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Newsletter May 2025
Dear members I hope that you had an enjoyable Easter and are now looking forward to the improved weather which those of us based on the Costa Blanca expect in late Spring and early Summer. We currently have 141 members. As usual, a small number of members were unable to renew their membership, mainly due to relocation and health reasons. This means that we are able to admit another 9 members to take us up to our capacity. So, if you have any friends or family who would like to benefit from being members of CBWS, please encourage them to fill in the application form soon. On 24 April, Tony…
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Tasting Report April 2025
The full tasting report will be published here shortly
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Newsletter April 2025
Dear members For those of you Spanish based members who have been travelling during late February and early March, well done on avoiding the cool wet weather. Those vineyard owners who have been hoping for rain may be questioning what they wished for. Vines, like humans, really don’t like standing in water. On 20 March, Tim and Sandy Fawle hosted the tasting at Los Amigos in Javea. Nicholas Hammeken presented a selection of his wines to 59 members and guests. For the detailed report click {here}. Our next tasting will be on 24 April ( please note that this is the fourth Thursday of month to avoid Easter) at Denia…
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Tasting Report March 2025
CBWS Tasting held on 20/03/2025 at Los Amigos, Javea attended by 58 members and 1 guest. Tasting Team members Sandy and Tim Fawle hosted the March Wine Tasting. Tim introduced Nicholas Hammeken Director of Innovation and Founder of Hammeken Cellars. This company has an interesting and innovative approach to the Spanish Wine industry and has 8 Winemakers working in 18 different DO’s, marketing their wines for the producers. They are based in Denia and have achieved very good points in the Spanish Peñin Wine Guide. Wine 1 Name and Vintage ALBADES Malvasía 2024 DO Valencia. Guia Peñin 88 Price per bottle €5.15 Wine 1 Description ALBADES Malvasía 2024 DO Valencia To the north of the…
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Tasting Report February 2025
CBWS Tasting held on 20 February 2025 at Javea Golf Club and attended by 64 members and guests The February Tasting, hosted by Neville and Sara was themed ‘ The Art of Wine Tasting’. Neville welcomed the members and guests and provided a brief introduction to our updated wine scoring sheet. A full explanation of our approach to scoring is given on the Wine Scoring Guidance page of our website. The evening was presented in informative and entertaining style by Steve Sanchis of Bodegas Leopoldo in Ondara. Steve used each of these very different wines to illustrate the methodology and techniques of wine tasting. Wine 1 Name and Vintage Malcorta…
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Newsletter March 2025 Tasting
Dear members As we head towards our third Tasting of 2025 there seems to be a lot to report on our CBWS activities, so I’ll try to keep it brief. On 20 February we had an enthusiastic and informative presentation of a great variety (grapes and prices) of wines by Steve Sanchis of Bodegas Leopoldo. His subject ‘The Art of Tasting Wine’ coincided with the issuance of our new wine scoring sheet. I’ll give a refresher about scoring at the next couple of tastings, in the meantime I can strongly recommend that you read the updated pages on ‘Scoring Guidance’ and ‘Describing Wine’ on the Wine Tasting section of the CBWS…
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Member Survey January 2025
Thankyou to all the members who have completed our survey. You will see my comments below followed by a full report and analysis of the survey. Neville (1) 58 members completed the survey – thankyou. (2) The overall response is very positive with little evidence of dissatisfaction about the Society. (3) We have quite a few members who are interested in joining the Committee or assisting in other ways. (4) In response to a number of questions, some members had a particular view and others had the opposite view. In a Society such as ours we can’t please everyone all of the time! (5) Themes on which we can consider taking…
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Last 2 places left for the Wine Trip May 6-10 2025
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Newsletter February 2025 Tasting
Dear members A belated Happy New Year to everyone. Our programme of events for 2025 is on the website and offers a great variety of types of event, locations and wines to be tasted, for example, this year we are including a tasting of one of Spains most iconic (and possibly least understood) wines – sherry! Also, in September, we are holding an event called ‘Who do you think we are?’ For this event we will be presenting some of the fascinating experiences/achievements (sporting, musical, volunteering, endurance, political, etc) of 5 of our members, together with their favourite wines. So, what we are asking is that you nominate a member (with…
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Tasting January 2025
Held at La Senia restaurant at Nou Roma Hotel in Denia on 16 January 2025 This was the first tasting of 2025, held immediately following the AGM, hosted by Neville and Sara Richardson. It was attended by 44 members and guests, numbers being reduced by several health issues on the day. As is traditional, the wines tasted were our highest scoring of the previous year. There was one exception, as only one white (and no rosado) featured in the top ten, Neville chose to include the Ceramic Sauvignon Blanc from the December tasting (which was not scored). Wine 1 Name and Vintage Quintaluna 2021, Vidas y Vinos Ossian, Vino de…