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If you love wine, and you love Manchester, and you\u2019d quite like to do something with your afternoon that celebrates both of those things, can I put you onto the Manchester Wine Tours? <\/strong><\/p>\n This genius little event sees small groups of people heading across the city on, essentially, an organised and very sophisticated bar crawl. <\/p>\n Imagine Carnage, but instead of drawing on a t-shirt and slamming neon green alcopops, you\u2019re dressed up nicely and visiting some of Manchester\u2019s top food and drink businesses. <\/p>\n Manchester Wine Tours is owned and operated by Kel Bishop, a local food and drink writer and wine teacher. <\/p>\n Each tour is different, taking in different bars, different wines, and different people.<\/p>\n But as a general rule of thumb you can expect to meet up with Kel somewhere centrally, and follow her to around four different bars, sampling one or two wines in each. <\/p>\n You end up drinking roughly two-thirds of a bottle of wine, unless you get lucky with a small group like ours, where we definitely got a little more than that. <\/p>\n And each tour factors in a few points of interest, in classic walking tour style and for even more of a Manchester flavour. <\/p>\n On the Manchester Wine Tour I joined, our route included a few of the city centre\u2019s newest wine hotspots, starting at Kallos, the fantastic greek restaurant in Salford that\u2019s striving to have the largest collection of greek wines in the UK.<\/p>\n Here we tucked into their divine, puffed-up flatbreads and dips, as well as tinned octopus, all paired with a crisp sparkling Domaine Karanika Brut Cuvee Speciale.<\/p>\n Then it was on with the big coats for a walk back into the city centre to Sterling.<\/p>\n On a personal note, I\u2019ve been working as a food and drink journalist in Manchester for a decade. I did not expect to have any surprises along the way.<\/p>\n But then Kel led us into the wine room at Sterling \u2013 not usually open to the public \u2013 and proved me wrong.<\/p>\n Tucked away from the main bar, surrounded by wooden shelves glinting with different wines, we sampled a dry Chenin a New Zealand Lethbridge Chardonnay, and all realised we had been judging Chardonnay far too harshly.<\/p>\n It\u2019s at this stop that Kel really breaks down the art of wine tasting, and how to build your understanding of a wine from sight to smell to sip. <\/p>\n Suitably warmed up, it was time for a dash across to Winsome, the new British restaurant that\u2019s already been added to the Michelin guide, where we crammed around a centrepiece of wine bottle candles dripping in wax to discover the delights of the Greek Alkemi Xenomavro rose \u2013 my favourite wine from the night that I bought an extra bottle of to take home.<\/p>\n Each stop of the wine tour offers snacks as well as the wines, and for Winsome it was a delicate squash dish picked by the chef to compliment our drinks. <\/p>\n We also sampled a lethally good Terre de Zeus Xinomavro here \u2013 it was a good day for Greek wine. <\/p>\n By this point of the tour we\u2019re like a slightly wobbly gaggle of baby birds, scurrying after Kel towards our final spot for the night \u2013 Beeswing.<\/p>\n The Kampus bar provided an Austrian Funkstille Zweigelt (ordered an extra glass of this, it was so good) and a The Good Luck Club Cabernet Sauvignon from the Barossa Valley, plus boards of charcuterie and cheese. <\/p>\n My brain is like a sieve for wine facts (I\u2019ve written up most of this by looking at the labels), but I guess that just means the Manchester Wine Tour will have a repeat customer.<\/p>\n Kel is an expert at reading the room and deftly tailors her tastings to suit each person\u2019s wine experience. For some it\u2019s just the pleasure of drinking a nice wine (here, have a top-up), for others it\u2019s digging into the history and politics of the drink. Some just wanted to uncover a new bar or restaurant, playing tourist in their own city.<\/p>\n It felt as though all seven of us on our tour took something different away from the exact same experience \u2013 and is that not the beauty of good hospitality?<\/p>\n It\u2019s all completely accessible, approachable and very, very fun.<\/p>\n![\"Stop](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_3788-scaled.jpg\")
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\nStop one on our Manchester Wine Tours \u2013 Kallos<\/p>\n![\"Inside](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764162829_953_manchester-wine-tours-211125-DH-themancgroup-4.jpg\")
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\nManchester Wine Tours in Winsome<\/p>\n