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A native of Brazil, Eugenio Jardim has been a part San Francisco's wine scene since 1988. He's created and run wine programs for some of the city's hottest clubs and restaurants, been featured gue...
Special Guest: Dean Hewitson, Owner & Winemaker, Hewitson Winery, Barossa Valley
Dean Hewitson has been making wine since he graduated from Australia’s world-famous Roseworthy Agricultural College in 1986. He established highly acclaimed Hewitson winery in the Barossa Valley i...
Special Guest: Ira Noroff, CWE, CSE
Ira Noroff has been working in the wine industry since 1976. He is a Certified Wine Educator and holds many other wine & spirits credentials. He was a Director of Education with Southern Glaz...
Special Guest: Greg Lambrecht of Coravin
San Francisco Wine School proudly welcomes special guest, Greg Lambrecht. Mr. Lambrecht is the inventor, founder, and board member of Coravin. Read more...
Special Guest: Madeline Puckette of WineFolly
San Francisco Wine School proudly welcomes special guest Madeline Puckette. Madeline is the chief design officer at Folly Enterprises and co-creator of WineFolly.com, a best selling and James Beard...
Instructor: Jienna Basaldu, Sommelier, Angler
Jienna Basaldu is a San Francisco Wine School Instructor and Advanced Sommelier working with San Francisco's Michelin Starred Angler. She loves their expansive cellar full of wines from classic re...
Special Guest: Jancis Robinson
Jancis Robinson is described by Decanter magazine as "the most respected wine critic and journalist in the world". Three global polls in 2018 nominated her the world’s most influential wine writer....
Laura Donadoni is an Italian wine journalist and influencer, based in San Diego, where she founded 5 years ago "The Italian Wine Girl" blog and La Com Wine Agency, a strategic P.R. and Communicati...
Harris' Journey From Seattle to Sommelier Seattle born Morgan Harris made his way to NYC and jumped into the wine game full time in 2011. He cut his wine teeth with Master Sommelier Laura Maniec at...
Special Guest: Rubina Vieira, Madeira Wine Institute
Rubina Vieira is originally from Madeira Island where she was born in 1973. Graduating with a degree in Chemistry, she joined the Madeira Wine Institute (IVM) in 2001 and since then, her entire p...
Special Guest: Dr. Tilar Mazzeo: Author of The Widow Clicquot
Dr. Tilar Mazzeo is the Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine. She has authored "The Widow Clicquot" and numerous works of narrative nonfiction, sever...
Special Guest:Bartolomeo Roberto Lepori
Bartolomeo Roberto Lepori is an International Wine, Food and Tourism Journalist, Sommelier, Wine and Spirits Educator, Judge, and Wine and Food Communications Specialist. Roberto lives in Rome, bu...
Special Guest: Margareth Henríquez: President & CEO, Krug Champagne
In Margareth Henríquez’s illustrious career of nearly 40 years, 28 have been spent as President and/or CEO of multinational or global companies in Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina and now in France....
Special Guest: Grégory Viennois - Technical Director, Domaine Laroche
Born in 1975, Grégory Viennois is a qualified oenologist from the University of Burgundy. He worked as an assistant winemaker for Cru Classé Smith Haut Lafitte before joining the renowned Stéphane...
Vincent's career in hospitality originated when he came to California to attend Sonoma State University, from which he earned a BA in Business Administration, Wine Business Strategies, and Marketin...
Rob Renteria has been a sommelier in the Bay Area restaurant industry for 20 years. He first worked with the wine list at Rubicon before contributing to the lists at Bacar and EOS, all in San Franc...
San Francisco Magazine has called Alder “The Wine World’s Brightest Cyberstar” and he is widely accepted as a pioneer of wine blogging. His Vinography.Com blog has been published daily since 2004, ...
Special Guest: Daniele Cernilli
Daniele Cernilli is an internationally famous wine critic. He was one of the founders of Gambero Rosso and for 24 years edited the Gambero Rosso - Slow Food Wine Guide. During his long career, he h...
Special Guest: Martine Saunier
Martine Saunier was born in Paris. Although she lived and attended school there, she spent every summer vacation at her Aunt’s home in Prissé, near Mâcon. Her aunt owned a winery with approximatel...
After attending Fresno State with majors in Biology and Viticulture, and spending summers fighting fires in Yosemite National Park, Stephen Collum moved to Sonoma County with his wife Cindy to find...
Ian Blue is the Member Relations Director for the Wine Institute. He has a background in politics and research having worked most recently as Legislative Assistant at the US House of Representat...
Raised in Dallas, hospitality and cuisine surrounded Robert from a young age with his family’s business in the Food and Beverage industry. Robert went on to study at the University of Nevada, Las ...
Special Guest: Brain Mast and Jennifer Waits
Waits-Mast Family Cellars was founded by Brian Mast and Jennifer Waits in 2005. Before they started to make wine, they were passionate wine consumers, spending many of their weekends exploring smal...
Special Guest: Martin Sheehan-Stross
While some sommeliers enter the restaurant world later in life, after catching the wine bug, Martin Sheehan-Stross has been working in restaurants nonstop since he was 15, growing up on the Penins...