Our Venues

 In Birmingham we use two venues....

The beautifully restored Old Joint Stock, Temple Row West, B2 5NY...
The magnificant Lodge - 60 Severn Street, B1 1QG, adjacent to the Mailbox.

In Milton Keynes we use the Ramada Encore, 312 Midsummer Boulevard, MK9 2EA, next to many various restaurants.

Birmingham:
Most of our events are at  The Old Joint Stock Theatre, in the heart of Birmingham, and as well as hosting a small - but beautifully formed - theatre also has an excellent bar. It is located opposite the main entrance of St Philip's Cathedral, just off Colmore Row.   4 Temple Row West, B2 5NY. About 5 minutes walk from Snow Hill and New Street railway stations.


 

The Old Joint Stock is a lovely old building originally a Lloyds bank, and is a wonderful place to relax, and taste wine. We use a private function room, just before the theatre. The food gets excellent reviews and is quite superb.

The private function room we use for our wine tasting

Outside of the Old Joint Stock

• Pomerol's Chateau La Commanderie sold for €8m
  Chateau La Commanderie in Pomerol has been sold to a young Hong Kong couple, Andrew and Melody Kuk.
• Lurton and Dubourdieu team up for Winter Olympic wines
  Two new wines from Pierre Lurton and Denis Dubourdieu have been released to raise up to £100,000 for the British Winter Olympics Skeleton bobsleigh squad.
• Sideways author sets sights on Broadway as chances of film sequel diminish
  Rex Pickett’s play of his film Sideways is a step closer to Broadway after he recruited award-winning director Des McAnuff, but prospects for a big-screen sequel remain small.
• Bordeaux 2012: Ausone, Cheval Blanc, Cos d’Estournel release below 2011 price
  Chateau Ausone is ‘an unqualified success’ with a price drop of 28%, wine merchants say.
• Jackson Family consolidates Oregon holdings
  Jackson Family Wines is aiming to increase its production of ‘world class’ Pinot Noir with the purchase of a number of vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
• London court hears brother and sister accused of £4.5m wine fraud
  A 38-year-old man, his sister and two others have been charged with two counts of conspiracy to defraud and one count of money laundering.
• Bordeaux winemakers give their take on Derenoncourt's 'special' en primeur samples
  International consultant Stephane Derenoncourt has caused a minor controversy by saying that he puts his wines through a 'special preparation' for En Primeur â€" but there is little unusual in that, Bordeaux vignerons and proprietors say.
• Mouton to open new gallery for label collection
  A new art gallery will open at Chateau Mouton Rothschild this summer to permanently house the travelling exhibition Mouton Rothschild: Paintings for the Labels.
• Decanter World Wine Awards 2013 winners announced
  Judges at this year's Decanter World Wine Awards tasted a record-breaking 14,362 wines and awarded nearly 10,000 medals, it was announced this morning.
• Cambridge and Copenhagan qualify for Left Bank Bordeaux Cup final
  Cambridge University and Copenhagan Business School have progressed to the final of this year's Left Bank Bordeaux Cup having won their places at the European semi-finals over the weekend.