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Just $25.00 p/p (payment on arrival at Forrest) 45-60 minutes (just choose our 10-4pm time slot when booking) Runs daily at 10.15am and lasts for approx. Winemakers 101 Tour (from October till the end of April)īookings are essential, are subject to availability and must be made 24 hours in advance. FORREST WINES (2 minutes from our front gate) 5:00 p.m.Tasting wine should be fun, but having a little bit of wine knowledge can also go a long way to helping you choose a new wine from the supermarket rather than always reaching for your “usual”, or simply choosing the prettiest bottle? If you are new to wine tasting, maybe one of our optional 101 tours with a wine maker might be just the ticket. ✓ Entry into onboard raffle with many fine prizesįriday 16 September | 10:15 a.m. ✓ Coffee, Mentzendorff Kummel and Delamain Pale & Dry XO Cognac (both served from magnum) ✓ Three-course silver service lunch complete with five different wines ✓ Aperitif of Hambledon Classic Cuvée or Taylor’s Chip Dry Port and Tonic

Tickets are priced at £395 per person and will be restricted to just 30 readers so do book early to avoid disappointment.

We will then dock at Tower Pier at 5 p.m. We will then repair below for a three-course lunch cooked in the galley and a tutored tasting of five exceptional wines, namely:ĭomaine Chanson Bourgogne Blanc (Burgundy)Ĭoffee and Mentzendorff Kummel (in magnum) will be taken as we pass slowly by such fine sights as Woolwich Arsenal, the Old Royal Naval College and Cutty Sark at Greenwich, Millwall Docks, Canary Wharf, Limehouse and Wapping Steps before Tower Bridge opens especially for us and we toast Old Father Thames with Delamain Pale & Dry XO Cognac (in magnum). Here we will moor up and enjoy some clay pigeon shooting, using weapons such as a Browning and a Beretta over-and-under, a pump-action shotgun, a 100 year-old side-by-side game gun and an antique naval musketoon. We will board Thames Sailing Barge Will – the largest such craft in existence, built in 1925 – at North Greenwich Pier at 10.15am and slip downstream through the Thames Barrier to Thamesmead. The Spectator, in association with Private Cellar and Thames Leisure, invites you to join drinks editor Martin Vander Weyer and drinks editor Jonathan Ray for a spectacular day of clays, claret, cognac and cruising on the River Thames on Friday September 16. This event has now sold out - if you would like to be on the waiting list, should a spot become available, please complete this form to let us know.