Description

With more than 400 grape varieties used for quality wines in Italy, it’s no wonder wine explorers get tangled up trying to make sense of Italian wines. This class will introduce learners to famous and less familiar wine regions worth knowing and what makes their wines so special. Food pairing, value hunting and less familiar wine regions that deserve a place on wine lovers’ radars will also be covered. No prior wine knowledge needed, only a sense of wine adventure and curiosity.

Matilda Parente, MD, Certified Specialist of Wine

Matilda has taught wine for more than a decade, as wine director and wine educator at a cooking school, at corporate events and as a featured speaker at national meetings of wine experts. She has been a speaker-in-residence at destination spas and engages audiences from coast to coast with presentations and tastings focused on wine appreciation and pairings, wine regions and wine and health topics. Besides writing on wine, the Certified Specialist of Wine is a wine judge and member of the Society of Wine Educators, the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research and the Renaud Society, an international society of medical and wine professionals. She is a graduate of Duke University and the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.