Wine Appreciation Class
Speaker/Sommelier: Morgun Pathi and Sarah Mayo
Date/Day: 31st October 2010, Sunday
Time: 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Venue:
Pin Si Restaurant (Yishun Safra)
Price: $30 (not inclusive of GST)
Introduction about the Seminar
Learn the basics of how to approach a glass of wine like a sommelier– sniff, swirl, and sip the professional way. The Local Nose will take you through the basics to understand how to differentiate the different aromas in the wine and awake your palate with the different tastes you might find in the wine. The fun part would be to taste a variety of wines that have been hand-picked by our wine experts here in Singapore. So come have fun and learn to sniff, swirl, sip the sommelier way.
| Introduction: Approach to Wine Tasting |
1. How to approach tasting wines |
| Quality Assessments | 2. How Sommeliers determine quality of wine |
| Grape Varietals | 3. Top grape varietals & their characteristics |
| Old World -vs- New World | 4. Compare & Contrast Old World & New World Wines with the following types of wine |
Morgun Pathi, Local Wine Aficionado and Wine Educator
About Morgan: Morgun Pathi (CSW) is a local wine aficionado and wine educator. Morgun is a regular contributor to TLN's Blog and writes about wine tastings and wine dinners. Morgun's interest in wine started more as a hobby, but by nature he couldn't help himself from diving deeply into this fascinating and exciting new "hobby". His nature and keen interest led him to pursue formal wine studies, first at the Singapore Polytechnic, then through the UK-based Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Advanced Certification program, the introductory level of Court of Master Sommelier course, and most recently he completed the US-based Certified Specialist in Wine (CSW) certification. Morgun has a background in education and small business consulting and is now keen on spreading the good word about the grape by conducting wine appreciation classes and writing for The Local Nose.
Sarah Mayo, MD The Local Nose.com
About Sarah: Sarah is the Founder and Managing Director of The Local Nose.com website. She also has completed the WSET Advanced program and is currently completing the WSET Diploma, the wine industry’s second highest qualification below the Master of Wine. Sarah also conducts educative tastings and workshops for The Local Nose.
Register for this exciting Wine Appreciation Class here!
Terms & Conditions
• Registration fee is $30 per person. (not inclusive of GST)
• Once you have submitted your registration, you will receive an auto reply indicating a confirmation email.
If you do not receive the confirmation, please call 6578 8123 for enquiries.
• Payment is by VISA, Mastercard or AMEX through the payment gateway as indicated on the registration form.
• For payment by cheque, please make the cheque out to OpenRice Singapore Pte Ltd, with your name, contact number and name of event.
Send the cheque to OpenRice Singapore Pte Ltd at 8 Jurong Town Hall Road
The JTC Summit #30-01/02/03, (S) 609434.
• Ticket(s) bookings are made on a first come first served basis, subject to availability.
• Please print and bring your confirmation email to the class.
• All sales are final and no refunds will be entertained.
The Local Nose
The Local Nose (TLN) is a Singapore-based wine recommendation website that is an online wine shop, a wine locator and consumer wine event information hub. TLN features wine buying recommendations from a panel of expert "Local Noses" who taste wines from local merchants 'blind' and recommend them on a quality and value-for-money basis each week.
TEE Boxx Inc.
TEE Boxx was founded since 2009 but only recently registered and officially found sponsors this year. TEE Boxx started off with 2 enterprising entrepreneurs with a common goal and objective: "To create a BANG at any occasion and bring the best of responses and media attraction to it with the least amount of capital injection as possible." TEE Boxx aims to bring enthusiastic and passionate hobbyists to every event and believes that every of its clients will have a blast of a time with us.
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