Wine Tasting & Events

We’re set up in residence again for the Spirit of Christmas in Olympia after our inaugural visit last year and safe to say we’re feeling at home already!     It’s always an odd feeling for me, getting on a train in the early hours of an early November morning trying to shift prematurely into […]

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness." - John Keats. This Saturday 27th September (yes, just Saturday) we’ll be opening the doors to the Tasting Room at Yapp HQ and rolling out a tip top selection of wines for tasting that will be ideal for the game season and Autumnal dishes.     We’re just now […]

It’s always good fun when my life before the wine trade collides with my life in the wine trade. An old colleague who used to share the top floor office at the Consortium (in effect Marketing, Customer Insight and E-Commerce down 'our' end of the office) is setting up a new café in Warminster – […]

This Saturday 28th June (yes, just Saturday) we’ll be flinging open the doors to the Tasting Room at Yapp HQ and rolling out a tip top selection of Summer wines for tasting – some of our own personal favourites from the Loire (naturally), some gems from the Languedoc, classic summer drinking from Provence and we’re […]

We always enjoy the opportunity to get out and about and really any excuse in June seems to tick all the relevant boxes. Summer wines in the sun? Really what’s not to like?     For the next 3 days we’ve set up shop at the Blenheim Palace Flower Show, you’ll find us, naturally we […]

Myself and Meirion (our ‘legendary’ Shop Manager) habitually return to the KLWAS tasting (The Kington Langley Wine Appreciation Society) as we enjoy going probably as much as they enjoy having us there. We’re normally driving up in the first wild weather of October but this year we were ringing the changes by showing summer wines […]

  After over a decade's exile at Excel it is great to be back at the London Wine Fair in its spiritual home at Kensington Olympia. It's true that the venue is less commodious and the temperature control is a bit iffy but it feels like home and that counts for a lot. Re-acclimatising to […]

  I’ve always enjoyed working in the wine trade, there’s no secret there but I enjoy days when my Outlook calendar tells me that there’s a Marketing Meeting in the morning and a staff tasting in the afternoon. Once a quarter we have a review when all the Yapp team convene at our HQ in […]

  To Tobacco Dock for the Real Wine Fair - a convivial gathering of international wine-makers who commendably lean towards minimal intervention in the vineyard and cellar and eschew chemical pesticides and fertilizers. This Bacchanalian bun-fight is (extremely well) run by our old chums at Les Caves de Pyrene and was born out of the […]

Further to last Monday’s posting about the most recent gathering of the Bunch we are delighted that Victoria Moore offered her readers the opportunity to sample a cross-section of her favourite wines from the Bunch in Saturday’s Telegraph.     This diverse dozen is comprised of six redoubtable reds, four elegant, still, dry whites an […]