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30/01/2026

New wines to try at tomorrow’s FREE drop-in wine tasting

Saturday 31 January, 2-6pm

As well as a selection of wines from our shelves to try, we’ll have 6 new wines (including a Champagne) that we’re considering adding to our range. We look forward to hearing what you make of them.

The first of this year’s Open Season wine tastings will mark the end to our least favourite month: skint, dry, miserable January. We’ll have a couple of dozen bottles open for you to try. This time around, as well as those potential new wines, we’ll be highlighting some of the unsung heroes of our range… wines from maybe less glamorous regions but still good enough to grace the Rise & Vine shelves and often very good value.

Basically, this is just an opportunity to blow away the January blues, say goodbye to Dry January and get together and have a few drinks with our friends. That’s you, that is.

All you have to do is come along. No need to book. So get your drinking trousers on (you may not have worn them for a while?) and drop in for a sniff and a slurp.

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25/01/2026

In 3 Words…

Haven’t done this for a while so here’s a three word wine tasting to get us going for 2026:

Clos l’Hermitage, Lalande de Pomerol (£26)

This delicious - we would say that, wouldn’t we? but bear in mind that we don’t let them in if they ain’t! - so this delicious wine is a red Bordeaux from the right bank of La Gironde, the estuary of the Dordogne and Garonne rivers. Lalande-de-Pomerol is what the wine trade calls a “satellite village”. These are villages with more famous neighbours - in this case, Pomerol - which when you find a good one is producing wine from the same grapes in very similar ‘terroir’ to its more famous/expensive neighbour.

So this great wine offers a lot of Pomerol style with a lot more bang for the buck. (Do we still say that? Should we be talking bang for the Euro? Bang for the quid? That lost one sounds like something spat out or coughed up, so not that, defo.)

Anyway, did I mention tasting notes? This lovely wine offers all that is best in a good right bank Bordeaux: the fruit - MULBERRY - is restrained and savoury. The supporting flavours are of baking SPICE and a little hint of sponge CAKE. Typical Bordeaux, it’s very dry, leaving your mouth dry and full of lovely, lingering flavours. Definitely a great Sunday Roast wine.

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24/01/2026

The first of our Open Season FREE drop-in wine tastings will take place next Saturday to mark the end to our least favourite month. All you have to do is come along any time between 2 and 6 and taste your way through up to a couple of dozen wines. No need to book.

This time around, we’ll be highlighting some of the unsung heroes of our range… wines from maybe less glamorous regions but still good enough to grace the Rise & Vine shelves and often very good value. Basically, it’s just an opportunity to blow away the January blues, say goodbye to Dry January and get together and have a few drinks with our friends.

That’s you, that is. So get your drinking trousers on (you may not have worn them for a while?) and drop in for a sniff and a slurp.

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24/12/2025

We’re closing around 5 tonight. Then we’ll be shut on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and will reopen for a short spell on Saturday (27th) afternoon.

Our hours between Christmas and New Year are as follows:

1pm - 7pm ………… Saturday 27 December
12noon - 7pm …… Sunday 28 December
1pm - 8pm ……….. Monday 29 December
12noon - 7pm …… Tuesday 30 December
10am - 5pm ……… New Year’s Eve

In the In Between Days (thank you Robert Smith) we’ll have warm cider cup by the glass (including ‘to go’) and bottle as well as Christmas Gin in cool hip-flasks and to drink in the bar, with ginger ale, if you prefer.

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19/12/2025

We’re open until 9pm tonight. After that, these are our opening hours up until Christmas:

10am - 9pm ……… Saturday 20 December
11am  - 7pm ……… Sunday 21 December
12noon - 8pm …… Monday 22 December
10am - 9pm ……… Tuesday 23 December
10am - 5pm ……… Christmas Eve

From tomorrow onward, there will be plenty of samples open for you to taste, so drop in any afternoon for a sniff and a slurp.

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06/12/2025

We’re ready! FREE drop-in wine tasting this afternoon. 24 bottles of wine to complement your festive festivities.

Just drop in and try between now and 6pm

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08/11/2025

FREE drop-in wine tasting, today, 2-6pm

Having tasted Sparklers on Wednesday it makes sense that we follow up with Bangers today!

Latest in our series of Open Season wine tastings, today’s Bangers theme sees us opening a couple of dozen bottles of big, bangin’ wines suitable for shorter days, longer evenings and hearty Autumnal fare.

It’s a great chance to try some new wines or reacquaint yourself with some old favourites. All you need to do is come along and try. no need to book. Nothing to pay.  And if that’s not a good enough incentive, we’re also offering a 10% discount on many of the wines on tasting and delivery (local e-bike or national courier) can be arranged.

02/11/2025

Tickets are still available for Wednesday night’s ‘Sparklers’ sparkling wine tasting so we’re offering a couple of places free to the first person to email us (hit contact in our profile - mobile only - or contact us from our website, also in profile).

We’ll be opening 9 bottles of fizz from our range from Prosecco to Champagne, including a presentation of three Sussex sparkling wines by Rathfinny Estate.

Otherwise, tickets are £50, including a £10 voucher for you to spend on the night. (Think how much would four glasses of pretty average Prosecco cost you in your local boozer?) and on top of that, we’re offering 10% off on purchases of three or more bottles. Added up, the total value of the wines on tasting come to more than £250, so who can argue with that? Snacks will be served with the wines.

