Sweet Wine Lab: A Hands-On Wine Tasting Experience

“In many ways, our sweet wines are the unsung hero—as they are with many East Coast wineries.  Their distinctive aromatics and flavor profiles have helped make them popular, and we love to teach our customers why our interpretations are some of the best in the state.” – Corey Krejcik, Vice President, Chaddsford Winery

Steuben. Concord. Niagara. Vignoles.  These grapes are the building blocks of our wildly popular sweet wine portfolio.  Far too often, these wines, and the grapes that make them, are written off as inferior to their vitis vinfiera counterparts.  We heartily disagree.  These wines are fun, distinctive, drinkable, and very, very versatile.  Our Sweet Wine Lab is a program designed to embrace all that is good about (our) sweet wines.  Equal parts wine tasting, food pairing, and interactive mixology activity, this class will have you viewing sweet wine in a totally different light.

If you already love sweet wine – great!  Come join us and rejoice!

If you are a sweet wine naysayer…   Come join us and suspend your disbelief.  We can’t guarantee that you’ll leave a devout Niagara drinker, but we hope that our program will have you rethinking your stance on sweet wines, realizing they have a place at the table.

Tasting will include:

The power and popularity of semi-sweet.  Chaddsford Red and Chaddsford White tasting.Sweet, spice… and bubbles?  Sunset Blush and spicy food pairing.Sangria: Party in a popsicle.  Sangria wine-pop tasting.Cheese & Wine (the classic pairing).  Spiced Apple and applewood smoked cheddar pairing.Wine Mixology 101: Using sweet wine in your favorite cocktail.  Niagara – rita.