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Wines on Tasting in Church Street 25.02.17

Loons by the dozen in Church Street this week!The Smoking Loon wines are crafted on a very simple premise: good wine doesn't need to take itself so seriously, and given the Vineking motto is “great wines, no nonsense” it seemed...

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Wines on tasting at Vineking, East Molesey, 25th February

So in the shop today we are celebrating the arrival of The Smoking Loon. I’ve always said the world could do with more Californian wine – big, soft, whack-it-on-the-bbq and glug styles, as well as the more serious and pocket-intensive...

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Wines on tasting at Vineking, Weybridge, 25th February

The Morning after the Night BeforeAs the last bits of furniture are put back downstairs and the dishwasher is reloaded we are slowly reassembling the shop in Weybridge after another successful Pop Up restaurant. Already we are looking forward to...

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Burg 2015 En Primeur - The Last Hurrah

Domaine Yves Boyer-Martenot - Finite Stocks Case Size Case Price In Bond No Cases Left Bourgogne Aligoté 12 £110.00 8 Bourgogne Blanc 12 £165.00 8 Meursault Fernand Boyer 6 £160.00 7 Meursault L’Ormeau 6 £177.50 5 Meursault Genevrieres 6 £299.50...

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Wine on tasting in East Molesey 18.02.17

One of those weeks which roll past like a bowling ball. Lots of you are planning events for the summer, which is lovely – Max has been firing menu’s at me like some early form of cuisine-based machine-gun! Never fear...

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Wine on tasting in Weybridge 18.02.17

I have picked 2 wines from our rather groovy new stacks. From the Chardonnay stack, the rather delicious: 2014 Hawksdrift Chardonnay, Marlborough, New Zealand£19.99A lovely rich fruited polished style that has a bit of a Burgundian nod. From the Grenache/Shiraz...

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Wine on tasting in West Road 18.02.17

2014 Hells Heights Sauvignon Blanc Banghoek South Africa£11.99Or 6 for £60There's Sancerre and then there's Marlbrough and somewhere in between is South African Sauvignon Blanc.  The care and attention that goes into the production of this wine is second to none.   This...

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Wines on tasting at Vineking, Weybridge, 14th January

2015 Domaine Gaelle & Jerome Meunier, Mercurey Blanc, 25.99Mercurey is one of a cluster of villages just to the south of the Côte de Beaune; the Côte Chalonnaise. Here it tends to be a little warmer, so the whites -...

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Wines on tasting at Vineking, West Road, 14th January

  2014 Chateau Mathiot, Bordeaux, FranceI was watching Rick Stein's "Long weekend in Bordeaux" recently and saw him eating a deliciously rare entrecote washed down with a glass of claret.  Now, claret does not have to be expensive to be...

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