‘Call my Bluff’ Wine Tasting Event: Sun 14th July, 4pm

We’ve decided to let our hair down a bit this time round and instead of an ‘educational’(!) themed tasting, we’ll be doing a ‘Call my Bluff’ tasting quiz - a format that always makes for a great fun, competitive event, and a good way to while away a Sunday afternoon, in our opinion!

We’ll be pouring 6 wines, including a fizz to kick things off, and with each wine our panel of 3 experts will try to convince you that their description is the correct one. Of course, each time, two of the panellists will be bluffing, and it’s up to you to decide which. Extra points will be given for guessing the retail price of each wine, and we’ll ask you to rate each wine before we tell you what it is, so we can see which wines prove most popular when tasted blind. Most, if not all, the wines will be ones we don’t currently stock, so your choices will also help us choose which we should be making a regular feature here. And what’s more, the winning team can choose a bottle of their favourite to take home.

Having said that this a less ‘educational’ tasting, in actual fact a blind tasting, particularly when you’re being given three convincing, yet contrasting, accounts of what the wine in the glass actually is, can be quite an education in just how much you know about wine, or indeed just how difficult wine tasting can be - depending on how you approach it!

So - we need teams! Of whatever size you like, even just yourself.

We’ve tried to keep the cost down as much as we can, to allow as many people to be able to get involved as possible: the more, the merrier! But to do this I’m afraid we’re not able to include the usual nibbles in the ticket price - instead we’ll be offering a 20% discount on food served during the event, if it’s pre-ordered and paid before the day of the event itself. Here’s a link to our current food menu below, please call or email us with a pre-order.

The tasting is at 4pm on Sunday 14th July. Tickets are £15 each, and can be booked by calling 01273 567176, emailing us at shop@tengreenbottles.com, or booking online below.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Number of people

1 x Tasting £15.00 GBP2 x Tasting £30.00 GBP3 x Tasting £45.00 GBP4 x Tasting £60.00 GBP

Sicilian wine tasting, Sunday 2nd June

After talking about it for far too long, our shipment of Sicilian wine is finally here and we have set a date for a tasting. We first tasted these wines back in November and they absolutely blew us away, so we’re very excited to finally be able to share them with you…

This unique land, with ideal conditions for wine-growing and a wealth of indigenous varieties has long been Italy’s biggest grower of wine grapes, but the shift away from quantity and towards some serious quality is often under-represented on UK shelves.

From a delicious lemon sherbert fizz to fragrant, floral yet gutsy whites; soft, bold and perfumed Nero d’Avola, a meaty, burnt-orange Etna Rosso (a style often compared with good Burgundy) and a beautifully fresh Moscato, we’ll be talking you through wines (eight in total) from two estates on the eastern side of the island, Costantino from the slopes of Mt Etna, and Cantine Gulino from a little further south in Siracusa, both of which we currently have exclusively within the UK. 

A view of Mt. Etna © Sicily Tourist Guide

The tasting is at 3pm on Sunday 2nd June. Tickets are £20 each, and can be booked by calling 01273 567176, emailing us at shop@tengreenbottles.com, or booking online below.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

We’re almost booked up now, so I’ve removed the Paypal option… please email or call if you’d still like a place. Thanks!

Only a few places left at our cheese tasting this Sunday

Our cheese and wine workshop this weekend with @cheesology has proved very popular and is almost fully booked. I’ve taken tickets off sale online so we don’t overbook - if you’re still interested in coming along, please call on 01273 567176 or email shop@tengreenbottles.com and we’ll try to fit you in!

Brighton and Hove Food Festival Awards

Just a quick note to say that, if you haven’t seen already, nominations for the Food Festival Awards are now open… you can vote for your favourite Brighton bar here. Which might not be us, of course. But we’d be very happy if it was :)

Cheese and wine workshop, Sun 24th March

We’ll be tasting our way through 6 cheeses, from a light, fresh Sussex goats cheese to ‘the King of the Blues’, with a different wine to match each one. Lucie and I will be introducing and discussing the products themselves, as well as the ‘rules’ behind cheese and wine matching - and we can all discuss how well we think those rules work!

Cheesology began when Lucie, despite being brought up on Dairylea(!), sent a friend a box of artisan cheese and discovered the fantastic range of handmade cheese being made in the British Isles. She now sources and delivers boxes of artisan cheese to the Brighton and Hove area, enjoying the chance to help people get out of the ‘Camembert comfort zone’.

We’re looking forward to Lucie’s first tasting with us here at Ten Green Bottles, which will be on Sunday 24th March at 3.30pm.

Tickets are £25 each, and can be booked by calling 01273 567176, emailing us at shop@tengreenbottles.com, or online by using the Paypal button below.

Look forward to seeing some of you there!

UPDATE 22/3/13 - only a very few places left now, please call or email us on the details above if you’re still interested in coming.

Valentine’s Day at Ten Green Bottles

All day on the 14th we’ll be offering a discount (30% off) glasses of sparkling wine, with an extended list available, including Cava, Prosecco, English, Champagne, and Moscato d’Asti.

So why not join us for a glass or two before dinner, or even spend the evening here with that special someone, sampling a glass of each?!?