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[Event Has Passed] Flatiron Wine School: Finding the Words for Wine, 1/14/2025

$50.00
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Difficulty level: Wine 101
Julia has spent the last 16 years writing about and talking about wine, and if there's one thing she's learned, it's that what most people find most intimidating about wine is the vocabulary. What does it mean when a wine is "austere?" What about tasting notes of "pencil shavings" or "pear drop"? How can we read between the lines on a shelf tag or professional review? If you've settled into some favorite regions and wine styles, but still find yourself lacking the words to explain your tastes and describe the wines in front of you, this class is for you. Julia will walk you through a delicious tasting while helping you interpret common wine terms, build your nose-to-memory connection, and develop a wine language that is meaningful to you.

This class will begin at 6:00pm on Tuesday, January 14 and run for approximately 90 minutes. Wines tasted in class will be available for purchase with a discount available to attendees only. Seating is limited.

Meet your instructor

Julia Burke

Julia has been working in the wine industry since 2008, when she wandered into a small Niagara Escarpment winery for a tasting and left with a job. Her roles since then have included wine (and beer) writer and editor, vineyard worker in Southern Wisconsin, retail buyer in Chicago, harvest intern in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and communications/education manager for Willamette Valley Wine. She is now Flatiron's events manager and buyer for New World wines. 

A passionate educator, Julia has been teaching classes, seminars, private events and tutoring sessions on wine for over a decade. She is a certified WSET instructor and holds a WSET Diploma in Wine & Spirits as well as an Italian Wine Professional certification. Julia believes in the power of wine to facilitate important conversations about sustainability, agriculture, labor, memory and psychology, and she has never fallen out of love with wine's ability to combine topics from geography and microbiology to language, politics and history in unexpected ways. 

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Mark Hallinan
Excellent Class - Well Taught

The presenter was fabulous. She was very good at helping us understand the terms that are best used in describing wines so that we can engage thoughtfully with sales clerks when seeking wine to our liking. She had a warm and engaging presence and her humor helped make the evening all the more enjoyable.

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