Upcoming in store events

Beaujolais Nouveau Day! 21st November, Both Quaff Hove and Quaff Brighton Come celebrate this fabled day with us as we open up our favourite Beaujolais producer's Jean Michel Dupre's Beaujolais Nouveau!  Released every third Thursday in November, we'll be opening up a bottle for everyone to taste. Jean Michel's Beaujolais…

Saturday Session, Classics for a Reason, 15th March, Quaff Hove, 5-7pm This Saturday we’ll pick some wines from well known regions and taste just how good they are.  Five lovely wines including a Rioja, a Chianti, a white Burgundy, a Bordeaux (claret) and maybe a Sancerre.  Saturdays are all about…

Quaff Brighton's 15 Year Anniversary Tasting, 20th March, £30 Tasting, 7.30pm We can’t quite believe it, but our little shop has been providing lovely wine, beer, spirits, and tasty snacks to the people of Fiveways for 15 years! As part of our birthday celebrations, we will be hosting an in-store…

Cheese and Wine Pairing – the Rematch Tasting. 27th March, Quaff Hove. 7.30pm It’s everything to play for here in this hugely important re-match.  Six wines, six cheeses, two wine experts and a room full of you lot.  We’re revisiting the cheese and wine pairing evening as Matt and Harriet…

Whose Wine is it Anyway? Wine Tasting. Quaff Hove, 24th April. 7.30pm Join us for an evening of truth, lies and laughter.  It's Call My Bluff in wine form! For this evening we’ll be pouring wines blind and offering three different descriptions. It’ll be up to you and your table…

Nothing Rhymes with Orange Tasting – 17th May, Quaff Hove, 5-7pm The residents of this fabulous city seem to be growing their taste for orange wine, and quite rightly so!  In this tasting, we’ll explore this wonderfully diverse category.  From slightly sparkling pet-nats, heavy skin contact wines to tipples fermented…

New kids in the Quaff Wine Tasting, 22nd May, Quaff Brighton, 7.30pm In the Spring we trapse back and forth to London to taste new wines (It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it).  So as the season changes, so does our wine range. In this tasting we’ll…

An Exploration of the Loire Valley Wine Tasting. Quaff Hove, May 29th. 7.30pm The Loire Valley is a wonderful wine region that has plenty to offer.  Along the length of the river lies 81 different appellations from Muscadet at the mouth to Sancerre at the furthest reaches.  All wine styles…

Island Wines Tasting – 7th June, Quaff Hove, 5-7pm From the beautiful British Isles, Sicily to New Zealand and plenty more islands.  There is something special about wines from countries and places which are surrounded by water.  In this tasting, we’ll explore how living by the coast affects wine production. …

English Wine Week Tasting – 19th June, Quaff Hove + Brighton, 7.30pm Each year for one week in June, the wine trade across the country and celebrate everything English.  We’re very lucky to live in the epicentre of English wine production and are surrounded by acres of wonderful vineyards.  In…

Plumpton Wine Estates Free Tasting – June 27th, Quaff Hove, 5-7pm To celebrate English Wine Week, we are delighted to welcome back our old staff member, Sarah, who is now working for Plumpton Wine Estate.  Sarah will be popping in to pour some of their delicious wines. For those of…

Decoding a Wine Label Tasting – 28th June, Quaff Hove, 5-7pm In this tasting we’re looking at the world of wine labels.  From dazzling, highly artistic labels of orange wine to the technical labels of Burgundy and beyond.  Does the label affect the taste or is it all just marketing…

A French Road Trip Tasting - 10th July, Quaff Hove, 7.30pm It’s time to brush up on your French as we take a road trip from the north to south of this wonderful country.  We’ll explore some of the most famous regions in the winemaking world, from the glitzy sparkling…

11s and 12s Tasting, Quaff Brighton, 24th July, 7.30pm Lower alcohol wines have always been there in our lives, and you’ve probably unknowingly drunk them on many occasions, in more recent times however, alcohol level has become a talking point thanks to Government taxes, duty and climate change.  It’s also…

Summer Breezin’ – August 9th, Quaff Hove. 5-7pm Lighter wines for summer – The days are long, town’s packed, and the sun feels relentless. What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than tasting through a selection of lighter bodied fizz, white, rose and chilled reds? A dream come true…