3 Ways to Learn About Wine

1. 3BOTTLES... Is our monthly wine club that breaks down the sometimes overly complex world of wine into digestible bites. We ship you (or you can pick up at our Elliott Rd. location) three wines centered around a theme, a premise, a concept, a passion. We include with the trio an abundance of text telling you all about the wines we've selected, placing them in a context of their homeland, their history, the families that crafted them. 3BOTTLES is way more fun than going to school, and over time you can learn tons about authentic wine without leaving home. Here's the link to read more about 3BOTTLES.

2. Weekend Wine & Wine Flights... Happily, many of you have discovered our wine bar. The only real way to learn about wine is to regularly taste it. To make this process easy and fun we create two new wine flights each week, one red, one white. For a low price you can sample two ounces of three different wines that (at least tenuously) share common traits. This week, the white flight features Gruner Veltliner for $6, and the red flight is Great Languedoc Deals for $5. And every friday we describe the Weekend Wine in this e-mail, a great deal on a wine that deserves time at center stage. We pour free samples of our Weekend Wine on Friday and Saturday so swing by for some wine, stay for cheese, bread, pies...

3. Classes and Socials... There is a lot going on at 3CUPS and our website always has the latest details on our events. In broad terms, we do two types of wine events. Our Wine Socials are precisely that, easy evenings of hanging out and chatting with our favorite (generally local) creators and sellers of food and wine. Informal, irreverent, educational in the sense that we use wine at these events in the manner we believe it was intended to be consumed. Our classes are structured, formal (but still fun!) affairs. Through our 3CUPS Wine Series of events you can learn about wine in a more conventional academic environment. We'll talk at you, you'll ask questions, wine will be swirled, cheese will be served. Note taking is appropriate, but not mandatory. It's fine to come to these classes knowing absolutely zero about wine in advance. We'll try to add insight for participants from all points along the wine knowledge continuum.