Wessex – Past Events

Hotel du Vin, Winchester with Julien Foussadier

Christmas Black Tie Dinner and Sabrage this year is at The Vineyard at Stockcross where the head chef Daniel Galmiche has held a Michelin star for over twenty years.

Harvest Dinner at The Chesil Rectory Winchester

The Jetty sits right on Christchurch Harbour. Michelin starred Alex Aitken is the mastermind behind the cooking. Enjoy a trip to the coast as weather permitting we will have drinks on the terrace overlooking the harbour at Mudeford before enjoying a seasonal fish lunch designed by Alex especially for us.

Summer Garden Party at the home of Lesley & Stewart Carr

Wild Game Masterclass lead by Rob Marles,Business Development Chef, Nestle Professional.

The Greyhound at Stockbridge.

Returning to Alton Grange on the outskirts of the picturesque market town of Alton

Ladies Lunch will be held at the Wykeham Arms in the heart of Winchester

Winemaker Fabrice Dubosq and Karl-Frederic Reuter will present wonderful wines from the Alain Brumont estate from the Madrian especially matched with a dinner prepared by the Gascon " Germain Marquis" our Vice Conseiller Culinaire. The wines will include library wines direct from the estate

Lunch & AGM will be held at The Three Lions. Stuckton, Nr.Fordingbridge.

We return to Beaulieu and the Montagu Arms stunningly decorated for Christmas. Since our last visit new Head Chef Matt Tompkinson this year gained his first Michelin star.

Enjoy a riverside lunch in the heart of the New Forest

Enjoy an elegant evening at the Lainston outside Winchester with awarding winning local produce

Our ever popular Ladies Lunch will be held at Berties in Romsey

Maitre Hotleier Mark Jones welcomes us to the Hotel du Vin in Winchester for our mid-summer’s casual dinner. Weather permiitting we will take our aperitfs and canapes in the garden, then step into the Abbey Well room for dinner. Hopefully leaving the doors open.

This year’s AGM will preceed lunch at Gerard and Nina Basset’s Hotel Terravina

Anokaa in Salisbury provide a truely Indian experience

Dinner at Oakley Hall, Basingstoke

Black Tie Dinner at the new Lime Wood Hotel, Lyndhurst.

Dinner at The Glasshouse, Lyndhurst.

A lunchtime Braai at Snail Creep, Houghton (Smart Casual). By kind invitation of Royden and Janet Roche.

Steam Powered Cooking and Sun Powered Wine. A fun evening with a home economist demonstrating the versitility of Gaggenau Kithcen equipment to produce a range of Tapas which will be matchd by Spanish wines introduced by Laura Rhys, GB Winner of the 2008 Young Sommelier Competition. The event will be hosted in the showrooms of bulthaup Winchester studio.

Dinner at The Three Lions Stuckton (Lounge Suit), Stuckton, Nr Fordingbridge.

Wessex AGM and Lunch at the Alton Grange Hotel.

Dinner at the Botley Park Hotel.

Dinner at Les Mirabelles in the New Forest.

Lunch at the Vineyard at Stockcross, Newbury (Lounge Suits)

‘French’ Dinner at Brasserie Blanc, Winchester.

Trip to the Rhone River, Chapoutier Vineyards and Paul Bocuse.

Lunch at the Gurkha Durbar, Grayshott (Lounge suits)

AGM and Lunch at the Clos du Marquis, Stockbridge (Lounge Suits)

Dinner at Rhinefield House, New Forest (Black Tie)

Joint Lunch at JSW (Jacob Saul Watkins) Petersfield, with Bailliage de Solent (Lounge suits).

The Montagu Arms Hotel at Beaulieu in the New Forest was stunningly decorated for Christmas when a full house of members and guests enjoyed the wonderful cooking of Shaun Hill.