Sunday School
Learn about and enjoy a different not-so-common wine, cheese and beer every Sunday—at incredibly low prices. School was never this delicious! Limit one each per guest at the Sunday School price. Please, no returns: if you try it, you buy it.
Syllabus for Sunday, May 20, 2012
Sunday's Wine
Built on Old World winemaking traditions, today’s dry red wine is made in our own backyard. Karamoor, which translates to “my happiness” in Greek, was established in 2006 in Fort Washington with 17 acres of vines on softly sloping hills. Intending to create wines reflecting the unique character of Pennsylvania’s 325-year winemaking tradition, these wines are crafted with respect to Old World style. As a Meritage (rhymes with heritage), this garnet-colored wine is a Bordeaux-style blend of predominantly Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes modeled after the wines of St. Emilion. The wine is aged for nine months in new French oak. Concentrated flavors of black fruit, cassis and plums dominate the palate with an herbal, peppery quality. Intense but well balanced with persistent tannins, this red blend proves that Pennsylvania has something to offer the wine world. Drink local; be proud.
Sunday School Price $10 $5 glass glass
Sunday's Cheese
Nestled among the Italian Alps in Piedmont, today’s pasteurized cow’s milk cheese is named after the Walsers, a small ethnic minority who crossed the Alps during the Middle Ages and settled in the high, uninhabited valleys. Their relative isolation maintained their heritage, Germanic dialect, and strong cultural identity, as evident from the ancient semi-soft cheese we taste today. The beautiful ivory paste is freckled with small homogenous holes. Milky, sweet and delicate, this cheese gains spicy notes as it ages over three months. Enjoy this tasty mountain Toma with a young, fruit-forward Piedmontese red wine or effervescent Saison ale.
Sunday School Price $6 $3
Sunday's Beer
WEIHENSTEPHANER KRISTALL WEISSBIER
Today’s Kristall Weissbier--crystal clear wheat beer--is crafted at the oldest still existing brewery in the world. Originally a monastic brewery of the Benedictine monks nearly a thousand years ago, the Weihenstephaner brewery now operates as a private Bavarian business. Still on the original site atop Nährberg Hill in Freising, the brewery is dedicated to producing beers of “class not mass” for the world to enjoy. This Kristall Weissbier has all the trademark banana and clove flavors of the much more popular Hefeweizen, but without the heavy clouds. Yeast sediment responsible for the cloudy appearance of Hefeweizen is filtered out (hefe means “yeast” in German), leaving a clear quaff ideal for the warm weather. Try this refreshing rendition with light fare and clean cheese.
Sunday School Price $8 / 16.9 oz $4 / 16.9 oz
Note: At Tria Wine Room, the Sunday School beer may be different when the selection is on draft.
