Essential Blind Tasting Skills with Jay Youmans MW – In Person or 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.

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.

Participants my choose to attend in person at the Capital Wine School or online via Zoom. Online participants may pick their samples up at the Capital Wine School between 12pm – 5pm on May 16, or may request shipping for an additional fee. Please note that requests for shipping must be received at least 7 days prior to class, and all registrations to attend virtually must be received on or before the Monday prior to the class. Additional information regarding curbside pickups will be emailed a day or two prior to class. You may review our shipping policy here.

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