Wednesday, December 21 @ 7 PM, A digital & interactive presentation between you and the specialists!
November twenty second – France is famend for the manufacturing of licensed “CLASSICS”. STARS of FRANCE is a give attention to the classics and the producers that make various nice reference wines. LearnAboutWine hosts quite a few tastings to maintain sharpening the knife of wine info and on this effort we collect the STARS of French wine for a digital tasting on December twenty first. This 75 minute session of wine tasting will function wines from a spectacular array of terroir. Uncover insider data from the perfect within the enterprise and style six scrumptious basic wines! Individuals may have a alternative of (a) tasting flight package (2.0 oz) or (b) bottle package delivered proper to your door. Early Fowl tickets are on sale now – restricted to 40 friends. Costs enhance because the occasion date approaches! Go to STARSOFWINE.COM for tickets and data.
Wine Checklist:
- Alphonse Mellot, La Moussière Sancerre Blanc, Loire Valley, France, 2020 ($36)
- Bouchard Père & Fils, Beaune Du Château Rouge, Premier Cru, Burgundy, France, 2018 ($60)
- Pierre-gaillard St. Joseph “Clos De Cuminaille” Rhône, France, 2017 ($40)
- Clau De Nell “Cuvée Violette” Anjou, Loire, France, 2018 ($65)
- “Pauillac” By Château Grand-puy-lacoste, Pauillac, Bordeaux, France, 2016 ($55)
- Château Rieussec, Les Carmes De Rieussec, Sauternes, Bordeaux, France, 2017 ($40)
For the next tier (highest?) tasting – see our TASTE OF THE BEST on Dec twenty eighth
ABOUT IAN TODD BLACKBURN
Wine Educator, Skilled Sommelier/Host and Grasp of Wine Scholar – Ian found the wine business on the ripe age of 21 whereas working for well-known cooks reminiscent of Thomas Keller and Joachim Splichal within the prime eating rooms of Los Angeles. The invention of wine and his infinite want for data rapidly engulfed Ian’s life. His ardour would ultimately redirect his profession from eating places and inns to vineyards and training. In 1995 LearnAboutWine.com was born, changing into the primary web site devoted to wine training.
With over 25-years of expertise touring the wine world, Ian is a printed writer (Wiley Publications, 2002), has 10 vintages of prime degree winemaking on his resume at Beekeeper Cellars, and is taken into account one of many area’s greatest wine educators. Ian’s push to evolve and his means to pivot has produced a strata of recent ideas reminiscent of, ZoomIntoWine.com (digital training), MerchantofWine.com (the household’s on-line wine retailer), and now the return of in-person gatherings with LearnAboutWine.com. Ian maintains excessive ranges of leisure and enthusiasm at his occasions through the use of all the good gathering spots in LA as potential venues. All whereas making a reputation for himself within the wine business, Ian has by no means forgotten to present again to the neighborhood. Over the previous few years he has raised over $650,000 for the T.J. Martell Basis, which donates to the Kids’s Hospital Los Angeles to assist fund analysis to remedy most cancers in kids. The mixed charity efforts of LearnAboutWine have raised over 1,000,000 {dollars} for a wide range of causes all through Los Angeles and past.
