The New, the Near, the Old, the Far

The July event was an evening of two halves - wines from a new winery not far from Freeland and wines from far-away Georgia, where wine production started thousands of years ago.

Our first host was Gavin Carver. 

Gavin is the founder and owner of Freedom of the Press Winery, which is based at Ringwood Farm near Minster Lovell (OX29 0ND).

He presented some delicious English whites, which were examples of the excellent improvement in the quality that English wines have undergone in the last 5 or so years. 

For more details, visit the Freedom of the Press website.

Gavin also hosted two "experimental" wines from the Vindemiate winery, which was established by Tamasine Herriott. 

More details about Tamasine's wines can be found on the Vindemiate website.

Our Second host was Kaha Guliashvili who hails from Georgia. 

His company, GeoNaturals, promotes, imports and sells Georgian wines and he presented some excellent wines made in the traditional way using huge, handmade, clay vessels called qvevri which are buried in the ground while the wine ferments.

For more details on the wines sold by GeoNaturals, visit their website. 

A short video about the history of Georgian wines can be seen by following this link; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN5ziogyxP0.