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Summer time is with us again, this is a great time to look at our offering of Rosé wines
 
VALLE REALE 2006 CERASUOLO, MONTEPULCIANO D’ABRUZZO
The Pizzolo family’s winery is perched inside a wild, glacier-carved national park in Abruzzi, on the “calf” of the Italian boot, where the grapes ripen late, just as the first snows dust [...]

This month my recommendations are well suited to the warm, sunny weather that we have been experiencing on the South Coast. 
 Firstly we look at a dessert wine - Icewine.
Icewine
Icewine is a rare dessert wine produced from the juice of naturally frozen grapes that have been picked in the middle of a cold Canadian winter.   At [...]

Recently I have been extremely busy preparing our new wine lists for the group;  we have greatly extended our list and have some really great offerings.  
 
Apart from including quite a few top end wines for that special celebration for example;

Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru, Pierre Morey, 2001
Penfolds, ‘Yattarna’, Chardonnay1999
Château Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, 5 growth, 1993
Vosne-Romanée, Mugneret-Gibourg, 2000

To some more unusual [...]

Please find below the latest of my recommendations. This month I am pleased to recommend Jean-Claude & Didier Aubert’s Vouvray and Jean-Pierre Boisson’s Chateauneuf du Pape…

It has been all change at The Chine Hotel recently, with the ground floor public areas being refurbished, and as part of the changes we have a new wine shop opening on the 23rd January 2009.
The Chine Wine Shop
We would like to welcome you to The Gallery Wine Shop!
Top-of-the-range great value wines, that are very [...]

Welcome to the first of my regular recommendations.  Each Month I plan to feature two wines that are showing particularly well, but are not well known, that go with the seasonal dishes our chefs are preparing.
Polish Hill River Riesling, O’Leary Walker, Australia, 2007 (£29.50)
Intense grapefruit, slate and citrus peel. The perfume is alluring with powerful slate and [...]

Following on from our last Wine Club event, it is The Chine’s turn to host the next wine dinner.
The theme will be Four Chefs visit Australia, and the event will be held on the 26th February 2009.  The price will be £50.00 per person including wine.
 
The menu will be confirmed shortly.
This time we will have Australian wine [...]