Lyon: Fine Wines & Iconic Lyonnaise Specialties Pairing Class
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Why book with byFood?Japan's #1 food travel platform
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Unlike classic tastings you don’t only taste good pairings. Your sommelier also serves deliberate mismatches so you feel for yourself what makes a pairing work and why another one fails. It is the quickest way to train your palate and the most fun one too.
On the table you’ll find a generous selection of the Lyonnaise specialties locals really eat. They come from the artisans the Lyonnais trust and are far from the dishes served on tourist menus. Each one meets fine wines that take you on a journey across France and its great vineyards.
Your host trained in Burgundy and worked as a sommelier in a renowned restaurant before devoting himself to sharing wine and its pairings. Seated in a characterful wine cellar of the Croix-Rousse in a small group of up to 8 guests you can ask every question and leave able to choose your own pairings.
Aroma kit and tasting sheets to sharpen your senses
A board of local charcuterie and cheese
A wine tasting led by a professional Lyon sommelier
Private transportation
Lyon owes its reputation as the capital of French gastronomy to its food, yet the menus of its busiest streets rarely show what the Lyonnais really eat. This tasting takes you to a neighbourhood wine cellar in the Croix-Rousse, where your sommelier has gathered a generous selection of genuine Lyonnaise specialties from the artisans locals trust.
Alongside them comes a selection of fine wines that takes you across France. Lyon sits at the crossroads of some of the country’s greatest vineyards and each glass reveals a region, its grapes and the landscape that shapes them.
The heart of the experience is pairing. Some matches lift both the wine and the food while others are deliberately wrong, because tasting a mismatch is the quickest way to grasp why a good pairing works. Step by step your palate learns how acidity, tannins, sweetness and richness meet.
With no more than eight guests the atmosphere stays relaxed whether you are new to wine or already a keen taster. You’ll leave with a real taste of Lyon and the confidence to choose your own pairings at home or in a restaurant.
Meeting Point
Meeting PointCave Tabareau, Place Tabareau, Rhône Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, FR, 69004
Open in Google MapsMeet at Cave Tabareau, 11 Place Tabareau, in the Croix-Rousse district of Lyon. It is about a five-minute walk downhill from Croix-Rousse metro station. Look for the wine cellar on the square, and your host will be waiting inside.
End Point
End PointThis experience ends at the meeting point.
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