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The Society of Wine Educators (SWE) will present an impressive lineup of in-depth classes for wine devotees at its 37th annual conference, to be held July 31 through August 2, 2013 at the Renaissance Hotel at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

So what is a ‘trophy red?’ Nearly every member of our panel of distinguished sommeliers asked that question when we asked them if they would like to contribute their favorites for this article. Our facile and somewhat macabre answer was “a wine to die for, or perhaps even to kill for.”

Forget harvest for Napa Valley excitement. To uncover who and what makes the place tick, consider the trade event called Première Napa.

During the four-day event in February, you can sample the finest Napa Valley wines and buy unique wine to resell later.

Although I prefer seeing the bottle label when I’m my writing tasting notes, blind tastings can be fun for what they tell us about wine regions and categories as well as what they tell us about ourselves as wine writers and critics.

Every winery has a story.  Or maybe two.

Chablis brings up an image of “purity” – Chardonnay purity, at its best – and one could certainly argue that if the world could have only one white wine to drink with food, it would be Chablis.  One could also argue that there are “better” whites, even more-luscious and more-complex Chardonnays produced just down the road along the Côte d’Or, but as a universal food white wine, Chablis can

Simply Italian: Great Wines, presented by I.E.E.M. (International Event and Exhibition Management), is designed to be the world’s premiere Italian wine experience. Over 40 wineries will be on hand, represented by winemakers, winery owners and brand specialists to bring the incredible culture and passion of Italian winemaking, glass by glass, to trade professionals.

Piemonte Land of Perfection Grand Tasting Event was held on July 18th 2012, in New York City. It was an afternoon of wine tasting, educational seminars, and networking opportunities exclusively for buyers, restaurateurs and journalists – overall, an important day for the rediscovery of wines from Piemonte in the United States.

When I was invited recently to visit the Euganean Hills as an adjunct to Vulcania 2012, a conference in the town of Soave about wines grown on volcanic soils, I must admit I had never heard of it.  Or them.  So I pulled down my 10-year-old version of the Oxford Companion to Wine to look it up.  It wasn’t there!  Silly me – try the Italian name, “Colli Euganei.”  It stil

I had the very good fortune of travelling to Chile recently and to visit many vineyards, meet several winemakers and other winery personnel and to taste a selection of Chile's many and varied wines.

It certainly is an intriguing thought – a wine tasting worth a thousand points, made up of 10 wines that a least one major wine publication or guru has rated 100 points each.  Ten perfect wines at one sitting.

The question is: Would it turn out to be The Perfect Tasting?

We need to move people along rapidly---but not without detailed instruction. The wine-drinking public is expanding in size and wine knowledge, and they are thirsty for excellent service from informed, well-prepared, guest-oriented sommeliers. A comprehensive, hands-on program is necessary to instill the skills and responsibilities required for today’s sommelier.