Back to list news

GENEVA, EYES CLOSED: RED EVENTS INTRODUCES WINEGANZA

This April in Geneva, Red Events opens a new chapter with Wineganza — its first evening built around the meeting of blind wine tasting and live classical music.

Set inside Galerie Fahid Taghavi, just a few steps from the cathedral, the event moves away from the usual codes of tasting culture. No labels, no technical performance, no race to identify the grape before the second sip. Instead: a blindfold, four Swiss wines, and the sound of Bach’s Cello Suites unfolding in real time.

What emerges is less a tasting than a shift in attention. The palate works differently when sight is removed; music changes the air around the glass; the gallery becomes a quiet stage for sensation, memory, and instinct. In this setting, wine is not explained so much as encountered.

With Wineganza, Red Events enters a more intimate format — one where classical music is not simply performed, but allowed to converse with space, ritual, and perception. In Geneva, that conversation begins with Bach, a cello, and a glass lifted in the dark.

Partners
  • Coventry Central Hall
  • London Enterprise Awards 2025
  • AIP
  • Stoller
  • eventbrite
  • Skiddle
  • Kensington United Reformed Church
  • The Cheltencham Trust
  • ticketmaster