From Monday to Friday, at 11am, enjoy our “Deluxe Essentials”, lasting 1 ½ hours to 2 hours. It offers you an excellent opportunity to learn the essentials about Burgundy wines while tasting prestigious wines.
First, It’s important to become familiar with Burgundy wines: so, we take the time to talk about the essential knowledge and to answer all the questions you might have. Then, after a review of the tasting techniques, it’s time for the practice : 4 blind tasting of 2 wines, comparing for each of them a premier cru and a grand cru from the same area. As we go along, we describe them, underline their differences, their common points, as well as the preferences of each other...
KNOWLEDGES
Review of the essentials of Burgundy: the wines from Burgundy & the grapes, the geography, the AOC system, how to read a label…
INTRODUCTION TO WINE TASTING
The techniques of tasting: visual, olfactory and gustative examination
TASTING Blind tasting of 8 wines (no influence of the label) offering a comparison between a premier cru and a grand cru for 4 areas in Burgundy.
Example:
White wines : Chablis 1er cru Mont de Milieu & Chablis Les Blanchots Grand Cru
Pernand-Vergelesses 1er cru Sous Frétille & Corton Charlemagne Grand Cru
Red wines : Vosne-Romanée 1er cru les Suchots & Echezeaux Grand Cru
Morey-Saint-Denis 1er cru les Millandes & Clos-Saint-Denis Grand Cru
From Monday to Friday
at 11 am (duration: 1 ½ hours to 2 hours)
