Recently I became a member in a wine association called “Il Mondo In Un Bicchiere” (= The World in a Glass). There are many kinds of courses in Sicily, but this is a special one where the idea is not to become a sommelier, but to understand good wines and how to combine with foods. The chef and sommelier said from the start that everyone has individual taste and if you like to drink red wine to fish, that is completely welcomed as there are nice red wines that goes very well with fish. And most people drink champagne to oysters, but best is to find a nice Riesling.? The chef and sommelier is called Fabio. He cooks small dishes and we get to make our own notes of what we think, for example he makes us taste the same cheese with two different kind of sauces just to see that the same wine do not go well by just changing a small component.
We are not allowed to see which wines we taste until the lesson is over. Every lesson we taste three different wines with different dishes, everything from classical risotto to a cube of cheese. The courses are always held in cosy places like villas and rural structures ecc, and they also have limited seats.
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Nyligen blev jag medlem i en vinf?rening som kallas “Il Mondo In Un Bicchiere” (= V?rlden i ett Glas). Det finns m?nga typer av kurser p? Sicilien, men denna ?r en speciell d?r tanken inte ?r att bli en sommelier, utan f?r att f?rst? goda viner och hur man kan kombinera dessa till mat. Kocken och sommeliern sade fr?n b?rjan att alla har individuell smak och om du vill dricka r?tt vin till fisk, ?r det helt v?lkommet eftersom det finns fina r?da viner som passar mycket bra till fisk. Och de flesta m?nniskor dricker champagne till ostron, men b?st ?r att hitta en trevlig Riesling. Kocken och sommelier heter Fabio. Han kockar sm? r?tter och vi f?r g?ra v?ra egna anteckningar om vad vi tycker, till exempel l?ter han oss smaka samma ost med tv? olika typer av s?ser bara f?r att se att samma vin inte passar bra genom att bara ?ndra en liten del.
Vi f?r inte se vilka viner som ska smakas tills efter lektionen. Varje lektion smakar vi tre olika viner med olika sm? matr?tter, allt fr?n klassisk risotto till en kub av ost. Kurserna h?lls alltid p? mysiga platser s?som villor och landsbygdsbyggnader ecc, och de har ocks? begr?nsat antal platser.
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