Forthcoming
Wine Event
Wine
Dinner at the Felin Fach Griffin
With
Liz and Mike Berry of Grand Cru Wines
“Liz and Mike Berry are among my all-time wine
heroes”
Ricardo van Ede, the Griffin’s Head Chef
“Many, many years ago, when I was about fifteen,
I caught the wine bug. How or why I still don’t
know, because none of my family drunk wine. But I
started to read about wine and bought some bottles
to try.
At
that time there were no Dutch wine magazines so I
started to read Decanter magazine and English wine
books. That was when I first saw Liz Berry’s
name and her shop La Vigneronne on the Old Brompton
Road in London. If I remember rightly that was more
or less the time of her first book on Alsace wines.
So I started to write off for pricelists and they
were the best ever wine bottles I could only dream
of.
It
was many years later before I had the chance to visit
the shop. It was the first week that I had moved to
the UK in September 1997. And then I came back every
week to try something else. I had found my wine paradise.
But
a few years ago they sold the shop and live full time
in France. But they have an excellent website now
(www.grandcruwines.net) and specialise in wines from
the Languedoc and Roussillon. They have an amazing
combination there of both top names and of the unknown.
So
finally I have the opportunity to cook a dinner for
my own wine heroes. They will have some of their Languedoc
and Roussillon wines, as well as, hopefully some of
their own wine and superb olive oil. All paired with
some beautiful welsh produce and of course vegetables
and autumn fruits from our own kitchen garden.”
Please
call Charles or Edmund Inkin on 01874 620 111 if you
are interested in securing one of a limited number
of tickets to this dinner.
