Wine and bar - how it works

Buying Off-sales from us at pre-order prices

• Wine must be ordered in advance, up to the following quantities:

Champagne: 0.6 bottle per person for the reception (0.4 bot) and toasts (0.2 bot.)

Wine: 0.5 bottles per person for the meal

• In the case of an over-order, any unopened bottles will be refunded
• In the case of an under-order, we will provide more at Bar prices.  
• Off-sales wine will be available from the bar until the toasts are poured at the end of the meal or, if speeches are earlier, 30 minutes before the scheduled end of the meal.

Bringing your own wine and Champagne

You can supply your own sparkling wine (or Pimms) for the reception drinks and your own wine for the meal. 

• You can bring up to the following quantities:

Up to 0.6 of a 75cl bottle of sparkling wine per person, which gives a generous 3 glasses (one to be kept back for the toasts), or enough Pimms for 2 glasses per person (at 50cl per glass).

Up to 0.75 bottles of wine per person, out of which we will distribute up to 0.5 bottles per person according to the demand for white or red wine.

• There is no per bottle corkage charge for bringing your drink, but we do charge material costs as follows:

Bulk ice for cooling your drink on the day £1.00 ex VAT per head

Glass hire for reception drinks and meal £2.00 ex VAT per head

(Includes flute or tumbler for reception drinks, 2 wine glasses for meal, flute for toast)

• Wine deliveries must be made between 1100 and 1200 hrs
• White and sparkling wine should not be bought on sale or return as the ice baths damage the labels and the wine merchants will not take them back.
• Red wine should be delivered at room temperature - NOT cellar temperature.
• All left-overs must be removed on the night.

Licensed bar

We provide a licensed bar which will be the only source of drinks after the meal. 

• We use polycarbonate glasses on the evening bar to avoid breakages.
• The bar will close at 0100 hrs.  We can apply for up to 12 extensions a year, normally until 0200 hrs.  This involves a lot of admin so we charge a £300 ex VAT fee, whether the application is successful or not.