Tasting of four wines with nibbles

Noses up! 90% is in the nose followed by taste to determine wine quality. Some very appealing wines can be found at Trader Joe’s. Back by popular demand, this is part deux of fun and affordable wines. Tips for tasting, food pairings, finding value wines on wine lists and stores are also part of the conversation. Culinary Strategist and wine expert, Janet Cam has tasted some of the benchmark wines in her storied career as the co-founder of first nouvelle cuisine restaurant in the United States, LePavillon, honored with Wine Spectator’s Grand Award for their wine list. The Washington, DC restaurant was host to many evenings of wine fueled conversations of the wine critic Robert Parker Jr. “Parker stated that LePavillon had the “greatest Burgundy wine list in the world”. “His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate are influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines. This made him the most widely known and influential wine critic in the world.” Other guests included, Madame Lalou Bize-Leroy the grand dame of Burgundy, one of the most powerful women in wine, formerly at the helm of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti and now Domaine Leroy as well as Madonna and the former First Lady Nancy Reagan. Cam is the recipient of the WSET Level 2 Award with distinction. She has completed in-country studies for certification in Burgundy, Loire and Champagne.  Wine explorations continue in Spain, Germany and Austria. Cam’s clients have included Chef Peter Chang and his Q restaurant group (Q by Peter Chang, Mama Chang, and Nihao – named Esquire magazine’s best new restaurant 2020), The Cosmos Club, and Vino Volo wine bars at the airports. Presently, she is preparing a wine program for the University of Maryland. Recently, Cam was unanimously elected to the Smithsonian Kitchen Cabinet which works closely with The Smithsonian’s Museum of American History to shape and support the Museum’s Food History Project. She has appeared in W, The Sun (Japan), GQ, WSJ, The Wine Spectator, The Wine Advocate, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Washingtonian Magazine, as well as television and radio.

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