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| | Talking About A Wine-Volution | |  | | | We’ve been served it with toasties, in boxes, raw and even orange. But unfiltered, low-intervention and biodiverse is how we’ll be drinking our wine this summer. Classic vineyards and vintages aren’t out, but open tap rooms and meet-the-grower events are in. There’s a new generation of wineries, sommeliers and tasting nights emerging across the city – here are a few on our radar.
| | Tutto Wines are the people to follow if you like your wines by the glass and poured by the growers. They’ve been holding seasonal tastings across the city, from The Round Chapel in Hackney to The Laughing Heart in Bethnal Green, and certainly know how to pick their collaborators. Through their nights we’ve discovered the Gergovie Wines shop at 40 Maltby Street, who are working with a new class of winemakers to eschew chemical pesticides and fertilisers in favour of letting the land and the grapes shine through.
Ready to cause a stir in the East, Renegade London Wine decided to bring their expertise in New Zealand grapes to London, creating a new urban winery with the city’s first wine ‘tap room’. Walk-in tastings and hands-on sessions for making wine will be the main focus, with visitors encouraged to try before they buy, which shouldn’t take too much persuasion. Their opening party will be on 12th May, when they’ll be releasing their first two wines to the public with guest beers and wines also on offer.
And for tonight? Find yourself at a loose end and head across to Michelin-starred Indian stopover in Marylebone, Trishna, for their first Flight Night. Wine expert Sunaina Sethi, Bubbledogs co-founder and sommelier Sandia Chang and GQ’s sommelier of the year, Ruth Spivey, will be hosting a wine pairing evening with a difference. Each sommelier will offer up a wine they believe best accompanies each course of Trishna’s south-west Indian coastal cuisine, then it’s down to the guests to vote for their favourite pairing. The crowd-sourced winner across all the courses will be announced during the dinner, inverting the sommelier-led wine tasting tradition. We can’t get enough of wine’s new democratic attitude!
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| | Calendar Picks | | | This Week’s Picks | |  |  |  | |  | |  | | | SHOP: | | TRY: | | EAT: | | HEAR: | | | At Chinti and Parker’s sample sale from Wed 10th- Sat 13th May. 8 Clarendon Cross, London W11 4AP
| | Yamagoya’s new raindrop cake, with just 20 available each day. 64 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 6LU
| | At Westerns Laundry, the new opening from the Primeur team, which opens tonight. 34 Drayton Park, Lower Holloway, N5 1PB
| | The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands’ original music for Life of Galileo at the Young Vic. 66 The Cut, Lambeth, London, SE1 8LZ
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