Essential Blind Tasting Skills Online

2 hours, $95

Blind tasting wine is more than a parlor trick, or a way to impress your friends, it is the most effective way to develop your tasting skills.

This class is taught on Cisco Webex or Zoom, with wine samples available for curbside pickup by appointment on March 10 10 between 12pm – 5pm.

Learn to identify grapes and regions by color, acidity, residual sugar, tannin, alcohol, winemaking techniques, flavor, and aroma. These skills will help you improve your ability to assess, judge, describe, and buy wine (for both consumers and wine professionals). We will blind taste 12 wines, each followed by a debriefing and group discussion.  You will learn how to:

• Assess the main components of wine
• Recognize the main styles of wine
• Identify the most important wine grapes and blends
• Understand the impact of soil and climate on color, aroma, and flavor
• Recognize winemaking techniques
• Distinguish between typicity, quality and style
• Assess the components needed for extended aging
• Describe color, aroma, and flavor
• Make final quality assessments.

Additional Information

*If you are registering for more than one person, please be sure to include the other participants’ email address(es) when registering if they will be viewing the class from a different location/device.

*Please make a note of the wine sample pickup date mentioned above, as it will not appear on your registration confirmation.

*We cannot accommodate requests for wine sample pickups in advance of the date/times mentioned above.

*Cisco Webex or Zoom invitations are usually emailed the day of class (or the afternoon/evening before if the class start time is in the morning) and may not have an @capitalwineschool.com suffix if it comes directly from the instructor teaching the class/course.