Nyetimber bus. Of course as it's a London wine fair I have to start with a wonderful award winning wine from England.
Wine and Spirit Education Trust. A reminder of what I learned on my Level One course. How different wines paired with lemon or cheese or a sweet such as marshmallow will taste differently.
The free massage. Of course they want to sell you the machine at £149. The massage was really good, like three rotating golf balls either side of your neck or back or wherever you put the machine.
Speakers Corner
The audience members did blind tasting trying to guess the wine, whilst so did the speaker, Joe Wadsack. He told us what he looked for when guessing which wine it was. Red or white grape? Which grape? Aromatic or not? Which flavour? Tannic or acidic? From warm or cool climate country? If you can identify the grape, you know where it is likely to come from. Oak aged or not? My favourite wine was the sparkling white sweet Nyetimber wine, from England.
Origin colourful bottles and a stand with a tree. A major exporter from South Africa, now expending and innovating with wines sourced from other countries.
Plum wine from Japan on the stand showing Sake.
Red Squirrel wine. The rare red squirrel is beloved by the British. A recently set up company, 2012, specialise in importing unusual wines with unusual packaging.
Marilyn Monroe on label
Mulled wine from Forest Glow gives you a warm glow. (They were also smart enough to offer a free tasting of something on a cracker - a good move at wine fairs and in pubs, found everywhere at Tapas bars in Spain, and increasingly popular in England. Some people are willing to pay. Pubs which offer mulled wine and free food before lunch on Sundays in England in winter time are packed with drinkers who stay on to drink wine and dine.)
Their wine is from Sweden, Europe, blended with fruit and flowers and spices.
More information from:
Nyetimber wine www.nyetimber.com
WSET Wine and Spirit Eduction Trust www.wsetglobal.com
Massager: www.begate.co.uk
http://www.marilynwines.com/WINES/MARILYN-MERLOT
Origin wines: www.origin
Plum wine and sake: Daishchi Sake Brewery Co Ltd
Red Squirrel Wine: www.redsquirrelwine.agency
Mulled wine from Sweden: A Taste Of Ltd / Forest Glow www.forestglow.co.uk
If you are in the trade and missed this event, or want to read about the next one, it will be the 37th London Wine Fair, 22nd to 24th May 2017, again at Olympia, London, England.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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