Love the Loire

In between teaching on our WSET® Wine Courses this month, I’ve been busy dreaming up themes and ideas for our forthcoming programme of Gourmet Dinners and Food & Wine Matching events. I suppose being forced to open several bottles from each region with one’s...

“Valking in a Vilmart Vonderland”

Oh, gosh is that a hideously, schmaltzy, yuck way of introducing what we are up to over the festive period with Christmas? Sorry, folks, that’s me!! Bit on a wave of excitement here at FineWineWorks with our recent activities with our very own Vilmart champagne....

Monaco Yacht Show – what a week!

The sun shone, the Red Arrows flew, the Super yachts gleamed and we poured and poured!!! Four hectic days manning the Riviera Times stand at the Monaco Yacht Show, offering glass after glass of our Vilmart Grand Cellier champagne to ours and their clients, colleagues,...

Our first FWW Summer!

Yachting, Trotting, Wining & Dining, Drinking & Thinking – our first FWW Summer!
The Brotherton Family Hotel has now closed its doors for the season! All visitors and friends who have
descended on us over the last three months have now gone back to the UK. The...

A Wine Tasting Event on our Terrace

An enquiry back in April to organise and run a Wine Tasting Event and Lunch for a Gentlemen’s Club evolved into quite a happening! Firstly, the club is called the CRAFT Club – I envisaged (foolishly), a group of sedate gentlemen whose hobbies included building Sydney...