When people ask me what’s my favorite wine, I usually reply that I have too many to list… But if you ask me what wine I would want to have if I were stranded on a desert island, it would have to be Chateauneuf du Pape. Full, throttle red wine from the Southern Rhone, CDP has vaulted from “tremendous value” to “expensive treat” over the last several years, largely due to the preponderance of great, consecutive vintages. At this event we will taste through numerous CDP wines, all from the recent highly touted vintages and we may throw in a couple of older wines to give people some experience with how CDP ages.

 
Taste is perhaps the most subjective of our senses. This is due to the fact that human physiology causes people to interpret tastes in a manner unique to each individual. Add to this the now dizzying array of cuisines and wines that are available and you have a recipe for gourmet disaster. In this one-day class, we’ll examine the concepts of how we taste and how this applies to matching wines with food. This class will include a series of white and red wines, each paired through a food components exercise, as well as light appetizers.