wine education
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Saving Wine Careers at NVWA
For you students of the vine, my latest piece for Napa Valley Wine Academy’s Pouring Points is now available, with the not-so-modest title “The Online Subscription That Just Might Save Your Wine Career.” For this piece, I had the distinct pleasure of being set loose…
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Certifiably Certifiable (Talking Wine Certifications For SevenFifty Daily)
I was recently asked by my friend Lana Bortolot for a quick interview, to help contribute to a piece she was writing about the value (or lack thereof) of certifications in the wine biz. Lana’s work has subsequently been published in a well-researched and well-considered…
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Wine Knows Trivia iPhone App Giveaway!
With the buzz happening around the Weekly Wine Quiz, I’ve got wine trivia on the (vino-soaked) brain lately. So it seemed serendipitous that I was contacted by the folks at Trivia Knows to try out their new cross-platform mobile wine trivia game, Wine Knows Trivia.…
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3 Reasons Why YOU Should Get a Wine Certification (A Tale from Remote Kenya)
The March issue of Sommelier Journal is dedicated to the topic of wine education, and (as always) is well worth a read for wine pros and serious wine geeks alike. It contains a great follow-up article by Master Sommelier Tim Gaiser on the current status…
