loyalty card offer: £4.50 off a bottle of our fantastic torrontes or syrah/malbec wine the team at chantek would like to say thank you to our customers who have joined our loyalty card scheme, so we are delighted to offer throughout october a bottle of our fantastic chantek torrontes or chantek syrah/malbec wine for only £10.
additionally holders will receive double points sunday to thursday evenings in october (10 points for every pound you spend). to receive discount just show your card to server. not joined yet? join now to receive october offer and win a champagne meal for two! we are offering the chance to win a champagne 3 course meal for two, to any of our customers who join our loyalty card scheme. its free and every time you dine you will recieve reward points to spend in the future at chantek. as soon as we hit a 1000 members we will make the draw! its simple, just follow the link here or pop into chantek and pick one up. anyone who has recently joined the loyalty scheme is welcomed and will also be entered.
good food, good wine: part II continuing our look at our new wine menu, here are three more wines we have chosen to compliment our menu. dont take our word for it, try them yourselves. 
laurenz v gruner vetliner austria 12%
austriais not the first name that springs to mind when thinking about wine, but that could be about to change. we are enjoying our new laurenz v gruner veltliner. a strange and wonderful grape from one of europe's lesser known wine regions, this wine must be tasted to be believed! perhaps the 'friendliest' wine on our list, this dry, crisp & clean white has a mouth-watering array of pear, melon & guava. if in doubt ask your waiter for a taste. try it with a spicy beef salad, crispy sea bass with 3 spices or sweet & sour prawns. watch a 1 minute review here.
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semillon, sauvignon blanc and reisling. australia 11%
australia's rugby team maybe be frustratingly inconsistant, losing out to irelandin the world cup, however fortunately its wines are better performers. if you are looking for a pre or post match meal, why try our new sthallett poacher's blend with a blend of semillon, sauvignon blanc andreisling.
reisling is a great match with asian fusion food andhere it is balanced out with a lean and crisp semillon blend. it has an elegant nose of citrus, gooseberry and orange blossom with a 'flinty'dry palate. this wine is a superb match for fish, particularly our locally sourced steamed lemon sole with ginger or grilled seabass with coriander and kaffir lime leaves. 
robert mondavi cabernet sauvignon. california
wherever you go in the world, you will find a close link between wine growing areas and the underlying geology. arguably, nowhere is this moredramatic than in califoirnia, where the pacific tectonic plate collides with the north american plate.
how does this affect the wine on your table at chantek i hear you ask? well, nearly 1 million years ago, most of california was an in land sea, and had it stayed that way we might have been spared the worst excesses of hollywood, however, volcanic activity from the tectonic collision, drained the sea, uncovered land and after much weathering produced soils ideal for wine.
the french have always maintained that soil type or terroir (the term used to define the unique taste of the place where a wine is grown) is the determining factor in the taste of a wine. americans on the other hand, pursued the less romantic notion that drainage is key. however, this is changing as californian wine growers are paying more attention to what they intuitively always knew, that soilis key.
now, the closest most of us will get to this wine area, is watching the film 'sideways' –an off beat road movie up the california wine route in which two chums sample the relative merits of pinot noir and merlot. we invite you to go californian: try your handwine tasting at chantek, with our robert mondavi cabernet sauvignon. you don't need to turn up with a goatee beard and a beat up car, just bring yourself and your taste buds and perhaps a surfy friend.
this wine is a hearty, warm red with a spiced nose of cloves, saffron and red pepper that show real cabernet character. full-bodied with a velvety mouth-feel, its loaded with firm, ripe tannins that lead on to a big spicy finish. we recommend to try this wine with a spicy beef rendang or with the umami savoury flavours of oyster beef. | 
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happily there has been a bit of an indian summer, now our thoughts turn to autumn and we continue our look at our new wines and food matching. our loyalty reward scheme starts off with a wine offer (see below). our guess where competion goes super modern and for those looking ahead to christmas, our exciting menu is on our website link, we are taking bookings, please book early to avoid disapointment..jpg)
