VINIDA winetasting - A Tour of France

19 June, Friday, A Tour of France

France is unquestionably the most significant country of the wine world. Many regions have made a name for themselves over the course of decades and centuries. Some produce many of the world's most desirable and expensive wines - especially Burgundy, Bordeaux and Champagne. But that’s also the problem: once the greatest wines became unreachably expensive they pulled up many others behind them. Much of the ink is spilled about just a handful of producers - and even entry level Bourgogne Rouge is now often quite an expensive wine, rarely deserving its price tag.

While ‘France’ as a brand carries a premium itself, many other regions like the Loire, Alsace, Rhône, Languedoc and the patchwork of Southwest France have by and large avoided the price increase. And that is what we will investigate: white, red, rosé - maybe even sparkling or fortified.

We will tour the country (sans vélo) and taste 8 wines from all over France, including wines from some of the most exciting regions and even downright iconic producers. Through the tasting we will also identify a number of other good value appellations worth looking out for, identify top trends changing the landscape of French wine (for the better) and look at what regulatory changes are improving the future of French winemaking.

This tasting will be presented in English by Denmark’s blind wine tasting champion, Domen Prešern DipWSET (domen@talkingwine.dk).

This tasting is open for everyone, but as we sometimes will be very detailed, it does give a better experience, if you have some basic knowledge of wines. A good help is to study this “cheat-sheet” kortlink.dk/2pdep and kortlink.dk/2pdfs, to get a basic understanding of wines, their appearance, aromas, flavours and structure.

It is possible to order a quick snack meal served at 18:10. Options will be sent.

The presentation will be in English

All the best,

Domen

It is possible to order a quick snack meal served at 18:10.

The presentation will be in English

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This event is organised by Poul Tang poul.tang@m.ida.dk – 51 71 52 40.