Savor late spring and summer with a wine tasting built for its best moments – sunsets at The Fly, pool days, backyard BBQs, live music and daily thunderstorms. Light, bright, interesting and utterly New Orleans. Jessica Cogan will lead this tasting of 10 wines she has paired with things to do and places to go!

Domaine Huet is a legendary producer making wines that can age for decades. While the wines are enjoyable upon release, they are meant to age, meaning most people never get to experience the wines at their best. Thanks mostly to a library release from the domaine we have a fantastic assortment of their Moelleux wines from, inarguably, some of the best vineyards in Vouvray. Moelleux translates as ‘soft’ or ‘sweet’ and they have residual sugar but less than what we think of as dessert wines. A Bordeaux website says “The French term can also be used to describe a dry wine whose fat dominates its acidity.” In some vintages, Huet produces two versions of their Moelleux from each vineyard, denoting some as Première Trie (first sort or first pick). We will greet you with their sparkling wine and then move on to a wine nerd’s dream of single vineyard comparisons, Première Trie and ‘regular’ Moelleux from the same vintage, plus half of the wines are from the 2003 vintage.

Class has filled but we are accepting wait list requests. Although Marco de Grazia released his first vintages of these wines in 2002, most of the vines date back decades and some are pre-phylloxera (140+ years old). Join us for a deep-dive into Etna, a region Marco calls “The Burgundy of the Mediterranean.” We are lucky to have access to wines with some age on them and this should allow us to see more of what they will become than you can with the current releases. Marco was a pioneer of bottling wines from contrade (single vineyards) and of putting them in Burgundy-shaped bottles. Etna reds are often compared to Pinot Noir and Nebbiolo but let’s decide for ourselves after tasting. We will begin with three whites from the 2019 vintage, which should offer good insight into the terroir. Seven reds will follow, most of them from the 2018 vintage for more terroir insight but there will be a vintage comparison as well with 2018 and 2020 versions of the same wine.