Matter Of Taste Zürich Starts In:
Grand Bring Your Own Bottle
Dinner
Saturday 2 April:
7:30 PM- 10:30 PM
After a delightful day of tasting on Saturday, stay with us for great food, wines and company at the "Bring Your Own Bottle Dinner."
Many great tastings and wine events have winemakers staying behind at the end of the day, sharing bottles among fellow wine lovers over a sumptuous 15-course meal.
Location: The Garden Salon, The Dolder Grand Zürich
Price:
- Single ticket 218 CHF
- 10 Pax ticket 1,960 CHF (10% Discount)
Masterclasses - Saturday 2 April, 2022
Schedule subject to change, please revisit or sign up to our newsletter for latest updates
Meine Neue Wein-Schweiz
Host: Stephan Reinhardt
Time: Sat 2 April 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Gallery 1st Floor, The Dolder Grand
My Switzerland is a very personal masterclass and assembles a lineup of eight wines that stood out to me for many reasons during the tasting of 400 wines in February this year. To me, they represent what I connect with Switzerland in general and for Swiss wine in particular: they are Alpine, cool, fresh, pure and authentic and harbingers or even future icons of a new, self-confident and unique Switzerland that has left former role models behind and is focusing on its own talents.
Featured Wines:
1. 2020 Chanton Weine • Riesling
2. 2019 Marie-Thérèse Chappaz • Assemblage Blanc Sylvaner de Charly & Muscat des Claives
3. 2021 Ô Faya Farm • Mirage d’Arvine
4. 2019 Zündel • Sass
5. 2020 Henri Cruchon • Nihilo Nature
6. 2019 Fröhlich Weine • Pinot Noir
7. 2019 Litwan Wein • Wittnau Fure
8. 2019 Benoît Dorsaz • Syrah de Fully Quintessence
*Wines subject to change due to availability
Price: 58 CHF
^Tickets sold separately and not included as a part of the Grand Walkabout ticket
My Switzerland (English)
Host: Stephan Reinhardt
Time: Sat 2 April 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Gallery 1st Floor, The Dolder Grand
My Switzerland is a very personal masterclass and assembles a lineup of eight wines that stood out to me for many reasons during the tasting of 400 wines in February this year. To me, they represent what I connect with Switzerland in general and for Swiss wine in particular: they are Alpine, cool, fresh, pure and authentic and harbingers or even future icons of a new, self-confident and unique Switzerland that has left former role models behind and is focusing on its own talents.
Featured Wines:
1. 2020 Anne-Claire Schott • Blanc Schiller Orange
2. 2021 Ô Fâya Farm • Mirage d’Arvine
3. 2020 Chanton Weine • Heida Gletscherwein
4. 2019 Zündel • Velabona
5. 2020 Fröhlich Weine • Pinot Noir
6. 2020 Javet & Javet • Pinot Noir Aime Terre Sans Sulfite Ajouté (Black Label)
7. 2019 Benoît Dorsaz • Syrah de Fully Quintessence
8. 2017 Litwan Wein • Blanc de Noir Extra Brut
*Wines subject to change due to availability
Price: 58 CHF
^Tickets sold separately and not included as a part of the Grand Walkabout ticket
A Bordeaux 2010 Retrospective
Host: William Kelley
Time: Sat 2 April 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Gallery 1st Floor, The Dolder Grand
In this tasting of the top châteaux from across Bordeaux, we will go through an extraordinary vintage. 2010 produced a bevy of rich, structured wines, which are just beginning to enter their drinking windows yet will cellar for many years to come.
Featured Wines:
2. 2010 Pichon-Longueville Baron | RP96
3. 2010 Léoville Las Cases | RP97+
5. 2010 Smith Haut Lafitte | RP98
*Wines subject to change due to availability
Price: 230 CHF
^Tickets sold separately and not included as a part of the Grand Walkabout ticket
Quintessence of the Great 2019 Vintage: The Finest Grüner Veltliners from the Danube River
Host: Stephan Reinhardt
Time: Sat 2 April 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Gallery 1st Floor, The Dolder Grand
2019 has been a great and widely praised vintage for Austria. Although the 2020s will be exciting as well and represent a much cooler, fresher and spicier character, the 2019s have everything that a great vintage needs in order to age for decades: ripeness, intensity, drive and tension. For the first time in 20 years, I have often preferred the Veltliners to the Rieslings in 2019. Obviously, the warmth of the vintage was made for Veltliner. The wines are concentrated and rich, but they also have the vitality and mineral freshness that I have missed in so many warm vintages. In the 2019s, which brought the first 100-point Grüner Veltliner in the history of The Wine Advocate, everything you need to have in a great white wine is on the right palate. For this tasting, I have assembled some of my favorites. You are welcome to share my passions!
