Michael Sutton's Cellar

01/12/2025

Book online. Stunning lineup of wines for our first of 3 Christmas Open House Tastings this Saturday 6 December. Cooks out 12 - 2pm. Places limited
Link in bio. Guaranteed fun!
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01/11/2025

Late season dahlias! Stunning 🤩

01/11/2025

Happy customers at our Tasting today. Next one Saturday 6 December 12-2pm book online! Grab your place now, it will be busy!

04/10/2025

Our latest event was a Wine Challenge which we called the Judgement of Riversbridge as a nod to the Judgement of Paris which happened almost 40years ago. Steven Spurrier an Englishman owned a wine shop and wine school in Paris in the seventies. As you can imagine that was quite an audacious act! Having been accepted by the French he thought we would introduce them to Californian wines which he knew well and loved. To convince the French of their quality he set up a tasting and invited 9 French connoisseurs to try the Californian against the French. The wines were tasted blind. And as you may have guessed California won!🏆 The French were dumbfounded!

We put together a similar tasting with Anthony Barne MW and Ian Haggie of DGB wines to put their case forward for France v South Africa. The wines were made from the same grapes and price points. We had 4 rounds tasting a wine from each country blind. After each vote Anthony and Ian described the wine and its provenance.
It was a great experience and South Africa won!! 🏆 🇿🇦
We will be repeating the event format again next year with 2 other countries vying for glory! 🥂
The wines were Chenin blanc from Vigneau Cheveau Vouvray and Fryer’s Cove Cape West Coast, Viognier N.Rhone Laurent Fayolle La Mistrale against Hand-picked Viognier from Bellingham, Franschhoek, and Syrah from Franschhoek Cellar against Yves Cuilleron. The final 2 wines were Bordeaux blends:The last Elephant from Franschhoek valley and Blason D’Issan from Margaux. A stunning lineup and adored by the customers!
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22/09/2025

12/09/2025

The stage is set for a fantastic Bordeaux tasting tomorrow, 13 September, as we toast ! Secure your spot through our website, corks out 12-2pm
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01/09/2025

18/08/2025

Great green bush cricket & flower crab spider