UK Wineclub
Charlemagne Wine Club
http://www.charlemagnewineclub.co.uk
Venue : 39, Broughton Road, Ealing, London W13 8QW
Meetings : normally held on the third Monday of the month
Contact : write to Robin Hall at 46 Denmark Road, London W13 8RG
or telephone David Carter on 020-8567-1733 email to info@charlemagnewineclub.co.uk
Membership : about 100
Membership Fee : None
Cost of Events : typically cost £15.
Typical Attendance : 36
Charlemagne Wine Club was founded in 1974 by a Mr Rogers who ran a wine business in Pitshanger Lane , Ealing and had a particular interest in Burgundy wines. Charlemagne the Great was King of Burgundy - hence the Club's name. |
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Charlemagne members share a common interest in learning about and tasting fine wines. All levels of knowledge and experience are represented. It helps if you can tell the difference between chardonnay and cabernet franc - but if you don't, you will learn!
Our professionally tutored programme includes both the popular and 'classic' regions of the wine world. They present an opportunity to try wines which you might not normally imbibe (lesser known wines not to be found in the average supermarket, or because they are too pricey for ordinary drinking, and so on).
Bookings and Cancellations
We try to organise bookings for Charlemagne so that everyone has a fair chance to attend. Dates of meetings are publicised up to a year in advance, in newsletters and on the website. We accept bookings only after the monthly newsletter has been sent out. Paper copies of the newsletter are mailed out two to three weeks ahead of the meeting, and email notification four days later (keeping things fair, to allow for "snailmail" delays). Spaces are allocated on a first come, first served basis. Email bookings will be confirmed by email, but we don't send out any tickets.
Once a meeting is fully booked, we run a waiting list. You can attempt last minute bookings and cancellations by telephone to the number in the newsletter - please do not rely on e-mail for these unless you receive a confirmation email.
Charlemagne is a purely voluntary organisation, so we need to organise things simply for our committee!
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We ask that you bring your own set of ISO glasses to tastings. |
2010 Tastings
| 18th January | Southern Rhone - Clos des Papes | Paul Mapplebeck |
| 15th February | David vs Goliath | Christos Ioannou |
| 15th March | Veneto - Valpolicella | David Carter |
| 17th May | South Africa vs New Zealand | Penny Heyes & Mark Neil |
| 21st June | Cabernet Franc - the Loire Valley Project | Lindsay Oram |
| 19th July | Up in the air - Wines from airlines | Nick Forth |
| 20th September | Chablis | Austen Biss |
| 18th October | Hungary | Vivienne Franks |
| 15th November | Weird and Wonderful - wines from less usual grape varieties | Paula Sindberg |
| 13th December | Christmas: Food and Wine matching |