Featured Wines:
1. 2019 Schloss Gobelsburg • Kammern Ried Grub 1ÖTW | RP96
2. 2019 Martin Muthenthaler • Ried Schön Grüner Veltliner | RP96
3. 2019 Bernhard Ott • Ried Kirchthal Grüner Veltliner | RP96+
4. 2019 Alzinger • Ried Loibenberg Loibner Grüner Veltliner Smaragd | RP96
5. 2019 Domäne Wachau • Ried Kellerberg Grüner Veltliner Smaragd | RP94+
6. 2019 Prager • Ried Zwerithaler Kammergut Grüner Veltliner Smaragd | RP96
7. 2019 Weingut Knoll • Loibner Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Vinothekfüllung | RP99
8. 2019 Franz Hirtzberger • Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Honivogl | RP98
*Wines subject to change due to availability
Price: 58 CHF
^Tickets sold separately and not included as a part of the Grand Walkabout ticket
A Biondi-Santi Brunello di Montalcino Retrospective
Host: Monica Larner
Time: Sat 2 April 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Gallery 1st Floor, The Dolder Grand
One of the world’s favorite Italian wines, Brunello di Montalcino would not exist if not for the efforts of Biondi Santi. Join our Italian wine Reviewer Monica Larner for an in-depth exploration of some of the best wines made at the Il Greppo estate, home to celebrated Biondi-Santi wines, at the heart of Tuscany.
Featured Wines:
1. 2012 Biondi-Santi • Brunello di Montalcino Riserva | RP97
2. 2010 Biondi-Santi • Brunello di Montalcino Riserva | RP96
3. 2007 Biondi-Santi • Brunello di Montalcino Riserva | RP94
4. 1998 Biondi-Santi • Brunello di Montalcino Riserva | RP97
5. 1995 Biondi-Santi • Brunello di Montalcino Riserva | RP96
6. 1985 Biondi-Santi • Brunello di Montalcino Riserva
7. 2015 Biondi-Santi • Brunello di Montalcino Riserva | RP98+
8. 1975 Biondi-Santi • Brunello di Montalcino Riserva | RP94
*Wines subject to change due to availability
Price: 175 CHF
^Tickets sold separately and not included as a part of the Grand Walkabout ticket
The Grand 1000-Point
Experience
Host: Robert Parker Wine Advocate Reviewer Team
Time: Sat 2 April 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Gallery 1st Floor, The Dolder Grand
Join the entire team of RPWA reviewers for a tasting like no other—ten 100-point wines, each presented by the expert reviewers who look after those regions. You'll get to experience sheer perfection in several different forms, from a towering dry Austrian white to seven structured and age-worthy red wines, the unctuous richness of Sauternes and the majesty of a very special vintage Port.
Featured Wines:
1. 2018 FX Pichler • Grüner Veltliner Unendlich | RP100
2. 2013 Aleanna • Gran Enemigo Gualtallary Single Vineyard | RP100
3. 2016 Torbreck • RunRig | RP100
4. 2016 Fontodi • Flaccianello della Pieve | RP100
5. 2006 Tenuta dell'Ornellaia • Masseto | RP100
7. 2013 Quilceda Creek • Cabernet Sauvignon | RP100
8. 2015 Sine Qua Non • Grenache E | RP100
10. 2000 Taylor's • Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha Vintage Port | RP100
*Wines subject to change due to availability
Price: 195 CHF
^Tickets sold separately and not included as a part of the Grand Walkabout ticket
Masterclasses - Sunday 3 April, 2022
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A Homage to the Genius of Philippe Cambie
Host: Joe Czerwinski
Time: Sun 3 April 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Gallery 1st Floor, The Dolder Grand
Although he worked in a number of countries, consultant Philippe Cambie made his reputation by helping to revolutionize winemaking in the Rhône Valley. While consultant is considered a bad word in some quarters—suggesting a certain style or sense of uniformity—Cambie always put his clients' terroirs, grape varieties and house styles first. As we'll see in this tasting, these terrific wines all retain strong senses of individuality—they're not all the same.
