Montauk Club

Thursday September 3 First Thursdays Cocktail Party Dine & Dance to Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra. A custom cocktail menu will be crafted for you by swanky lifestyle guru Fredo Ceraso of Loungerati.com. 7 pm – 11 pm. Wednesday September 16 Homebrew Demonstration and Lecture Want to learn how to make beer at home? [...]

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.

Beads you say? Why look for beads in France? Well that’s what the bubbles in champagne are called because they look like strings of beads as they stream up to the surface of the glass. What a great introduction to French wine we had on June 19 when we explored the world of champagne, first [...]

But that’s not a bad thing. Our May 15 wine class dove into the four most popular red grape varieties with relish, in fact. This was a fine review of what we’ve learned in the past year about red wines to prepare us for our upcoming tours of France. Here’s how it went: First, we [...]

On April 17 a small group of us began our exploration and review of the most popular wine varietals (that’s grape varieties) by comparing some of the big three whites – a Riesling, two sauvignon blancs and a chardonnay. After just 14 classes, we’re able to talk about color, body, mouth feel, acidity, aromas and [...]