Hi, my name is Les and I’m the most recent addition to the Vineking
team, I’m usually based Church Street where you can find me most Fridays and
Saturdays, just in case you want to say hi.
Another new addition to all our shops is the Friday night ‘Vineking
Social’ (we even created our own twitter hash tag #thevinekingsocial). This
runs between 6 – 8 pm and gives us the chance to let customers old and new taste
some wines which we’ve been sent by suppliers as well as sample some of the wines
we currently have in stock – all for free.
We launched the Social back in the summer with a cider
tasting at which we very glad to see that the cider we currently stock from
Brittany was among the best we tasted.
Since then we have seen a regular group of customers pass by
on their way home, into town, or perhaps just in the need of some “Vinotherapy”
at the end of the week.
Between us we have tasted some really lovely wines as well
as the occasional shocker – no names mentioned.
Falling firmly into the former category was the 2009 MountBeautiful Pinot Noir from the Cheviot Hills, North Canterbury in New Zealand.
This was greatly enjoyed by customers and staff alike and as a result we have
ordered the wine which will be on our shelves in October. This means that Mt
Beautiful have the distinction of being the first wine we decided to stock with
the help of our customers.
As our founder Erik recently said about the wine:
“We tasted this sample at The Vineking Social two weeks
ago. We loved it.....everyone who tasted
it loved it......and so we bought all the 2009 we could - 40 Cases!
Erik’s tasting note:
Classic lifted red berry Pinot fruit on the nose, elegant, pretty,
polished and very well balanced on the palate, this is a charming Pinot Noir
and because the Cheviot Hills is a new wine region, it's great value for
money!”
If you’re keen to find out what all the fuss is about then
pop into one of our shops and buy a bottle. We may even have some on taste at
this Friday’s social on the 12th of October. And if you can’t make
it then please feel free to call us on 01737 221 311 or email us on TBC (at)
theVineking.com
We hope to see you at a Vineking Social soon. And if you follow us on twitter then this is
the hashtag to look out for #thevinekingsocial
