Whether your aim is to enhance your professional knowledge, create a new career in the wine profession or simply gain more knowledge and experience so that you can better enjoy what you are drinking -- the Napa Valley provides great opportunities for you!! Anchored by the West Coast campus of one of America's greatest culinary schools (CIA - Culinary Institute of America) and buoyed by COPIA (American Center for Wine, Food & Arts) a wide span of tasting and educational opportunities are offered.
CIA - Check out prestigious Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies Calendar. America's best chefs enhance their wine knowledge at CIA's Greystone Campus -- but CIA also offers the inquiring enthusiast a full range of courses and tasting seminars.
COPIA's Wine Classes, Tastings & Events. Created expressly to take advantage of the convergence of great food and wine expertise gathered together within the Napa Valley, COPIA exists as a place to share the wealth of knowledge available in this unique locale. A constant stream of courses, exhibits and tastings are presented in the multi-million dollar complex -- including WSET courses that will lift you into the prestigious world of the MW, the Masters of Wine.
NAPA WINE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION The Napa Valley Wine Library is an alliance devoted to sharing and preserving information about viticulture, enology and wine lore, particularly in the Napa Valley. It presents courses and field seminars in the Napa Valley and a major annual tasting in which over a hundred local wineries participate.