Palate

25/04/2025

FRESH FRIDAY ARRIVALS 🌻

We have a bunch of new beers including DIPAs, pales and alcohol free from

Stouts and pales from

New canned cocktails from including my all-time fave—a Piña Colada at 10% 🫠🥳

The latest from

Plus a beautiful selection of wines that we’ve put on by the glass for the weekend. Highlights for us are an organic Italian Pecorino that tastes like freshly baked Madeline’s and the latest cellar gem from — a chilled light red from Germany that tastes like elderberries, chocolate mint and fire smoke. Whoop.

Oh and it’s SUNNY!! And we just wrested the back yard buddleia and cleaned up the staff yard so we’re feeling grand.

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24/04/2025

Good news Palate punters. For the first time EVER, we are open till 8pm every Thursday for drink in and takeaway. That’s one more hour in the day of Palate good times.

You’re welcome.

Beck is on tonight and we’ve just popped some crackers on by the glass. There’s new Beak in the fridge.

Come say hi 👋🏻🙋🏼‍♀️

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19/04/2025

✨SATURDAY, we’re still going. Are you?!💫

Plenty of lovely options for you to continue your long weekend. Booze and non booze too.

Pop down and tell us what you’re eating or what you’re buying for and we’ll take care of the rest.

Plenty of new Italian beauties that are very food-friendly, English fizz, Champagne alternatives for bang for your buck, Pet Nats, buckets of craft beer and a handful of local spirits too.

Don’t forget you can drink in with us today too, such lovely vibes with everyone yesterday, let’s do it again today.

Here till 8pm today and CLOSED TOMORROW FOR EASTER SUNDAY FUNDAY 🗿🐣🗿🐣🗿🐣

18/04/2025

GOOD FRIDAY TO YOU TOO 🥚 🐣

Word on the street is that Co-Op have run out of chocolate eggs. So if you’re in a flap, pop in to Palate and nab one of these beautiful choccy creations made by our talented friend and local celeb, THE

In other news we will be open as usual today and tomorrow but closed this Easter Sunday so we can eat drink and be merry ourselves.

We’ve also had lots of new pink things arrive this week that will go down a storm this weekend.

Pop in to see us if guy need a wine recommendation for your Easter feast or swing by for a drink later, should be fun.

Verity & Amy on today and tomorrow ✌🏽

17/04/2025

Thanks to everyone that came out for our Wines of Central Italy masterclass last night. 🇮🇹🍷

And especially thanks to Mike of for sharing his incredible knowledge of history and wines with us.

Watching Mike host tastings is such a privilege, and never fails to amaze us or teach us something new.

Some beautiful wines from last night that we think would make a great Easter feast accompaniment. Everything from elegant and streamlined Pecorino, strawberry-punnet rosé to opulent white, and age-worthy Chianti.

We still have a few in bottles in stock if you’re looking for something for this long bank holiday weekend.

13/04/2025

We love it when the winemakers themselves drop our deliveries off 🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿

We’ve always loved Adam’s wines so it was such a treat to catch up with him yesterday and taste through all his latest wines and ciders at the brilliant and even better that he just dropped off a few cases for us before heading back to the West Country.

Adam makes sustainable natural English wines from his new base in Frome, Somerset.

Delightful, fun gluggers that offer intrigue & complexity in layers too. They are just so good for drinking in this spring sunshine. ☀️

Open till 5pm today so pop down and nab a bottle or two.

11/04/2025

31/03/2025

Heads Up! The boss is going on holiday, so we have *very* slightly reduced opening hours this week. We’ll be opening a little later on Thursday & Friday at 12 noon, and there’ll be some new faces in store (alongside some familiar faces too!)

Do pop in and welcome our newbies and show them just how wonderful our Palate community is 🩷🌈😎

The weather forecast for this week is OUTSTANDING (a lot better than Turkey 😭) so do enjoy, there’s still plenty of new things arriving over the next few days.

Thanks to all the team for pulling together and making going on holiday a possibility (if not slightly challenging 😅)

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25/03/2025

Some of the team and I had a lovely wine-y day out yesterday.

First up, Beck and I popped up to a lovely little portfolio tasting with hosted at the oh so cute and cosy

It was great to taste the latest wine from and be some of the first to taste a freshly labelled new wine from as well as hear the stories of the people behind some of the beautiful wines we tasted.

It sure is fun hunting for spring/summer 25 wines.

We had a tasty little lunch at too before heading home and trying really hard not to go to the pub (we managed but it was hard).

Back in Sussex, Izzy attended an incredible winemakers lunch with Andrea Balducci from Cerbaiona wines, courtesy of and hosted by

Here’s Izzy’s notes:

“The 2016 Brunello was my favourite, using new wood and classic MLC, the fruit and acid balance was perfect. Just really delicious.

Although Andrea did let us try a 2004, which was wild!!

Also, the food was incredible- Mine was quite different from the carnivorous menu, I had: Wild Garlic soup, the best mushroom risotto I’ve ever had and the steamed ginger sponge with citrus oat custard was very indulgent and yummy”

It’s a tough job but someone has to do it right?

Izzy is sitting her WSET level 3 exam on Friday so it was a well earned break from studying (whilst studying at the same time) You got this girl!!

In all honestly, it’s a total honour to have these opportunities and we never take them for granted. Thank you to our wonderful suppliers & venues for putting them on and including us 🩷

22/03/2025

*FREE Samples* 🌶️🍊🍓🍸🍹

Spice up your Saturday with a Negroni or two…

Raspberry or Spiced Marmalade Tom Collins too!

Here until 7pm 🌶️🍊

22/03/2025

TODAY! We are super excited to welcome ‘s award winning mixologist and all round gin peddler Same Moseley to our store this afternoon for a little cocktail pop up.

