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Re-setting Your Taste Buds: How
the Components of Food and Wine Interact
Blind Date
Tasting with Riedel Glass
Introduction to Grape Growing
Re-setting Your Taste Buds:
How the Components of Food
and Wine Interact • Friday, September 19
10:00 to 12:00 noon
Learn how food and wine elements like acidity, fruitiness,
sweetness, astringency, bitterness, and dominant flavors and spices can
either match or fight each other. You will learn tasting methodology
that will help you match foods and wines.
Presenter: Dr. Stephen Menke, Assoc.
Prof of Enology, Dept of Hort. And Landscape Arch., CSU, Western Colorado
Research Center
Location: Palisade Community Center, Corner
Hwy 6 and Main Street, Palisade, CO (see map)
Tickets:
$45
Contact: info@coloradowinefest.com
Blind Date • Friday,
September 19
2:00 to 4:00 pm
Challenge yourself and discover how to “blind taste” with Sommelier
Max Ariza. Eight Colorado wines will be offered for you to identify in
a fun interactive setting. Please come with an open mind and a thirst
for wine!!!
Presenter: Max Ariza, Sommelier,
Instructor, Johnson & Wales University
Location: DoubleTree Hotel, 743 Horizon Drive,
Grand Junction, CO (see map)
Tickets: $45
Contact: info@coloradowinefest.com
Tasting with Riedel Glass • Saturday, September 20
9:00 – 12:00 noon AND 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Reidel brings 250 years of glassmaking skill to the finest
wineglasses in the world. During this guided journey, taste for yourself
how the flavors and aromas of wines are enhanced when a glass shape is
designed according to the character of the wine. You get to keep your
glasses!
Sponsor: Lincoln
Presenter: Tommy Leman, Riedel
District Manager (Leman Biography)
Location: Reidel Tent at Riverside Park, Palisade,
CO
Tickets: $90
Contact: info@coloradowinefest.com
Introduction to Grape Growing • Sunday,
September 21
9:00 am to 12:00 noon
An overview of growing wine grapes on a commercial
scale, economics of the business, market forces, and a tour of the CSU
vineyards.
Presenter: Dr. Horst Caspari,
State Viticulturist, CSU
Location: CSU Agricultural Station, 3168 B-1/2 Road (see
map)
Tickets: $40
Contact: info@coloradowinefest.com
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