Wine Tasting & Events

We left chilly and snowy England at the crack of dawn on Monday by EuroStar to find ourselves in chillier and snowier France. The frosty weather and frosty economy have undoubtedly thinned visitor numbers at the annual Salon des Vins de Loire, but it is still one of France’s best regional wine fairs with a […]

I am sure that the 110 year old reading room of The London Library in St James’ Square has seen some jolly scenes in its time, but last Thursday’s shindig would take some surpassing. My old university pal, Nicky Dunne, had charmed me into agreeing to pour Yapp wines down the thirsty throats of a […]

Three times a year we throw open the doors to Yapp HQ and host one of our ever-popular sale and wine tastings. These are not only fixed in the Yapp Calendar but also that of many of our customers. My first Yapp Christmas Sale was a few years ago now but I remember it well. […]

Never let it be said that Yapp Brothers are a parochial bunch who aren’t prepared to spread the good word far and wide. Last week I stepped off the Bristol - Glasgow flight to join up with ace Catalan wine maker Christine Campadieu who had come from Collioure, via Barcelona and Berlin (where she had […]

Yapp Brothers wine has to be the marketers dream ‘product’ – once people try wine from the list they tend to come back for more and we do have a very loyal following of converts. The key to this of course is getting new wine lovers to try the wines from our list. To this […]

Our season of events kicked-off in earnest last Thursday with a Tour de France wine dinner at my local ‘The Cornerhouse’ in the delightful market town of Frome in Somerset. If you had told my teenage self that I would be extolling the virtues of Frome as an adult you’d have met with a reaction […]

I was privileged enough to have been invited by our transport company Geodis to attend the annual International Wine Challenge 2011 Awards dinner at London Hilton Park Lane Hotel a first time for me to attend an event like this. When I initially received the invitation and noticed the dress code was 'Black Tie' a […]

A quick note about our recent day out at the Gillingham and Shaftesbury show with our friends, Natural High Safaris. As you can see from the photos, the new-style layout looked fantastic and we received many comments on how cosy and inviting the “Bedouin-style” scene was looking. One customer commented that all we needed was […]

Last weekend, myself and three colleagues had the great honour of being invited to Champagne to visit Gilles Dumangin (our man in Champagne) for the dual celebration of his 40th Birthday and 10th Anniversary of taking over the reins of the family business from his father, Jacky, at J.Dumangin Fils. Although I have been lucky […]

Following the inaugural Natural Wine Fair in London in May I entered into an interesting correspondence with a journalist called Sarah Scott who writes for a magazine called Vegetarian Living. Sarah had attended the Natural Wine Fair and had been impressed by some of the wines on tasting there and was keen to write a […]