Bourbon for Beginners

March 22, 2010 at 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Location: Gordon's Fine Wine & Culinary Center
Instructor: Bob Kaplan, Wine Consultant
Cost: $20 per person

 

The rationale for the course title is exactly that: a chance to experience small batch and single cask Bourbons and ask questions.  And who doesn’t need to ask a question in this expanding world of  fine spirits. What is Bourbon? What percent corn? What else, a little barley and wheat or rye , but not both? How is it distilled? How is Bourbon aged, and what is the strange relationship between Kentucky and Scotland?  What is Tennessee whiskey?

 

We will sample at least 8 different  bottlings, maybe more. But the main theme is Drink Better and Drink Less. We will nose our way through the offerings and put a little in your glass. I’ll suggest a little water to open up the spirit, bottled not Branch, and we will try to express our common reactions to what is in the glass before us.

 

For all culinary center events after 6 PM, we ask that you park in the fenced-in lot behind the culinary center off of Prospect St.  You can enter the culinary center through the doors under the maroon awning.  If you park in the Main St lot, you will be asked to move your vehicle. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.