Upton Village

UPTON WINE APPRECIATION SOCIETY At the April meeting of the Wine Club Derek Whitmell presented a talk on the Wines of Australia and compared the present situation with that of three years ago. He had researched the current prices of some of the wines he selected for the 2008 meeting and had found that they… Continue reading »

Wine Apprecation Society Meeting March 2011 This was another first for the wine club as we discovered the taste of Madeira. Esther Blandford was kind enough to present a very lively and informative evening on the delights of this delicious nectar. Mike also presented 4 wines from Portugal, which we had not tasted before. As… Continue reading »

UPTON WINE APPRECIATION SOCIETY Welcome everyone to another wine society meeting. This February meeting was hosted by Simon Powel who gave us a very entertaining and interesting talk on the white wines of the Maconnais region of Burgundy and the reds from the Beaujolais region. The white wines from the Macon region are often overlooked… Continue reading »

Welcome back to the Upton Wine club after the Christmas break, I hope you all had an excellent one. We had another first for mankind, no not a moon landing, just sherry tasting at the Upton wine club. John went gamely where no man has gone before and entered the world of sherry. He began… Continue reading »

Our November meeting proved to be one of the best we have had. Kevin and Frankie Jacklin arranged for Ryan O’Connell, a Franco-American winemaker from the Languedoc, to come over to speak to us and introduce his family’s wines. Ryan’s presentation, whilst very informative and entertaining, was very laid back and totally in keeping with… Continue reading »

UPTON WINE APPRECIATION SOCIETY The October meeting was a little earlier than usual due to the Brownies extravaganza. This meeting was on unusual, none classic grape varieties, to find some uncommon wines for us to try. We began with a very nice Vega de la Verdejo 2008 from Spain. The grape variety the Verdejo, from… Continue reading »

Welcome back to everyone, I hope you all had a good summer break and now back to the hard part of life in Upton – drinking wine. Mike Collins hosted the first meeting with a cheap and cheerful look at wine for under £6, quite a challenge with the strength of the pound. The first… Continue reading »

This was another entertaining and interesting evening from Ian Hewson, of The WINEMAN on the wines from Italy. We have visited this country’s vines several times before but as they appear to have an incredible number of grape varieties it is no hardship to visit again, and he always brings good food. Ian was concentrating… Continue reading »

We had excellent turnout for the April wine meeting, with almost 50 villagers and guest attending. We where expecting our Gaelic neighbours to attend but due to an unforeseen eruption in Iceland, we got Kevin who gamely stepped into the breech, to host the evening. The wines for the evening came from the vineyard of… Continue reading »

UPTON WINE CLUB MEETING The February Wine Club meeting was an energetic and very informative evening by Simon on the wines of California. During the early part of 20th century America had a very healthy wine industry nearly all concentrated in California, and then prohibition. The wine industry was decimated and there was a 94%… Continue reading »