When: Monday, June 17th 5:30 sit down and do their blind white wine flight. The tasting dinner will commence at 6pm. I’ll get there just after 5pm if anyone gets out early; we will order a bottle of Champagne off their menu then.
Requirements: I’ve always been intrigued with how wine evolves over time. For this dinner, please bring two bottles of the same producer, same grape/blend, and ideally the same wine, but they have to be different vintages. Bonus kudos to the person who brings the largest spread. Both should be concealed. This will be a blind tasting. Try to choose wines that express typicity. No dessert wines, but whites or reds are all fair game, and even Champagne. Let’s keep all these wines at high quality level.
Where: Corkbuzz 13 e 13th street (Union Square)
How: When you arrive, please ensure the bottles are concealed (in a bag or aluminum foil or something to cover them). Target amount of people for this dinner will be 10-12, once you go above 12 it can get too unruly, and there won’t be enough wine for each person. Each person will pass their two bottles around and the group will taste them and try to determine what they are–if your bottle shape is extremely unique, ie: SQN, Insignia, etc, please either decant them or move them into a different bottle. Once everyone has tried them we will guess what the grape, region and vintages are. The wines will be revealed each time after the round of guessing. How formal or casual your guesses are will totally be up to you; WSET, CMS, or just winging it are all fine…
Cost: The cost is expected to be around $150. This includes free corkage, and 25% gratuity. They provide all the stems, excellent service and great food.
Why: I’m currently studying for the WSET Diploma, so something like this really appeals to me. These events are also a lot of fun. I hope others feel the same way.
Several people have DM’d me already about this event, so the list has already started. We’ll get a proper list and waiting list started soon.
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Waitlist: (will need 4 drops before waitlist is moved to the main list)
. BUT if I can get the current release, I can go three bottles of the same Burgundy, same producer, same vineyard, all bought by me on release, that spans 1976/2002/2021.
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