Wine Class - Making Sense of Taste

Ever think about taking a wine class? They're a lot of fun, laid back, a great way to meet cool people and best of all - you really do learn a LOT about wine. There's an excellent feature piece in the Sacramento Bee today chronicling the authors experiences with a weekend long class. He explains the methods instructors use to teach the students, recounting the sorts of tasks they had to accomplish. If you're one of the many people out there who have always thought about taking a class but always worried it would be too cheesy or not worth the money, this is a good place to start getting up the courage to take the plunge.

From The Bee:

The good news for me and, at a lesser level, for everyone in this class is that it's so smartly run and so enjoyable that you'd have to work hard to not learn something from it and to not have fun . . . Although this was an introductory class aimed at pretty much anyone interested in wine, a tad more than half of the 60 people were in the wine or food biz, including a chef from New York and a young couple opening a winery – wish them luck – in New Jersey. There were also plenty of people in various stages of happy wine fandom.