Welcome to The Rebellious Wine Club, which promises to push boundaries, challenge norms, and overturn all expectations… by serving you beer.
Only kidding. But they do do things a little differently to your typical wine tasting events – because they’re aiming to take out any if the stuffiness and, let’s face it, pretentiousness that inevitably starts to poke its nose in wherever wine’s involved. There will be only moderate amounts of glass-swilling. There is unlikely to be spitting in buckets. And you will successfully learn the meaning of terroir, if not how to pronounce it.
Now, a lot of that pretentiousness can actually come from the guests, so for starters The Rebellious Wine Club is already providing a kind of self-selecting event where you know the people attending will be entirely normal. The idea is that you can turn up knowing absolutely cork-all about wine, and leave feeling like you might actually be able to go to a restaurant and open the wine list without having a long, incredibly anxious internal monologue, before eventually ordering the house white.
Tickets are now on sale for the next series of Rebellious Wine Club nights at the gorgeous Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings in Clerkenwell – and while the line-up is still TBA you can expect a supremely exciting line-up of female experts from the wine industry who are all dead set on debunking wine myths and giving you some practical advice that you’ll actually remember.
Tickets for each event are £39, and aside from figuratively absorbing colossal amounts of wine wisdom from each expert, you’ll also get to absorb, in a very literal sense, some generous pours of wines to taste as you go. And because this isn’t their first rodeo, they’ll also be keeping you well-fed with snacks from B&H exec chef Matthew Harris.
Because there’s no need to rebel against snacks.
NOTE: The Rebellious Wine Club is back from February 2025 – you can book tickets (£39) and find out more HERE.
The Rebellious Wine Club | B&H Buildings, 42 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, EC1R 0HU
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