Thursday 9th January, 6pm. Parker’s Tavern Library. £42 per person.
We invite you to join us in our library for an evening exploring the concept of dryness in wines with Cong Cong Bo. January is a tough enough month already without removing joyous alcoholic beverages from the equation. Instead, we propose a tasting of wines that explore the concept of dryness. While a wine is, by definition, dry when it contains less than 4 grams of sugar per litre, it doesn’t always taste dry. You’re more likely to think a wine is sweet when there is abundant fruit, honey, caramel, and other aromas which you would normally associate with a sweet taste – a phenomenon Cong calls associative sweetness. And did you know that high levels of acidity can reduce the perception of sweetness?
Join award-winning sommelier and Master of Wine candidate, Cong Cong Bo, in Parker’s Tavern for a flight of wines that will explore and challenge what it means for a wine to be “dry”. With an impressive career spanning multiple facets of the wine industry, Cong is listed 9th in the Harpers Top 50 UK Sommeliers. You may know her from Cambridge wine shop-bar Amphora, which was awarded the Decanter Retailer Awards Best Newcomer 2023. Cong is a regular wine judge, writer at TimAtkin.com, and a Master of Wine candidate.
