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In this class we will be looking beyond the fruit flavors to learn how to improve our tasting skills based on observing how winemaking, climate, and quality impact the wine and its’ structure.

This class is designed to deepen your understanding and ability to taste white wines. There seems to be confusion among novice wine drinkers who are uninformed about the different styles of whites available in the world. In this class we will be tasting wines you may have never tried or even have heard of and teach you how to break down a white wine,...

This is the first of 5 classes designed to be taken together to help you improve your basic tasting ability. Becoming proficient at describing wine takes a solid understanding of the components of wine (acid, body, alcohol, flavor ripeness, texture, sweetness). This class is focused on defining these components while identifying them in the glass....

In this class, we will be pairing artisan cheese with holiday-worthy wines to help you up your entertaining game and refine your ability to pair food and wine. Magical combinations await in the mouthwatering class to definitely attend.

In this class we will exploring how to perceive and correctly assess the quality of a wine from a professional deductive-reasoning perspective.  Come and be surprised! We will also be exploring how price weaves into the assessment, if at all.

The world of Italian whites! This can be very tricky. What are those markers to help you figure out if it’s from the North, Central or the South? How do you get to Italy as a whole?

Even though red wine blends have been around for years, it wasn't until fairly recently that red wine blends have become commonly accepted and celebrated wines. Red wine blends are on track to sell more, by volume, than single varietal (100%) Pinot Noir or Merlot wines. Why? And how do winemakers make wine blends? Explore your inner-winemaker, and...

Here we mix it all up for you and introduce other regions not covered (Can you spot the Santorini? Tokaji?) How well will you do?

The goal of this course is to refresh and deepen the tasting skills you gained with WSET Level 2 empowering you with more skills giving you greater confidence over tasting and describing wines. Includes certificate of completion if you take all classes. This course can also be taken as a Level 3 prep course, to polish your tasting chops so you are...

In this class we will be exploring hot trends and new styles and deciding what we think the new direction of California wines is and will be.  This will be a fun class where we taste iconic producers and modernists alike. 

The goal of this course is to refresh and deepen the tasting skills you gained with WSET Level 2 empowering you with more skills giving you greater confidence over tasting and describing wines. Includes certificate of completion if you take all classes. This course can also be taken as a Level 3 prep course, to polish your tasting chops so you are...

In this class we will first identify what are the aspects of wine that can show you the quality of a wine, then we put those new skills to the test in a blind tasting of 5 wines.  We will then conclude if there is a price to quality ratio and how to make more informed decisions about buying wine in general keeping these rules in mind.

The goal of this course is to refresh and deepen the tasting skills you gained with WSET Level 2 empowering you with more skills giving you greater confidence over tasting and describing wines. Includes certificate of completion if you take all classes. This course can also be taken as a Level 3 prep course, to polish your tasting chops so you are...

In this class we will introduce the foundation to becoming a proficient wine taster. We will discuss what flavor profiles to look for, how to perceive acidity, tannins, body and overall quality while tasting through 6 different wines.

In preparation for San Diego’s first-ever Spanish Wine Scholar course, we will be exploring the styles, approaches, and expression of different Spanish iconic producers (6 wines tasted in total).