Posts in Category: 2025

Tasting of Château Siran given by its owner, Éduard Miailhe

Tuesday 17 June 2025
Posted by Catherine King Tuesday 08 July 2025 Categories: 2025 Bordeaux France

The OWC holds three sorts of tasting. The first introduces members to wines they are unlikely to have tasted. The second gives us wine that we could never afford to drink at home. The third educates us. This one sat firmly in the third category: it was a vertical tasting of the wines of Château Siran, a distinguished estate in the Margaux appellation of Bordeaux. It was presented by its owner, Éduard Miailhe, who is chair of the association of Margaux vineyard owners – we were in good hands!

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Modern Sicilian Wines with Filippo Zito

Tuesday 8 April 2025
Posted by Catherine King Tuesday 08 July 2025 Categories: 2025 Filippo Zito Italy

Filippo Zito is the son of a retired wine maker, Leonardo Zito. Azienda Agricola Leonardo Zito is a family wine-making enterprise based in the village of Vita, Sicily. Established in 2014, the first red wines were sold commercially under the name of Borgoleo in 2018. A vineyard of Catarrello vines was acquired in 2022 and the wines from this vineyard were first released in 2023.

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Wines of Alto Adige with Nancy Gilchrist MW

Tuesday 13th May at the Cherwell Boat House Marquee
Posted by Hilary Reid Evans Thursday 22 May 2025 Categories: 2025 Alto Adige Nancy Gilchrist MW
This tasting took place following the Club’s AGM. Wine Club Members with long memories may recall Nancy’s visit to the Club back in November 2017, when she introduced a number of Mountain Wines, including two from the Alto Adige which... read more
 

Sparkling Wines Around the World - Graham Harding

19 March 2025
Posted by Hilary Reid Evans Friday 25 April 2025 Categories: 2025 Graham Harding Sparkling

The Club’s very own Champagne expert, Graham Harding, stepped in at short notice to pull together this tasting when we were let down by another presenter, so Graham deserves a ‘special mention in despatches’ for pulling together such a splendid event.

All the wines tasted were gold medal winners at the 2024 Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships, which bills itself as ‘the most respected, comprehensive and rigorous international sparkling wine competition in the world’. Judges include Tom Stevenson.
 

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