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Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant offers a series of educational and entertaining classes that are designed to make wine more accessible, less mysterious and more enjoyable. Join us by purchasing our classes in our Browse & Order section. Our Core Classes Include: Fundamentals of Wine & Food Pairing Our Specialty Classes Include: Demystifying Champagne and Sparkling Wine Class Schedule:
Our team of instructors includes:
Together, we have many years of experience teaching wine programs at consumer and professional levels, both in the US and internationally. There will be two core classes repeated in our curriculum. We will rotate instructors as each of us brings a slightly different emphasis or perspective to the material. Demystifying Champagne and Sparkling Wine Champagne? CAVA? Prosecco? Crémant? Sparkling wine? These are all wines with bubbles, but have you ever wondered how they differ? And why is Champagne usually so much more expensive than its bubbly brethren? We are here to help, and although this class is timed perfectly for the holidays, part of our message is that good sparkling wine, in whatever form, isn' t just for celebrations. We love it as daily fare. Won' t you join us? Fundamentals of Wine & Food Pairing Should we adhere to the old rigid rules and drink only white with fish? Only red with meats? Or are these rules simply a gustatory straight jacket? Should we pair specific grape varieties with certain dishes or foods? Or is the whole idea of wine & food pairing just another ruse used by the wine police to keep consumers in a state of intimidation?
With the basic principles we illustrate, you will be able to further explore and relish the game of wine & food pairing every time you sit down to enjoy a meal. Understanding these dynamics is not an end point - it is the start of a delicious, life long journey. Introduction to Chocolate & Wine Pairing Many wine drinkers, when presented with the opportunity to pair chocolate with wine, fall back on conventional wisdom and reach for Cabernet Sauvignon. To be blunt, we kind of scratch our heads at that idea, and suspect that it started as a marketing notion somewhere in the wine world and took on a life of its own. So if Cabernet is "conventional" but not so "wise" with chocolate, then what does work? You might be surprised! We can think of no better partners for this decadent exploration of Chocolate & Wine than Michael and Jacky Recchiuti, owners and chocolate maestri at Recchiuti here in the Ferry Building. Introduction to Wine & Cheese Pairing Two of life’s greatest pleasures – fine wines and delicious, hand made cheeses. They always work together, right? Not so fast, folks. Since opening in the Ferry Building three years ago we have worked closely with our neighbors, Cowgirls Creamery, purveyors of superb cheeses. Wine merchants and cheese mongers, are continually surprised and challenged by this wonderful game of pairing wines and cheeses in ways that put both on their best footing, and it is sometimes trickier than you might imagine. Joining us for this gustatory excursion and lending her prodigious experience with cheese will be Peggy Smith, co-founder of Cowgirl Creamery. Pinot Noir. Sigh . . . Known in the wine world as the fickle one, the jealous mistress, the mercurial, the Holy Grail. Pinot is temperamental in the vineyard, and unpredictable in the winery, but when the resulting wine is good, it is among the wine world' s most purely hedonistic. This class will introduce Pinot Noir from the US, New Zealand and Burgundy. It should whet your appetite for further exploration of the grape and the regions where it thrives. Wine Tasting Technique Deconstructed Does reading the voluminous and almost garish wine tasting notes written by the most influential wine critics leave you scratching your head? Or looking for a draft beer spigot to nuzzle up to when nobody is looking? We understand. Truth be told, it leaves us scratching our heads too! Our approach in this class is different.
Wine Tasting Technique Deconstructed Intermediate* Your wish is our command – this is the class most requested by attendees of “Wine Tasting Technique Deconstructed”! Our “Wine Tasting Technique Deconstructed” class, offered several times yearly, covers the all-important fundamentals; in this session we will take your tasting skills to the next level. You will leave this class with a better understanding of your own wine preferences, an enhanced ability to communicate them, and an improved grasp of the differences between wine grape varieties. Along the way, we will continue to address the unending challenge of describing wine, and to demystify the “winespeak” of critics and the wine press.
Together, this class and the introductory session will set the stage for the Expert Level class where we will explore deductive tasting technique as taught by the Master Sommelier program, an analytical approach to “Blind Tasting.” * Although it is not required, we recommend taking our “Wine Tasting Technique Deconstructed” class prior to the Intermediate class offered above. For more information about our educational classes, please contact us at wineclub@fpwm.com or call 415-288-0470 during business hours. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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