#WineStudio Archives

Food, Wine and Music: Paul Cullen and Tune Your Palate

January 13, 2016 by Nancy (CSW) 2 comments

Paul Cullen, former Bad Company bassist, has turned his attention from rock music to Italian food and wine with music to accompany both. Through his enterprise, Tune Your Palate, he will arrange to cook delicious authentic Italian dishes for you and your friends in your own kitchen. He creates wine pairings to match and then plays music while you enjoy both. Sounds like a delicious idea doesn’t it?

Ferrari: Sparkling Wine From the Mountains of Northeastern Italy

December 14, 2015 by Nancy (CSW) Comments are Disabled

November was the most enjoyable month of wine tastings I have experienced in some time. I spent Tuesday evenings participating in Protocol Wine Studio’s #winestudio Twitter chats and sampling extraordinary sparkling wine made in the mountains of northeastern Italy. In all, we received four sparkling wines as tasting samples produced by Cantine Ferrari. Each Tuesday evening special guests joined the conversation to explain Ferrari’s history, farming practices, production methods and we sipped a different Ferrari wine as we learned about Ferrari. It’s a genius way to learn about wine.

Celebrating in Style with Giulio Ferrari for #winePW

December 11, 2015 by Nancy (CSW) 19 comments

Sparkling Wine and Festive Holiday Dishes is the theme for our December Wine Pairing Weekend thanks to this month’s host Cindy Rynning whose blog is cleverly called Grape Experiences. What a delicious pairing idea!

Sparkling wines are among my very favorite wines. I love the variety of flavors, variable degree of sweetness and the large number of grape varieties that are used to make sparkling wine. And, they’re generally so food friendly.

HALL Wines: Two Artistic Napa Valley Cabernets

February 18, 2015 by Nancy (CSW) 2 comments

We continued talking wine education with PROTOCOL wine studio, and several of their guests, while sipping two delicious HALL Wines on a recent Tuesday evening. PROTOCOL wine studio provides wine education via Twitter on Tuesday evenings (search #WineStudio on Twitter) and in their classroom in San Diego. It was fun and instructive.

The Steven Kent Winery: Focused on Bordeaux Varieties

February 1, 2015 by Nancy (CSW) 2 comments

We were recently introduced to the wines of The Steven Kent Winery located in the Livermore Valley via an online tasting with Protocol Wine Studio. During an online discussion, we talked wine education and tasted two Steven Kent wines.

Westrey Wine Company — Brilliant Winemaking from a Saved Vineyard

December 1, 2014 by Nancy (CSW) Comments are Disabled

The final evening of the November #WineStudio program featured Westrey Wine Company’s 2012 Reserve Willamette Valley Chardonnay, and we were joined by Amy Wesselman who together with her husband, David Autrey, shares winemaking duties at their winery.

Omero Cellars — Willamette Valley Chardonnay Joins the Wine List

November 24, 2014 by Nancy (CSW) 2 comments

If it’s week three of Protocol Wine Studio’s November #WineStudio discussion, The Importance of Being a Willamette Valley Chardonnay, then it must be Omero Cellars. We enjoyed two Willamette Valley Chardonnays from Omero Cellars during last Tuesday evening’s online chat with current winemaker Chad Stock.

#WineStudio — Three Expressive Willamette Valley Chardonnays

November 17, 2014 by Nancy (CSW) Comments are Disabled

Week two of our #WineStudio exploration of Willamette Valley Chardonnay brought with it three delightful wines. We continue to be impressed with the quality of Oregon’s Willamette Valley Chardonnay.

November #WineStudio – It’s All About Willamette Valley Chardonnay

November 7, 2014 by Nancy (CSW) Comments are Disabled

We will be spending Tuesday evenings in November getting the lowdown on Willamette Valley Chardonnay with #WineStudio, an online Twitter-based wine education program. The discussions, organized by Protocol Wine Studio, begin at 6 pm Pacific time. You can join the conversation by following the hashtag #WineStudio. We will post a summary each week to keep you up to date.

Rinascimento Wine Company: Building Relationships, Selling Italian Wine

September 25, 2014 by Nancy (CSW) 2 comments

We spent Tuesday evenings during September learning about Rinascimento Wine Company and its founder Justin Gallen with Protocol Wine Studio and their Twitter-based wine education program #WineStudio. Justin has combined his love of wine and Italian literature into an Italian wine import and distribution business in California. He is busy building relationships with producers and clients alike. He’s a big fan of Italian wines and provided us with four very good reasons we should be too.