Late Summer WineSense

WineSense is Cork & Bottle’s series of incredibly informative Wednesday night wine tastings. Our New Orleans WineSense tastings are going into their sixth year (can you believe it?) and they STILL remain some of the most informational, enlightening, FUN and AFFORDABLE series of organized wine tastings the city of New Orleans has to offer. We keep each class size to around 20-25 people so you can enjoy your wine tasting with some elbow room. Each tasting will begin at 6:30 pm and will last for approximately one hour. Check this website two weeks in advance of each tasting for a listing of the wines to be poured.

For more questions or to make a reservation please call us at 504.483.6314 or just click the title of the tasting. Cheers!

8/12 Drink Yourself Blind, $20
In the wine business often times the best way to evaluate wine is totally blind.  That is to say that you evaluate the wine based on its color, aromatics and taste without any help whatsoever from the label.  Maybe we do this to keep our wine ego in check (a lot of times you can’t tell what’s what), but whatever the case a blind tasting allows the taster to evaluate wine without being biased by knowledge of variety, vintage, region or maker.  It’s a fun (and humbling) method of tasting wine and testing yourself on wine knowledge.  More importantly, it’s an approach to drinking wine that levels the playing field !  Let us teach you the ways to evaluate wine blind, its an experience you’ll love – trust us.  Oh, and there’ll be prizes for those of you who get the most right answers!

8/26 – If you Drink No Noir, You Pinot Noir, $25
Our own Laurie Delk will lead a tasting of 7 different styles of Pinot Noir from around the world from the subtle wines of Burgundy to the fruit bombs of Carneros in California to the “hybrid” style from Oregon and we’re even going to throw an Italian and New Zealand version as well. Lets just say that after the tasting you’ll be, ahem, Sideways with excitement about Pinot Noir.

9/9 – Over 90, under $20, $15
We always enjoy this class because its two classes in one, on one hand you get to taste 8 wines that are rated 90 points or over and cost under $20 and on the other hand we get to talk about ratings, who makes them, why they count and what it means to you. It’s a great class for beginners and an even better class for the experieanced value hunter!

9/16 –Stars of the Southern Hemisphere, $15
Jon Smith will be pouring through a line up of 6 great examples of new winemaking from South Africa, Argentina and Chile. This tasting is one part Southern Hemisphere 101 and one part stars from “the other down under.” These wines from South Africa, Argentina and Chile show the best of rich new world fruit with a definite European flair. We’ll be showing some nice everyday wines side by side some amazing Shiraz and Malbec that stand shoulder to shoulder with any wine from California or Europe.

9/30 – Cabernet from around the Globe, $40
No grand story here – just grand wines. The good news is that now, more than ever, there are more great Cabernets and Cabernet Blends coming out of California, Bordeaux and Australia than the world has ever seen. Many people want to dismiss these Cabernets as a big, heavy, dense wines . . . and they’re right, but with strength also sometimes comes beauty and it is our goal for this evening to show how some of the “cult” Cabernets from California match up with their counterparts from Bordeaux and how the new blockbuster Cabs from emerging countries fit into the mix. 7 Cabernet Sauvignon based wines at an average retail price of $65-70 all with instruction by Jon Smith on the individual components of a Bordeaux Blend. Its going to be a good one.

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