One grape at a time, tracked across regions rather than one region across many grapes. Not a numbered step in the curriculum: a standing side project that runs alongside it, added to whenever something interesting turns up worth comparing side by side.
A pilot evening and the first of the series, one grape, three terroirs. A Bourgogne, a Südtirol and a Friuli Chardonnay side by side, exploring how the same variety expresses itself across radically different soils and climates.
Four bottles, two grapes: a 2020 and a 2005 from Bourgogne, a 2017 and a 2007 from Piedmont. Same grape, same place, a decade or two apart each time.
Four Fiano di Avellino from the DOCG's three most defining communes, Montefredane, Summonte and Lapio, each a single-vineyard bottling from the producer most associated with that ground. Three are made in the traditional steel-driven style; the fourth closes the tasting with a steel-and-oak blend, showing how the same grape and place can be read through a different hand in the cellar.
Grenache-Syrah-Mourvèdre blends traced across three regions, Languedoc, Roussillon and the southern Rhône, closing on a Châteauneuf-du-Pape as benchmark. Three wines in total.