Following on from Let Me Tell You About Wine and Let Me Tell You About Beer by Melissa Cole (Imbibe’s Educator of the Year 2013!), the third book in the series, Let Me Tell You About Whisky by Neil Ridley and Gavin Smith was launched on Friday 22nd March at Whisky Live.

Be sure to collect all three!

Join Oz this April when he will be guiding you through five of his top wines for 2013. What makes them so great, what does he love about them and most importantly, what do they taste like! Oz is the consummate wine lover & expert, share his passion this April.

Following Oz’s wine masterclass, you will be free to explore the Vinopolis Self Guided Wine Tasting Experience at your own leisure with 7 tokens to use on your choice of wines, spirits and champagne. What will make your top five for 2013?

The Three Wine Men have been supporting the 2Water Charity since 2011, and this year they are bringing you a wine walk with a difference…

Olly, Oz and Tim invite you to join them on a scenic 6 mile charity ‘Wine March’ along the River Thames from Vinopolis to The Gun in Docklands on Sunday 3rd March.

Bring your friends and family! There will be pit stops along the way where you will taste wines from Brazil (or water for the under 18′s). Families with younger children are welcome to march for a shorter distance.

Every penny raised will go directly to the charity ’2Water’ to help fund water projects in Africa.

The Three Wine Men will be there in person delivering impromptu tastings along the route and entertaining the Marchers with their lively banter and wicked wine wit – it’s going to be great fun!

The Route

Station 1
Arrival at 10:30 (for 11am departure) at Vinopolis, Borough Market. Here you can get your taste buds revved up for the long road ahead with an Aurora Sparkling Rosé. A short warm up takes the Marchers to the authentic Kilikya café where you can enjoy nibbles and snacks right at the heart of St Katharine Dock.

Station 2
The next stop is at The Narrow Bar and Restaurant where you can give yourself a well earned boost and enjoy a glass of Seival Estate Alisios Tempranillo / Touriga Nacional. After that it’s back on with the final leg of the march…

Station 3
Celebrate the end of the March at The Gun with a Casa Valduga Brut. You will also be able to tuck into a well earned Hog Roast at an exclusive price of £7.50. The Kilravock Farm hog will be served in a soft white roll, with apple sauce, sage and onion stuffing, wholegrain mustard gravy and crackling.

Want to join in and take part in the Wine March? Yes? Good stuff!
Tickets cost £15 and include a glass of wine per person at each station.
All proceeds go direct to the 2Water charity.

Click here to buy your ticket(s), but hurry, limited spaces available!

Please help us spread the word, tell your friends / family / colleagues – we hope to see you there.

Best Wishes

Olly, Oz & Tim

Click here to book for the below dates

8-9th June Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
29-30th June The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
6-7th July Lord’s Cricket Ground, London
28-29th September Harrogate International Centre, Harrogate
5-6th October The Parc Thistle Hotel, Cardiff
23-24th November, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
7-8th December Lord’s Cricket Ground, London

White
2011 Falanghina, Rocca Vecchia, Puglia, Italy, 12.5% abv – The Co-operative Group £6.49

Red
2007 Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference Douro £7.99

Fizz
2008 Nyetimber Classic Cuvee Sparkling Wine, West Sussex, 12% abv Waitrose £29.99

Sweet
Campbells Rutherglen Muscat Waitrose £11.49/37.5cl

Prices are subject to change

Oz’s independent and reliable recommendations make My Top Wines 2013 this year’s must-have annual shopping guide to wine buying.

The book also includes:
• Easy to use A-Z organisation
• Top 100 wines
• Cheap and cheerful wines for all occasions
• 50 wines for £6-12

‘I judge my Top 100 wines on the flavours I like best, not on the price, not on the glitziness of the label. 20 of my Top 100 are less than £10 a bottle. Half of my Top 100 are between £10 and £15.’
Oz Clarke

Imprint: Pavilion
Paperback ISBN: 9781862059696
eBook ISBN: 9781909108196
Publication date: September 2012
Format: Paperback and eBook
Size: 160 x 140 mm
Pages: 192 pages
Illustrations: 2-colour illustrations (bottles and labels)
Paperback RRP: £7.99
Web price from Anova BookStore: £6.50
eBook price: £3.99

With more than 1,600 entries and featuring over 7,500 wines, Oz Clarke’s now classic Pocket Wine Book is the definitive guide to the world’s top wines, producers, regions and grape varieties.

Just look up the wine you are thinking of buying (at home or abroad) and you’ll have Oz’s expert recommendations to hand in an instant. You can’t hold all the wine information you need in your head, but with this guide you can be sure it’s in your pocket.

The book also includes:

• Easy to use A-Z organisation
• Two-page features on the world’s most important wine styles, regions and grape varieties
• How to choose wine with food
• Oz’s personal favourites: 20 lists of the wines Oz has enjoyed most in 2012

‘Clarke has a remarkably acute palate, a refreshingly unpretentious attitude about wine and the writing talent to bring it all to life on the printed page’
Wine Spectator

Imprint: Pavilion
Hardback ISBN: 9781862059689
eBook ISBN: 9781909108158
Publication date: September 2012
Format: Hardback and eBook
Size: 190 x 95 mm
Pages: 368 pages
Illustrations: 8 colour pages, 2-colour illustrations (bottles and labels)
RRP: £11.99
Web price from Anova BookStore: £9.50
eBook price: £4.99

Seats cost £9 each and each sessions last 30 minutes. Please not these sessions are only for people ages 18 and over.

These tickets sell out fast, so book yours now!

Win a signed copy of my Pocket Wine Book 2013 here.

As if that wasn’t enough, Oz is doing a book signing at 3pm!

Find out more here