Despite its proximity to the Easter weekend, 71 members and guests gathered at the Marriott hotel to listen to Sue Crowe from Casa del Vino in Jávea introduce five wines from the bodega Solar de Urbezo in the DO…
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July 2014 Newsletter
19th June 2014 Tasting at Puerto Blanco, Calpe Puerto Blanco is the Society’s regular June venue, banking on good weather so we can sit outside and enjoy our aperitifs by the pool. This year was no exception and 72 members…
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June 2014 Newsletter
May Tasting 61 members and their guests assembled in the Hotel MR restaurant, Punta Negra, in Denia for the May tasting. They heard Javier Revert, the oenologist from Celler del Roure present wines from that bodega. Celler del…
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20th March 2014 – Ca La Iaia – Moraira
Cal La Iaia is one of the Society’s favourite venues and 69 members and guests assembled to taste five wines presented by Bodegas Arzuaga Navarro founded in 1982 by Florentino Arzuaga. The company owns a number of bodegas principally in…
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May 2014 Newsletter
April Tasting Despite its proximity to the Easter weekend, 71 members and guests gathered at the Marriott hotel to listen to Sue from Casa del Vino in Jávea introduce five wines, (one white, one Rosado and three red) from the…
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20 Feb 2014 – Café del Mar – Moraira
The February tasting took place immediately after the Society’s Annual General Meeting. As is traditional, the newly elected president of the Society, Gordon Sellars presented his President’s Choice. The tasting took place in the Café del Mar in Moraira and…
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Trip to La Mancha 13th-16th May 2013
Our May 2013 trip took us to La Mancha, the largest DO of wine producers in Europe. After a comfortable journey to Alcazar de San Juan, we found the Hotel Intur extremely well appointed. After a group welcome reception on the courtyard terrace…
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March Tasting 69 members and guests assembled at Ca La Iaia to taste five wines presented by Bodegas Arzuaga Navarro. The presenter was Javier Navarro Belzunce, the commercial director, who proved himself a skilled presenter in several languages. The first…
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16th January 2014 – Restaurante La Senia – Denia
I welcomed 62 members to the first tasting of the new year – and the last of my term as president. Another innovation, this tasting we called “Whose wine is it anyway?” It was based on the TV series “Call…
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March Newsletter
The Annual General Meeting was opened by the President, Andrew Johnson at 18.30 hours at the Café del Mar in Moraira. After hearing several reports from the committee, the election of officers for 2014 took place. The new President elected…