Wine Tasting

Brian and Pat Clarke
Brian and Pat Clarke
Brian and Pat Clarke
Brian and Pat Clarke

Frequency: Monthly: normally 2nd Thursday at 17:30 for 18:00 

Venue: Hill Top Bar & Grill, Calle Móstoles, Moraira

Group Leaders:  Brian and Pat Clarke

The group normally meets on the second Thursday of the month, but we need to be flexible in order to accommodate the availability of the bodegas.   Tastings start at 6:00 p.m., but we ask members to arrive from 5:30 p.m. in order to register and be seated. We generally finish around 8:00.

We are very fortunate to have several sponsoring bodegas who come along to present their wines. Some of these travel considerable distances to come to us and, if they find their visits are not worthwhile, they will stop supporting us. Without the bodegas, there would be no Wine Tasting group. If you enjoy the wines you taste, we would appreciate your support by making a purchase.

We also occasionally organise a coach trip to a bodega for a tour, tasting & lunch. 

Bookings for events are available only to registered members of the Wine Group. If members wish to cancel their bookings, they must do so through the Group Leaders so that places can be offered to other group members on the reserve list.

Forthcoming Events:

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Please scroll down to see reviews and galleries of photos taken from previous events.  

As you can see from these, wine tasting is, and always should be, a lot of fun!

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General Information

Tastings will be notified to group members by email. We normally have a group meal in June and December.

The cost of each event will be notified to members by e-mail and this includes a raffle ticket. Platters of cheese & cold meats, bread, water and glasses are provided.

Tables will be set out for no more than 8-10 people. It is free seating, so you can choose to sit with friends or take the opportunity to sit with others to make new friends. New members are made very welcome.

Our sponsoring bodegas offer wines to us at discounted prices and these are available to purchase on the night.

We will advise you by e-mail of the next meeting and, if you wish to book a place, you should e-mail us to make a reservation. We will confirm your reservation by e-mail. Should we be fully booked, then we will add you to the reserve list and let you know. If you give us a phone number it may help for last minute changes.

If you have made a firm booking and then find that you cannot join us, please let us know as soon as possible in order that we can offer your places to other members on the reserve list.  Cancellations are taken up to 12 noon (Spanish time) on the Tuesday before the tastings.  If you cancel after this time or do not show at the tasting, then you will be liable to pay the entrance fee.

To be totally fair to everyone we do not take early booking requests – they are taken in the order that e-mails are received from the main invitation email. If you know that you might not be able to access your emails, then it is fine for you to ask someone else to make a reservation in your name.

Group Members must be fully paid up members of the Moraira-Teulada U3A.


If you wish to join the group, contact the group leaders Brian and Pat Clarke by email to: wine.tasting@u3amoraira-teulada.org
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Have a look at our previous events

Wine Tasting - November 2023

Wine Tasting – November 2023

“I thought I’d do a Christmas Advert, like they’re doing on the telly and online.I can sell ‘Corcovo Image,’ Domingo, Franco and their wine!We were greeted by The Legend that is Franco, in his Slogan tee,He bought it for a fee, from a pop up ad on Facebook.Well I think I’m a legend also… I’ll have to take a look!Nice to see new faces and share a glass or two,I met the lovely Glenda, she’d already had a few!So… Christmas …
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Wine Tasting summer finale at Satari's with JJ Jones - June 2023

Wine Tasting summer finale at Satari’s with JJ Jones – June 2023

64 Diners gathered in the early evening warm sunshine, in the garden at Satari’s, with the spectacular blooming Magenta Bougainvillea providing a perfect curtain backdrop for the talented JJ Jones entertaining us as Neil Diamond. Never mind the hearing aids of the mostly over 70’s, this Neil Diamond was music to your ears. In fact he was ‘more Neil’ than I remember of the real thing! He has the voice, the looks, the charisma and of course…the shirts and I …
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Wine Tasting at the Hill Top - April 2023

Wine Tasting at the Hill Top – April 2023

I write this while the taste of all those lovely wines still lingers on the tongue and the nose of pineapple still lingers in the air… and before the hangover from the over indulged wine tasting kicks in… ! I know I should ‘squash’ it to the back of the palette and let it linger on the roof of my mouth but I enjoy the flavour too much … am I a wine heathen? I know for some wine is …
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Wine Tasting at the Hill Top - March 2023

Wine Tasting at the Hill Top – March 2023

56 eager wine tasters were sat expectantly along with Fiona Macdonald, a virgin wine taster and not only new to our group but brand new to the area. It was good to see Barrie and Margaret Barnden after a three year hiatus. Don Antonio Bleda founded this family winery in 1915 becoming pioneers in the ‘bottling wine’ industry, using in the main the Monastrell grape which is most suited to the warm and drought conditions along this beautiful Mediterranean coastline …
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Wine Tasting - February 2023

Wine Tasting – February 2023

On 2nd February, 50 members of the Moraira-Teulada Wine Tasting group met up for their first tasting of 2023. Hill Top Bar & Grill in Moraira was the venue and they laid on an impressive selection of cheeses and cold meats to complement five wines on offer from Bodegas Castaño, one of the most respected family run wine producers in South East Spain. The effervescent and highly knowledgeable Raquel travelled from Yecla, a small wine region north of Murcia, bringing …
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Brian and Pat Clarke

Wine Tasting

Brian and Pat Clarke Brian and Pat Clarke Frequency: Monthly: normally 2nd Thursday at 17:30 for 18:00 Venue: Hill Top Bar & Grill, Calle Móstoles, Moraira Group Leaders: Brian and Pat Clarke The group normally meets on the second Thursday of the month, but we need to be flexible in order to accommodate the availability of the bodegas. Tastings start at 6:00 p.m., but we ask members to arrive from 5:30 p.m. in order to register and be seated. We …
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