Graham Warmby's Wines of Italy

Friday 2nd March

Italy is one of the world's foremost producers, responsible for approximately one-fifth of world wine production in 2005. Italy is the second largest wine producer after France, and in 2008 the country surpassed France for the title of world's biggest producer for the first time in a decade, at nearly six billion liters. Italian wine is exported largely around the world and has market share of over 10% in most Asian countries like India. Italians lead the world in wine consumption by volume with 70 litres per capita consumption, compared to 25 litres in the US, 20 litres in Australia, 40 millilitres in China and 9 millilitres in India. Grapes are grown in almost every region of the country. More than 1 million vineyards are under cultivation. Etruscans and Greek settlers produced wine in the country long before the Romans started developing their own vineyards in the 2nd century BC. Roman grape-growing and winemaking was prolific and well-organized, pioneering large-scale production and storage techniques like barrel-making and bottling.

Graham Warmby, the creator of "Conan The Barbera" will be selecting tonights wines and our Chef will delight in food matching these.

The dinner commences at 7.30pm and the bar and lounge are avaialble from 7pm.

Accommodation, appetizer and three course dinner, breakfast and all dinner wines, for two persons sharing:
 
Standard Room £198    Intermediate Room £210
Lake View Standard £230    Lake View Superior  £250

Non-resident spaces are very limited at £55 per person for the dinner