Wine lessons 1 - Agriturismo Agrigento, Menfi - Tenuta Stoccatello Sicilia

INTRODUCTORY WINE CLASS

in one lesson

    Tenuta Stoccatello and Cantine Barbera Wine Class offers courses in learning about wine - how to taste, identify, and enjoy different wines, combining useful and distinctive information, a relaxed atmosphere, and a tasting of specifically chosen wines.Our focus is to develop a basic knowledge of wine, wine evaluation, wine description and wine and food pairing. Classes are typically about three hours long, covering the fundamentals of wine growing and winemaking and providing a basic approach to visual, olfactory, and gustatory evaluation of wine. At the end of the Wine Class a tasting of three wines is featured, typically a white, a red and a sweet wine.

  Price per person: 35 euro.

Number of participants: from 10 to 20.

All participants must be older than 18.

   PROGRAM

 ·         A guided visit to the winery: the fermentation hall, the cellar and the bottling.

·         An introduction to the world of wine: history of winegrowing, market evolution.

·         Wine growing fundamentals: the vine’s life cycle, from the planting to the ripening of the grapes.

 ·         The different varietals: native and international grapes.

 ·         Winemaking fundamentals: primary fermentation, malolactic fermentation, barrel aging, stabilization and bottling.

 ·         The correct keeping of the wines.

 ·         The wine service: how to open a bottle, the correct glassware for every wine.

·         The Sensory Analysis: the visual, olfactory, and gustatory evaluation of wine.

·         Tasting of three wines.