This two-and-a-half-hour wine salon and tasting will help deepen your understanding of wine, elevate your knowledge on how best to drink it, and help you buy more bubble for your buck, whatever your wine budget.
Participants will be exposed to two key wine concepts, grape varietal and terroir, beginning with a meditative stance aimed at waking one’s senses and enhancing one’s concentration for the appreciation of wine. This will be followed by a guided discussion and tasting of six wines that illustrate varietal and terroir, while considering the most conducive ways in which to help wines express their particular qualities.
This ecologically sensitive, meditative and interactive wine salon will include discussion on the benefits of decanting, using the correct glasses, serving wines at their correct temperatures and drinking wine in the right surroundings, with the right food and the right people.
Whether you wish to enhance your pleasure drinking wine at home, increase your confidence buying it in wine stores and ordering it in restaurants, start your own wine club or just know the “truth” about wine, this evening wine salon will provide you with the know-how.
The wine salon will be presented by certified wine educator S Fuller, a committed wine lover since picking up her first glass of Chablis Grand Cru in 1973. She worked in the wine industry as a wine educator at functions, in stores and at tastings from 1973 to 1979, studying economics, politics and jurisprudence at university (1975-1977) at the same time — as classic a mix as the Bordeaux her wine career sometimes afforded her. She passed the required three-part examinations to achieve her culminating wine qualification in 1975. A career in journalism from 1979 to 1987 enabled her to keep sipping fine wine.
She arrived in B.C some two decades ago with her family, just as the province’s wine-growing culture was being rewritten by the trade agreement of 1988. In 1998 she set up a wine club called “In Search of the Divine Bottle” (a.k.a. The Quality Quaffers), now in its 11th year, whose 27 events have since drawn a total of 80 participants who have emptied some 330 bottles. A book entitled, “In Search of the Divine Bottle: Educating Your Palate with the Best” will be out this year.
She is also a certified meditation instructor, having received her Meditation Teacher Diploma from the Thailand-based Willpower Institute in Bangkok in 2004.
The wine salon will be held around the time the harvest begins in the Northern Hemisphere, on Thursday, September 10, 2009, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Solaris Wellness Spa, 2200 West 4th Ave, Kitsilano, Vancouver. Contact S Fuller at 604-736-0906, or at dr.s@shaw.ca. You can also visit her at www.spaforthemind.com. Participation is limited to eight. Cost, including the tasting of six wines with cheese, is $75 each. Three-hour salon wine workshop available also at custom venues for $500, or eight hours for $1,000.
©S Fuller 2011