A Face to A Bottle

My job here at Vinoteca mostly involves being locked in a dark office, staring at a computer screen, but  sometimes I am released back onto the floor where I began my career here just over three years ago. One of my favourite parts of being a server is suggesting wine; I couldn’t be more pleased [...]

Barbaresco Dinner In Pictures

I have to make it clear that I am lucky, and I do realise this.  It was all thanks to my boss Brett having a cold that day (sorry Brett to take happiness from your sickness, but I was so happy!), and so, I was asked to fill his seat at the Northwest Italian Winemaker [...]

We Won! Wine Bar Of The Year 2009

This year Wine & Spirits magazine has launched their first ever the Drinking Out Excellence Awards – “an awards programme to celebrate achievement and honour establishments and professionals in the UK’s dynamic on-trade”.
Last Tuesday night, Brett and Charlie headed to the awards ceremony, where Vinoteca was on the shortlist  for ‘Wine Bar of the Year’ [...]

Menu For Hope

I was reading the londonelicious blog today (as I do most days), and  Krista happened to write about A Menu For Hope.  It was the first time that I have come across this charity, created and fronted by Chez Pim along with the help of other food bloggers all around the world.  Last year they [...]

Did you know Sterling Airlines went bust?

Well, I didn’t…Ross and I headed to Gatwick early on the 21st of November to fly out to Copenhagen, to celebrate his 31st Birthday. Little did we know that Sterling (an Icelandic company) went bankrupt more than a month ago! You would think there would have be an e-mail sent out or something. [...]

The thing about Pinotage

Whilst a university student a couple of years ago, I worked in a wine boutique in Cape Town, for all the usual reasons – extra cash, learning about wine and improving my palate. Anyone who’s into wine knows how that’s best achieved…anyway I happily relieved Vino Pronto of any of their extra stock after tastings, but the [...]

Shaw & Smith Dinner SOLD OUT!

Well, we did it.  We had 22 tickets to sell to our winemaker’s dinner on November 11th and it is now sold out.  How did we do it?  Well, we sent out an e-mail to everyone on our Vinoteca mailing list and just like that people snatched up all the tickets. Amazing really!
I am just [...]

Vinoteca 7 St.John Street Clerkenwell London, Uk

Well, Vinoteca has taken a new turn.  We are hopping onto the blog bandwagon.  I have been given the go ahead to start up a blog by the big bosses, and I plan on getting help from everyone at Vinoteca to make it interesting. I want to interview the owners Brett Wooton, Charlie Young & [...]