Featured Wines:
1. 2019 Domaine des Bosquets • Gigondas Le Regard Loin | RP(97-99)
2. 2019 Domaine Saint Damien • Gigondas La Louisiane | RP(94-96)
3. 2019 Les Cailloux (Lucien et Andre Brunel) • Châteauneuf du Pape Cuvee Centenaire | RP(95-97)
4. 2018 Tardieu-Laurent • Châteauneuf du Pape Cuvee Speciale |RP(94-96)
5. 2017 Chateau de Vaudieu • Châteauneuf du Pape l'Avenue | RP96
6. 2016 Chateau la Font du Loup • Châteauneuf du Pape le Puy Rolland | RP95
7. 2016 Domaine du Grand Tinel • Châteauneuf du Pape Heres | RP(95-98)
8. 2016 Clos Saint Jean • Châteauneuf du Pape Sanctus Sanctorum | RP99
9. 2016 Le Clos du Caillou • Châteauneuf du Pape La Reserve | RP100
*Wines subject to change due to availability
Price: 100 CHF
^Tickets sold separately and not included as a part of the Grand Walkabout ticket
Donatsch Pinot Noir Unique –
20-Year Anniversary Vertical
Host: Martin Donatsch & Stephan Reinhardt
Time: Sun 3 April 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Gallery 1st Floor, The Dolder Grand
Weingut Donatsch is among the most famous wineries in Switzerland, hailing from the “Bündner Herrschaften” in the southeastern canton of Grisons, which produces some of the finest Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays of the country and holds the only four hectares of the native “Completer” grape variety in the world. Current winemaker Martin Donatsch now heads up the family estate in the fifth generation. His wines are very sought after internationally and receive top ratings regularly; unfortunately, due to the small production of just over 30,000 bottles annually, the wines are very rare and hard to obtain.
For the 20th anniversary of the flagship “Unique” series, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our guests to taste a complete vertical of 20 years of Donatsch Pinot Noir Unique—all the way from the inaugural 2000 vintage, all served from magnums directly from the family’s wine library. Join Martin and Robert Parker Wine Advocate reviewer for Switzerland Stephan Reinhardt on this exciting and special journey into Swiss winemaking history.
Featured Wines:
1. 2000 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
2. 2001 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique | RP94
3. 2002 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
4. 2003 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
5. 2004 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
6. 2005 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
7. 2006 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
8. 2007 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
9. 2008 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
10. 2009 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
11. 2010 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
12. 2011 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique | RP95
13. 2012 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
14. 2013 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique | RP95
15. 2014 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique | RP92
16. 2015 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique | RP94
17. 2016 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique | RP93
18. 2017 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique | RP94
19. 2018 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
20. 2019 Donatsch • Pinot Noir Unique
Price: 200 CHF
^Tickets sold separately and not included as a part of the Grand Walkabout ticket
Burgundy's Viticultural Revolution
Host: William Kelley
Time: Sun 3 April 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Gallery 1st Floor, The Dolder Grand
Contemporary Burgundy is witnessing a viticultural revolution of impressive proportions, as many of the region's best producers rethink the fundamentals of canopy management, planting density, vine genetics and soil cultivation—with profound consequences for wine quality. Rather than focusing on any single appellation, vintage or producer, this tasting takes this viticultural revolution as its theme, ranging all the way from the Mâconnais to the Côte de Nuits, from communal appellations to grands crus. What all the producers featured in this tasting have in common is an innovative approach to viticulture that marks them out as leaders in Burgundy today. William Kelley, The Wine Advocate's Burgundy reviewer, will explain the basics of viticulture and why it matters today—and why it will matter even more in the future. And he'll be joined by Santenay winegrowing pioneer Jean-Marc Vincent, who'll offer personal insights from a career of innovation spanning more than two decades.
Featured Wines:
1. 2019 Domaine Bruno Lorenzon • Mercurey 1er Cru Les Champs Martin | RP94+
2. 2017 Domaine Hubert Lamy • Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Derrière Chez Edouard | RP94
3. 2019 Domaine Guffens-Heynen • Mâcon-Pierreclos 1er Jus de Chavigne | RP95
4. 2017 Domaine des Croix • Beaune 1er Cru Bressandes | RP(90-92)+
5. 2019 Domaine Jean-Marc Vincent • Santenay 1er Cru Gravières Rouge |RP93+
6. 2017 Domaine Jean-Marc & Thomas Bouley • Pommard 1er Cru Les Fremiers | RP94
7. 2018 Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux • Chambolle-Musigny Village | RP92
8. 2017 Domaine Dugat-Py • Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru | RP96
*Wines subject to change due to availability
Price: 98 CHF
^Tickets sold separately and not included as a part of the Grand Walkabout ticket