Who It's For: Adventurous drinkers, students building beyond the basics, and anyone whose wine shopping has gotten a little too predictable.
The global wine conversation runs on a very short list of grapes. Cabernet, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot, Riesling, and a handful more. Meanwhile, more than a thousand other varieties are being grown, bottled, and quietly poured somewhere on the planet, many of them producing wines that would land firmly in your regular rotation if you had ever encountered them.
This class pulls a lineup entirely from grapes most drinkers have never tasted. Indigenous varieties preserved by growers who refused to rip them out. Regional workhorses that never made the trip abroad. Grapes on the way back from near-extinction. We taste across the flight, cover where each one comes from and what makes it worth knowing, and give you names to remember the next time a wine list has something unfamiliar on it.