Chalets, fermes & appartements JoliSoleil
General information on wine tastings
For a wine tasting JoliSoleil offers several possibilities together with France-wine-tour.com. As we live near the Alsace wine region it seems logical to taste especially Alsace wines.
Part of our Alsace wine selection can be found here.
We always start by discussing wine tasting in general. How to do that? We will give you some hints and teach you some do’s and don’t’s. We will then continue with some information on the Alsace region.
Tasting
As the tasting starts you will be handed out a special tasting note paper. So you can write down your findings and discuss them.
- Champagne: The first wine we drink is a Crémant – a champagne-like wine, which originates from the Alsace.
- White wines: Then we continue with some white wines, for example: 2 different Rieslings, a Pinot Gris and a Pinot Blanc. We will discuss our findings.
- Red wines: Next it is nice to taste some Pinot Noirs. With or without oak. Or for example 2 from the Alsace and 1 Pinot Noir from the Burgundy region. We will be tasting the same grapes so the only difference is the winemaking, the region and the soil. This is of course very interesting to compare.
All and all we will taste some 6 to 8 wines. This will take some 1- 1 ½ hours.
We always serve some French bread to go with that.
Of course we can always discuss different wines, or for example add some wines avec ‘prestige’, like from the house of Hugel or Zind Humbrecht.
Dining
Food and wine belong together. The right choice of wine can really add to the tastes and flavours of what you are eating and vice versa. And although we do not encourage you to really swallow all the wines, you will still feel better if you also eat something during and especially after the wine-tasting.
Therefore we can also bring you some local ‘Alsatian’ food, like: Coq au Riesling, Choucroute garnie, Tarte flambee, Kugelkopf or Baeckofe.
We can heat it up in the oven while we are tasting the wines and serve it during or immediately after the tastings. We can discuss and then add the wines that go well with your selection of food.
