Description
About Outwitting the Wine List Class
It is the nerve center of wine anxiety: the restaurant, with its inflated prices, impenetrable lists, sometimes clueless servers, and public-speaking pressures. Relax: we’re going to cover concrete ways of maximizing your wine dollars in restaurants and demystify the tasting ritual.
We are going to discuss a slew of wine types which are safe to order and which ones to avoid. We will also explore fail-safe strategies of conversing with a sommelier so that you can order wine without a whiff of embarrassment. And we will cover one of the favorite solutions to overpriced wine lists: BYOB and how to do it gracefully.
Moreover, if you've ever been to one of Mark's presentations, you know it is brimming with humor and his trademark "nuggets" of useful insider information that you won't find anywhere else.
The cost of the class is $55 per household, and if you want to taste along with Mark, this special kit is available from Wine.com.
The featured wines are:
- Non-Champagne French Sparkler
- Assyrtiko from Greece
- Etna Rosso from Italy
- Primitivo from Italy
The specific selection of wine, and vintage, can vary state to state but will always be fitting of the style required to best enjoy the class. All wines have been personally approved by Mark.
Please visit bevinars.com to view upcoming class dates and to register. Registration is $55 per household/Zoom link or $176 (a 20% discount) for the full 4-week virtual course.
About Mark Oldman
Known for his singular ability to unravel wine's complexities with a potent blend of knowledge, entertainment, and imagination, Mark Oldman is one of the country’s top wine personalities and founder and CEO of Bevinars. He is author of several award-winning wine books that are considered the best of their kind, including the IACP-Award-winning How to Drink Like a Billionaire and Oldman's Guide to Outsmarting Wine. Mark's long-standing invitations to the country's top food festivals and consistently sold-out appearances there attest to his position as one of food world’s most popular speakers. And when Amazon or Estee Lauder or dozens of other blue-chip companies need a wine expert to enthrall audiences, they turn to Mark. You might say that Mark has perfected the ability to distill complex subjects into enlightening, easily digested insights. Before turning to wine full-time, Mark cofounded and ran the career portal Vault.com based on exactly this approach of discerning demystification. And as a former trustee and three-time graduate of Stanford University, Mark has long been dedicated to education at its highest level.
