Who It's For: drinkers who like their wine with a bit of history attached and anyone who has ever wondered why some regions blend and others do not.
Every legendary blend in the wine world started as an answer to a specific problem. A cold climate that needed hedging. Grapes that ripened at different times. Rules that needed breaking. Traditions built village by village over generations. Once you know what each blend was trying to solve, the wines make a lot more sense.
This class walks through five of the most important blends in wine. Champagne. Bordeaux. The GSM of the southern Rhône. The Super Tuscan revolution of the 1970s. And the traditional Rioja blend, where each grape carries a specific job description. We taste through examples of each and cover the geography, the history, and the reason those particular grapes ended up in the same bottle.