Christmas Ultimate Cheese & Wine - Horsforth

Once Upon a Vine is hosting its Christmas Ultimate Cheese & Wine evening on Tuesday 8 December, in Horsforth. It's one of those things that works best as a group outing — a few friends or colleagues getting together for a proper spread of cheese and wine as the December rush starts to build. If you're in the Horsforth area, it's a straightforward mid-week option for a festive get-together.

The night is built around the two things that go together best: a selection of cheeses and a range of wines to match them. It's a tasting evening, so you'll be working your way through different pairings rather than just picking one bottle and sticking with it. The whole thing is themed for Christmas, which gives it a bit more of a celebratory feel than your usual tasting session.

It runs from 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm, so it's a good length of an evening — three and a half hours to take your time with the pairings and actually talk to the people you've come with, rather than rushing through a few glasses and heading home. It's a Tuesday night, too, which makes it an easy one to fit in before the proper holiday madness kicks off.

You'll find it at Once Upon a Vine, 21 Town Street, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 5LJ. If you're coming from the city centre, it's a short trip out to the Horsforth side of things. The evening runs from 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm on Tuesday 8 December.