Wine Tasting & Events

Monday 21st October - 2013m. It is 23 degrees Celsius and sunny in the Northern Rhône which bodes well for a whistle-stop tasting trip. Wine makers have just finished harvesting the late and small 2013 grape crop and so this presents a window of opportunity to sample the previous and more prolific 2012 vintage. The […]

Back in July, at our pop-up shop in Exmouth Market, Jason hosted a tutored vertical tasting of the thrilling wines of Domaine de Trévallon, Eloi Durrbach’s world-famous domaine with wines dating back to the early Eighties. (Jason's review of that tasting can be found on our blog here). Jancis Robinson has recently written a review […]

With temperatures nudging 30°C we had to don black tie last Thursday and head off to the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane for the 30th anniversary of the International Wine Challenge. Having been nominated for four Specialist Merchant Awards – Loire, Regional France, Southwest of England and Rhône as well as the prestigious ‘Wine […]

One of the highlights of our 6 day ‘Pop-Up’ residency at number 38 Exmouth Market last week was a vertical tasting of 10 different vintages of Provence’s celebrated Domaine de Trévallon. The vineyard, which lies on the northern edge of the Alpilles massif, 25 kilometres south of Avignon, was first planted in 1973 by visionary […]

Yapp Brothers will be back at the Frome Super Market this Sunday, the 7th July. Come down to Frome town centre and find us - no doubt you'll recognise our trusty blue Citroen H-van! At the last Frome Super Market in June, our old friend Andrew Stanning made an excellent video of the event and […]

Join us at 38 Exmouth Market, London EC1R 4QE Monday 1st July – Saturday 6th July, 11am – 8pm. Medcalf will be running a Bar in the shop, offering a small, exciting range of Yapp wines by the glass on Friday and Saturday nights, from 7.00pm to 11.00pm. Call us at the shop: 07925 279919. […]

This weekend – the 8th and 9th June – Yapp Brothers will be at the Three Wine Men event in Manchester, at the Museum of Science and History. So if you’re in the area please pop down and see us. Three Wine Men is a great event for us, hosted by Olly Smith, Oz Clarke […]

  With my entire career to date being involved in selling wine it has frequently been remarked that I missed my true vocation on a market stall shouting out the merits of my wares and haggling with the punters. Strangely this prophecy proved self-fulfilling last Sunday as my home town of Frome boasts one of […]

It’s always good to get out and about and we have an annual slot in the calendar of the KLWAS (Kington Langley Wine Appreciation Society) - habitually this involves getting our wines up to the village in October – and it’s also routinely coincided with the first gales of Autumn and the end of BST. […]

We were privileged last week when our good friend Gilles Dumangin, purveyor and producer of some of the finest growers’ Champagne to found on the market, paid a visit to our H.Q. here in Mere to conduct a tasting that was both enlightening and virtually unrepeatable.     Gilles is 5th generation vigneron independent, based […]