Imagine a Producer Dinner that boasts a table of family-style fried chicken, collards, cornbread, and skin and concrete egg fermented Sémillon. Does it make your stomach rumble and toes tingle? Then join 18 Reasons and Dirty + Rowdy Family Winery for this unique and unforgettable dinner!
While more popular than ever, Sherry is still very much a mystical thing. This fortified wine ranges from a relatively light, perfect-as-an-aperitif “fino" to a viscous, sweet Pedro Ximenez -- with a whole of food friendliness in between. In this 2-hour tasting and seminar, you will taste six styles while exploring their history and production. You will leave understanding why Sherry -- a long-neglected wine -- is now suddenly cool.
Join Master Cicerone Rich Higgins for this fun and informative tasting and discover five different types of delicious, elegant, and invigorating sour beers.
Orange or amber wines are skin fermented whites that have gained rapid popularity recently, appearing on the best wine lists from Copenhagen to San Francisco. And rightfully so; an ancient method of winemaking, skin fermentation not only enhances aroma and texture but also adds a whole other dimension making this category completely distinct. In this two hour seminar, Pamela Busch will lead the tasting of six orange wines from around the world.
The apple can be expressed into fine cider that pairs beautifully with food. Often these ciders come from producers who are orchard-based, obsessed with particular cultivars of apple, and focused on terroir-driven styles of cider making, like native yeast fermentations and barrel aging. This two hour course will provide the background for and tastings of six such ciders from the West Coast and New England.
With nearly 3000 miles separating the coasts, New York wines might as well be from another country. In many respects they are as different from California wines as those from Europe.
Portuguese wines are still very much of a mystery, even to wine enthusiasts and professionals. Yet this small country has a lot of diversity, and the quality continues to improve. In this two hour tasting seminar we will survey the wines throughout the country, exploring both older, revered selections and examples from new - but soon to be star - producers.
A 2-hour beer tasting workshop with food pairings.
It's summertime, and we are ready to fire up the grill to pack a cooler full of beer. But we don't want just any beer -- we want the right beer for our menu.
Join Master Cicerone Rich Higgins for a workshop on finding the perfect beers for summer grilling, including beer styles from Germany, Belgium, and the US.
