Courtney Cochran - Your Personal Sommelier

YOUR PERSONAL SOMMELIER’S Courtney Cochran provides personalized wine services to adventurous wine collectors, purveyors and enthusiasts. From innovative team building exercises for corporate groups to intimate in-home classes, trend-savvy restaurant wine list design and targeted personal shopping excursions, Courtney pairs her deep wine expertise with her lively demeanor to create unforgettable wine experiences. In addition to tastings featured here, Courtney combines forces with a Cordon Bleu trained personal chef to host wine and food pairing experiences in private homes.

Courtney has facilitated tastings for hundreds of private and corporate clients. Her client list includes individuals, privately-held businesses and global firms including Deloitte & Touche, IBM, Yahoo!, eBay, Wells Fargo, Banc of America Securities, Bain & Co., McKinsey & Co., Cisco Systems, and Amgen. Let Courtney customize a tasting for your group, or choose from one of the following topics offered:

Cabernet Sauvignon: The Power Wine
Pinot or Bust!
The Misfits: Port, Sherry and Madeira
Getting to Know Merlot…All Over Again
Think Pink: The Softer Side of Wine
Blind Tasting Boot Camp
Varietal 411: The Basics
Haute Stuff: Champagne & Sparklers
The White Stuff: An All-White Wine Tasting
Burgundy and Bordeaux: The Big Guns Face Off
Wild Card: Have Courtney design a tasting that fits your special needs

Detailed tasting menus and references are available upon request. Please contact us for more information.

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Courtney – called “San Francisco’s Most Wanted Wine Guru” by C Magazine - has been profiled in Vogue, Business Week online, Domino and Daily Candy and appeared on numerous television and radio networks discussing wine including ABC, NBC, Fox, NPR and Martha Stewart Living Radio. She is available for corporate and private engagements to speak on a variety of wine-related topics, including:

TOPICAL
Wine for the Next Generation: Marketing to Millenials
Wine for Business: Choosing, Talking About & Enjoying Wine In a Business Setting
Wine 2.0: Taking Wine Online to the Next Level
The New Hot Wine Party: How To Do It Right
Wine and Business: Combing Passion and Profession
The New Power Players: Women and Wine
GENERAL - WINE
Blind Tasting Bootcamp: How to Taste Like a Pro (includes tasting)
Wine and Food Pairing: Cardinal Rules & When To Break Them (includes tasting)
Building a Collection: Cardinal Rules & How-Tos
How to Spice Up Your Restaurant's Wine Program

Detailed outlines are available upon request. Please contact us for more information and a quotation.

For clients interested in more in-depth learning, Courtney offers half-day and day-long wine workshops designed to convey sommelier-caliber knowledge in an entertaining and memorable format. Workshops are designed to teach corporate or private groups the essentials they need to begin to better understand and appreciate wine in their everyday lives and business engagements. Topics covered include:

Beginning Wine Basics
Blind Tasting Technique
Buying & Serving
Food Pairing
Ordering & Dining Etiquette
Cellaring

Workshop programs are available upon request. Please contact us for more information and a quotation.

Courtney has created compelling, trend-savvy and critically-acclaimed wine lists for restaurant clients that include a San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 restaurant and groundbreaking cinema complex with sophisticated multi-venue food and beverage program. Her sommelier certification and knack for clear communication enable her to create memorable training programs for client service providers, while her deep network of wine distributors, brokers and sales professionals allows for efficient product procurement across a broad array of products, including highly allocated wines.

Please contact us for more information and to set up a free consultation.

Courtney is a freelance wine writer whose first book, "Hip Tastes: The Fresh Guide to Wine," was published October 4, 2007 by Viking Studio, part of Penguin Group (USA). The book is the recipient of the 2007 Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year award and the San Francisco Chronicle enthused that owning it is like having "a sommelier in your pocket." Courtney is also the lead writer for popular wine travel portal WineCountry.com and her work has appeared in Maxim.

