Lyon: Wine Tasting & Cheese Pairings with a French Sommelier – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

EXPERIENCE:

What do you think about …

• Taste 8 wines from different French regions in ready-to-drink vintages
• Understand France’s different wine-growing regions and their special features
• Find out more about food and wine pairing, with a focus on wine and cheese.
• Spend an enjoyable evening tasting wines from small winemakers who work carefully on their wines and are delighted to know you’re enjoying them.
• Be able to compare wines on the spot (all tasting steps offer at least two glasses so that you can compare and remember the flavors encountered during this moment).
• Ask all your wine questions to an expert who speaks fluent English.
• Meet travellers who enjoy French wine and food just like you!

We’d like to invite you to take part in a tasting of wines that we appreciate and would like to share with you, as we’ve discovered them on various wine tours with French winemakers.

For the most part, the wines are local wines from independent winemakers, as are all the products in the meal.

A selection of 8 wines, always different, will be offered. We’ll explain the choice of each wine, its wine-growing region, its year, and finally why it goes well with a particular cheese. As the tastings are always different, so are the topics covered.

Here’s the latest tasting:

Effervescent : Champagne paired with Chaource cheese

White wines : La Fraicheur 2023 early wine from Lorraine and Velteliner 2019 from Savoie paired with local goat cheese

Red wines : Fleurie 2021 from Beaujolais, Crozes-Hermitage 2020 from Rhône Valley, Pommard 1er cru “Les Chanlins” 1996 from Bourgogne paired with artisan charcuterie

Vin de voile (Oxydative wine) from Jura paired with Comtés of different maturities

Sweet wines from older vintages +15 years paired with regional blue cheeses

Local desserts

No need to book a restaurant, you won’t be hungry after the tasting.

Hugo – JEANGUYOT WINE AGENCY

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Discover 8 unique French wines from different regions
Tasting raw milk cheeses in perfect harmony with wine
Ask all your questions about wine to an expert dedicated to you for 2h30 hours.
As a recognized wine expert (WSET3), I will gladly answer all your questions
Share a moment of pleasure around a typically French table.

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