Welcome to the world of wine and food. Your adventure begins right here. Check out some of our events and activities and get ready to learn, taste, and explore.
Budometer
Use our revolutionary Budometer. By answering a few simple questions around your taste preferences, you can get the direction you need to taste wines with confidence. This is a great way to find out your “preferred taste.”
Wine Classes
Learn the six S’s of wine appreciation—Sight, Swirl, Sniff, Sip, Savor, Spit or Swallow—in our popular Wine Tasting 101 class.
Winery of the Week
Every week a new winery from California is represented. You can taste some local wine, learn about the winery and even chat with the wine maker.
Introduction to Wine and Food Pairing
You know that white wine goes with fish and red wine goes with meat, but what else goes together. Learn what happens when you pair certain wines with certain foods and decide which pairings you enjoy most.
Wine and Cheese: Made for each other
Find out which wines pair best with your favorite cheeses. Local award-winning artisan cheeses are featured.
Hands-On Wine Blending Workshop
Ready to showcase your own bottle of wine? Learn to blend your own wine, cork it, foil it and put on your own label.
WSET Certificate Classes
Get serious about learning with a structured approach to the fundamentals of understanding wine.
Taste of COPIA Lunch
Enjoy a three course meal, each course paired with a different wine in an interactive forum, with all that COPIA has to offer—a chef, wine educator and gardener present to explain how to prepare the meal as well as the wine pairings and fruit, vegetables and herbs used in cooking.