IN THIS ISSUE:
A. Feature:
Escaping into the High-End of Wine
B. Event Highlights:
Upcoming Wine Tasting Dinners
C. Wine Elite Philosophy:
Great Philosophical Issues in Wine
This is
Sommelier Insight, the Wine Elite's update for wine aficionados, meetings & event professionals, as well as restaurant managers.
Each month, we deliver event ideas, a schedule of upcoming wine appreciation workshops, and objective information on wine from the perspective of independent sommeliers.
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A. Great Escape to High-End Wines Makes Sense
Our sommelier and wine expert team regularly compares some of the best wines of the world in front of appropriate audiences. Usually, there is good reason for a wine to be priced at an exceptional level, north of $300 per bottle.
The firm's lead wine educator
Dr. Dwight Furrow recently found a new emotional home in the high-end, after years of looking for the hidden gold in the field of budget wines. See here Dwight's attempt of clarifying this move.
"As a wine writer engaged in wine criticism, I taste a lot of wine. Some of it is dreadful, most is enjoyable but ordinary, occasionally it is luscious, delectable, and captivating, and on rare occasions the experience is earth-shatteringly profound.
Wines such as Screaming Eagle, Vega Sicilia, Chateau Margaux, or Romano Dal Forno Amarone transcend ordinary experience–not merely delicious but life-changing, beyond measure, a vinous work of art.
If you have read many wine reviews you know what makes wine excellent. Intensity of aromas and flavors, complexity, balance, and structure adding up to an overall impression of unity and completeness–these are the main elements in an excellent wine. But the best wines go beyond mere excellence.
What distinguishes an excellent wine from a work of profound, awe-inspiring vinous art? The cynics claim it is fascination with the price or reputation. But I drink a lot of high priced wines of reputation that I find unexceptional, so this explanation can’t really get off the ground.
Others will claim it is the story behind the wine that is most fascinating. And there is something right about this. Wine tells a story about its place of origin or its vintage year written in the flavors and textures of the wine itself–the weather, the soils, the sensibility of a culture and the decisions of the winemaker all leave their marks that can be read off the features of the wine.
But ordinary artisanal wines have such stories, yet they do not fascinate in the way Screaming Eagle or Chateau Margaux fascinates."
Read the second half & full verbalization of beauty in wine
HERE on Dwight's website.
B. Upcoming Public Wine Tastings in Southern California
Our Wine Elite Society hosts an ongoing series of sommelier-guided wine tasting dinners for the public, often in our signature blind-tasting format.
Email for info and reservations.
May and June Wine Elite Society public tastings:
Orange County
San Diego
Sign up for these groups if you live in the area, and join dinners that include the greatest wines of the world.
You will also connect with many serious wine lovers in our tastings.
Upcoming tastings include Sine Qua None, Screaming Eagle, Sea Smoke, several 1982 Grand Cru Bordeaux... our monthly tastings are everything a wine lover could wish for.
C. Wine Elite Philosophy:
Free Online Seminar about Great Philosophical Issues in Wine
Our wine specialist Adam Edmonsond has been dispatched to report to the Society of Wine Educators about the most important philosophical concepts in wine.
You can join the free webinar of his findings on the upcoming Friday, together with many dozens of wine lovers across the country who follow our bi-monthly seminar series with the Society of Wine Educators.
Friday, June 5th, 2015 at 12 noon Cental time.
All you need is a computer with audio.
Here's how you join: Click
HERE and look for the description below. The site will offer a "join session" option an hour before the seminar.
The webinar layout looks like this. Enjoy!
Overview of our Resources for Your Use:
Catalog for Corporate Wine Tasting Events
Catalog of Wine Elite Programs for Restaurants
Topic Suggestions for Private Events
Private Wine Event Checklist
Whiskey Tasting Tips
GrapeRadio Interview
Speaker Profile at GigMasters
Public Speaker Program on Wine One-Sheet
Wine Elite Corporate Event Video
Essential Wine Tips 2-Pager
Special Events Idea One-Sheet
Program Brochure for Team Building Events
