This year’s event is moving to a central London location and will be taking place at 8 Northumberland Avenue on Monday 8th September.
In its new and improved format, the WineGB tasting will see the addition of focused seminars and a Riedel masterclass alongside its central themed focus tables. The new seminars will support the themed tasting tables with Charlie Holland of Jackson Family Wines addressing Taste the Terroir and Melania Battison will examine the Rise of the Reds.
There will also be a dedicated masterclass from Riedel who has partnered with Hundred Hills to showcase the perfect glass for our native sparkling wines. The WineGB themed tasting tables have become central to the format of the National Trade and Press Tasting, and this year will support the masterclass themes. Taste the Terroir will feature both still and sparkling, white and rosé wines made from grapes grown on chalk, clay, sand, and other soil types to showcase the UK’s diverse terroir. Rise of the Reds will allow visitors to sample the wide variety of still red wines now produced in England and Wales, from Pinot and beyond.
In addition there will of course be the WineGB Awards Trophy winners, showcasing the cream of the crop from this year’s awards, which saw a record number of entrants with more still wines than sparkling.
WineGB will also announce the results of its search to find 10 new English Wine Ambassadors from the on- and off-trade, the winner of the WineGB photography competition and the recipient of the Vintners’ UK Wine Apprentice Scheme.
The aim of this Trade and Press Tasting is to focus on storytelling, education and what makes English and Welsh wine so unique. Exhibitor tables will be mapped and grouped geographically, encouraging a natural experiential journey through our home nation wine regions and all that they offer.
CEO of WineGB, Nicola Bates, comments; “With 84 confirmed exhibitors, this is looking to be our best National Trade and Press Tasting yet. With the additional educational offering, this will illustrate our strength as a sector; it should be a really exciting place to be. There are some great opportunities out there, by working together we can really take hold of these.”
