I hope to see a good crowd on May 20 at 7-ish; it’s going to be fun. And don’t forget, it’s also $10 Thursday, so plan to stay for dinner.
At our April 15 wine tasting, we achieved a perfect score! At this tasting, we were exploring oakiness, by comparing a 2008 Clos [...]

Beyond the big six reds, that is.  We decided to explore some red varietals that we often run across on restaurant menus but know very little about.  So our August 19 travels took us to the Finger Lakes right here in New York  to try a Hermann J. Weimer 2007 Cabernet Franc (12.5% alcohol).  Then [...]

Our July 16 wine class suffered a bit from summer vacation absenteeism I’m afraid, but I think the vacationers, not the wine class attendees, were the losers. We had three wonderful, but very different white wines from Spain that lived up to every bit of the billing that Andrea gave them in her book. [...]

On June 18, we hit the road again, this time transporting ourselves to several regions of Spain. The first stop was the Rioja region, which is a couple of hours NNE of Madrid, where we sampled a 2003 Marqués de Riscal Reserva from Rioja (14% alcohol). Then we headed west to the Toro region along [...]

The May 21 Montauk Club wine class began our third year of monthly tastings. Time flies when you’re tasting wine I guess. This class was a review of the most popular red varietals. We tried a 2006 Blackstone Sonoma Reserve Pinot Noir (14.3% alcohol), a 2006 Estancia Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon (13.5% [...]

Having completed our world tour and all of the tastings laid out in Andrea Immer Robinson’s book, Great Wine Made Simple in March, we decided to review some of the basics at our April 16, 2009 class. After all, with wine it’s not possible to practice too much. We started our review by exploring the [...]

On January 15, 2009 the wine class made its last stop in France by visiting the Rhone Valley, home of the well-known Chateauneuf-du-Pape. The plan was to compare a cheap, but good Cotes du Rhone with a more classic Chateauneuf-du-Pape and then taste a Muscat Beaume-de-Venise. Well it turned out to be difficult to find [...]

Far from it. Our September 18 wine class explored the two predominant red varietals from the Bordeaux region of France and compared them with comparable varietals from California. It was kind of like a review of our Old World-New World tastings earlier this year.

It was a hot and spicy time at our July 19 wine class! Too bad many of our regulars weren’t able to make it. We found notes of lychee and sweet cloves in a 2004 Fahn Gewurztraminer Appellation Alsace Controlee and allspice in a 2005 Hook & Ladder Gewurztraminer from the Russian River Valley in [...]