Our November 29 class took us from the Burgundy region of France to Sonoma Valley and on Southern Australia as we continued trying to distinguish between wines grown in cool or moderate vs. warm regions of the world. This time we definitely found a contrast between the 2005 Josephine DuBois Grande Reserve Chardonnay from Burgundy [...]

Do you believe we went from Germany to California to New Zealand in one evening! And we did some fine sipping along the way, too. On October 25, we tried our hand at distinguishing between wines grown in cool vs. moderate regions of the world. We started out comparing a 2006 Nikki Dry Riesling from [...]

You may remember that many of our regulars couldn’t make it to our first spice tasting on July 19, and because we thought it so much fun, we decided to have it again on September 20. This time, I remembered to bring samples of nine actual spices that we could use to compare with the [...]

Yes, our May [June] 21 wine class was all about butter and grass. What the #!%% does that have to do with wine you ask? Well we actually tasted those flavors in the four wines we tried. We had a non-buttery 2005 Beaujolais Blanc, Appellation Beaujolais Controlee from France and buttery 2005 Reaction Chardonnay from [...]

There’s a rule of thumb that more alcohol contributes to a fuller body. Well, as a living example of that maxim, I could have told you that without demonstrating it with a wine tasting, but then, what fun would that have been? At our class on May 17, we explored body types again with a [...]

We had another good turnout at the fourth gathering in the monthly series of wine classes at the Club on Thursday, April 19. To start off, we discovered that, while the word oaky does not appear in spell-check, it definitely appears in smell-check and taste-check. We learned this by comparing a 2004 Les Caillottes Pouilly [...]

We had a great turnout at the third gathering in the monthly series of wine classes at the Club on Thursday, March 15. Crisp and dry humor abounded as we learned about the difference between sweet and dry wines as well as crisp and not-so-crisp. To demonstrate these styles, we tried a 2005 Kendall-Jackson Riesling [...]

Yes, at the second gathering in the monthly series of wine classes at the Club on Thursday, February 22, we all were seeing red. Red wine, that is. And tasting it too. As you know, the class follows the tasting course laid out in Andrea Immer Robinson’s revised and updated edition of Great Wines Made [...]

Well, actually no people or glasses got smashed, but, as they say, a good time was had by all. We held the first in the monthly series of wine classes at the Club on Thursday, January 18. The class follows the tasting course laid out in Andrea Immer Robinson’s revised and updated edition of Great [...]