Who It's For: Beginners and intermediate students, sparkling wine drinkers ready to know more than "Champagne good”
Sparkling wine looks like a single category from the outside. It is really a family of very different techniques, each one shaping the finished wine in ways you can taste once you know what to look for. The method matters as much as the grape and the place.
This class works through the five production styles that define modern sparkling wine. Ancestral method for pét-nat and its more rustic cousins. Traditional method for Champagne, Cava, and any serious sparkling built around aging on the lees. Tank method for Prosecco and the fresher, fruit-forward category. The Asti method, a less familiar approach built around aromatic grapes and lower alcohol. And carbonation, the method most drinkers unfairly dismiss without knowing where and why it shows up. We taste examples of each side by side and cover why a producer would choose one over another.