Protocol Wine Studio 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?

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.

#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.

Learning About Wine with #WineStudio — Hungary and Slovenia

June 25, 2014 by Nancy (CSW) Comments are Disabled

#WineStudio is an online Twitter-based wine tasting and discussion organized by the folks at Protocol Wine Studio. They are wine geeks with a passion for teaching and promoting wines from around the world. We just completed their session on Hungary and Slovenia and like what we tasted.