New York Vintners

New York Vintners
21 Warren St
(between Broadway & Church St)
New York, NY 10007

The most unpretentious place to learn about wine.

Dylan has been in the business for nearly 20 years, and his enthusiasm and passion for discussing and teaching wine clearly shows.

I have sat in on the Wine 101, Wine 202: Rhone, Spanish Tapas, Italian Pizza, and Sparkling Wine classes, and have enjoyed them thoroughly. The instructors are extremely knowledgeable: most have been trained by the Wine and Spirits Education Trust, the largest organization for wine education in the world. Most importantly, they encourage you to ask questions during class, which makes the classes feel more like an intimate wine seminar rather a droll wine lecture.

My favorite class had to be the Sparkling Wine class. Besides being informative about the intricacies of sparkling wine production, if you want to see a crowd's collective jaw drop, Dylan mentions that he learned a "cool trick" from the representative at Veuve Cliquot. He proceeds to pull out a cheese knife, and sabers not one, but two bottles of Champagne.