Dinners & Tastings Archive

Hong Kong Annual Tasting – The Low Down

A week or so ago saw C&B's 3rd Annual Hong Kong tasting at the Shangri-La hotel in Admiralty.  Tickets had sold out well before the event itself and we had many more wines to show than ever before so hopes were high for a cracking evening.  A grand room was...
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Port, Starboard and Port Again – A P&O Cruise to Oporto

Dan Senior sails with P&O Cruises to Oporto I’ve certainly done a few interesting gigs in my time with C&B, but this one probably takes the biscuit… P&O Cruises is a very important customer of ours and we proudly supply their cruise ships with a number of our wines.  With small armies...
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A Great Tasting for a ‘Bunch’ of Independents

‘The Bunch’ is a concept which deserves more air time; made up of 6 leading Independent Wine Merchants – Adnams, Berry Bros & Rudd, Corney & Barrow, Lea & Sandeman, Tanners and Yapp – the group was formed nearly 20 years ago with the aim of providing a Code of...
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An Enthused Tasting by Achaval-Ferrer’s Marcelo Victoria

Achaval-Ferrer’s Marcelo Victoria believes that a wine needs a back story. But it also needs someone to tell it and Marcelo Victoria can tell a story. He quickly transported us from our London offices to a plot of land at the end of a ‘two horses wide’ track in the...
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Dinner with New Zealand Producer Michiel Eradus

Some wine evenings seem to fit the wines like a glove. To me the wines of Marlborough family producer Eradus are about relentless quality but practiced in an effortless, unpretentious way, with charm and a lightness of touch. Certainly the dozen Corney & Barrow customers and staff who sat down...
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Hyde de Villaine & Champagne Delamotte 2002

As expected it didn’t prove the toughest sell looking for forty people to join us at the Devonshire Terrace restaurant and sample the new vintages of both Champagne House Delamotte and the Hyde de Villaine portfolio from California, a recent addition to Corney and Barrow’s range.  Having been recently refurbished...
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Franchetti – A Tasting to Remember

I’m certainly not the first at C&B to blog about Andrea Franchetti’s wines – see Passopisciaro archive – but I’m doing so with as much enthusiasm, if not quite as much eloquence, as Will and Davina have in the past.   I remember last year’s tasting at C&B HQ with the man...
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Director’s Top Tipple – Seafood Linguine Recipe

I am not sure whether to be flattered or not that I was the first of the Directors to be asked to write a piece for the blog about what I cook and eat at the weekend.  Being the close to spherical shape that I am, I should hardly be...
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Santini at the Top of his Game

After just a couple of days in the company, I found myself invited into the C & B tasting room to sample a range of wines from Enrico Santini.  With a particular interest in Italian wines, this was a great opportunity to develop that passion as well as dip my...
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Corney & Barrow’s First Summer Tasting A Big Hit…

We can comfortably say that Corney & Barrow’s first Summer Tasting at the Oxo Tower was a tremendous success. The doors for our private customers opened at 5pm where upon arrival you would immediately find Audrey Campos from Champagne Delamotte showcasing the launch of their spectacular 2002 vintage. A delightful...
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