Wine Tasting Sessions

Always fancied learning more about wine but cannot be bothered with the technical learning bit, why don’t you arrange your wine tasting with us?

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We come to you, so you don’t have to.

From wine & cheese tasting to a more formal dinner and wine matching, or a simple platter of charcuterie & wine, whatever swings your boat and budget, we will accommodate.

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In reality, there are 4 types of wine tastings - horizontal, vertical, blind and double blind.

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In a horizontal wine tasting, you are tasting wines of the same vintage, but from different wineries. From here you can decide if you want the wines to all be the same varietal or a mix. When I have a horizontal tasting, I like to select wines from a particular region and compare their differences.

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The vertical tasting is one where all the wines come from a selected winery but are different vintages. Here you can see how the terroir (the growing environment) affects the vineyard and the grapes it produces year to year. These and other factors change and will usually bring out different characteristics year to year.

Now we come to the fun tastings, reserved generally to wine connoisseurs, the first of which is called a blind tasting.

 

Usually in a blind tasting you are tasting wines all from the same varietal, which is revealed beforehand, but you do not know what region the wine is from. You might taste Chardonnays and have to discern if the wine is from the Old World (European) or New World (USA, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) and why you think it is.

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There is a second type of blind tasting called the double-blind tasting. This one is the ultimate in fun and difficulty. In a double-blind tasting, bottles are usually wrapped in a bag and all are of different varieties and vintages. When I do one of these tastings, we try to figure out what is the grape, the vintage (before or after a designated year) and if it is Old World or New World.

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If you fancy trying one of these above, just fill in the form below with your details, and we can start our fun wine journey together.