Masterclass – What the label doesn’t tell you

An immersive masterclass to understand how our senses - far more than our preconceptions - reveal a wine’s true qualities. The 2013 World’s Best Sommelier teaches us how to taste like the professionals.

An immersive masterclass to discover, through a selection of Valais wines, how our senses, far more than our preconceptions, can reveal a wine’s true qualities. A unique opportunity to taste like the professionals do and to understand why a wine speaks to us… or not.

Paolo Basso
World’s Best Sommelier 2013 and Europe’s Best Sommelier 2010, Paolo Basso is a leading figure in international haute cuisine. He worked for over twenty years in the finest restaurants before founding Paolo Basso Wines, his own wine brand in Ticino, in 2013. The only non-Frenchman to have selected wines for Air France for ten years, he has contributed to two ‘World’s Best Wine List’ awards. Awarded an honorary doctorate for his commitment to wine and hospitality, he is now a lecturer, international consultant and host of wine-related events.