A WINE TASTING EXPERIENCE IN ENGLISH SPEAKING TO UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE BURGUNDY WINES 

Sensation Vin offers, with its “Wine Tasting Experience”, an in-depth discovery of Burgundy wines.
 
First, we look at the key aspects of oenology before starting on tasting methodology through tasting exercises. The first exercise is about flavours: you taste some water to dissociate acidity, bitterness, astringency…The second exercise is about aromas: 20 dark bottles to smell and find what is inside…thanks to your memory.
As conclusion, these exercises will enable you to disassociate flavours and aromas, to discuss your sensations and to interpret them.
 
Then we move on to a blind tasting during which you will compare 10 wines produced in the Côte de Beaune, Cote Chalonnaise and the Côte de Nuits. You will taste 5 whites and 5 reds, village, 1er cru and grand cru appellations.

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KNOWLEDGES
Review of the essentials of Burgundy: the wines from Burgundy & the grapes, the geography, the AOC system, how to read a label

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INTRODUCTION TO WINE TASTING
The techniques of tasting: visual, olfactory and gustative examination
Exercise to recognize the aromas in wines 
Exercise to recognize the flavours in wines 

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TASTING
Blind tasting of 10 wines (no influence of the label) from the prestigious areas Côte de Beaune, Côte Chalonnaise & Côte de Nuits (level village, 1er cru and grand cru)

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Example:

White wines : Saint Romain en Chevrot 2018 – Saint-Aubin 1er cru Sous Roche Dumay 2018 – Chassagne-Montrachet 1er cru les Baudines 2016 – Meursault Les Narvaux 2015 - Puligny-Montrachet 1er cru Champs Gains 2017

Red wines : Mercurey 1er cru les Vasées 2019 – Volnay 1er cru les Carelles Sous la Chapelle 2011 – Nuits-Saint-Georges 2015 – Pommard les Noizons 2017 – Clos Vougeot Grand Cru 2016