GLANCY Wine Blog
Our blog is a place for instructors, food & wine professionals and San Francisco Wine School students to discuss news, interesting people and events as well as their thoughts about wine, spirits, the industry, and careers.
We’re always looking for guest authors!
Up to four submissions each month will be published. We accept a wide range of formats from blogs to photography and beyond. Topics range from travel to industry news and everything in between. Please email submissions to help@sfwineschool.com with your name, contact information, a little bit about you, and your piece.
Featured Blogs
How to Become a Sommelier
Clarifying Credential Blur
How to get a Job in the Wine Industry
Top 4 Reasons to Get Wine Credentials
The Gift of Service
Kristin Campbell Named Brand Ambassador for Women of the Vine & Spirits
Featured Articles
An Interview with Karen MacNeil
We recently caught up with Karen MacNeil, author of the best -selling book The Wine Bible in anticipation of her visit Saturday, May 4th, where she’ll teach her hugely popular class What Makes Grea...
Women of the Vine Alliance is proud to announce our partnership with the San Francisco Wine School.
Women of the Vine Alliance is proud to announce our partnership with the San Francisco Wine School.
Our COO and fearless leader, Kristin Campbell, attended the second annual Women of the Vine Con...
Meet Madeline Triffon - First American Female Master Sommelier
Meet Madeline Triffon - First American Female Master Sommelier
Madeline Triffon has traversed the eddies of being not only a female pioneer in the until recently male-dominated US wine busine...
MEET MONIKA CHRISTMANN - INSIDER INTERVIEWS BY DAVID FURER
Meet Monika Christmann - Insider Interviews by David Furer
Prof. Monika Christmann and I met in Chicago soon after she'd completed her time working on Simi Winery's winemaking team having b...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Jean Arnold-Sessions
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Jean Arnold-SessionsJean Arnold-Sessions' career has been greatly centered around wineries in northern California: Chateaux St. Jean and Montelena, ...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Carole Meredith
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Carole Meredith
Best known for her UC Davis research group's pioneering use of DNA typing in differentiating Vitis Vinifera varieties and elucidatin...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Dr. Liz Thach, MW
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Dr. Liz Thach, MW
Dr. Elizabeth “Liz” Thach, MW is a Professor of Management and Wine Business at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, Californi...
Insider Interviews by David Furer – Presenting Lydia & Claude Bourguignon
Insider Interviews by David Furer – Presenting Lydia & Claude Bourguignon
Partners in work and life, Lydia & Claude Bourguignon are the most heralded viti-soil scientists in the world with...
Insider Interviews by David Furer – Presenting Debra Meiburg
Insider Interviews by David Furer – Presenting Debra Meiburg
Acquiring a Master of Wine accreditation doesn’t come easy. What was the most challenging part of your MW studies? The most rewarding?
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Martine Saunier
Insider Interviews by David Furer- Presenting Martine Saunier
As an expatriate Frenchwoman many years back, why set yourself up as an importer in the US?When I came here in 1964 I started drinking...
Insider Interviews by David Furer - Presenting Meridith May
Insider Interviews by David Furer- Presenting Meridith May
In 2007 Meridith May had been serving as publisher/editor of California-based veteran Paterson’s Beverage Journal with Anthony Dias Blue,...
Women in Wine on the Rise
Women in Wine on the Rise
The second half of 2013 saw an upsurge in activities for women in wine in South America. In December at the Museo del Vino was the first meeting of the Asociación de Mueje...