Wine Wednesday : Südtirol / Alto Adige
Sep
24
5:00 PM17:00

Wine Wednesday : Südtirol / Alto Adige

“Italy’s Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol wine region is actually a duo of regions. Bumping up against the Italian peninsula’s northern border with Austria (with the Adige river running north and south through it) the southern half is Trentino, while the northern half is the Südtirol — the culture that one emperor and two fascist dictators failed to wipe out …”

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Wine Wednesday : Bordeaux vs. Meritage
Sep
10
5:00 PM17:00

Wine Wednesday : Bordeaux vs. Meritage

“As everyone knows, the wine world is full of traditions. One such tradition … is that even if you make your sparkling wine exactly the way they make it in Champagne … then you don’t call your Champagne-style wine “Champagne.” In the same way, in the 1980s, a group of American winemakers set out to find a term that they could use for their Bordeaux-style wines …

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Friday Tasting : Pét-Nats
Sep
5
5:00 PM17:00

Friday Tasting : Pét-Nats

“Before the Traditional Method, there was what is now called the Méthode Ancestrale. In the Ancestral Method, winemakers would bottle their wine while their primary (and only) fermentation was still going on. They would then cork the bottles while slowing and halting the fermentation by chilling the bottles down …”

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