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Love Wine?

Talk to the staff at Plato’s or email sally@platoskirkby.co.uk and book your place, £10 per person. Bottles uncorked at 7.00pm. Spaces are limited so book early.

Wine Tasting Dates

4th August - Taste New Zealand.

New Zealand wine is largely produced in ten major ten wine growing regions spanning latitudes 36° to 45° South and extending 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles). They are, from north to south Northland, Auckland, Waikato/Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Nelson,Marlborough, Canterbury/Waipara and Central Otago.  

1st September - Taste North America.

American wine has been produced for over 300 years. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 89 percent of all US wine. The United States is the fourth largest wine producing country in the world after France, Italy, and Spain.

The North American continent is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, Vitis vulpina, and Vitis amurensis, but it was the introduction of the European Vitis vinifera by European settlers that led to the growth of the wine making industry.[3] With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fifth most planted country in the world after France, Italy, Spain and Turkey.

6th October - distinctive grape varieties from the world over

3rd November - Sherry

Sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez, Spain. In Spanish, it is called vino de Jerez.

The word "sherry" is an anglicization of Jerez. In earlier times, sherry was known as sack (from the Spanish saca, meaning "a removal from the solera"). In Europe, "Sherry" is a protected designation of origin; in Spanish law, all wine labeled as "sherry" must legally come from the Sherry Triangle, which is an area in the province of Cádiz between Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, and El Puerto de Santa María.

1st December - Taste South America

The wine producing nations of South America are making great strides in improving the quality of their product. The wines of Chile are the most predominant on the foreign market, but Chile's larger neighbour, Argentina, is increasing quality, and consequently is also making an impact. As well as these two countries, there is also a small amount of wine coming out of Uruguay.