September twenty eighth – LearnAboutWine continues to innovate as leaders within the wine edutainment area. Our newest daring and daring dinner is proof of that. On Thursday, October twenty seventh at 6:45 PM we’ll collect at an unimaginable personal patio area at OTIUM, one among LA’s most fascinating eating locations. The long-lasting Chef Timothy Hollingsworth introduced Otium to an unimaginable area proper subsequent to The Broad museum.
On this event, we’re pairing THEN vs NOW – a facet by facet tasting of an older classic and a present classic. In whole, visitors will style approx $30,000 price of collectible wines with a multi-course meal.
Hosted by wine skilled Ian Blackburn and his LearnAboutWine group, this facet by facet tasting is a outstanding technique to expertise wine and provides it context. Some would say this can be a ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE, we specialize on this concept. Info and tickets right here!
Wine Record (all wines are from prime scoring storied vintages):
- Château Pétrus, Pomerol, France, 1975 vs 2016 | Valued at $10,000
- Château Ducru-Beaucaillou, St-Julien, Bordeaux, 1966 vs 2016 | Valued at $1000
- Château Talbot, Grand Cru Classé, Saint-Julien, Bordeaux, France, 1961 vs 2016 | Valued at $750
- Château Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac, Bordeaux, France, 1982 vs 2009 | Valued at $6,000
- Louis Latour, Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru, Côte-D’Or, France, 1997 vs 2018 | Valued at $500
- Château Haut-Brion, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux, France, 1982 vs 2016 | Valued at $2,500
- Château Margaux, Margaux, Bordeaux, France, Guess vs 2016 | Valued at $6,000
- Aubert Wines, UV-SL Chardonnay, Sonoma, 2010 vs 2015 | Valued at $750
- Château Montelena, Chardonnay, Napa Valley, 1975 vs 2019 | Valued at $500
- Müller-Catoir, Im Breumel GG, Riesling, Germany, 2009 vs 2016 | Valued at $250
- And extra… some blind, just a few desserts, and surprises.
ABOUT IAN TODD BLACKBURN
Wine Educator, Skilled Sommelier / Host and Grasp of Wine Pupil – Ian found the wine trade on the ripe age of 21 whereas working for well-known cooks comparable to Thomas Keller after which at 24 for Joachim Splichal in Los Angeles’ prime eating rooms. The invention of wine and his infinite want for information rapidly engulfed Ian’s life, and his ardour redirected his profession from eating places and inns to vineyards and schooling. In 1995 LearnAboutWine.com was born, changing into the primary web site devoted to wine schooling.
With over 25-years of expertise touring the wine world, Ian is a broadcast 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 comparable to, ZoomIntoWine.com (digital schooling), Merchantofwine.com (the household’s on-line wine retailer), and now the return of in-person gatherings with LearnAboutWine.com – utilizing all the nice gathering spots in LA as potential venues.
