Montauk Club

Ciao Italia again! This time we traveled to Piedmont and Veneto and then said goodbye to Italy. With this tasting on March 19, 2009 we completed the tastings laid out in Andrea Immer Robinson’s book, Great Wine Made Simple. We sampled three of the four major varietals grown in the Piedmont region – Dolcetto, Barbera [...]

Ciao Italia! Our February 19, 2009 class took us to Tuscany where we sampled four different Tuscan wines that moved up the quality scale. We enjoyed one so much that one of our students ran out and acquired another bottle. Here’s what we found on our tour: We started with a 2006 Castello di Farnetella [...]

At our December 18, 2008 class we explored different rankings of white and red burgundies. Wines in Burgundy are actually ranked according to the quality and prestige of the neighborhood in which the wine is produced. So in our blind taste test to determine whether we could distinguish this quality we compared a 2006 Jean [...]

Our November 20 wine class took a trip to Alsace to taste four quite different white wines from the region – a Riesling, a pinot gris, a gewurztraminer and a muscat. All were from the same producer, so we were confident we could distinguish the four in our blind taste test. Once again we were [...]

Thanks to a big turnout, our October 23 wine class was a blast. This time we were comparing white Bordeaux with California Sauvignon Blancs, and we came up with some pretty eclectic descriptions.