Course: knowledge and tasting of Italian wine

Wine tasting course: the programme

In the lesson programme you will find the wines for tasting, you can click to download the official data sheet directly from the Pellegrini S.p.A. website.

Lesson 1 - Monday 9 May 2022 at 20:30

The first lesson is dedicated to my great love, from which the name of this wine blog also originates: sparkling wines. We will look at their production, their classification, their pairing with food, their selection and storage. We will also talk about Italian sparkling wines from famous appellations and analyse together their similarities and differences. The last part of the lesson will be dedicated to the tasting of three didactic wines: a martinotti method, an ancestral method and a classic method.

Wines for tasting:

1. Pecorino Spumante Brut Martinotti Method, Tenuta I Fauri
2. "P.S." Glera VSQ Full Method, Le Vigne di Alice
3. "Ammonites' Franciacorta DOCG Brut, Camillucci

Lesson 2 - Monday 16 May 2022 at 20:30

The second lesson is dedicated to white wineswith an eye towards white wines that do some maceration in the bottle, the orange wine. We will look at their production, their classification, their pairing with food, their selection and their storage. We will also discuss Italian white wines from famous appellations and analyse their similarities and differences together. The last part of the lesson will be dedicated to the tasting of three didactic wines: a white wine from Northern Italy, a white wine from Southern Italy and an orange wine.

Wines for tasting:

1. Lugana DOC 2019, Villa della Torre
2. "Lanùra" Vermentino di Sardegna DOC 2020, Tenute Perdarubia
3. "Orci" Toscana IGT bianco 2016, Fattoria di Petrognano [Orange Wine].

Lesson 3 - Monday, 23 May 2022 at 20:30

The second lesson is dedicated to red wines. We will look at their production, their classification, their pairing with food, their selection and their storage. We will also talk about Italian red wines from famous appellations and analyse their similarities and differences together. The last part of the lesson will be dedicated to the tasting of three didactic wines: a red wine from Northern Italy, a red wine from Central Italy and a red wine from Southern Italy.

Wines for tasting:

1. Nebbiolo Langhe DOC 2019, Castello di Perno
2. "Meme" Chianti DOCG Superiore 2019, Fattoria di Petrognano
3. Nero d'Avola Sicilia DOC 2020, Masseria del feudo

Lesson 4 - Monday, 23 May 2022 at 20:30

The last lesson is dedicated to special wines. We will look at their production, their classification, their pairing with food, their selection and their storage. We will also talk about Italian and foreign white wines of famous appellations and analyse together their similarities and differences. The last part of the lesson will be devoted to the tasting of three didactic wines: an Italian passito wine, an Italian muffato wine and a foreign fortified wine.

Wines for tasting:

1. Pass the cookies! Verduzzo Passito, Di Lenardo
2. "Tre Colli" Recioto di Soave DOCG, Cornelia Tessari
3. Sherry Pedro Ximénez Solera, Ximénez-Spínola (Spain)

Lecture 5 - Saturday 4 June 2022 at 11:00 a.m.

The last lesson is dedicated to a visit to the winery in the 18th-century Pagnoncelli Folcieri villa in Scanzorosciate in the province of Bergamo. Moscato di Scanzo is a rare and precious red raisin wine from Lombardy that I am sure you will fall in love with... just as my husband and I did when we went there for the first time. Francesca Pagnoncelli will show us the entire production process of Moscato di Scanzo DOCG and give us a tour of the splendid frescoed rooms of the villa. You can already get a glimpse of the experience we will have together by reading this article.