great grog meadows

Instagram Live: Cerisiers Rose
Clare is hoping the sun might make an appearance for this Friday’s tasting. She’ll be opening a bottle of this cracking rose…

French Wine Tasting at Pleasance Shop Friday 28th June 2-7pm
Our French interns are hosting a tasting at our shop of some delicious French wines and maybe some other treats too. Pop…

French Wine Tasting at Dalkeith Road Shop Friday 21st June 2pm-7pm
Our French interns are hosting a tasting at our shop of some delicious French wines and maybe some other treats too. Pop…

Instagram Live: Debajo Carginan
Looking for a cracking sumnmer red for under a tenner? Tune in this Friday to hear Clare chat about why the this…

Instagram Live: Luz Alvarinho
Join Simon live this Friday to taste this tasty bottle from the Vinho Verde and find out about the difference bewtween Alvarinho…

Instagram Live: Clunia Albillo
Want to find out more about this indegenous Spanish variety? Tune in this Friday where JP will tell you all about it’s…

South African Wine Dinner £60 per person – SOLD OUT
Clare and the lovely folk at Joseph Pearce are putting on an evening of South African food and wine. It was tough…

Instagram Live: Rustenberg Chardonnay 2022
Clare just cannot get enough of Chardonnay and tonight she’ll be chatting about an absolute banger. A benchmark of a complex barrel…

Instagram Live: Morgon Domaine Puits Beni 2023
Another new wine tonight! Simon will be waxing lyrical about Beaujolais and diving into a glass of this classy drop. Richer and…

Instagram Live: Gruner Veltliner Domaine Baumgartner 2022
Richard will be chatting about one of our newest listings, a super tasty Gruner from Weinviertal DAC – fresh and lively with…

Instagram Live: Soleil des Alpes Provence Rose 2022
We are crossing all of fingers and toes that the sun might finally be making an appearance in time for JP to…

Instagram Live: Gandarada Dao Tinto
Clare will be sampling this delicious Portuguese red from the Dao region. We’ve a few new wines on the list and this…

Instagram Live: Fizztastic wines
Richard and Clare will be coming live from Elie in the East Neuk where hopefully the sun will be shining to chat…

Instagram Live: Domaine Grauzan Viognier
Kicking off this month’s Instagram Live tastings, Richard will be opening a bottle of this juicy, fruit forward wine from Pays D’Oc…

Beer Fair, May the Forth, well, the week after actually
Great Grog Beer Fair. Saturday 11th May 1-5pm Sat 11th May 2024 1:00 pm at Greyfriars Charteris Centre, 138-140 Pleasance, Edinburgh. EH8 9RR…

Natural or nonsense?
There is a bit of an ongoing conflict in the wonderful, wacky world of wine. The movement of “natural wines” is what…