Hone your wine tasting and evaluating skills.
Chuck Blethen, owner of Jewel of the Blue Ridge Vineyard & Greenhouse, is offering online classes for the serious wine/grape buff.
Each class is $10. Choose any 5 for $40. Take all 24 classes for $200.
Each class will be presented at 7 p.m. in the evening.
Register online at www.JeweloftheBlueRidge.com.
2020 Online Mountain Grape School Classes
March
- March 23 – Basic Biodynamics in Viticulture
- March 25 – Vines to Wines – How commercial wine is made.
- March 26 – Grape Grazing – The tools you need to know how to hone your wine tasting/evaluating skills.
- March 30 – Grab Your Glass! – The proper way to deal with wine, corks, toasts, etc.
- March 31 – Mead Me there! – Learn about the world’s oldest alcoholic beverage, mead.
April
- April 2 – German Wine Regions – Familiarize yourself with the grapes, names and places and wine characteristics of each region.
- April 6 – Reading German Wine Labels – Understanding the various category names on German wines.
- April 7 – Wine Regions of New South Wales – Review the Australian Wine regions near Sydney to familiarize yourself with the names and places.
- April 9 – Wine Regions of Victoria – Review the Australian Wine regions near Melbourne to familiarize yourself with the names and places.
- April 13 – New Zealand Wine Regions – Familiarize yourself with the grapes, names and places and wine characteristics of each.
- April 15 – Italian Wine Regions
- April 16 – How to Read Italian Wine Labels – How to interpret Italian wine labels.
- April 20 – Grappa Wha? – Review of the eau de vie (water of life) of Italy – Grappa
- April 22 – Greek Wine Regions
- April 23 – Its Greek to Me – How to interpret Greek wine labels
- April 27 – French Wine Regions
- April 28 – How to Read French Wine Labels – How to interpret French wine labels
- April 30 – Spanish Wine Regions
May
- May 4 – How to Read Spanish Wine Labels – How to interpret Spanish wine labels
- May 5 – Portuguese Wine Regions – The various wine regions in Portugal
- May 7 – South African Wine Regions – The various wine regions in South Africa
- May 11 – Austrian Wine Regions – The various wine regions in Austria
- May 12 – Chilean Wine Regions – The various wine regions in Chile
- May 14 – Argentine Wine Regions – The various wine regions in Argentina
Each class includes 20 to 40 Powerpoint slides and is presented online using ZOOM, a video conference system.
Register online at www.JeweloftheBlueRidge.com.
Chuck Blethen is the author of The Wine Etiquette Guide (2006), and Entertaining with Wine (2019).
He is a member of the North Carolina Muscadine Grape Association.
