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ARE YOU IN A WINE RUT? LEANNE OLIVIER from Cru Wines in Bradford on Avon talks about how informal wine tastings might be just what you need to get more experimental with your wine choices... Cru's wine tastings offer a fun, informal way of trying new wines
tastings? Our aim is to travel the world through wine, so we choose a different theme each month. From the Tour de France to a trip Down Under we select a range of different grapes or styles to explore. It’s the perfect way to try something new, learn something, and feel more confident when buying wine in the future. Our online tastings are designed to be fun and informative rather than too technical. Complete novices are welcome! And if an online tasting isn’t your thing, you could still use the notes to taste along at home with friends in your own time. You could also keep a look out for some of our in-person tastings at Cru.
Our online wine tasting packs include five different samples, a tasting booklet and access to the online tasting. We deliver wine packs for FREE to local addresses the day o you find yourself a restaurant, there’s the risk you before the tasting. Packs are from gravitating towards the won’t like what you have chosen. £25 per pack (with enough wine same bottle of wine time It’s incredibly disappointing when for 2 people to share) with optional and time again? Do you like the you reach for your well-deserved add-ons such as five deliciously idea of trying new things, but it glass of wine and you don’t like it. paired cheeses from Christophé seems too risky to waste money on Even though many of us won’t pour at the Cheese Shop or five handsomething you might not like? Don't it away we feel we have wasted our crafted chocolates from Holly at worry, you aren't alone! money and should have just stuck to HollyChocs. All our tastings and 'the usual'. more details of each of them can be Many of us feel overwhelmed with booked online at cruwines.co.uk/ choosing wine. There are so many If you think you’d like to take a step collections/events. We look forward to choose from: different grapes, into becoming a wine explorer, but to exploring wines with you soon! regions, styles. And unlike when don’t know where to start, why not choosing foods, the labels on wines join one of our monthly online wine • cruwines.co.uk often add to the confusion.
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“Our online tastings are designed to be fun and informative rather than too technical. Complete novices are welcome! ”
