Experience Wine offers tastings designed specifically for you and your guests.
Examples of themed tastings we can provide.
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New to Wine
Are you new to the wine world and want to learn how to taste it and recognize different tasting notes that differentiate dry from sweet, red from white? This is also a great option for folks who have recently turned 21.
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Single Varietal or all Reds/Whites
Do you only enjoy red or white wines? Is your favorite wine Cabernet Sauvignon, but want to try a few side-by-side to recognize the differences? This in-depth tasting puts your preferences front and center.
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Region Specific
Want to know more about wine from Italy? California? France? Chile? Australia? This is a great option if you’d like a guided tour of a chosen wine region that will also include information on the region’s history, topography, and geography!
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Far Flung
This is for the Wine Adventurer! The most sweet, the most dry, the oldest, the newest. This tasting is designed to keep you and your palate on your toes with wines from all over the world with a vast array of tasting notes.
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The "This is Not My First Rodeo"
Have you been enjoying and tasting wine for awhile and want to get into the nitty gritty of each wine? Or perhaps you’d like something old or rare? This may not be the most inexpensive option, but boy is it fun.
Have another idea in mind? Let us know! We’re happy to tailor this experience to you.
What Experience Wine Provides
For your in-person tasting event:
Experience Wine will provide a curated selection of wines, plus wineglasses, water, and palate cleansing nibbles for each taster, as well as tablecloths, dump buckets and wine lists. Experience Wine will open and provide a measured pour of all wines. We will provide set up and clean up, and will require access to running water and tables/chairs for the tasters. Most importantly, you will learn about and taste great wine with an expert educator: John is nationally recognized by Wine/Spirits Education Trust for his expertise in the wine world. Most importantly, he’s a guy who loves to share great wine with friends!
For your online tasting:
Experience Wine will provide a list of wines to be purchased and will work with you to make appropriate substitutions as needed for availability. John will guide you through each wine, just as if he were in your home with you!
Online tastings are presented through Zoom.
How much it costs
Our goal at Experience Wine is to provide the best possible tasting experience for your guests. We will teach you a bit about how to taste wine and how to appreciate that wine. We serve nothing less than great wine to guests in our home. So that’s what we will serve to your guests.
“Great” wine is never determined by the cost - it is determined by the care that went in to growing, making, aging, and storing that wine. Because John has invested many years of study into understanding the world of wine, his focus in providing great wine to your guests is based on that knowledge and not on the cost. That said, wine is a commodity where the cost is influenced by many factors, not limited to the current economy, the current climate for import/export in our changing world, wine availability at any given time and in our specific New England market, and other factors. Speaking in plain numbers, great wines can range from $10 to hundreds per bottle.
If you have a specific budget in mind, we are more than happy to work with that while still providing you and your guests with a high quality experience.
The costs are broken down into wine procurement fee, liability, and educator honorarium. For detailed cost breakdown in relation to your specific event, please send us a message.