Cambridgeshire Local Wine School

Cambridgeshire Local Wine School Have fun and learn about wine! Fun Wine Tastings from £30 and Saturday courses incl. lunch from £120. No experience required. Learn wine and food matching.

We do not sell wine. All details of events including dates and times can be found at https://www.localwineschool.com/cambridge

Cambridgeshire Wine School belongs to a franchise network of wine schools in over 40 locations around the country.

17/06/2026

You choose chicken or fish and your partner chooses beef or lamb. But you want just one bottle of wine.

What to do?

You can break the old adage “White wine with white meat, red wine with red meat” - it’s too simplistic.

Pinot Noir is a pale, light red wine and it’s just as good with white meat as red meat.

Have you tried Pinot Noir with chicken or fish?

15/06/2026

Do you have trouble working out the flavours you are getting in a red wine?

I find it’s helpful to think of where it falls on the red fruit to black fruit spectrum.

Practice makes perfect, so every time you try a red wine ask yourself whether it seems more like raspberry and strawberry or more like blackberry and blackcurrant.

Paler reds tend to seem more red fruited and deeper reds tend more to black fruit flavours.

The more you do this, the easier it will be.

Have you found it difficult to decide?

12/06/2026

Here’s my top 4 things you need to know about ageing wine.

The aromas to look for to know it’s aged are things like earth, forest floor, mushroom and leather. And honey in white wine.

Also fruit changes from fresh to dried.

It is possible to age wine too long and end up with just flavours of age and no fruit Fruit fades.

90% of wines sold were never intended to age. Most of the time, drink them young.

11/06/2026

Here are the few easy steps I go through when thinking about the flavours I am encountering in red wine.

Just follow the same steps so you can easily describe red wine.

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10/06/2026

Day 2 visits include Fabrice Pouillon whose version of the second fermentation is to add selected ambient yeast with unfermented grape juice to his wine instead of sugar in a way that adds no alcohol to the final wine so he can pick his grapes later.

And a producer who uses a perpetual reserve each year with no aiming at consistency of style, instead celebrating variety.

Wonderful trip opening my eyes at how much there is still to learn.

09/06/2026

Champagne is such a historic area offering an amazingly diverse range of wine styles.

Since 2015 the hillsides, houses and cellars are UNESCO World Heritage designated.

Over centuries a complex system of interdependence has grown up between growers and producers. So much to learn.

03/06/2026

I think we make this far harder than it needs be.

People always tell me they don’t think they have a good palate, because they can’t taste the flavours they think they should be ‘getting’.

But don’t let the wine nerds put you off. It just takes a bit of practice. Give yourself a chance to notice more things.

How are you at tasting different flavours in white wine?

02/06/2026

It’s the perfect wine for curry.

Curry ruins most wines - they can’t handle the hot spice. The alcohol in most wines aggravates the chilli burn in your mouth.

But Mosel Riesling is lower alcohol, typically 9% or less, and also medium sweet, which is refreshing between mouthfuls of chilli heat.

If you don’t usually touch medium sweet wines this pairing will show you they have good reason to exist!

I just wish more Indian restaurants had Mosel Riesling on their lists. But beer is also good with curry if not.

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01/06/2026

Wine with an appellation comes from somewhere specific.

Choosing it means choosing a style.

If a bottle of wine doesn’t have an appellation, it could be any level of quality. I’d choose it if I already had some sense of its quality, but how can you be sure if you don’t already know?

Even New World wines carry specific areas on the bottle when a particular grape variety is well known for that region. Examples: Barossa Shiraz, Mendoza Malbec.

Getting to know a few appellations and places is your shortcut to choosing with intention.

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30/05/2026

Try this one - it really works.

It’s the best cheese pairing I’ve had with Champagne.

The sharpness of the wine is a brilliant contrast to the indulgent creaminess of the cheese.

That cheese is Brillat Savarin (triple cream).

Let me know what you think in the comments. And follow me for more ideas like this.

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C/o Cambridge Brew House, 1 King Street, Cambridge CB1 1LH
Cambridge
CB11LD

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Monday 9am - 9pm
Tuesday 9am - 9pm
Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 9pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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