Online Fine Wine Tasting: The Nebbiolo Grape, (With Exclusive Tasting Kit!)

Join us for a special single-evening fine wine tasting of 6 fantastic Nebbiolo wines with West London Wine School Chief Tutor Jimmy Smith 

Wine school founder, Jimmy Smith, is an Italian Wine Scholar Master and was recently awarded the Italian Wine Educator of 2018 by the Wine Scholar Guild in February 2019. Jimmy has been teaching the diverse wine regions of Italy with gusto through his Italian Wine Scholar courses. He has been thoroughly impressed with the range and diversity of Nebbiolo from Northern Italy, and not only Barolo DOCG and Barbaresco DOCG. Join Jimmy as he takes you through numerous high-quality DOC & DOCGs including:

    
• Ciabot Berton, Roggeri, Barolo DOCG 2010

    
• Produttori di Barbaresco, Barbaresco DOCG, 2012

    
• Torraccia del Piantavigna, Gattinara DOCG, 2007

    
• Paolo Balgera, Sassella, Valtellina Superiore DOCG 2007

    
• Produttori di Carema, Carema DOC, 2016

    
• Cave de Donnas, Donnas, Aosta Valley DOC, 2016

The wines range from £25 - £50 from 2007 to 2016 vintages. This is an excellent tasting showcasing one of the most impressive complex grape varieties in the world that has a regal history. Barolo and Nebbiolo became famous due to the efforts of the Marquise of Barolo, Giulia Falletti, who produced dry red wines at her Barolo estate and she introduced these wines to the aristocratic circles of Torino. Thanks to the Marquise, the wines attracted the interest and attention of the Savoyard royal family who acquired winemaking estates in the Barolo area themselves (notably in Verduno and Serralunga d’Alba, where the once royal estate Fontanafredda is still active today).The wines were so prized that they became liquid ambassadors for the House of Savoy among the royal courts of Europe and laid the foundation for its longstanding international recognition as the re dei vini e vino dei re (king of wines and wine of kings)

TASTING FEE STRUCTURE:

For this special two-hour tasting, an exclusive tasting kit is available which includes a 75ml tasting sample of each wine, as well as tasting mat, tasting note paper and pen. The total cost for this tasting experience including this kit is £65.

    
• To reserve your place on this tasting, there is a £10 registration fee. This is redeemable against one tasting kit. The link is in your confirmation email.

    
• Tasting kits will be sent out 1 week prior to this tasting. 

Tasting Kit: What's Included:

    
• 75ml tasting sample of each wine (6 in total) contained in a steralised glass bottle and preserved with an inert gas (designed specifically for wine preservation)

    
• Tasting mat

    
• Tasting note sheet

    
• West London Wine School pen

PLEASE NOTE: As this is a virtual tasting, only one seat needs to be booked per household UNLESS individuals will be logging into the tasting series with different computers/tablets. Additional tasting kits can be purchased for £65 each if additional wines are required per household. Due to the exclusivity of these wines, supplemental full bottle tasting cases are not available for purchase.

TASTING FORMAT:

Jimmy Smith will host this exclusive tasting live at 7:00pm on Tuesday 7th July 2020. This single-evening tasting will be approximately 2 hours in length. 

Unable to commit on the evening? No problem! Anyone registered for this tasting will gain access to the video recording of the live event, so you can always revisit any of these at anytime in the future - whether its because you missed participating in the live evening or if you want to revisit the presentation at a later date.