Event Recaps

Eleven CamSocLon members tasted wines from Greece, which had the longest coastline on the Mediterranean basin with too many islands to count. Moreover, Greece, the birthplace of Western civilisation, had, as you’d expect, a wine culture from the early Bronze Age, and...

"...the most haunting and brilliant and thrilling and subtle and ancient on the planet." So speaks wine lover Miles about the flavours of Pinot Noir in the 2005 movie Sideways, which, combined with his negative expletives about Merlot dramatically altered the American...

On Friday, July 19th, our alumni group gathered at The Orchard for a compelling evening with Rory Cellan-Jones, former BBC Technology Correspondent, as he shared insights from his memoir, Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC.  Our talk drew an audience of 65 members...

Over 40 CamSocLon members and guests joined us for what was a lovely, if not rather warm, evening at The Coningsby Gallery. The exhibition for the evening was Ben Jennings' A Snowflake’s Progress.  The multi-award-winning cartoonist and illustrator's the first solo...

After our recent travels to the New World, it was time to get traditional again. Spain has been making wine for 5000 years, but wine is a very different drink since the advent of electricity and temperature controlled stainless steel tanks. Moreover, although Spain...

Historic Maritime Greenwich is a beautiful riverside spot, well worth exploring on a sunny afternoon. Blue Badge Tourist Guide Caroline Piper led a Cambridge Society group on a stroll through Christopher Wren's divine Old Royal Naval College grounds, with views in one...

Members of the Cambridge Society took an evening stroll through the Rotherhithe waterscape in June, led by Blue Badge Tourist Guide Caroline Piper. The weather was perfect, with gentle evening light resulting in great photos for everyone. The redeveloped docks were...

This evening's tasting had an Aussie flavour. Australia is very big. You could fit the UK into Australia more than 30 times, and although most of the wine regions are in the slightly cooler South, it is 4000 km from Sydney on the East Coast to Perth on the West. With...

On a Friday evening at the end of May members of the Society spent a lovely spring evening strolling along the riverside in Wapping, led by Blue Badge Tourist Guide Caroline Piper. A particular highlight was St Katherine's Dock, looking even prettier than normal (see...

Our third event in the CamSocTalks series took place this past Friday, 17th May, where we were privileged to hear from Martyn Bond, Society Member and an esteemed expert in European historical and political topics.  "Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard: The Forgotten Father...

South Africa is on a similar latitude to California, and has a generally warm Mediterranean climate, but mountains, winds and the cold Benguela current from the South Pole, give a variety of microclimates, and there are varied soils, so almost every style and quality...

The Society's Lord's Suite Party is one of the highlights of our calendar, and again we will be spending a whole spring's day in our own private box in the Tavern Stand of the global home of cricket, overlooking the Main Ground and giving first class views of the...

Germany is most famous for the grape variety Riesling, which many people assume is unfashionably sweet. There is history behind this. German Rieslings at the end of the 19th Century were the most sought after wines in the world - they were more expensive than the...

Italy has long been famous for its delicious local food culture, based around meals for family and friends; but the quality of its wine has been variable. Perhaps unsurprisingly as they have 350 permitted grapes and regional wine laws that have been as much to do with...

Thirty members of CamSocLon gathered at the Curtains Up Pub before heading underground to the intimate Barons Court Theatre to experience Society Member Raegan Payne's collection of four vignette comedies, 'Sweet Nothings'.  Each narrative delved into the complexities...