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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.…
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Tasting Report April 2025
CBWS Tasting held on 24/04/2025 at Club Nautico, Denia and attended by 61 members and guests An open tasting of five wines presented in a “Pour my Bluff” format where each TRUE wine was presented with two alternative BLUFF wines by a team of three presenters (Tony Salter, Gro Salter and Fergus Fitzpatrick) and the members needed to decide who was presenting…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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