Chancellor Green Cafe will offer a whirlwind tour of French vineyards tonight with a wine sampling that includes Chardonnays, Pinot Noirs and Champagnes. The University-sponsored event is the second in a four-part series called "Wines of the World" and sold out 15 minutes after tickets became available.
The event is open to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff of legal drinking age.
The 25 participants will sample a range of wines from different regions in France, including four white wines, three reds and a Champagne. The instructors will give brief histories of the wines and their regions. They will also discuss the grapes' characteristics and taste profiles and answer general questions about how to serve and drink wine.
"Wine tastings have been coordinated before by various separate student groups, but none that brought together undergraduate and graduate students," Director of Dining Services Stuart Orefice said. "This will help promote the educational aspects of serving alcohol."
The event will be supervised by Mark Bovenizer, the proprietor of Community Liquors in Princeton and a panel taster for Wine and Spirits Magazine, and Bill Mickel, a wine educator at the Carlow Cookery in Doylestown and Blue Bell, Pa.
Rob Harbison, executive chef for Dining Services, will also be present to tell the participants about the relationship between food and wine.
U-Councilor Xiuhui Lim '05, who is organizing the event, said the idea of a campus wine tasting session came up a long time ago as a way of encouraging responsible drinking among students.
"A lot of people who wouldn't usually go to the Street were at the first tasting," she said. "I think it's a part of the University's move to create more social options on campus, especially in light of the recent race survey."
The event is being sponsored by the Office of the Vice-President and is partially subsidized by University Dining Services. As a result of this increase in funding, ticket prices decreased from $10 to $5.
Student responses to the first session were overwhelmingly positive, Lim said, and almost all those who attended said that they would come back a second time.
"I think it's great that the University is doing this kind of event where you can have enjoyable social drinking, and I hope that it becomes a regular event," said Daniel Scher '06, who attended the first session and has a ticket for today's wine tasting. "It's a great opportunity to get to know more about wine."
The next two wine tastings will feature Italian and South American wines.
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