Who it’s for: Curious drinkers ready to meet a grape they have been underestimating and anyone whose love of Cab Franc doesn’t stop at one bottle of Chinon.
Cabernet Franc is one of wine’s great reluctant stars. For most of its history, it was treated as the quiet grape in the blend, the structural helper, the one you did not need to name on the label. Then a handful of producers around the world started bottling it alone, and the drinking public finally caught up to what sommeliers had been saying for years. The grape rewards attention. It gives you pencil shavings and crushed violets, red fruit edged with graphite, and a kind of nervous energy that very few grapes can match.
This class puts that range in front of you in one sitting. The versions grown where the grape is already the local hero. The versions coming out of regions still deciding what they want it to be. The expressions that lean savory and the ones that lean plush. Every pour is an argument for why Cab Franc should be taking up more space on your shelf, your wine list, and your weekly rotation.