Australia and New Zealand Trade Tasting 2026 - Edinburgh
2026-01-29 11:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Sheraton Grand Hotel, 1 Festival Square, Edinburgh, EH3 9SR
Explore Australia and New Zealand’s distinctive terroirs, vibrant winemaking communities and thrilling wines in this collaboration between Wine Australia and New Zealand Winegrowers.
The Aussies and Kiwis are good mates with lots in common. Fine wine, great food, stunning scenery, the cool Southern Ocean and also their cool Antipodean attitude. Don’t miss this joint event to find out more!
Across the three cities (London, Edinburgh and Dublin), there will be more than 1,000 wines from 200 wineries spanning 50 regions in Australia and New Zealand. This is your chance to discover new wines, revisit the classics, meet the makers, and catch up with importers.
Taste the wines that have put Australia and New Zealand in the spotlight and discover exciting new styles that are coming out of the two countries today. Uncover regional and stylistic differences, find out about winemaking techniques and innovative spirit, and look into the future of Australian and New Zealand wine.
In London, there will be a ‘Sommelier Selections’ feature table with 40 Australian and New Zealand wines that sommeliers have nominated. Selected by some of the UK’s leading sommeliers, these are the Australian and New Zealand wines that most excite them – wines that have ignited a love for the region or with special significance.
The tasting booklets and a list of visiting winemakers and winery owners will be added to the website in early January.
Register here
Contact: uk@wineaustralia.com sarahs@nzwine.com

Australia and New Zealand Trade Tasting 2026 - Dublin
2026-02-03 12:00 - 17:00 | The Alex Hotel, 41 - 47 Fenian Street, Dublin
Explore Australia and New Zealand’s distinctive terroirs, vibrant winemaking communities and thrilling wines in this collaboration between Wine Australia and New Zealand Winegrowers.
The Aussies and Kiwis are good mates with lots in common. Fine wine, great food, stunning scenery, the cool Southern Ocean and also their cool Antipodean attitude. Don’t miss this joint event to find out more!
Across the three cities (London, Edinburgh and Dublin), there will be more than 1,000 wines from 200 wineries spanning 50 regions in Australia and New Zealand. This is your chance to discover new wines, revisit the classics, meet the makers, and catch up with importers.
Taste the wines that have put Australia and New Zealand in the spotlight and discover exciting new styles that are coming out of the two countries today. Uncover regional and stylistic differences, find out about winemaking techniques and innovative spirit, and look into the future of Australian and New Zealand wine.
In London, there will be a ‘Sommelier Selections’ feature table with 40 Australian and New Zealand wines that sommeliers have nominated. Selected by some of the UK’s leading sommeliers, these are the Australian and New Zealand wines that most excite them – wines that have ignited a love for the region or with special significance.
The tasting booklets and a list of visiting winemakers and winery owners will be added to the website in early January.
Email jean@jeansmullen.com to attend
Contact: uk@wineaustralia.com sarahs@nzwine.com

CWW Let's talk about... The Evolving Languages of Pinot Noir with Meg Maker (Please note the new time!)
2026-02-10 18:00 - 19:00
All specialized languages evolve, their vocabularies enjoying cycles of emergence, standardization, modernization, and reinvention. Such a cycle has radically transformed wine discourse over the last fifty years. Examining this evolution reveals our ever-shifting attitudes toward the meaning and value of this singular beverage.
In this talk, Meg uses Pinot Noir as a lens through which to view specific shifts in our lexical and linguistic approaches to wine commentary, and to explore what these mean for wine’s evolving cultural significance.
Meg originally presented this talk in July 2025 at the inaugural Pinot Noir and Identity Symposium at St. Cross College, Oxford. Her full paper is forthcoming in World of Fine Wine in March 2026.
Meg Maker, chair of the Circle of Wine Writers, is an award-winning wine and culture writer, fine artist, and educator. She explores wine and food as expressions of social and cultural identity, and how these manifest history, tradition, and fashion. Her current research focuses on wine languages and how our linguistic choices reinforce or explode notions of individual identity and wine’s place in culture. She contributes freelance writing to various outlets and publishes her own features, criticism, and commentary on Maker’s Table.
To join this Zoom seminar, please register now or at any time before 6pm GMT on February 10th.
The session, including Questions and Answers, will last for approximately one hour.
To register, follow the link below. Guests will be very welcome, but please let Andrea know their names.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/hjSa5C01SrOV-CTx2f4xzA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. We look forward to seeing you then.
If you can’t attend the live session, there will be a recording available to watch afterwards on the Circle’s YouTube channel (links to this and earlier sessions are in the members’ area of the website).
Helen Savage, CWW online events organiser

New York Wines Tasting
2026-02-12 11:00 - 16:00 | Upstairs Loft at The Light Bar, 233 Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6PJ
They’ll be pouring around 50 wines from AVAs across the state, including The Finger Lakes, Long Island, Hudson River, and Lake Erie.
Please contact eleanor@randr.co.uk for more details.

A JOURNEY THROUGH LAURENT-PERRIER'S SAVOIR-FAIRE
2026-04-29 11:30 - 13:30 | 67, Pall Mall, St James’s Room, London, SW1Y 5ES
SAVE THE DATE
Discover the House’s inimitable winemaking methods at a special tutored tasting hosted by Laurent-Perrier Oenologist, Constance Delaire.
This is a tutored tasting, spaces are limited to 40 people.
11.30 – 12.30 Tasting
12.30 – 13.30 Buffet Lunch
