All Events for the 2025-2026 Academic Year
Annual Champagne Tasting
Date: 26 May
Celebrate the end of Term or help get through exams with the annual Champagne Tasting. Join Romané Basset from the Gérard Basset Foundation and an old member of the society. We will explore the history of champagne making, explore the process and demystify the labels and terminology of champagne, sparkling wines, and Rosé.
Loire Valley Tasting: Domaine de la Cune
Date: 18 May
We will be tasting six wines from a small family owned and operated vineyard located in Saumur-Champigny. Three red wines and three white wines as well as a Loire Crémant. Learn about smaller family run and operated wine production and the focus on community history and heritage in one of France's most famous wine regions.
Special Tasting with Hackstons Wine in Knightsbridge
Date: 6 March
Join us off-site at Hackston's wine shop in Knightsbridge where we will tour a number of unique French and Spanish wines. Enjoy a Champagne tasting upon arrival.
Hackston's has also waved corkage fees for after the event and have given us a discount on any bottles we wish to purchase.
Fortified Wine Tasting
Date: 26 Feb
Join us for a tasting of fortified wine. Learn about how they are made, how to taste them and some of the history behind the wines. Ready yourself for the cold darkness of winter with some warming wines.
South African Wine Tasting
Date: 12 February
Join us and Edgmond Wines for a tour around the South African Wine Regions. Try unique South African straw wine, some of the highest altitude and steepest sloop wines produced in South Africa and a Pinor Nior from an unusual region.
Additionally, learn about how the wine industry in South Africa has changed over the last 25 years and its present and future progression.
Specialist Talk: Sense and the Senses in Medieval Wine Appreciation
Date: 2 February
Join us for a talk with Dr. Azelina Jaboulet-Vercherre about her recent book on how the medieval world understood and used wine. Complementing the talk will be an interactive wine tasting
Introduction to Wine Tasting
Date: October
Come join us for an event introducing you to the world of wine and wine tasting. Join us whether you have never tasted wine before, curious to learn more or are already an established enjoyer.
Learn about how to "nose" your wine. What are legs? Why do we talk about minerality? What makes a wine full or light bodied?
Château Lagrange
Date: November
The Château Lagrange estate, Third Classified Growth in 1855, first planted at the beginning of the 16th century, extends in one single block at the west of the appellations.
Join us as Benjamin Vimal (Deputy General Manger and Wine Maker) leads a tasting of six of their wines. Come learn about the domaine, their history and philosophy and try some amazing wine.
Areni Global Wine Tasting and Talk
Date: 16 Oct
Join us as we host Pauline Vicard from Areni Global to discus wine consumption practices and changes, as well as a small curated wine tasting.
Areni Global is the leading wine think tank. We will be Talking about changes consumer practices amongst young and student drinkers of wine as part of a larger research project.
Wine Crawl
Date: 30 Sept starting 19:00 by Strand campus
Details to come.
Route and movement to be found on Instagram and WhatsApp
Freshers Week Socials
Dates:
23rd Sept 19:00 At Daly's Wine WC2R 1AP (Strand)
26th Sept 19:00 At Lant Street Wine SE1 1QN (Guy's)
Come meet the committee and the members at our Fresher Week socials. We are holding two socials, one near Strand campus and another near Guy's campus.
Follow us on Instagram for subsequent socials!
