The perfect food-and-wine pairing is like the fateful meeting of destined lovers—best celebrated with a tiny mock wedding presided over by a curmudgeonly pepper mill with a heart of gold. Combine cuisine and wine the way nature intended with today's Groupon: for $35, you get a four-course wine tasting for two people and a bottle of wine to take home from Von Klaus Winery (up to a $72 value), located in downtown Baraboo.
Since the epic Prince party of 1999, father-and-son winemakers Clint and Clinton Clingerman have been harvesting vine-ripe fruits in the Baraboo Bluffs to brew three grape wines and seven fruit wines. Each bottle is filled with all-natural wine made without preservatives, added sulfites, or old wives’ tales. The four-course wine tasting ($60) takes place in Von Klaus Winery’s Tasting Haus, with candlelight-illuminated couples communing over four seasonal wines and a spread of different Wisconsin cheeses, bread with seasoned dipping oils, shrimp or smoked salmon, and hand-dipped chocolate strawberries or homemade wine truffles. As a token of inebriation, you will also receive a bottle of wine ($10.95–$11.95) to bring home for fireside or rooftop toasts. Call ahead to schedule a reservation.
Must be 21 or older.
Groupon Says
How to Properly Taste Wine
For total wine enjoyment, the wine drinker must engage in a multi-step process designed to enhance the flavor, body, and unique characteristics with each sip:
- Give the wine in your glass one of three names: "Gary," "Darryl," or "Garryl."
- Bring the wine glass to your right eye and stare deeply into it for at least 30 minutes until you can no longer tell where the wine ends and you begin.
- Starting with your left pinky and moving right, fully submerge each of your fingers into the wine glass until all fingers are in the glass.
- Take a sip and slosh it around. When someone gives you some surprising news, spit it out.
- Put all of the wine from your glass into your mouth but don't swallow. When all the wine is in there, open your mouth and say, "Keys. Once angry keeping flagrant." Enjoy the wine that is left in your mouth.
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