Calendar of events for 2025 - dates for your diary OR leave a review
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Wine Club event dates so far for 2025
7 February - Ch. Beauséjour Lunch
14 February - Lonely Hearts Dinner with Veuve Clicquot
20 February - Spectator Writers' Dinner with Mary Killen
21 February - Cos d'Estournel and Cos Labory Lunch
26 & 27 February - Wine School - Rhône, Home & Away (26 Feb at Gravetye Manor, West Sussex & 27 Feb Spectator Boardroom, London SW1)
5 March - Wines of Portugal Dinner, The Library, upstairs at Old Queen Street Café
7 March - International Women's Day Lunch - Ladies only
13 March - A Caviar Masterclass with Laura King
14 March – BYOB Wine Lunch
20 March - Dinner TBC
21 March - Holland & Holland Spring Shoot & Wine Lunch
28 March - Craggy Range Lunch
6 - 10 April - Champagne Trip
11 April - Grgich Hills Lunch with Ivo Jeremaz
17 April - Spectator Writers' Dinner with Matthew Paris
1 May - British Shellfish Masterclass & Tasting with Mike Warner, Chairman - Shellfish Association of Gt Britain and UK Seafood & Fisheries Consultant for Wright Bros
2 May - A Siepe vertical with Giovanni Mazzei
7 & 8 May - Wine School - Bordeaux, Left and Right Bank. Home & Away at The Vineyard, Stockcross
15 May - Spectator Winemaker Dinner with Christian Seely of Ch.Pichon Baron
16 May - Mehofer Austrian Wine Lunch - Judith Mehofer
5 June - Masterclass tbc
6 June - Freshers Lunch - newbies only
19 -24 June - Budapest Trip
27 June - English Wine Week Lunch 'Celebrating British'
2 July - A Masterclass in German Wine (OQS)
17 July - Spectator Writers' Dinner with Richard Bratby
18 July - A very British Summer gourmet gathering with Valentina Harris, Parham House in Sussex
29 August - Winemaker Lunch
12 September - Winemaker Lunch
18 September - Spectator Writers' Dinner with Melissa Kite
19 September - THE CLAYS, CLARET, COGNAC & CIGARS CRUISE
23-27 September - Douro Valley Trip, register interest with Kirker Travel
3 October - Winemaker Lunch
Early October TBC - Moselle Valley German Wine Trip
16 October - Spectator Writers' Dinner
17 October - Winemaker Lunch
28 October - 01 November - Bordeaux Trip, register interest with Kirker Travel
20 November - Spectator Writers' Dinner
21 November - Winemaker Lunch
28 November - Winemaker Lunch
5 December - Winemaker Lunch
17 December - Winemaker Lunch
18 December - Spectator Writers' Dinner
Spring 2026 - Napa Valley Trip
If you've enjoyed our one of our winemaker events and value them as a subscriber benefit we'd really appreciate it if you'd leave a review here.
Recent quotes from guests:
"I have never had a disappointing event at The Spectator. The food is consistently good, the company interesting, friendly and lively, and Johnny is always a welcoming and entertaining host. The Veuve Cliquot dinner was a real treat, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was good to try something different from my usual favourites when exploring champagne, and the detailed information from the in house expert was fascinating. The fish main course was particularly good, incidentally, and that is something quite tricky to get right. Mine was cooked to perfection. Thank you to the team at the Spectator Club." SB
"The wine lunch this past Friday with Anthony was brilliant and educational. I learnt so much. The wines were lush too". PA
"I'm so, so glad to have come last night. A huge thank you to you, Jonathan and Laura for a truly excellent evening- a Masterclass indeed. For the first time, I feel enlightened about Italian wine and the timing of yesterday's event couldn't have been better because I'm going to Venice next week for a few days. I just hope I can remember most of what Laura told us so brilliantly." AT
"It was a joy, delicious lunch and perfectly compered by your mate Johnny Ray. Olivia is a dreamboat, warm, charming, great personality and clearly a superb cook." TB
"Thank you oh so much for putting on such a lovely event. I felt so welcome and thoroughly enjoyed the whiskies, company and nibbles. I will be ordering some this weekend!! I am going to endeavour to come to a wine lunch as soon as I can and look forward to meeting you and your team again." PZ
"I thought Claire Ridley was entertaining, engaging, knowledgeable and an excellent ambassador for the Chateau. This time I did not make any notes on the wines unfortunately. I thought they were all delicious but the best unsurprisingly was the 2005. After that my preference was for the 2016 and 2014. The Beef Wellington was exceptionally good. As usual the company and the exchanges both of which add to the enjoyment of these occasions was full of knowledge and good humour." MB
"I had a spiffing time thank you and I didn’t even shoot! I will be ordering some wine. The Spectator has certainly revolutionised my social life. Can’t wait to get to Bordeaux. I almost never review anything but the organisation of your events is exceptional - they're just great fun and one can be guaranteed great wines!" KB
“Had a great time on Friday. Excellent ambience and shooting. The food and wine were superb and I have just purchased 6 bottles of the Champagne. Excellent presentations, the day was very good value for money when you considered the quality of the food and wine etc." WW
