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Conference Details |
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This year the conference will be held at the Park Inn hotel in Peterborough; the accommodation and function room in this hotel are all under one roof. There is a lift to all floors and the room that we will be using is on the ground floor opposite reception. There is a car park at the hotel. The hotel is reasonably central in Peterborough. The train station is not far (trains from the north east stop at Peterborough); there is a bus station nearby at which National Express coaches stop; and there is a large shopping centre within 10 minutes walk from the hotel for the judges' partners! The weekend starts on Friday evening with a home-made wine reception of placed aperitif wines from the 2025 National Show. The evening meal follows with your own home-made wines. Please also feel free to bring your own home made wines and beers to finish the evening. (NO COMMERCIAL CORKS OR LABELS; the Guild is being charged corkage for the weekend). The first session on Saturday morning is the wine and beer assessment, conducted by Elaine Robinson. Please bring your bottles with you on Friday evening. After coffee, there will be a beer tasting of India Pale ales, home-made and commercial comparison, conducted by Richard Baldwin, with assistance by the brewers. After lunch, there will be a wine tasting titled 'Grenache around the world' by Elaine Robinson. Please bring your tasting glasses (at least 2) to each event. The AGM is on Saturday afternoon at 3.30pm; remember that this is your chance to voice your views. The minutes from last year's AGM and the agenda for this year's AGM are available. The wine assessment is White Dry wine and the beer assessment is Dry Stout (2 bottles required). There is a claret jug and a tankard to be won. To help you select wine (no commercial bottles please) to complement the food, the dinner menus are on the web site in the Members Area. |
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Last updated:
21/07/25 |
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Copyright: 2006 NGWBJ |