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Program

1st day

The Bordeaux experience

Taking tasting a step further: refresher course on tasting objectives and methods
Building a wine cellar to suit your tastes

Lunch at a Bordeaux restaurant

Bordeaux wines: how to find your way around?

Finding your way around the Bordeaux wine trade: shippers, estates, cooperative cellars, etc.
Find out more about Bordeaux wines
Different sourcing patterns 
What do we learn from labels?

2nd day

The art of serving Bordeaux Wines

Choosing the right glasses 
Aeration and decanting 
What is the best temperature to appreciate Bordeaux wines?
Different types of corks 
Wine accessories

Lunch workshop

Bordeaux wine & food pairing

Basic principles 
Bordeaux wine pairings with food: a matter of taste
Food-wine matching experiments

Every workshop is illustrated by tastings of wines selected from the various Bordeaux AOC appellations. Each participant will receive a certificate at the end of the course.

Practical level

Bordeaux wines explained in the glass!

Objectives:

Over the course of two days, you will improve your ability to taste wine; stimulate your senses, learn how to better explain what you are tasting and enrich your wine tasting vocabulary.

Discover Bordeaux wines through in-depth blind tasting over two days. Learn about the principles of successful food and wine matching.