When: Monday, November 4th 5:30 sit down and do their blind white wine flight. The tasting dinner will commence at 6pm. I’ll get there at 5pm if anyone gets out early; we will order a bottle of Blanc de Blancs Champagne off their menu then.
Requirements: This dinner is about Chardonnay. For this dinner, please bring three bottles of 100% Chardonnay. One of the bottles must be from a still wine from Burgundy, the other two can be from wherever, and one can be sparkling. One of the bottles must be under $30. The second bottle must be between $50 and $100. The third bottle must be over $100. Please conceal all the bottles, as this will be a blind tasting. The price can be what you paid, the current market price, whatever reasonable metric you want to use.
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) and well chilled. The target amount of people for this dinner will be 11-12, 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 three bottles around and the group will taste them and try to determine what they are. Once everyone has tried them we will guess the price order and the regions. 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 gratuity. They provide all the stems, excellent service and great food.
Why: Because Chardonnay is amazing and we haven’t done one focused on whites yet.
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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