It’s been four years since the Waud Wines tourists last ventured south to enjoy the delights that this fabulous wine region has to offer, but a band of brothers and sisters recently braved the increasingly difficult to navigate Eurotunnel to make...
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We are pleased to announce the two Waud Wine Club tours for 2015. The first in July is to the Rhone Valley where we return with the cars for a 3 day driving and wine tasting trip. The second tour will be a fly/drive to Barcelona and surrounds in...
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Last night on tour and we had a very entertaining dinner at Caveau des Arches in Beaune. Highly recommended.
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The last vineyard trip on the 2014 was to Chateau de Meursault. Chateau de Meursault has one of the largest wine cellars in Burgundy and hold a minimum of 1 million bottles there are any one time. After the tour and tasting, we had our annual car...
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Lunchtime day 2 was a visit to Aloxe Corton. (once Charles had given us the correct address!) Michael and Fiona Ragg who are the owners and winemakers at Mischief and Mayhem gave us an excellent tasting before lunch. We then took a fantastic...
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Day 2 took up to Cote de Nuits in the north end of Burgundy. Drouhin Laroze in Gevrey Chambertain was our first port of call where we had a tour of the winery, cellars and finally a tasting of some select wines in their range. Drouhin Laroze are...
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After the tasting in Chablis, we head due South to Chateau de Vault de Lugny. The tourists enjoyed a champagne reception, followed by a gourmet meal. A very nice way to end the first day on tour.
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One of the highlights of the TDV was visiting Chablis. Domaine Laroche was in a completely different style to the gigantic Champagne de Castelnau site we had been at a few hours earlier. Etienne Madelin looked after us superbly and we were...
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First stop on the TDV this year was in Reims to Champagne de Castelnau. Champagne de Castelnau is in fact the Waud Wine Club house champagne and has sold incredibly well since we added it to our list at the end of 2013. Champagne de Castelnau is...
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We had another absolute rip snorter of a tour to Southern France for the Tour Du Vin 2013. The club hosted 16 members for a 3 day tour of the Languedoc. The touring party flew in to Marseille on Thursday morning, where we picked up our Citroen 2...
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10 cars (20 tourists) travelled down for a fantastic three day tour of Loire and Bordeaux. The tourists were treated to the following schedule: Wednesday 18th July 1. 06.00 – Meet at Channel Tunnel for a 06.50 shuttle. (Arrive in France...
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Following on from a lively lunch amongst friends at the Wine Library in November, we are planning to organise a charity wine run in the Rhone between Thursday 28th and Saturday 30th July. Participants will largely be from the Property and FM...
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