Hidden Gems: Sommelier Favorites

Most wine drinkers know the usual grapes. This class is about everything beyond them.

Hidden Gems explores grape varieties that rarely appear on wine lists but remain essential to understanding wine’s past—and its future. Some were once widely planted before falling out of fashion. Others survived only because their regions never standardized. All offer distinctive structure, flavor, and identity that mainstream grapes no longer provide.

You’ll taste wines you may never have encountered before, each chosen for what it reveals about place, history, and how different wine can be when expectations are removed.

This is a class for curious drinkers ready to move past the familiar and discover something genuinely new.