Private Events

Corporate and private tasting events designed just for you.

We can extend our ever-popular tasting experiences into bespoke events created just for you. Whether that’s a corporate event, a personal celebration, a party, whatever… we can come to you (or find you a venue) and create a truly memorable experience.

We’ll bring the booze and the glasses and the quizzes (you’ll get competitive, you know it). We’ll plan it and we’ll tidy up afterwards. You just supply the guests. You’ll have a lot of fun and you’ll pick up a few facts, too.

All quoted prices are based on offering this service in the Greater Manchester area. We may be able to cater for you outside the region subject to an additional travel fee.

Get in touch and we’ll see what we can arrange for you. Guests will love it, staff & clients will remember you for it. Just check out our reviews!

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I would just like to say a big thank you to John from Northern Wine School. He ran a corporate wine tasting event for my colleagues at One Manchester. I have received only positive feedback from my colleagues, who have all commented on how impressive they were with john’s knowledge of wine and his style of delivery, the quality of wine provided and the use of a quiz to make it engaging and fun. Thank you once again.
Sarah ThornberOneManchester
Just wanted to drop you a quick email to say thanks so much for last night & apologies it got a little rowdy yet again!! Our clients from Aviva loved it and have emailed asking me to pass on their thanks
Jared MallinsonHorwich Farrelly Solicitors
We had a wonderful evening with John’s excellent wine tasting event for my Step-father’s 70th. It was a great way to spend the evening with all the family during a time when we couldn’t all be together. John was really informative and some fascinating stories and facts! Really enjoyed it. Thank you!
Anna Rimmer
Just wanted to say a huge thank you on behalf of the team for selecting the wine and hosting last night. We have received universally positive feedback and everyone had a great time!
Lucy PearsonDLA Piper
We were lucky enough to be invited to share in this wine tasting to celebrate our friend's 70th birthday. After discussion with the very helpful representative (John?), the friend's wife suggested a tour of wines from the places which had been important in their life together. Very interesting and educational, especially the "sniff and guess" quiz using small vials of oil-based wine smells. Lovely evening, thank you very much!"
Liz
I chose the 'Wine and Food matching' as I wanted a unique team building experience. What a fantastic event, everyone had such a great time and enjoyed tasting a wonderful variety of wines. There was a lovely choice of nibbles and appetisers and John put alot of thought in catering for a vegan, a vegetarian and gluten-free members. I highly recommend the Northern Wine School to everyone. It was very educational and I even enjoyed a white wine (even though I had always avoided white wine in the past!)
Kellie BurstonBiffa Waste Services Ltd
Fine wine tasting "John put together an excellent evening. Very approachable and informative and above all, good fun . Very enjoyable - Thank you"
Gregor Maclean
Fantastic! John hosted a wine tasting for a large group of hens. He was fantastic, we thoroughly enjoyed it. Good host and very patient with us all! Would definitely recommend. Very good value - thank you.
Jane
We'd booked with John at Northern Wine School for a steak dinner with wine tasting at a private room at the Malmaison for a stag. Room was excellent, food was good and lots of it - and John hosted the evening well. He gave us all a 'guess the wine' style game which saw us all try and identify country of origin, type, price etc of six different red wines; before revealing all and giving us some tips for next time. Great evening, everyone thoroughly enjoyed - would highly recommend.
Ben Cossey
John conducted a gin tasting event at our New Years Charity event, this was a great experience and is now the 2nd event i have been on with John. A great host, highly knowledgeable and the ability to introduce us to gins we had not heard of before and even a few different types of mixer! Fab event, highly encourage anyone to attend one of them.
Daniel McKeown-HenshallTrustee, Outdoorlads
Thank you for providing a fantastic wine tasting workshop for our staff. It was the perfect way to celebrate being awarded Digital Agency of the Year! The team thoroughly enjoyed themselves and we all learnt a lot from your tour of the world's vineyards, hic! We're looking forward to impressing our friends with all our new knowledge! I'd highly recommended your corporate package to any company looking for a fun and informative team building event. All the staff loved it and enjoyed themselves.
Danielle St-AmourCommunications Director, Mosquito Digital
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Wine tasting

Wine & cheese from £45pp

Steak & red wine from £89pp

Wine tasting lunch from £105pp

Spirits tasting

Gin, whisky or rum tasting from £45pp

Gin tasting & afternoon tea from £89pp

Whisky tasting dinner from £95pp

SAKE tasting

Sake from £55pp

SSA Intro to Sake Course from £79pp

Sake tasting lunch from £105pp

BEER tasting

Beer from £35pp

Virtual Wine, Gin, Rum, Whisky, beer or Sake Tastings. Enjoy from the comfort of your own home!

Bring family, friends and colleagues together with one of our fun wine, spirits or Sake tastings.

Option 1: £150 Hosting fee for a 1 hour session, or £185 for up to 90 minutes. You supply the wine, spirits or Sake for your guests, and we will host an event over Zoom for you. We can help advise on the wines to source. Can be done for any number of guests, from 1 to 100.

Option 2: We supply 6 x 50ml tasting samples, tasting notes & glassmats by post, to a UK mainland address. From £55 per person for wine, £65pp for a Sake or spirits tasting, or £85pp for wine & cheese matching, wine and chocolate matching, whisky, rum or gin tasting. Includes a 90 minute live guided tasting by Zoom. Minimum of 10 participants.

Option 3: We select full or half sized bottles of wine for you from a local merchant, and have them shipped to any UK mainland address. Price dependent on wines and theme chosen. Can be combined with a cheese or chocolate matching for a supplement. Includes a 1 hour live tasting by Zoom. Minimum of 10 participants.

Got your own theme, or just need an expert guest speaker?
Get in touch to discuss

Guest/expert speaker fees from £125 + VAT. 

Need us to step in at the last minute for a tasting? We may be able to help!

Event glass hire from £65 + VAT. 

We have a minimum charge from £500 + VAT for in person private group tastings.

Hosted at your premises, or one of our partner venues.

A variety of themes based on our tasting events, or your own.

6 different, premium quality wine, spirits or Sake samples to try.

Tutored tasting with our knowledgeable wine, spirits or Sake experts.

A tasting notes booklet for each person to take home as a memento.

We don’t sell wines, spirits or Sake so there will be no pressure to buy anything after.

Oh – and we’ll provide the glasses too!

Corporate Clients

We have run events for companies big and small, including:

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We’re happy to cater for larger groups and also to run any type of event (cheese and win, gin tasting, sparkling wines) that you fancy. Just get in touch and we can discuss it.

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We’re really into wine, into spirits & into sake. We love all of them. Luckily.

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113-115 Portland Street

Manchester

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