Gerry, we are spoiled for choice with wine clubs as there are two in Ealing, both very good: NEWTS (North Ealing Wine Tasting Society) - www.newts-wine.net + email: newtsealing@gmail.com - which has its next meeting on Friday (Feb 15), dealing with wines fro m the south of France. It usually meets in St Barnabas Church Hall, Pitshanger Lane at 8pm, but this month is in the coffee lounge at Ealing Abbey (in the parish centre), and costs £18 per person, for which you get quite a bit of wine (usually an interesting selection, with lots of information about them), plus cheese and biscuits.The Charlemagne Wine Club has just moved venue, to The Forester (2 Leighton Road) and has its next meeting on Monday 18th February, with a tasting of Beaujolais and Mâconnais - www.charlemagnewineclub.co.uk + email: cwc@charlemagnewineclub.co.uk or phone 020 8840 0007 to book - £20 per person and bring your own tasting glasses (NEWTS provides them). There are also biscuits, cheese and bread.They both meet monthly (usually with a short break in the summer) and people seem friendly (there are quite a few that go to both). Some of the speakers are excellent, and most are pretty good, and its a good way of trying different wines that you might not normally buy. Neither of them charge a membership fee, so you just book if you're interested in the wine selection that month....There are also tastings in central London - at the Civil Service Club and Central London Wine Society - we generally go to the pre-Christmas port tasting every year, but you'll get to hear more about them if you visit either of the Ealing clubs.David
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