The world of wine has gotten weirder, wider, and wilder than somebody doing my job only a little a while ago could have imagined.
Marginalized regions neglected for decades are waking up. Farmers are renewing soils long dead from industrial agriculture. New generations of makers are reviving ancestral folkways and experimenting with things nobody’s seen before. People who tradition has locked out of winemaking, land ownership, and compensation for their labor are fighting for, and gaining, access.
I fell in love with wine because you could see the whole world through it. What do you want to think about? Chemistry, history, geology? Aesthetics, settler colonialism, the language of trees? It’s all in the glass.
Whether in person or remotely, we’ll learn languages to help us find new delicious things to drink, and the histories that brought them to us.
Recaps of past classes here.
In-Person
MAP / PAINT / DRINK
Plus de Vin, Williamsburg BK
Sunday afternoons, 3pm
Jan 18 – FERMENT. Emilia Romagna land of cured ham and hard cheese, ancestral fizz of every color, the anti-champagne 🌓 [tickets]
Feb 8 – COMMUNITY. Burgenland, curled around a hard border and a shallow sea. when do you know you’re in love? 🌗 [tickets]
MOON CYCLE SCHOOL
Stranger Wines, Williamsburg BK
Thursday evenings, 6pm
INDUSTRY TASTING GROUP
Lise & Vito
Monday afternoons, 3:30pm
coming soon!
Stay tuned for pop-ups, dinners, and workshops anywhere we find a space run by friends, colleagues, and people we love, or reach out to chat about private events.
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