How Online Wine Classes Are Changing The Course of Wine Appreciation

On CTV News, Leanne and I chat about how more and more wine lovers are turning to online wine classes, not just because we’re in quarantine, but also because they offer many advantages over physical courses:

  • You don’t have to drive, find parking or a babysitter and then drive home after drinking
  • Many couples take the course together as date night (a two-for-one benefit because they only pay one course fee)
  • Family members of drinking age can also do this as it’s often a lot more fun than monopoly
  • My students meet wine lovers around the world, they develop friendships
  • Those in remote communities that don’t have access to wine classes can participate
  • When you finish the course it’s not over as we continue to meet regularly online to taste together

 

You can take my free sample class: 5 Wine & Food Pairing Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Dinner (and how to fix them forever)

 

 

Mosel Valley River

 

We then chatted about what a sample class inside the full course might include, like an in-depth tasting of German wines and food pairings:

  • Fascinating history and trivia, dinner party conversation: steep slopes 65 degrees, 300 mile long Mosel River
  • How to read the labels and find bargains in the liquor store, greatest value, aging potential
  • Riesling and Pinot Noir Spätburgunder for spring
  • Incredible range of styles for Riesling, low alcohol, high flavour
  • Food pairings and what to avoid for clashing
  • Travel tips when visiting the regions

 

 

 

Henkell & Co. Trocken
Baden, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relax Bubbles
Mosel, Germany

 

 

 

 

Franken Wine Region

 

 

 

 

Dachshund Wines Pinot Grigio
Rheinhessen, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Villa Wolf Pinot Noir
Pfalz, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

Ahr Wine Region

 

 

 

 

Relax Riesling
Moselle, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bend In The River Riesling
Pfalz, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

Achkarren, Kaiserstuhl, Achkarrener Schlossberg

 

 

 

 

 

Schloss Schönborn Estate Feinherb Riesling
Rheingau Qualitätswein, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moselland Piesporter Michelsberg Riesling Kabinett
Mosel, Germany

 

 

 

 

Blick-auf-Oberbergen-Kaiserstuhl

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Loosen Blue Slate Riesling Kabinett
Mosel Prädikatswein, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted with permission of CTV.

 

 

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