WE ARE INVITING YOU TO DIP YOUR NOSE INTO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF STINKY WINES
Your first step toward understanding what can go wrong in a wine, and how to recognise and respond when it does.
Learn to make sure you’re drinking the real thing — just as the winemaker intended.
Save money and avoid those awkward moments at a restaurant or bar when your glass just doesn’t taste right!
 
What will we cover:
An introduction to wine faults: how and when are they created?
The difference between faults, taints, and deviations (or flaws in wines)
The most common wine faults, so you know how to detect and identify them: Oxidation, Reduction, Volatile Acidity, and the famous Cork Taint
Hands-on experience with specially contaminated wines to explore one fault in particular
An introduction to the DAF, the "Deductive Approach to Faults," so you can start using a systematic approach to take action when you detect something is not right in a wine
A "blind tasting" with a real faulty wine to apply your instincts and your newfound knowledge
Best practices to keep wines "as the winemaker intended," so you are not the cause of spoiling wines in the future
 
Time: Saturdays from 10:00 - 12:00 (2hrs) or Fridays 18:00 - 20:00 (2hrs)
Address: 7A Malzgasse 4052, Basel  (10 min walk from Basel SBB)
Educator: Juan Lo Bello, Wine Faults Academy