Seminars & Workshops

1. Understanding Wine Production for Non-production Wine Professionals
Method of instruction: lecture, wine tasting, business simulation project

   Learn about all the quality and financial decisions that go into growing, making, packaging, distributing and selling wine from the ground up. This fun and interactive program creates a foundation for all levels of wine studies using a comprehensive business simulation model. Areas of learning include site considerations, viticulture, winemaking, cellaring, packaging, production, sales, marketing, distribution and final point of sale. This can be also configured for team building activity with attendees participating in group winery development projects.

• Winery and wine distributor sales, marketing, administration and hospitality professionals
• Can be adapted for restaurant/hotel professionals and consumer programs
• Half, full and multi-day seminar/workshop formats
• Includes software and workbook

2. Wine and Food: Why You Like What You Like
Method of instruction: lecture, wine and food tasting, PowerPoint presentation

Professional Version
   A proven and revolutionary approach to wine and food that is used by reknowned wine and food experts and great chefs around the world. Increase guest satisfaction and improve profits with a combination of a deeper understanding of how human beings create their personal preferences, expectations and purchasing behaviors and simple food balancing techniques.

• Wine and food professionals
• 1-3 hours
• Custom programs available for strategic, sales and marketing initiatives

Consumer Version
   The most fun, interactive and useful wine and food program in existence! Based on years of high-level research and distilled down into a simple set of principles that provides the greatest amount of pleasure when anyone chooses to dine with wine.

• Consumer and professionals alike
• 1-3 hours

3. 'Wine and Food Balance' Workshop For Culinary Professionals
Method of instruction: classroom, cooking demonstration, and wine and food tasting

   This is a unique program, endorsed by wine and food experts and chefs, provides a simple set of techniques that can ensure a pleasurable experience whenever wine and food are served together. Attendees will experience first-hand the distinct, predictable interactions that occur when you combine wine and food and how to apply these techniques to any cuisine or style of cooking resulting in the most pleasure from any wine and food combination.

4. Introduction to WineQuest Beverage Solutions
   WineQuest works with its hotel and restaurant partners to customize, install, and manage a unique and effective beverage training program for front-of-the-house personnel. The program consists of job-specific beverage training and testing, a state-of-the-art training system, a reporting and management system, WineQuest's revolutionary wine list creation tool, consultative expertise, and hands-on program management.
   See measurable improvement in your staff and business performance. WineQuest training works. Watch your staff improve the satisfaction of their guests, sell more, and execute to your company's standards while continuing to build confidence and skill. The result is an increase in beverage sales, guest satisfaction, and staff retention.
   Operate much more efficiently. Outlet managers fulfill staff beverage training in a fraction of the time with the WineQuest program because the training is streamlined and the system offloads time-consuming administrative tasks. Implementation at the property is quick and easy, often requiring less than an hour from setup to fully operational.
   Maximize the return on your front-of-house training investment. Employee training is valuable, but costs money and time. Compared to other training alternatives the WineQuest solution delivers the best results, trains faster, and is available on-demand.

• Hotel and restaurant food and beverage executives and management
• 1 1/2-4 hours