My First Perfectly Paired Class
A little context-- I
am the marketing intern at Quantum Leap and I am pretty new to wine. I recently went to my first Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate Perfectly Paired class
and this blog post outlines my experience.
There aren’t many subjects as vast as wine-- now add cheese,
chocolate, and the inexact art of pairings.
As a novice to wine, I was unsure how well I was going to get along in
July’s Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate class.
But from the first step into the room, I knew this class was going to be
fun and entertaining.
Everyone sat at family-style long tables and the atmosphere
was light and pleasant. The whole
evening felt like a dinner party hosted by very (very, very) informed
hostesses—Jill, the co-owner of Quantum Leap, Tonda, owner of La Femme du
Fromage, and Lisa Wilk, founder of Orlando Uncorked.
They opened the class with excitement over the pairings that
they created together. And if they are
excited by the pairings, then they must be good.
There were five pairings in all. The class is set up so each item is explained
individually—how the cheese is made, how the chocolate is developed, and where
the wine is sourced and then the pairing is looked at as a whole—why does the
wine add to the cheese and chocolate and vice versa. Delicious and informative.
My favorite was the triple crème cheese paired with Quantum
Leap’s new sparkling wine. It was an
easy pairing to love-- the cheese was luxuriously smooth and buttery and the
wine added a delightful lightness. The
triple crème was followed by a white chocolate dipped strawberry from
Peterbrook Chocolatiers, which brought out light strawberry notes in the
sparkling wine.
If you like learning about wine, cheese, and chocolate as
much as you enjoy eating it, Perfectly Paired classes are definitely for you.
