In this class we will go over who, what and why of what we taste. Each person joining this class is asked to be prepared with One white wine of their choice and one red wine of their choice. A downloadable to print tasting sheets will be emailed out to all. This a great foundation classed to kick off the new year, to have a better experience for the rest of the classes.

THIS class is Highly recommended if you are joining us for the very 1st time or your 20th time. It is meant to Help you create building blocks of your tasting foundation.

The monthly email for this class will have wine suggestions for your tasting class.

In person special meet up for Nation Open that Bottle day. Bring a bottle that you can never find the right occasion to open that one bottle that you have been holding onto. This will be an invite only and will be emailed the more detailed information. If you are not joining us, I encourage you to do your very own.

Our online zoom meet up will Vinho Verde (green wine) tying with a few Holidays that are celebrated in March. March 4th is Fat Tuesday/ Mardi Gras Where green is associated with faith. Not to long after the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, the green color has been adopted to represents the Catholics who rebelled against protestant England.

Vinho Verde wine doesn’t necessarily mean the wine is green or comes for green grapes. Just mean young and meant to drink young. This wine will be high in acidity, light refreshing and lower in ABV. Pairs well with seafood dishes with heavy sauces or deep fried. I have my eye on pairing mine with some fried calamari

Back by popular demand, from myself, April will be teach the teacher class. You all did so well last April I felt that it was appropriate to bring it back. This year, I will be pulling topics out of a hat at the end of March class and you will all get your assignment then. It was the best birthday gift to give to myself.

Grüner Veltliner is a white wine grape variety grown mostly in Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. But you can find U.S. produces of this lovely wine.

Known for highlighting citrus notes like lemon & line and all in between. Some stone fruit like apricot and peach.

Amarone della Valpolicella, usually known as Amarone, a rich dry red made with partially dried grapes. Talk about a wine that has a lot of rule and why it is made the way it is.

In person course as you all try to master your palate and blend white wines from famous regions of France.

This will be taken place Sunday late afternoon at the upper deck area of the tasting room. This class will require and RSVP

a small fee to cover your wines for the class.

The class will be done in two parts, history of the wines and tasting your base wines, and 2nd half the wine blending.

If you enjoyed the red wine blending course you will love this one too. Fun way to explore and learn about your own palate.

Pouilly-Fuisse

From the Maconnais a sub region of Burgundy, produces Pouilly-Fuisse, a refreshing white wine, with a great mouth feel, tropical and ripe fruits.

It is important to know where your grapes come from, and where they are grown matters. Sometimes where they are grown is shown on the bottle and some are not? why is that? This class will be BYOB of choice to sip along while we discussed where those grapes came from.

Growing regions matter, and this one dates back to the 16th century. Producing excellent wines, even though they make other wines besides Cabernet Sauvignon. This will be the one we highlight for class, known for producing an herbal and elegant wine. I very much encourage you all to try more wines from Chile.

This yearly specialty class we will be talking about the price point of wines and does that really affect the taste?

One of my favorite classes to do, I will encourage you all to do this as blind tasting. instructions on how to will be added to that months email. This is also one of the best class to do with a buddy or two. It will require you to buy 3 bottles of wine all the same style but in 3 different price points, analyze all 3 blindly and make the best educated guesses on which wines should be in each price point.

Talk about the upset that some have about their wines. Let’s the games begin!

This class will unfold as the year goes. Normally in the past we have our specialty class in December, the class will be moved to November.