| Corporate & Private Events.
At Wine For All, whether
we are planning a corporate team-building session, a private
dinner party or a trade seminar, entertainment is always as
important as education. Every event is distinct, but some
of the principles regularly included are:
- what to look for in a wine
- what makes food and wine go together
- reading labels and wine lists
- service and storage basics
- why wines cost what they do
- when vintages really matter
- trends in the marketplace
Wine For All's events are
always customized to fit clients' specific goals, but here
are some general formats work well with groups from 12 to
250:
Up Close
and Personal with the King & Queen
Around the World in Ten Glasses
Wine Lists Decoded
Battle of the Bottles
Blind Man's Bluff
Stick a Fork in It
Click on the link below to
view a takeaway developed to reinforce some of the ideas we
go over in tastings:
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Habits of Highly Effective Wine Drinkers
Up Close and Personal
with the King & Queen
Why mess with success? Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay are
the most popular varietal wines in America today. Through
two sets of four wines, we explore the differences among Cabs
and Chards of the world. Along the way, we get to impersonate
wine critics and, best of all, get a sense of which styles
we like.
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Around the World in Ten
Glasses
Retail wine shelves out there can be a jungle, what with hundreds
of bottlings from all over the world. We shake some sense
out of the chaos by discovering wines one grape and one region
at a time, tasting what makes specific bottles so different.
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Wine Lists Decoded
Many people are afraid of the apparent complexity of wine
lists, plus the ritualized pressure associated with choosing
THE right wine. Such fears are easily relieved with a no-nonsense
guide to how wines are "listed" and what strategies to use
when reading a list and enlisting help from the server, whether
itıs a uniformed sommelier or uninformed waiter.
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Battle of the Bottles
Stone Cold Steve Austin has nothing on us. Like wrestling,
wine tasting is at its best when dramas unfold, plots thicken
and rivalries come alive. For this event, we pit champions
against challengers, Old World vs. New, even expensive vs.
cheap. Imagine, in one glass, a classic red Burgundy made
by a family-owned estate that dates back to the Crusades...and
in the other, a Santa Barbara Pinot made buy a guy whose license
plate reads "Surf Dude."
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Blind Man's Bluff
Tailored to connoisseurs or to novices, this tasting plays
off the classic "blind" style of wine evaluation, in which
samples are poured without clues as to their identity. Blind-tasting
can be both humbling and liberating as people reach for their
inner palate, unburdened by preconceptions.
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Stick a Fork in It
Wine is meant for food. But which wine with which food?! The
sheer number of possibilities is enough to provoke anxiety
in otherwise calm, sensible people. Antidote: a wine-pairing
dinner. We select wines to go with the menu of your choice
and then present the rationale as the meal unfolds.
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