Wine Appreciation
In the past few years we have tasted wine from all over the world as each month a different member hosts the group and chooses which wines we should taste - sometimes by country or region, and sometimes by grape variety. We have all enjoyed trying wines which we would not normally have chosen so we like to feel our tastes have widened through belonging to this Interest Group. Whenever we can find a teetotal driver we love to take the Lerryn Minibus out for a spin to a local vineyard or wine merchant.
Contact Michael Furminger for more details.
Group contact: Michael Furminger
Telephone: 07715546026
2025 schedule
We will continue with a regular fixture of 3pm on the last Monday of the month. The location will be either in a members home or the Cafe of the Community centre. We plan to go to other locations for visits to tastings and vineyards, to be advised.
2025 |
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27-Jan |
Alison and John Hurst |
2 Field Close |
24-Feb |
Michael Furminger |
3 The Terrace |
31-Mar |
Pat Stearn |
Community Centre |
28-Apr |
Helen Mills |
6 Grenville Meadows |
19-May |
Keith Southgate |
Community Centre (provisional) |
30-Jun |
Nicola Tipton |
Community Centre |
28-Jul |
Judy Dixon |
Community Centre |
25-Aug |
Jill Fletcher |
Community Centre |
29-Sep |
Jenny MacDonald |
20 Pendour Park |
27-Oct |
Christine Walton |
6 Old Orchard |
24-Nov |
Sue and Carl Watts | Community Centre |
2025
June Meeting
On a very warm and sunny day our June meeting was held outside in Nicola's delightful garden.
For the tasting Nicola selected a range of good value wines available from Aldi.
The first wine tasted was a Veuve Monsigny Champagne Brut available for only £14.95. According to Aldi's website the wine is " An elegant Champagne, aged for longer to enhance its complexity. On the nose, aromas of ripe apples and soft red fruits meet delicate floral hints. In the mouth, citrus, strawberry and baked apple notes lead to a clean, lingering finish. 12.5% vol." This champagne has recently been named World’s Best Champagne at the prestigious World Champagne Awards 2025. Who are we to argue? Find out more about this award via this link
For our white wine we tasted Costières de Nimes Blanc also from Aldi at £7.99 Described on the bottle as "A rich and aromatic white wine from Costières de Nîmes, full of candied citrus and ripe orchard fruits."

Thanks to Nicola for searching out an interesting selection of good value wines from the Bodmin branch of Aldi.
May Meeting
This month we had a professional wine tasting led by Mark Harrison of Majestic Wines in Truro. The selection we tried were:
Whites
Rose
Orange
Tbilvino Qvevris Rkatsiteli (Georgian)
Reds
It was an interesting event – my preference for the red was the Lebanese Domaine Tourelle and for the whites the Greek wine proved the most popular.
April Meeting
March Meeting
We are back at the Community Centre this month tasting a choice range of Italian wines.
We started with Pat’s favourite white. A Verdicchio dei Castellidi Jesi, very nice light wine. That set us off on the Chianti trail. We tried three different Chiantis – the Piccini was my favourite followed by the bargain Courte alle Mura. The Morrisons offer pleased most, found it too bland.
Great fun and good wine, what could be better?
February Meeting
We had Two whites and two reds. Two wines from New Zealand, an excellent Sauvignon Blanc from Audi and a so so Pinot Noir. The French Pouilly Fume was expensive but dull. The best red was from South Africa, an excellent Roodeberg blend (Morrisons)
January Meeting
As the lady says "Its all from Lidl" The Bolgrad Ukranian wine was the surprise.
Very pleasant wine with a Chardonnay and native Ukrainian Sukholimansky grapes for a well-balanced dry white.
The south of France pink was a little disappointing (but liked by some) however the two French reds stood out. The Bourgogne Gamay was excellent soft red with cotes du Rhone village was a solid example of Rhone reds.
The prices were all very fair - nothing over £10.
Wine and a chat.