Tag: Events

20 years of wine tastings

We’ve long been hosting wine lovers at No.3 St James’s Street. Yet, it was only in 1999 that we started officially hosting wine tastings here. Our Wine Director (and regular host) Mark Pardoe MW has seen a lot of change since then. But, as he explains, he still looks forward to every event

Honeybees arrive at our Hampshire warehouses

As two beehives are installed in the garden behind our Basingstoke warehouses, Emily Holden explains what all the buzz is about

Talking wine and war with Andrew Roberts

Ahead of tomorrow’s dinner with Andrew Roberts, Will Lyons sits down with the historian to talk about the way two of history’s most famous figures used wine to their political advantage Like many first steps along the wine route, Professor Andrew Roberts began his vinous journey as an undergraduate. The historian and author of acclaimed […]

Red wine with fish? Surely not!

Latest research has shed light onto why some red wines do work with fish, dispelling the old adage of ‘white with fish’. Scientists in Japan have reported the first explanation which challenges this widely known rule of thumb for food and wine matching – a theory which we will be putting to the test in […]