Oz Clarke, the UK’s best known wine expert, teams up with Sir Cliff Richard to lead the country’s biggest online wine tasting.

Famous celebrity wine expert Oz Clarke is set to lead the nations wine lovers through six Portuguese wines, including Sir Cliff Richard’s own Vida Nova. The event, which bats off at Lords Cricket ground on April 12th at 7.00pm, is just the tip of the iceberg, as the whole country can join in with Oz in cyberspace.

The Big Tasting event will be co-hosted with Waitrose and will be streamed live to both Waitrose Canary Wharf and John Lewis Oxford Street stores. The event, the largest of its kind, will encapsulate the explosion of social media and wine tasting by allowing the nations wine fans to follow Oz online via www.thebigtasting.com, and www.twitter.com/VPWine.
Here’s how it all works
• The special pack of 6 wines can be brought on-line from 13th March at www.waitrosewine.com. Most are also available in-store

• The wines can be sampled on the weekend of 10th / 11th April at participating Waitrose stores
• To follow the tasting online, log onto www.thebigtasting.com or www.waitroseonline.com to taste along with Oz on April 12th or follow the whole event on twitter – www.twitter.com/VPWine
• To attend the tasting, tickets can be bought from www.seetickets.com