Wine Tasting Classes Chicago - Wine Tasting 201: Building Your Palate

Wine Tasting 201: Building Your Palate

with TC Safavi

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5.0 | 2 reviews

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ABOUT THIS EVENT

Event Category

Food & Drink

Event Overview

*This is a continuing class. Please sign up after having taken "Wine Tasting Like A Pro."

Fruit, Earth, Wood. Is that stone fruit you smell, or a hint of honeydew? Slate, or limestone? Your first wine tasting class has made you realize two things: 1. You don't eat nearly enough fruit and 2. you definitely haven't licked any rocks recently.

In this class, continuing Dabblers will practice smelling and tasting the weird things classically used to describe wine, side by side with the wine itself. What the heck do currants taste like anyway? Has anyone ever actually seen a quince? Save the embarrassment of sniffing the ground next time you visit a little alpine village, or the leather chair in the study next time you visit grandpa -- we'll have wet rocks, woodchips and cigar boxes for your inhaling pleasure ... all in the privacy of a classroom where other people are doing it, too.

Let's get weird.

Minimum age

All ages welcome

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MORE ABOUT YOUR HOST

TC Safavi

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TC runs the staff wine training program at Lettuce Entertain You's Nacional 27, and recently helped start the wine program at Pasteur. She is level one introductory certified with the Court Of Master Sommeliers and will be testing for level two certification in September.

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EXPERIENCE REVIEWS

Viktoria R.
Reviewed on 07/25/13

This class took us through two blind tastings, one white and one red, and gave us a chance to taste actual food and mineral items that are normally present in wines so as to help us identify what was actually in our glasses. For example, picking out lime specifically, rather than simply calling a flavor "citrus," was made easy because we had lemons, limes, grapefruit and orange wedges to try along with our wine. TC had even boiled slate and limestone so we could taste the water it had been boiled in - what a fantastic idea!

This class took us through two blind tastings, one white and one red, and gave us a chance to taste actual food and mineral items that are normally present in wines so as to help us identify what was actually in our glasses. For example, picking out lime specifically, rather than simply calling a flavor "citrus," was made easy because we had lemons, limes, grapefruit and orange wedges to try along with our wine. TC had even boiled slate and limestone so we could taste the water it had been boiled in - what a fantastic idea!
Dabble Student
Reviewed on 10/10/12

very knowledgeable instructor. variety of wines and foods to sample. small class.

very knowledgeable instructor. variety of wines and foods to sample. small class.