On Wednesday 24th September 2014 The Old House Hotel in Wickham is hosting a Bordeaux Wine Evening. This will be 9 Course French Tasting Menu with a specially selected Bordeaux wine to complement each course. There will be a pre-dinner wine tasting and talk from Roy Gillingham of The Fareham Wine Cellar who will be […]
A question about Port wine?
I recently found out that I am considered a bit of an expert about Port wine by the website that measure social media impact, Klout – which made me chuckle. This was brought to my attention with the arrival of a question from another Klout user in my inbox, and was a surprise to me! […]
2011 Vintage Port Tasting
2011 Vintage Port Tasting A tasting of 2011 Vintage Port barrel samples at Fareham Wine Cellar on Thursday 6th June 2013 from 6.30pm to 7.30pm. Ports on show were, 1. Smith Woodhouse 2011 2. Quinta do Roriz 2011 3. Cockburns 2011 4. Offley 2011 5. Ferreira 2011 6. Sandeman 2011 7. Churchill 2011 8. Quinta […]
2011 Vintage Port Barrel Sample Tasting
Fareham Wine Cellar 2011 Vintage Port Barrel Sample Tasting As anyone who is interested in Port probably knows by now, the most recently declared vintage, the 2011, was a universal declaration. When all the Port houses agree like this it can be taken as read that the vintage is normally very, very good. Please have […]
Fladgate Partnership 2011 Vintage Port
Fladgate Partnership 2011 Vintage Port This morning I was lucky enough to try three of the 2011 vintages Ports on offer from the Fladgate Partnership – the Croft 2011, Fonseca 2011 and Taylor 2011. The general view is that the 2011 vintage Ports will turn out to be very good, classic Ports and it is […]
Grahams Tawny Port – New Packaging
Grahams Tawny Port At Fareham Wine Cellar we stock Grahams Tawny Ports as out 20, 30 and 40 year old Tawny Port of choice. However, we stock the Niepoort 10 year old as our 10 year old Tawny Port – its a long story. Sometime in 2012, Grahams repackaged their Tawny Port range into to […]
A Guide to Decanting Port
How To Decant Port and Why? A Guide to Decanting Port A lot is written on decanting Port and I felt it was time to add a few of my own tips and musings on the subject. Some feel decanting Port is a tricky business that is best left to men in the cellar or […]
