The Spectator Clays, Claret, Cognac and Cigars Cruise 2025 | Thursday 18 September | 10am - 5pm

The Spectator, in association with Private Cellar, invites you to join drinks editor Jonathan Ray and winemaker Jean-Michel Garcion and sales director, Anthony Crameri from De Mour Estates, in Bordeaux, for a day on the Thames aboard the 100-year-old Thames Sailing Barge Will, shooting clays, drinking fizz, claret, cognac and kummel and smoking cigars. Departure 10 a.m. from North Greenwich Pier; finish 5 p.m. Tower Pier.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Bacon roll and tea/coffee on arrival • Clay pigeon shooting competition with prizes • Sparkling aperitif • Three-course, silver-service lunch washed down with bottles of Domaine Hubert Brochard Sancerre and Ch. Tour Baladoz (Grand Cru St. Emilion) and double magnums of Ch. Haut Breton Larigaudière (Margaux) and Ch. Tayet (Bordeaux Supérieur), presented by winemaker Jean-Michel Garcion • Coffee and Mentzendorff Kummel (in magnum) • Delamain Pale & Dry XO Cognac (in double magnum) • Postprandial Nicaraguan cigar provided by 1573 cigars • Special lifting of Tower Bridge 

£500 per person