Your Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Wedding - February/March 2023 (Issue 37)

NEWWILTSHIRE MOTORING EVENT SET TO TAKE PLACE AT BOWOOD June 2023 will mark the debut of Masters of Motoring, a new premium motoring lifestyle event from Great British Motor Shows that’s being held at the luxury hotel wedding venue, Bowood. The new show, which is to be staged on Father’s Day on June 18th should prove to be a great addition to early summer motoring enthusiasts and collectors shows as well as to next year’s social events calendar, both in the UK and internationally. Masters of Motoring will be a combination of high-level classic and performance car displays, married with a carefully selected mix of leisure and lifestyle luxury retail opportunities, excellent food, drink and hospitality - all set against the beautiful backdrop of the Lansdowne family home at Bowood house and gardens, in Wiltshire. “I am extremely excited – and proud – to announce the inaugural Masters of Motoring,” explains Great British Motor Shows’ managing director Steve Bishop. “This has been something that has been in the planning stages for some time. We now have the right venue partners with Bowood House and, I believe, a great event format with new displays and select partners who will help to create an exciting and memorable experience for owners and visitors alike.” Masters of Motoring will host a VIP zone that will boast supercar and hypercar displays, together with its own hospitality area. This will sit alongside another major display area on the main front lawns of Bowood House that will showcase vehicles drawn from supercar owner’s clubs from around the UK. With a further area dedicated to individual owners of classic and performance vehicles, the event will therefore bring together, and celebrate, the Masters of Motoring from across the ages. “Masters of Motoring is all about finding that common ground between exhibitor and customer,” continues Steve Bishop. “The show aims to embrace the car club alongside the private collections – allowing owners to show off their pride and joy across a broad spectrum of motoring, in the best way, surrounded by exciting elements and in a fabulous environment.” For the inaugural Masters of Motoring, the main theme celebrates legendary car designer Marcello Gandini, the man behind - amongst other greats - Lamborghini’s Miura and Countach. The event will also pay homage to the 60th anniversary of another motoring master, the Porsche 911, with some fantastic ‘never-before-seen’ displays. Visitors to The Masters of Motoring will also be able to browse a deliberately-limited selection of premium retail partners, who will offer products and services ranging from watches and jewellery, through art and designer goods to luxury lifestyle and motoring service providers. “We are delighted to be welcoming the inaugural ‘Masters of Motoring’ to the Bowood Estate on Sunday 18th June” enthuses Sarah Forwood, events manager of the Bowood Estate. “Masters of Motoring will showcase beautiful classic cars and supercars within Bowood’s stunning grounds. This new and exciting show on Father’s Day will be a wonderful addition to our 2023 events lineup.” Lifestyle motoring media platform Paddock Life has already been signed up as the first Media Partner for the 2023 Masters of Motoring and will play an active role in the feature displays. The event organisers are also currently in discussion with several potential partners and further announcements can be expected over the coming months on details of these partnerships and about the event itself. To find out more, visit www.mastersofmotoring.com and to find out more about weddings at the venue, visit www.bowood.org Turn to page 23 to read all about Bowood as a wedding venue. COTSWOLD HILLS TO BE THE FIRST ENGLISH WINE TO BE SOLD IN PACKAMAMA’S ECO-FLAT FORMAT BOTTLE Cotswold Hills, the Royal Agricultural University’s award-winning wine and social enterprise based in Gloucestershire, has become the first UK vineyard to trial the use of Packamama’s multi-award-winning flat wine bottles. A small run of the 2021 English white wine, perfect for weddings, will be available in the new sustainable eco-flat bottles as part of an ongoing, student-led, project undertaken at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and a celebration of how collaboration in the English wine industry can help create a more sustainable future. A core premise of the project is to allow students to gain important first-hand enterprise and employability skills, learning about vineyard management, grape varieties, wine production, marketing and finances. Hugo Sain-Ley-Berry-Gray, the RAU’s student lead on the project who is studying for a degree in Applied Farm Management at Cirencester university, said: “As students of food and agriculture, we are conscious of the carbon footprint associated with the industry. For the wine sector, glass bottles account for a high percentage of these emissions. “Eco-flat wine bottles offer Cotswold Hills a product that aligns with our sustainability objectives. Reducing the weight and changing the material of our bottles is a step in the right direction to solve an existing problem. As new entrants into the industry, this was an opportunity we were keen to explore. “Packamama’s eco-flat wine bottles provide an exciting opportunity to innovate and reduce the emissions of our product. Being the UK’s first vineyard to trial this format is exciting and we hope to inspire others to explore this option.” Keen to support the next generation of the UK wine industry, Packamama provided their Suffolk-produced, 100% recycled PET bottles for the project. Thanks to space, weight and energy savings, Packamama’s innovative packaging format enables emissions savings of around 50% compared to typical, round, glass bottles. Judith Candy, business development manager at Packamama, said, “The students involved in this project at the RAU represent a generation of eco-conscious young people who will not accept high carbon footprint products given the climate crisis. “As such, it has been a pleasure to support their endeavours in creating a local and sustainable product through supplying our lower carbon footprint bottles. As a British start-up, it is also very motivating to see our Packamama format used for an English wine for the first time and we hope it is the start of a long-lasting collaboration.” Katherine Duke, Head of Enterprise & Employability at the RAU, said, “This is an incredible project and we, at the RAU, are excited to be the first English wine producer to use these new eco-flat bottles.” To shop, visit www.cotswoldhills.org.uk Turn to page 51 to read more about wedding suppliers offering sustainable practices. 10

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