Wine, food, cooking and accessories

As part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations we are holding a “Bake & Take” event along with the chance to meet wine makers and try your hand in our cookery school with sampler demonstrations on Saturday 17th October 2009. The “Bake & Take” part of the day is to get your creative ideas flowing using [...]

Barrels & Bottles were pleased to support Cavendish Cancer Care on their Celebrity Past and Present Golf Day at Sickleholme Golf Club. With our support the charity raised an impressive £4,000

England V’s Wales Wine Tasting 16th July by Matt Thompson. A smaller than usual turn out was expected at the England V’s Wales tasting as I believe many people have perceived misconceptions about wine production in the UK. Those who did attend , attended one of the most interesting wine tasting we have ever played [...]

Simon and Christian have just announced the mouth-watering menu for this years Sporting Chefs event in October. The celebrity chefs will have their work cut out but with the ever watchful eye and guidance from our resident experts we are sure they will turn out a feast better than last year.

An article by Andrew Coghlan for City Business Magazine. “I recently hosted a tasting of different styles of chocolate with different styles of wines and I was really surprised by the results. We started out with a delicious Pinot Gris from Alsace, crisp and elegant, long in the fruit and good alcohol, with 13%abv. I [...]

We would like to personally invite you to our 2009 Wine Auction on Saturday 4th April. The auction event will feature a selection of fabulously priced bargain wines for everyday drinking on a first come first served basis followed by a 1 hour Investment and Cellaring auction featuring Bordeaux, Burgundy and Ports as well as [...]

The kitchens at our Coghlans Cookery school is a buzz of activity as the celebrity Sports personalities prepare for tonights charity dinner. Our double-decker bus has been touring Chesterfield Town centre with Pudsey Bear greeting onlookers – if you see it please give generously for Children in Need.

Forget the cheesey football, sausages on sticks, perms and big lapels… home-based wine events are definitely on the increase. Gone are the days of 1970′s parties with fondue and Blue Nunn. Todays events are low-key, fun and run with almost military precision. Why the increase? The economic climate has seen people staying in and cutting [...]

Barrels and Bottles are once again the Official Drinks sponsor of the 2008 Chatsworth International Horse trials. We will be promoting fine Champagnes and wines from our open-topped Vintage 1949 Champagne bus, liveried as a London Transport vehicle The great and the good of both Derbyshire and the horse world will be enjoying a Champagne [...]

As wine suppliers to The Red Lion at Stone Edge, Chesterfield we were pleased to attend the Derbyshire Life luncheon hosted there in December 2007. Food and Wine editor Amber Locke wrote: “Sustainable-farmed baked Welsh Turbot was served as the main course, topped with Menai Strait Oysters and served a foamy sabayon. The fish was [...]