WINES FOR GAME MIXED CASE OFFER FOR NOVEMBER – SPECIAL DISCOUNTED CASE PRICE £114 (NORMAL PRICE £133.62)
With the game season well under way, we are being asked for suitable wines to go with this excellent source of low fat organic free range food.
Grouse is as usual very expensive this year but the ever popular pheasant and partridge are great value birds to try alongside mallard and good rich warming venison stews. The wines below have been carefully chosen because of their richness and complexity and also go well with a wide variety of winter dishes.
Includes three bottles of each of the following four wines:
Visan Cote du Rhone Villages 2009, Domaine la Fourmente, Rhone Valley
Soft and spicy with hints of leather and cherry, this fruity wine is perfect for pheasant and game birds that have not been hung for too long. The wine’s freshness is a perfect compliment to juicy young partridges too.
Tapiz Syrah 2009, Argentina
Top quality Syrah from one of Argentina’s very best producers, this is a superb example of the syrah grape grown in the new world – spicy and beautifully structured with flavours of roast meat and bacon fat. Ideal with most game.
Barocco Primitivo Puglia 2010, Italy
From the warm climate of the heel of Italy this Primitivo (or Zinfandel as the Californians call it) is delightfully rich and soft and is a perfect match with venison or grouse.
Trentham Petit Verdot 2008, Australia
A wonderfully ripe and dark fruited wine with flavours of blackcurrants and eucalyptus, this is a great match with mallard or any other really rich game including wild boar sausages and well hung grouse.
Tuesday 29th November 2011 - 6.30 for 7pm
LAURENT PERRIER CHRISTMAS CHAMPAGNE DINNER TASTING
Presented by Steve Astbury
The Cherwell Boathouse Restaurant, 50 Bardwell Road, Oxford OX2 6ST www.cherwellboathouse.co.uk
£49.95 per person (OPEN TO ALL)
Contact Theo Sloot for booking and further information: 01865 301144 or theo@oxfordwine.co.uk
A Champagne reception followed by a three course specially themed meal with top Champagnes.
The Oxford Times Wine Club is run in association with The Oxford Wine Company. Free delivery of your wine is available within 30 miles of Oxford. Please allow up to ten working days for delivery of your wine. If you have any questions about your order, contact The Oxford Wine Company on 01865 301144 quoting The Oxford Times Wine Club or email: info@oxfordwine.co.uk
If you would like to buy unmixed or mixed cases of wines that you have particularly liked from The Oxford Times Wine Club at the same special discounted prices, please contact Theo Sloot at The Oxford Wine Company on 01865 301144 or email theo@oxfordwine.co.uk
If you would like to collect your mixed case from our shop at 167 Botley Road, please call 01865 249500 to order in advance and pop in to collect – there’s plenty of parking outside!
Alternatively we will deliver free of charge up to 30 miles from Oxford.
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