all types from all over the world and raise a toast to the clear skies and impending heat wave. A wide range of red, white, rosé and sparkling...
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Château Léoville-Barton: A vertical tasting back to 1961 with Anthony Barton
Date: 7pm, Thursday 28th May 2009
Price: £100.00The Roberson team are delighted and honoured to be welcoming Anthony Barton to our cellars in Kensington for a vertical tasting of the wonderful wines of Château Léoville-Barton. One of wine’s most respected figures, Anthony will be on hand to talk us through a string of fascinating vintages and give us the inside track on what is one of the...
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Sylvain Cathiard: Master of Malconsorts
Date: 7pm, Thursday 21st May 2009
Price: £80.00When Clive Coates MW released the new edition of ‘Wines of Burgundy’ last year, eyebrows were raised at some of his choices for domaines that he considered to be in the top echelon of Burgundy producers. One of those was Sylvain Cathiard of Vosne-Romanée, who Coates described as having “a touch of genius in the winemaking”. This was confirmed at...
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King of the Hill: Hermitage
Date: 7pm, Thursday 14th May 2009
Price: £80.00Few geographic landmarks mean as much to the wine aficionado as the Rhône Valley’s hill of Hermitage. Some of the best winemakers in the world specialise in making red and white wines from this wonderful terroir and what better way to get to know them than a comparative tasting of some of the best? In order to crown someone ‘King...
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French Walkabout Tasting
Date: 7pm, Thursday 16th April 2009
Price: £20.00Despite the ever growing number of pretenders to its crown, France remains the global benchmark for quality wine. And rightfully so in our opinion, as nowhere else can you get such diversity or value for money - if you know what to look for of course! The next installment in our wildly popular series of regional walkabout tastings will feature...
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Old World Legends: The wines of Vega Sicilia with winemaker Xavier Ausas
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 1st April 2009
Price: £120.00There are only a few wineries that can lay genuine claim to being iconic, but one of those is without question Spain’s ‘first growth’ - the indomitable Vega Sicilia. It was our pleasure to welcome the Vega Sicila team to Roberson for a tasting of their range of wines, including all the new releases and some back vintages of their...
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Cabernet legends of Napa Valley
Date: 7pm, Thursday 19th March 2009
Price: £80.00Ever since the Judgement of Paris tasting in 1976 the wine world has been forced to sit up and take notice of California’s superb Cabernet Sauvignons. The Napa Valley inparticular has been a hotbed of quality and innovation, and nowadays there are plenty of French accents to be heard as some of the most famous names in Bordeaux have made...
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Bordeaux: First growth showdown
Date: 7pm, Thursday 5th March 2009
Price: £150.00The five first growths of Bordeaux's left bank are widely held to be the benchmark by which all other red wines in the world are judged, but it is rare that we get to benchmark them against each other - especially from a vintage that is drinking well right now. In order to develop our understanding (ahem...) the Roberson team...
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Burgundy: Grands Crus VS 1er Crus: The promotion/demotion debate
Date: 7pm, Thursday 26th February 2009
Price: £100.001855 was the year of classifications in France - not only was the famous Bordeaux 5-tier system established, but wine expert Dr Jules Lavalle ranked the best terroir of the Cote-d’Or into three groups, forming the basis for what was to become Burgundy’s maze of appellations almost a century later. Unlike the Medoc classification, which has seen only one mover...
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Languedoc & Roussillon masterclass with Robert Joseph
Date: 7pm, Thursday 19th February 2009
Price: £20.00Roberson are delighted to welcome one of the UK’s most respected authorities on the wines of France - former Daily Telegraph columnist and best-selling author Robert Joseph. Having tasted, written about and judged French wines for over 25 years, Robert recently launched his own range with winemaker Hugh Ryman. Robert will be guiding us through one of the wine world’s...
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Burgundy: 2007 En Primeur from three fantastic growers
Date: 7pm, Thursday 12th February 2009
Price: £15.00(Ticket price is refundable against any en primeur purchase on the night) This walkabout tasting is your chance to sample 2007 red and white Burgundies from three fantastic growers. Many of the wines on show will be barrel samples that are yet to be bottled and you will have the opportunity to order the wines ‘en primeur’ - at a...
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Roberson Open Evening: Fuel for your Yule
Date: 7pm, Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Price: £15.00With Christmas round the corner, plans for the ubiquitous parties and celebrations should be well underway. Our open evening is a chance to get together with our regular (and soon to be regular) customers in order to eat, drink and be merry - mince pies are included in the ticket price. With wines from all over the world on display,...
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St Emilion: Premier Grand Cru Classé (B)
Date: 7pm, Thursday 20th November 2008
Price: £50.00St Emilion is still reeling from the suspension of its revised (2006) classification, which resulted in the 1996 status-quo being restored while the authorities fight it out in the courts with the aggrieved parties. While all this goes on, we are taking the opportunity to look at the estates in the second tier of the classification in order to get...
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Old World legends: Tenuta dell’ Ornellaia
Date: 7pm, Thursday 6th November 2008
Price: £80.00The Antinori family are responsible for some of Tuscany’s most prodigious and prestigious wines, and Lodovico Antinori was the man who established Ornellaia - a winery that has gone on to become an Italian legend. From Lodovico’s first vintage in 1985, through a tumultuous takeover by California’s Mondavi family, and now under the ownership of the Frescobaldi family, Tenuta dell’...
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Château Lynch-Bages: A vertical tasting with Sylvie Cazes
Date: 7pm, Tuesday 21st October 2008
Price: £120.00Château Lynch-Bages has always been a favourite with British claret lovers and has been one of Bordeaux’s highest performing Châteaux for decades, far outperforming its status as only a 5ème cru classé. We are privileged and delighted to welcome to Roberson the President of Château Lynch-Bages and the Union des Grand Crus de Bordeaux, Sylvie Cazes-Regimbeau, who will preside over...
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Roberson Walkabout Tasting: Italy
Date: 7pm, Thursday 9th October 2008
Price: £15.00The latest in our series of informal walkabout tastings will focus on one of the wine world’s most compex and fascinating countries - Italy. This tasting will feature over 30 red, white & sparkling wines from all over Italy, with a chance to meet some Italian wine experts and suppliers and ask your questions to the Roberson team.
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Gevrey-Chambertin: King of Wines and Wine of Kings
Date: 7pm, Thursday 25th September 2008
Price: £80.00With more land under vine than any other commune in the Cote-de-Nuits and more Grands Crus than any other village in Burgundy, Gevrey-Chambertin is the home of some of the world’s best producers and most delicious red wines. This tasting will focus on the benchmark Pinot Noirs produced at Domaine Armand Rousseau but will take in wines from other top...
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