Wine is a quite sophisticated product that will require you specific knowledge, practice and experience if you want to understand it. Nowadays the ability to order the right wine is a necesity as it lets you understand whether it’s worth it to pay a big price for the product. A brief overview of the world’s wine industry, trends and history. How much you should pay for wine.
Tips for choosing and buying wine. Fundamentals of organoleptic analysis of wine. The main wine-producing regions. Grape variety. Wine classification.Tips on how to read and interprete the labels. Wine degustation. Our friend, Maksim Blaz, is a true travel lover: he studied in England and has been working in the restaurants with the best wine lists in Europe after his graduation.
The famous La Tour D’Argent (Paris) and Manoir aux Quat’saisons (Oxford) are among them. He worked as an apprentice sommelier in France, Switzerland and England before coming to Spain. Today Maksim is a head sommelier in Vila Viniteca winehouse, a place where you’ll be offered a professional assistance on the best world wine collections.
Vila Viniteca winehouse invites you to visit its “Area Gourmet”, a small “Boqueria” alike spot in the district of Born: a huge variety of cheeses and Spanish jam (jamón), cosy cafeteria and a cellar. The winehouse can offer a great variety of wines and appetizers from its gastronomic collection. Maksim will be glad to share the secrets of popular wine production, guide you through the degustation experience and offer you assistance during sommelier courses.