Wine Tastings
Personalised private wine tastings.
Whether you want to learn the basics, get deep into a region or practice your blind tasting The Thirsty Gang can design a wine tasting that’s fun and tailored to you.
Need some wine tasting inspiration:
Introduction to Wine
New to the world of wine?
It can feel overwhelming, so let us introduce you to a selection of the worlds most popular grapes and styles. We’ll drink some wine and we’ll help you work out what you like, and why.
No tests, no pressure, no technical terms!
Modern Trends
Funky & natural? Low and no?
Let’s open some weird and wonderful wines and explore how a new generation of winemakers are breaking rules to bring us delicious wines using modern, or ancient, techniques.
Is the future funky?
Budget Burgundy
Givry not Gevrey.
Is great Burgundy worth it? With astronomical prices, unless you want to sell a kidney, we need to seek out lesser know appellations or under-the-radar producers to get our Pinot and Chardonnay fix.
Can we spot the next cult domaine?
Want to taste some wine?
Not sure where to start?
FAQs
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Cost is determined by the number of tasters, the number and type of wines you want to taste and whether in-person or online. We are happy to discuss options and tailor the tasting to your budget. In-person tastings start at £50 p/person.
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We can tailor to your schedule, but we’d normally expect to take 90 minutes to get through six wines
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Tailored to you and your group. Normally we will taste wines one after another and we can tell you about them, taste them and talk about them. Alternate formats possible for large groups / hospitality settings. We can also do systematic, comparative or blind tasting.
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Wine tasting should be fun. All our tastings are no pressure, with only an appropriate amount of detail for the type of tasting you want. There are no stupid questions. We won’t make you guess the vintage (unless that’s what you want to do!)