Sam will be pouring FREE samples of their delicious gins including their latest release ‘Spice Circuit’ and mixing up delicious Negronis and Tom Collins for you to drink and enjoy with us in-store.

(Perfect if you are looking for Mother’s Day gifts for next week 😉)

No bookings needed, just pop down and get involved. Chin chin!

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14/03/2025

Thanks to everyone that came to our first supper club last night. It was beautiful. And quite raucous at moments 😅

Especially thanks to Sophie .kitchen for being such a dream boat and make everything so easy and totally delicious.

Also thanks to Becky from for popping by to tell us all about the amazing work they are doing to help wine growers all over the world improve their soil health and put nature first in the vineyards. Donations coming your way soon!

Proud moments.

Let’s do it again?

PS beautiful flowers courtesy of our new neighbours at

07/03/2025

Happy ! We are locking up shop this morning but only for 2 hours whilst we pop over to the brew day with in honour of International Women’s Day.

Keep an eye on our socials to see how the day goes.

Back in a bit. 🤏

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28/02/2025

Join our team!

With our dear Ania flying the nest for a new life in Copenhagan, and the brilliant Alex taking on a new full time role, we are in the market for a new Palate dream-team member.

We have a part time role, going of 2-3 shifts per week with the potential for a little more further down the line.

We are looking for someone with a great passion for wine and drinks and delivering top notch customer service, whilst being able to work in a busy environment, get stuck into all the usual jobs of retail and hospitality life from tasting wines, polishing glasses and putting lots of boxes away 😎 📦

We’re hoping for someone that will gain the confidence to run shifts on their own as well as work alongside our other team members to deliver the 5 ⭐️ Palate experience that we have become known for.

Ideally you would have wine knowledge already but for the right person we are certainly happy to put you through the appropriate wine education to get you set up and ready to roll.
Oh and if you love beer then that’s great too. Events are a big thing here, and we’d love someone to come and help us out with these.

We offer a great staff discount, always the living wage+, access to the best industry tastings, free skylark coffee, access to top industry training courses, and plenty of opportunities to develop your skill sets in product knowledge, retail, marketing, eccomerce and events. All whilst working in a lovely little (award winning😉) bottle shop & micro bar.

We like to think we’re a nice bunch of grapes, with the absolute best customers that you’d ever hope to meet. 🍇

Here’s the thing, we really need people who are flexible and able to work evenings and weekends, especially Fridays and Saturdays and Thursdays and Sundays, and the occasional week day daytime. Living locally or having access to car/public transport is also a bonus.

If this sounds like you, or if you have any more questions or would like to see a job description please send a copy of your CV and a little note about why you might like to work with us to Verity at [email protected]

Looking forward to hearing from you! 🙋🏼‍♀️👋🏻🙏🏼

27/02/2025

Introducing our very first supper club with our wonderfully talented friend and all round good egg Sophie of .kitchen 🌱🥚🌷🌻

Thursday 13th March 7:30pm £55

“Feed the Seeds” was born out of shared passion of good food, wine and company and a desire to bring some light in these gloomy dark days.

To plant a seed of hope and offer nourishment and joy through what we do best—food, wine and community! All whilst raising money for charities that are close to our hearts.

On the menu for March is roast mushroom ragu lasagne with homemade pasta and local leaves followed by poached rhubarb, candied hazelnuts with cream and a blood orange shortbread, all washed down with 3 tasty glasses of vino, hand selected for the occasion.

For our first feast, all profits will be donated to The Regenerative Viticulture Foundation whose vision is to work with nature to create a sustainable future for vineyards, growers and the planet. Amen to that.

Head to the link below or in BIO to find out more and book your ticket, spaces are very limited so don’t hang around chickens! Get pecking. 🐓 🌱

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palate-x-loam-feed-the-seeds-tickets-1259644714249?utm_source=Instagram&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=Feed_the_seeds_1&utm_id=Feed+the+Seeds+1

24/02/2025

Loved having a little family home brew day yesterday 😍

What a nice way to spend a Sunday! It’s sure is nice to have some friends with excellent kit and beery brew knowledge.

Always wanted to learn more about brewing so it was great to start at the beginning. 🍺

The plan is to make a hazy pale ale with east coast aromatics and west coast bitterness… we are using Citra & Mosaic and apparently there is some double dry hopping coming soon.

Who know’s, maybe we’ll have a house Palate Pale in the pipeline 🤷🏼‍♀️ wouldn’t that be cool?!

Thanks to Simon, ‘Simon Simon’, and Racael for their expertise and hospitality. And to Sylvie for her patience and hose-holding!

21/02/2025

Triangles are my favourite shape 🔺🔺🔺🔺🔺

Excited to have this beery collaboration arrive in store today
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“Created in collaboration with our friends at Track and Rivington, this squidgy Double India Pale Ale was brewed with an unctuous grist of oats and wheat along with lavish quantities of Galaxy, Motueka and new season hand-selected Citra, conjuring flavours reminiscent of mojitos, lemon curd and ripe flat peaches.”

8% ALC VOL

Whoop! We’ll pop these in the fridge alongside the other dippy Dipas 💥

Happy Friday!

14/02/2025

Nothing says romance like asking your wife to come and help you polish glasses at work on Valentine’s evening right?! 💕

True love that.

Apologies for this absolutely sickeningly sweet photo of us. 🤢 Alice said I wasn’t allowed to use it because it was too sweet. But it turns out all the other photos were awful.

Anyhoo, you’ve got me and the mrs tonight, and I’ve just refreshed the wine list and popped some very special drops from our friends at Artelium on by the glass. 🥂

Come celebrate with us or grab a bottle to take home. I’ve even got Guylian OG seashell chocolates for you all if you’re quick enough. 🍫😅🙋🏼‍♀️