Events
Please go to www.iwfs.london for a full listing and details of past and upcoming events, and to make bookings on line.
You can also email bookings@iwfs.london for further information.
Latest News
Garden Party at Windsor - 17th July 2025
Following our highly successful dinner at Windsor Castle, we are now planning to hold sumptuous garden party with wines and food at the exclusive Cumberland Lodge, with beautiful vistas over the Windsor Great Park. In the event of it not being a wonderful summer’s evening, we will be in the Drawing Room. Members of all IWFS Branches will be welcome to attend.
Full details can be found on www.iwfs.london
Sam's Riverside
London Branch has awarded an IWFS Excellence Award to Sam's Riverside Restaurant at Hammersmith. This was presented after a supberb lunch served to us by Sam and his team on 25th May 2023. We are holding another lunch there on 2nd July 2025.
March Events
This year’s Benson Cup returns to the same format as last year, but by popular request all wines will come from France. It should prove a good fun challenge in identifying very fine wines from traditional grape varieties whilst at the same time representing the educational experience that several have requested. Moreover this is an exceptional chance to taste some fine and rare wines.
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There will be three main red grape varieties - Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. The wines will be served in three flights of three wines; one Cabernet Sauvignon, one Merlot and one Syrah. Your challenge will be to identify which wine is which. Sounds easy doesn’t it? Last year’s winners Jackie Saville and Michael Daiches, will be defending their title and hope to retain the magnificent cup donated by Jeffrey Benson -our new Chairman- for this event.
The wines chosen are all representative of their grape varieties and are all top range classic wines in very good years but the vintages will only be revealed to participants on the night.
| Theme |
A Night in the Orient |
| Venue |
home of Joe and Nina Coten |
| Location |
5 Speed House, the Barbican |
| Date |
Mar 05, 2011
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| Time |
7 pm for 7:30 dinner, carriages 10:30 pm |
Youssouf and Sofina Coten (alias Joe & Nina Coten) would like to welcome you to their home for an evening of food and wine from the Levant. They propose a dinner of regional specialities accompanied by wines from the area.
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| Theme |
A Night in the Orient |
| Venue |
home of Joe and Nina Coten |
| Location |
5 Speed House, the Barbican |
| Date |
Mar 19, 2011
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| Time |
7 pm for 7:30 dinner, carriages 10:30 pm |
(see details on the Saturday 2 weeks ago)
| Theme |
Red Wine Challenge |
| Venue |
The Naval Club |
| Location |
38 Hill Street, W1J 5NS. |
| Date |
Mar 21, 2011
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| Time |
7:00 pm |
In the previous RWC in July, Chile (Bernard Lamb) beat the Loire (Ed Gretton) and Austria (Beverley St. John-Aubin). This time Chile (Bernard Lamb) is being challenged by Bordeaux (Ed Gretton) and Italy (Ian Rushton), which should make an interesting evening with excellent wines.
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Food and Wine Matching
By popular request the organiser has been asked to repeat this event but with different French cheeses. This is no hardship as there are over 1,000 of them, of which 56 are classified, protected and regulated under French Law as
(AOC), the highest level of protection.
Tonight you will have the chance to taste another 10 rustic cheeses from various regions, some of which are AOC and not easily obtainable outside France. All will be brought over just days before the event.
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