Love wine? Tickets are still available for this year’s Manchester Food and Drink festival wine festival on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th October. Ten indie wine retailers will be bringing over 100 different wines to New Century Hall this weekend.
Tickets are priced at £15 per person and include wines to sample plus tutored tastings, flower arranging, painting, market stalls, wine bar and live music.
MFDF’s fabulous Wine Fest is proud to be showcasing some the very best independent retailers around. Attendees can taste their way around some of the most exciting and interesting wines from across the globe all carefully chosen by the city’s best and brightest wine experts.
It’s a chance to chat directly to some of the industry’s most passionate and expert retailers too who will guide guests through the wines they have on offer. Participating wine retailers include:
Cork of the North, Grape to Grain, Italy Abroad, That Wine Cellar, Sip Wine Bar, Ad-Hoc, Central Wines, Le-Social, Suppher and UkiYo Republic.
There will also be a variaety of markets stalls from some of the most exciting independent foodie favourites around including Ancoats Coffee, Mello.Haus, Trafford Horticulture, MFDF Award-winner Dormouse Chocolates and Caroline Dowsett.
Some of the wine retailers will be offering specially matched food for grazing, and attendees are also welcome to refuel before or after the event at the incredible New Century Kitchen on the ground floor. A programme of tutored tastings and specialist masterclasses will take place across the weekend too, offering extra opportunities to delve into specific wine topics, themes, and regions. All the masterclasses are included in the ticket price. As well as wine tutorials there’s also free flower workshops and even the chance to try your hand at painting.
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HERE'S WHAT'S ON WHEN
Friday 7th October
6pm-9pm
Bah Florals - Flower Arranging Workshop
Join local florist Bah Florals to create some beautiful bouquets for you to take home and enjoy.
6:30pm-7:00pm
Cork Of The North - Tutored Wine Tasting
Taste through a selection of tip-top wines, with expert commentary from Cork of the North’s head honcho Marc Hough. Cork of the North’s award winning wine tastings are relaxed and informal, and are just as entertaining as they are educational'.
7:30pm-8:00pm
Italy Abroad - 'Extreme Italian wines”
There isn’t a universally accepted definition of extreme wines but these could be defined as "heroic" wines, wines obtained thanks to the fatigue, the sweat, the persistence of small, passionate winemakers, produced in little knows, geographically impervious areas, tiny patches of land retaken from the mountains, in between rocks, or the sea'.
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Saturday 8th October
2pm-5pm & 6pm-9pm
Cork and Canvas: Painting Workshop
Popup ‘sip and paint’ providers Cork and Canvas
Cork and Canvas will be bringing their paints and brushes for you to learn how to paint the perfect sunset whilst enjoying beautiful wines. What could be better?
2:30-3:00pm
Cork Of The North - 'Taste through a selection of tip-top wines, with expert commentary from Cork of the North’s head honcho Marc Hough. Cork of the North’s award winning wine tastings are relaxed and informal, and are just as entertaining as they are educational'.
6:30pm-7:00pm
Italy Abroad - 'Shades of Montepulciano.
Montepulciano is a fantastic grape, the dream grape of every winemaker, it has all it is needed to make great wines, still it is often the cheapest wine on the shelf; it lacks the reputation it deserves. The Montepulciano grape is grown in the centre of Italy and it is the main grape of the Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOC and DOCG Colline Teramane, because of its characteristics it is used in many blends and appellations'.
There’ll also be music provided by Babyflxcko and Lebo and the New Century bar is open throughout.
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The MFDF Wine Fest is taking place at New Century on Friday 7th October (6-9pm) and Saturday 8th October (2 - 5pm and 6-9pm).
Tickets are available here and will also be available on the door on the day.