Who It's For: Intermediate wine students and curious drinkers who want to move beyond variety and start understanding place.
Gamay is one of the most soil-sensitive grapes on the planet, which makes it the perfect subject for this experiment. In this class, we are using a single variety as a lens to explore how soil composition shapes everything in the glass: the texture, the weight, the acidity, the finish, and the personality of the wine itself.
We will be tasting through bottles sourced from distinctly different growing environments, and the differences will be anything but subtle. This is not a class about Gamay per se. It is a class about the ground beneath the vines and what it has to say.
Come ready to taste critically, think spatially, and leave with a framework you can apply to any grape you study next.
Educator: Joel Verbist