Following the great success of our first event last May the Company has arranged another spectacular to help our fundraising initiative and provide Members and their guests with a fun approach to wine tasting.

The evening begins with the usual engagement of the senses in sniffing, sipping and seeing six excellent wines selected by Lance Jefferson of Berry Bros & Rudd with the expert help of Wine Committee Chairman Patrick McHugh. The difference lies in being challenged to decide which of the three descriptions of each wine offered by the Master of Wine bluffers is correct.  To share the challenge and the embarrassment of misperception, teams of six per table will be formed to reach a collective opinion – each member of the winning team will receive a bottle of good claret. Patrick has invited Richard MacAdam MD of United Wineries and previously of Oddbins, and Lance Jefferson of Berry Bros & Rudd to join him as bluffers.

After the right answers have been announced, dinner will be served in the Officers Mess of the Inns of Court & City Yeomanry.  Patrick has carefully selected the menu so that each course complements the six wines from the earlier tasting. After dinner there will be a short wine auction in aid of the Company’s Charitable Fund. The wines are all provided by Berry Bros & Rudd and we are extremely grateful for their generous support of this occasion.

All members of the Company are encouraged to come and individuals and couples will be grouped in teams of six.  Even better why not invite your friends, clients and colleagues to join you and arrange your own team table.  Contact Clerk for reservations.

The Inns of Court & City Yeomanry is located at 10 Stones Buildings in Lincoln’s Inn, but the entrance is in Chancery Lane. 

The Regiment was formed on 1^st May, 1961 by the amalgamation of the Inns of Court Regiment (The Devil’s Own) and the City of London Yeomanry (The Rough Riders).  The former dates from Elizabethan times as the four Inns of Court raised bodies of men for the defence of the Country in national crises.  During the Napoleonic wars all the Inns raised Companies, and The Law Association, whose drums are still in the museum, was nicknamed "The Devil's Own" by George III at a Royal Review in Hyde Park in 1803.

The City Of London Yeomanry (The Rough Riders) was raised in 1900 as the 20^th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, and was part of the City Imperial Volunteers.  In 1901 it was renamed the City of London Yeomanry and also took the name ''Rough Riders'' after a body of volunteer horsemen who fought under Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American War of 1898.