Wine Education Class Instructors
 

And 3 of them are at Wine Gourmet!

What is a Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW)?

The Certified Specialist of Wine Exam is designed by the Society of Wine Educators for the wine industry by a team of wine educators.  The exam is focused on core principles in which with all wine professionals should be familiar. 

Subjects include:

• Viticulture
• Grape Varieties
• Wine Production
• Wine Regions
• Wine Tasting

The Certified Specialist of Wine Exam consists of 100 multiple choice questions based on all the subjects above.  A certificate is awarded to those who answer at least 75 percent correctly.  There is an approximate 60% pass rate.

Larry Shaver, Certified Specialist of Wine

Larry is also a Certified Specialist of Wine and is the Lead Instructor for Intermediate Wine Seminar as well as all of our Advanced Wine Seminars.  Larry can pronounce all of those complicated foreign words and excels at food and wine pairings.

Mike Harper, Certified Specialist of Wine &
Certified Culinarian

Mike's background intermixes his culinary training with his wine & beer experience.  He is the lead instructor for Beer 101 as well as the co-Instructor for our Intermediate classes.  We regard him as a "Wine Chef" because of his unique ability to pair wine with food not just food with wine. 

Melinda Hayes, Wine Lover
Melinda is the primary instructor for our WINE 101 & WINE 102.  She believes that wine is fun and should be "Snob-Free." 

Guest Instructors
Master Sommeliers, grapegrowers, winemakers, importers and distributors with an extensive background are frequent guest instructors at Wine Gourmet.

To signup, call 591-2012 or email us at winegourmet@aol.com