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 Feb - Ch. Beauséjour Lunch
14 Feb - Lonely Hearts Dinner with Veuve Clicquot
21 Feb - 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)
7 Mar - International Women's Day Lunch - Ladies only
14 March – BYOB Wine Lunch
20 March - Spectator Writers' Dinner
21 March - Holland & Holland Spring Shoot & Wine Lunch
28 March - Craggy Range Lunch
6 - 10 April - Champagne Trip, register interest with Kirker Travel
11 April - Grgich Hills Lunch with Ivo Jeremaz
30 April / 1 May - Wine School 2, Home & Away TBC
2 May - Freshers Lunch - newbies only
16 May - Mehofer Austrian Wine Lunch - Judith Mehofer
19 -24 June - Budapest Trip, register interest with Kirker Travel
10 July - German Wine Tasting TBC
19 Sept - CLAYS, CLARET & COGNAC CRUISE
23-27 Sept - Douro Valley Trip, register interest with Kirker Travel
Early October TBC - Moselle Valley German Wine Trip
28 Oct - 01 Nov - Bordeaux Trip, register interest with Kirker Travel
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
