Happy Deviations - Natural wine coursE
For those who already have some basic knowledge of wine.
Join this thought-provoking, interactive and fun wine course that will help you better understand (and love!) the world of natural wines.
We will learn about vinification and production methods and taste the most common styles of natural wines: macerated/orange, unfiltered, cloudy and Pet-nats. For this part, it will be advantageous if you already have some background about how wines are made.
We will explore the differences between organic and biodynamic wines, which in German often becomes one word, “Bio.”
You will taste, identify and experience the boundaries between enjoyable (happy!) imperfections and clear wine faults.
Created in collaboration with Enotéka Wild Wines.
• Are wines smelling like balsamic vinegar always faulty?
• Am I smelling nuts and almonds but not a fruit character? Is this right?
• What are funky wines, a taste or a smell?
We will taste and discuss in detail the most common wine faults associated with low-intervention wines: Volatile Acidity, Oxidation, Reduction, Brettanomyces, and the most talked about of them all: “Mousiness”.
Language
English / German
Price
CHF 146 - per person
Group Max of 12 attendees.
What’s included in this course
We taste 10 - 12 different natural wines.
3 hours guided course by WSET Certified
Wine Educator and two Dipl.WSET professionals
Printed material about the faults discussed in the class.
Snack, neutral food.
Voucher 5% discount in the wine shop.
Venue and course times
Enotéka Wild Wines,
Klybeckstrasse 50, 4057 Basel.
Saturdays from 09:00 to 12:00 - see dates below
Please book your place on our next course in Sept & November!
Sept 2025
Sat 27th of Sep - 09:00 - 12:00
Nov 2025
Sat 15th Nov - 09:00 - 12:00
“What if the challenge, in order to fully love natural wine, was to manage to identify and understand its characteristics in order to better tolerate them, no longer systematically reject them, and end up accepting the possible flaw, the famous deviance.”