(Tickets available only to those over 18, obvs, and should you be lucky enough to still pass for under 25, you may be asked to show proof of age.)

01/11/2025

This weekend’s tasters are a couple of great value wines from the western Cape in South Africa. Drop in and try ‘em!

Wild House Chenin Blanc - £12

A clean, green and GRASSy nose predicts what’s coming. On account of its youth, this Chenin Blanc is a little crisper and greener than a lot of other South African Chenins, showing clean, green and grassy at the outset with a good squeeze of LIME in there, to boot. It evolves to reveal classic Chenin creamy CUSTARDness in its finish.

: LIME – GRASS – CUSTARD

Wild House Shiraz - £12

A soft, PLUMmy nose with a hint of pepper and oily rubber (think old-school Sou’Westers) predicts what’s to come – a LIGHTer wine, especially for a Shiraz – the palate is fresh, smooth, plum and cherry, with a pinch of white PEPPER and a hint of smoke.

: LIGHT – PLUM – PEPPER

30/10/2025

We still have tickets available for the fantastic value Sparklers sparkling wine tasting next Wednesday evening.

It’s a guided wine tasting, so we’ll take you on a tour of 9 of our sparkling wine range from Prosecco to Champagne, via Cava, Pet Nat and sparkling red.

The evening will feature a special presentation by Rathfinny of three of their Sussex sparklers, which we are sure will convince you - should you not be so already - that England is now capable of producing sparkling wines as sophisticated and complex as many a Champagne.

Tickets are £50, including a £10 voucher for you to spend on the night. (Think how much would four glasses of pretty average Prosecco cost you in your local boozer?) and on top of that, we’re offering 10% off on purchases of three or more bottles. Added up, the total value of the wines on tasting come to more than £250, so who can argue with that? Snacks will be served with the wines.

(Tickets available only to those over 18, obvs, and should you be lucky enough to still pass for under 25, you may be asked to show proof of age.)

22/10/2025

In 3 Words

In case you didn’t manage to this weekend, here’s what you missed,

Sold out of the Pinot Noir completely but more due in on for this weekend.

MOKOblack Sauvignon Blanc: Let’s escape the tyranny of the ‘pub Sauv’ and get back to proper Sauvignon Blanc, wherever it’s from. And if there ever was the epitome of a ‘pub Sauv’, it’s going to be a New Zealand Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, isn’t it? Brutally chilled for the first part of the half pint that it’s served in (125ml, people, pleeeeease!) and baby-bath warm for the second. From chilled beyond recognition to warm and gloopy. Bleuch.

So here’s a proper one. The the MOKOblack Sauvignon Blanc hits you before you even get it to your lips with its amazing PUNGENT nose - a little green and gooseberry with a whack of oily unctuousness. There’s GOOSEGOG on the palate. What would you expect from Sauvignon Blanc? But it’s not sharp and unripe, but clean and full. There are subtle grassy notes too, unsurprisingly, but the balancing effect of subtle tropical or BONBON flavours are what pulls this baby into balance.

MOKOblack Pinot Noir: As we know from the Loire valley, anywhere you can grow Sauvignon (cooler climates) you can grow Pinot Noir. But there’s been a temptation in the New World in recent decades to push Pinot Noir to be full and fruity. Nowt wrong with that, but this one’s a classically European style Pinot and a fine example of the trickiest thing in winemaking… a light red wine packed full of flavour and complexity. Look for tell-tale CHERRY flavours supported by SMOKY notes of fennel and dark, black CHOCOLATE. And prepare to be amazed at how a wine this light can keep on giving with a long, long finish.

18/10/2025

Weekend tasting wines - 18 October ’25

In a way, a couple of classics, but also rather different… a New Zealand Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir, so in that sense, classics, but a long way from that unripe grass and gooseberry thing that you get by the half pint in your local.

MOKOblack Sauvignon Blanc (£16) shows us the benefit of keeping temperatures low during fermentation, allowing cleaner, crisper, more precise flavours to shine through. The nose is pungent and slightly smoky. The fruit flavours are light, subtle and complex. Sure there are classic notes of gooseberry, but it’s not overtly acidic and balanced by delicious hints of tropical bon-bons.

MOKOblack Pinot Noir (£15) is a delicately ‘old world’ style of Pinot Noir - more like a Loire Pinot Noir (poetically so) than some of the fuller PN’s that sometimes come out of the new world. It achieves that trickiest of things by being a light red wine that is simultaneously delicate and full of flavour. Classic flavours of sour cherry are complemented by hints of smoke and dark chocolate.

We’ve overlooked New Zealand wines in the last few years, particularly Sauvignon Blanc, after the market had been flooded by unsophisticated ‘bulk’ wines at the start of the century. Maybe it’s time to revisit these classics and remind ourselves why NZ developed its reputation in the first place? Drop in and give them a try.

Address

30 Station Terrace, Kensal Rise
London
NW105RP

Opening Hours

Monday	1pm - 7pm
Tuesday	1pm - 7pm
Wednesday	1pm - 9pm
Thursday	1pm - 9pm
Friday	1pm - 10pm
Saturday	1pm - 10pm
Sunday	11am - 7pm

Telephone

+442089699939

Website

http://www.riseandvine.co.uk/

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