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'How to Drink Wine at Christmas', Wine Tasting & Book Signing

with Tom Surgey

£30
Friday 13th
December 2024
18:00-20:30
(2.5hrs)
Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

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Join Tom Surgey (author How to Drink Wine & TV Drinks Expert) for a fun evening of festive wine tasting and seasonal food pairing tips, plus an opportunity to pick up signed copies of his debut book. This evening event is perfect for wine lovers of all knowledge levels.

Tom will lead guests on a tasting of six great wines, each perfect for key moments on the big day. From sparkling wine, through whites and reds for the table, to sweet wine. Tom will dispense his characteristic fun, informative and brilliantly practical insights to ensure you’re fully prepared for festive entertaining. Alongside, there are seasonal bites and nibbles that will give inspiration and insight into pairing food and wine.

Expect a warm, humorous and engaging chat, from one of the UK’s leading wine experts. There will be opportunity to ask those wine questions you have always wanted to know the answers to and pick up tips and tricks on how to select, serve and most importantly enjoy wine to the fullest.

Tom’s debut book How to Drink Wine will be available for sale on the night, with Tom hosting a book signing. An unmissable modern guide for all levels of knowledge from beginner to armchair expert. It is an ideal stocking filler.

What's included:

  • Selection of wines for tasting
  • Selection of food pairing tasters
  • 10% discount on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes. Excludes books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items 

Tom Surgey:

Tom Surgey is a popular and respected wine expert and TV presenter, well-known for his media and live events work. He is regarded as one of the country’s most engaging drinks personalities, thanks to his bright, playful charisma and warm sense of humour. Tom a regular expert on ITV’s Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh and is part of the Three Wine Men group. In 2024 Tom’s book How to Drink Wine was published by Orion Books. It’s a modern wine book that includes everything required to appreciate both fine wine and everyday bottles. 

You will be learning in a beautifully designed kitchen which provides a warm welcoming environment that can accommodate everything from group cookery classes to intimate chef’s tables, with the versatility to suit everyone.

Our partners have been chosen with great care, as all our equipment must stand up to the day-to-day rigours of our cookery school – much like a professional kitchen, that you can enjoy using whilst creating your own amazing dishes in class to give you the best possible experience when cooking with us.

Our classes and outstanding range of teachers will help you hone your gastronomic skills, even if you are a complete novice or a dab hand in the kitchen. We love highlighting new upcoming food trends and championing the rising stars within the culinary world.

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Divertimenti does everything it can to reduce the risk of any students consuming an allergen that could cause and allergic reaction.

Please call the school to discuss any severe food allergies prior to booking a class online, we must speak to you before you visit the school if you have a severe allergy or severe dietary intolerance.

We will become as flexible as possible, where we can to remove a specific ingredient from a student’s recipe we will but we are unable to remove that ingredient for every student attending.

We handle all types of ingredients in the kitchen at Divertimenti and we are not able to completely allergen free environment, our kitchen is multi-purpose therefore this makes our kitchen unsuitable for those with life- threatening allergies, in such cases as these we would suggest getting in touch with the team to arrange a private lesson in your own home with one of our chefs. Please contact us for more information

In the unlikely event you are unable to the class you have booked for and need to cancel your booking, for a full refund we will require your cancellation via email no less than 7 days.

Once we have received your cancellation, we will arrange a booking onto an alternative class date or a full refund, sadly we are unable to make changes to bookings or offer a refund with less than 7 days of the date of your class but we are happy to switch the names on the booking so a family member or friend can take the place.

Divertimenti reserves the right to cancel any demonstration or class or substitute another presenter at any time, in the unfortunate event that a ‘Personality’ present or chef cannot attend a session you will be offered the choice of an appropriate alternative or a full refund.

Attendees must be aged over 18 to attend an adult class - we have a list of suitable young adult and teenage classes suitable for under 18’s – they must be accompanied by an adult.



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