August Festival Tastings EVERY DAY!
Oh Yes, they're back. We are holding tasty little wine sessions in the Groggy tasting room next to the Pleasance GrogShop BOOK HERE You will get 5 samples of wines to try. Monday to Thursday 4pm / 5.30pm, Friday to Sunday 2pm / 3.30pm / 5pm Wines will generally…
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230 lovely folk came along and tried a vast array of the best beers available on the planet (alegedly)
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My precious wines this Christmas Day
My precious wines...this Christmas. Start with Gobillard Champagne, Then Pouilly Fume Les Caillottes from the Loire, then Chaume-Arnaud Rhone Red just buy some or all the wines and taste along! Join me and Fraser on Facebook and Instagram Live 1pm Christmas Day. Cheers!
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Very Kind Review 9/10!https://www.tartanspoon.co.uk/home/food-tanikifi-italian?sfnsn=scwspwa
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Chaume-Arnaud are such nice folk. Marion and I intended a brief visit in September this year. We escaped after winery tour, tasting, lunch and vineyard visit. They gave us 4 hours of their time, mid harvest! Hospitality off the scale. The estate lies at the…
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Trip to Sancerre, Pouilly Fume and Chablis
Spagetti-like wine filter Chablis Malandes: Fantastic, woman-led winery headed up by the 5th generation winemaker Amadine. Grand Cru vineyards handed down from her grandfather who traded them for cattle pasture in the 50s! She's just bought a £200,000 spaghetti filter which is more gentle for…
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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 A great wee afternoon out, over 100 beers in packaged form (bottles and cans) to try from Edinburgh's & Scotland's finest brewers, who…
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There is a bit of an ongoing conflict in the wonderful, wacky world of wine. The movement of “natural wines” is what I’m talking about. I still have my doubts that it will ever become mainstream, though it doesn’t seem to be going away either.…
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Scottish beers in the warehouse
beer beer beer Discover the Rich Tapestry of Scottish Beers at Great Grog Warehouse Welcome to a voyage through Scotland's vibrant beer landscape, brought to life at the Great Grog Warehouse. From the bustling streets of Edinburgh to the rugged beauty of the Black Isle,…
More detailsWell, that was a quick January. Burns night is usually when Scotland cracks anyway. We have taken delivery of a bunch of great bin-ends from the bond in London. They are all cracking, hand-picked oddities, well worth a shout. Also, Poppie has been beavering away…
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