Tag: Wasatch Academy of Wine
With just two weeks left to shop for that perfect gift, inspiration beyond the same old Best Buy gift card or bundle of socks can be tough. With that in mind we asked our writers to come up with...
The spring French Wine Scholar class drew to a close after a series of ten weeks of classes with 13 students sitting for the post nominal test. Congratulations to Coy, Andrea, Lansin, Marianne, Rebecca and Neal for becoming Utah’s...
The grand tour of French wines comes to an end this week. We finish our journey in Provence and Corsica.
Provence is France’s oldest winemaking region and the only one in the world to focus primarily on the production of...
The Rhône Valley is in southern France and divides itself into two distinct areas: Northern and Southern Rhône. Climates and soils vary greatly between the two but there are two things that connect them: the Rhône River and the...
We’ve arrived in the South of France this week in class. So, we turn our attention to Bordeaux and the wines of Southwest France.
The wines of Bordeaux are a revered French wine icon. They are age-worthy and highly prized....
The Loire Valley is known as France’s Garden. In 2000, the central (Middle) portion was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. With more than 300 castles and chateaux, the French say that the Loire is a queen...
This week, we actually studied three regions in France: Savoie, Jura and Beaujolais.
Beaujolais
Beaujolais is a small wine growing region just to the south of Bourgogne. The land is only 34 miles long and 7-9 miles in width.
The grapes...
The most important lesson from our Bourgogne class: Bourgogne = Burgundy. For some reason, Bourgogne was the only French wine region to be translated, and in English-speaking countries is called Burgundy. It’s long caused confusion to consumers who find...
“The sparkling wine that is Champagne cannot be duplicated anywhere else on earth. Sparkling wines produced around the world, even when made from the same grape varieties, using the same production method, do not deliver the same product. They...
Wine wisdom from the Alsace region:
Pinot Noir is the only red grape grown in the Alsace region.
Bottles with long, tapered necks are Alsatian.
Best known for dry Rieslings and sparkling white and rosé wines (Crémant d’Alsace AOC).
Wasatch Academy of Wine...
