Cotswolds Wine
The Wine Cellar
The Feathered Nest Country Inn features an eclectic wine list, providing interesting and unusual choices to enhance your meal. The wine list, of over one hundred and eighty bins, combines ‘classics’ with carefully selected special wines from both Old and New World. Our guiding principle being quality and variety.
Wines are sourced from all over the world, for enjoyment at the Restaurant or to indulge in at home.
Wine tastings are planned throughout the season. View our Seasons & Occasions page or sign up for our newsletter to be kept informed of forthcoming events.
Cool, dark, still and sideways - August 2011
The perfect way to keep your growing wine collection
Closures
Wine closures play an active role in preserving your favourite tipple.
Back In the 1600s, a French monk called Dom Pérignon, took a
giant step forwards by utilising cork as a wine closure. He realised
that natural cork allowed small amounts of oxygen to permeate the wine,
which in turn allowed the wine to age gradually. It was during this
period of trial and error that they realised the importance of humidity
to prevent the corks from drying out. [Read more ...]
(Reproduced by kind permission of Hine Marketing/Broughtons Magazine (Luxury Lifestyle Magazine from the Exclusive Retailer of Bentley, Aston Martin, Spyker and Koenigsegg Motor Cars)
The Wines of the Cape - February 2011
My passion for wine and food, instilled in me by my father from a very early age, takes me on my annual pilgrimage to the Western Cape. The end of January heralds the start of the grape harvest season in South Africa. This is celebrated in true style with grape picking, foot stomping and, of course, a serious amount of wine tasting. Numerous harvest festivals are staged by different vineyards in what must truly be one of the most scenic and breathtaking parts of the world.
"Tony Timmer is the owner of The Feathered Nest, a country pub, restaurant and inn set in the picturesque village of Nether Westcote and nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds. He regularly travels to South Africa to visit the wineries and vineyards to source and taste wines from boutique estates that are usually not represented by large distributors and importers. The aim is to bring in various bins of New World wine to add to the fantastic cellar selection (currently over 180 bins) at the restaurant." [Read more ...]
Broughtons Magazine (Luxury Lifestyle Magazine from the Exclusive Retailer of Bentley, Aston Martin, Spyker and Koenigsegg Motor Cars) has published an article written by Tony, on his love of wines and his trip to South Africa, in their Spring edition. View the magazine article below in PDF. (Reproduced by kind permission of Hine Marketing/Broughtons)
South African Boutique Vineyards Trip - 2011
Tony Timmer travelled to South Africa late February, early March 2011 to visit the wineries and vineyards to source and taste wines from boutique producers that are usually not represented by large distributors and importers. The aim is to bring in various bins of new world wine to add to the already eclectic cellar selection (currently over 180 bins) at the restaurant.
Read Tony's blog of his journey here.
