Wine Tasting Evenings
Dates: 19 and 26 Aug, 2 Sept, 2010
7pm – 9pm
Cost: £25 per session
Or £67 for 3 sessions
New for 2010, these fascinating sessions will be run by Dr Stephan Müller, who has many years’ experience in the wine trade. German-born and Italian-raised, he opened and ran a fine wine shop in Cambridge before working on a number of high-end wineries in Tuscany. He has presented hundreds of tastings, taught wine courses, organised wine and food holidays in Italy and is currently helping to develop a range of exclusive own-label wines for Uppingham School. An accomplished taster and presenter, his enthusiasm and expertise for all things wine are sure to make these tastings highly entertaining and instructive.
Each session will last for two hours (7pm-9pm) and include generous tastings of top-class wines, plus complimentary membership to Cambridge Wine Merchants Wine Club. You can enrol for any number of tastings.
The World of Wine (Thurs 19 Aug)
Wine can be extraordinarily exciting and bewildering at once. It encompasses anything from bone-dry salty Sherries to sticky-sweet dessert wines, and delicate sparklers to everlasting port. If you feel slightly lost, or think you 'know what you like' but want to know more, or have started to develop wine as a hobby, find the experts' language decidedly odd and want to learn how to taste and describe it properly, this is the tasting for you.
Focus on France (Thurs 26 Aug)
France still sets the benchmark for almost any style of wine you ever come across. It is still the country where more fine and more terrible wine is made than anywhere else in the world - when it is good, it is sublime; when it is not, you can waste more money here than anywhere else. Find out more and learn to tell your Pouilly-Fumé from your Pouilly-Fussé. France is still where every wine-lover needs to start.
The New World (Thurs 2 Sept)
Snapping at the heels of Europe, a huge range of countries have begun to produce ever finer wine - Australia and the USA are long-established stars, but wonderful wines are now coming from Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and a host of others. Explore beyond the tired old supermarket brands and discover a whole, well, new world!