WEDNESDAY MAY 13TH 8:30 PM

Blind Tasting: Not As Douchey As It Sounds

For most people, wine industry folks included, blind tasting wines is an intimidating endeavor. It seems like either an impossibility or an ego-stroking parlor trick. But it's neither: blind tasting wines is a tool that allows you to unpack what you like (or dislike) about a wine, free from distractions and preconceived opinions. When the goal is to assess and describe quality for your own enjoyment, and not to showcase your wine chops, it becomes much more fun. 

Taste-a-Long with Alexis on Wednesday, 5/6 at 8:30 p.m. Learn the basics of blind tasting and how it can help you build your wine vocabulary and identify your taste preferences. To taste along in a group, pick bottles you enjoy and blind taste each other. If you are flying solo, ask your wine shop to select a bottle(s) for you. Explain the premise, your budget and ask them to bag it before pick up. Alexis advises single grape bottlings from known regions that reflect the traditional style of that place. 

Ruffian Wine Shop will be offering a “blind” 2 pack, if you are in the NYC area, of the 2 wines Alexis will use for the class