Private "Wine Enthusiast" Tasting for 10
Item Number: 525
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Description
Host a wine tasting for 10 with former Wine Enthusiast Tish. Noted wine writer and speaker W. R. Tish will make it easy, providing 10 top-notch wines from around the globe and leading a tasting that is as entertaining as it is informative.
Tish editedWine Enthusiast for 10 years before contributing to numerous websites and magazines. Through his website www.wineforall.com, he also develops corporate wine events and private parties. He also does stand-up comedy in Manhattan, so you can be sure this will be one fun-filled evening.
Tish will provide wine, stemware, bread and cheeses for a party of 10. If you prefer to build a dinner around the wine, that's fine too! Date to be mutually agreed upon through TBD in the NY metro area.
Around the World in 12 Glasses
Starting light and easy then building in intensity, heft, and adventure overall, a broad spectrum of styles with strategic pairings that touch on interesting wine topics.
Bubbles. Champagne starts us off the official Oscars Edition of Piper-Heidieck. (Its the very same bubbly as in their official edition for the movie Cats, but hey, its still not Prosecco.)
R & R. Ros is definitive refreshmentfrom Provence, mais oui. Pedigreed German Riesling is the eye-opener white, almost ethereally light but with a laser of acidity that shoots right from your tongue to your spine.
Old v New. Worlds, that is. Pouilly-Fum, from the Loire, a tad minerally, tart and bone dry; alongside a typically flashy NZ SB, represented here by the surprisingly delish inaugural effort from that famous vintner Sarah Jessica Parker.
Blendorama. A pair of full-bodied, fleshy, fruity yet structured blended wines that sit on top of the Food Wine Chain.
Time to Taste Blind. We have a pair of Mysteries, whose labels will be created but the winners own children! Could be a young Ctes-du-Rhne with an aged Chteauneuf-du-Pape; or a Baby Amarone vs. 100-year-old-vines Shiraz; or a jammy California Red Blend and its serious Napa Valley Meritage bro. Only one way to find out
Pinot vs. Rioja. Dipping into the red-wine food-wine playbook. The Pinot Noir is every critics go-to one-wine-fits-all; this one is from the ever-reliable Russian River Valley of Sonoma. The Rioja is almost a teenager, a tad funky, to test whether you actually like old wine.
Just Dessert? Chocolate bows down to this rare bottle of Grenache-based fortified dessert wine from the South of France.