Courtney is available for both short- and long-term writing engagements covering wine, travel and lifestyle-related topics.




		YOUR PERSONAL SOMMELIER’S Courtney Cochran provides personalized wine services to adventurous wine collectors, purveyors and enthusiasts. From innovative team building exercises for corporate groups to intimate in-home classes, trend-savvy restaurant wine list design and targeted personal shopping excursions, Courtney pairs her deep wine expertise with her lively demeanor to create unforgettable wine experiences. In addition to tastings featured here, Courtney combines forces with a Cordon Bleu trained personal chef to host wine and food pairing experiences in private homes. Courtney has facilitated tastings for hundreds of private and corporate clients. Her client list includes individuals, privately-held businesses and global firms including Deloitte & Touche, IBM, Yahoo!, eBay, Wells Fargo, Banc of America Securities, Bain & Co., McKinsey & Co., Cisco Systems, and Amgen. Let Courtney customize a tasting for your group, or choose from one of the following topics offered: Cabernet Sauvignon: The Power Wine Pinot or Bust! The Misfits: Port, Sherry and Madeira Getting to Know Merlot…All Over Again Think Pink: The Softer Side of Wine Blind Tasting Boot Camp Varietal 411: The Basics Haute Stuff: Champagne & Sparklers The White Stuff: An All-White Wine Tasting Burgundy and Bordeaux: The Big Guns Face Off Wild Card: Have Courtney design a tasting that fits your special needs Detailed tasting menus and references are available upon request. Please contact us for more information. download Courtney – called “San Francisco’s Most Wanted Wine Guru” by C Magazine - has been profiled in Vogue, Business Week online, Domino and Daily Candy and appeared on numerous television and radio networks discussing wine including ABC, NBC, Fox, NPR and Martha Stewart Living Radio. She is available for corporate and private engagements to speak on a variety of wine-related topics, including: TOPICAL Wine for the Next Generation: Marketing to Millenials Wine for Business: Choosing, Talking About & Enjoying Wine In a Business Setting Wine 2.0: Taking Wine Online to the Next Level The New Hot Wine Party: How To Do It Right Wine and Business: Combing Passion and Profession The New Power Players: Women and Wine GENERAL - WINE Blind Tasting Bootcamp: How to Taste Like a Pro (includes tasting) Wine and Food Pairing: Cardinal Rules & When To Break Them (includes tasting) Building a Collection: Cardinal Rules & How-Tos How to Spice Up Your Restaurant's Wine Program Detailed outlines are available upon request. Please contact us for more information and a quotation. For clients interested in more in-depth learning, Courtney offers half-day and day-long wine workshops designed to convey sommelier-caliber knowledge in an entertaining and memorable format. Workshops are designed to teach corporate or private groups the essentials they need to begin to better understand and appreciate wine in their everyday lives and business engagements. Topics covered include: Beginning Wine Basics Blind Tasting Technique Buying & Serving Food Pairing Ordering & Dining Etiquette Cellaring Workshop programs are available upon request. Please contact us for more information and a quotation. Courtney has created compelling, trend-savvy and critically-acclaimed wine lists for restaurant clients that include a San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 restaurant and groundbreaking cinema complex with sophisticated multi-venue food and beverage program. Her sommelier certification and knack for clear communication enable her to create memorable training programs for client service providers, while her deep network of wine distributors, brokers and sales professionals allows for efficient product procurement across a broad array of products, including highly allocated wines. Please contact us for more information and to set up a free consultation. Courtney is a freelance wine writer whose first book, "Hip Tastes: The Fresh Guide to Wine," was published October 4, 2007 by Viking Studio, part of Penguin Group (USA). The book is the recipient of the 2007 Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year award and the San Francisco Chronicle enthused that owning it is like having "a sommelier in your pocket." Courtney is also the lead writer for popular wine travel portal WineCountry.com and her work has appeared in Maxim. Courtney is available for both short- and long-term writing engagements covering wine, travel and lifestyle-related topics.
	© 2007 Courtney Cochran