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Grand Del Mar Employee Instructs SDSU Wine Class

Over the past 20 years, the United States wine market has witnessed a huge increase in South American wine imports.

 

With this fact in mind, SDSU’s College of Extended Studies will offer a new Intensive South American Wines course Mondays, July 15-29, 6-9 pm as part of the Professional Certificate in the Business of Wine program.

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This course will cover the history, geographic locations, climate, soils, wine laws, grape varieties, and important wine producing regions of South America. Students will taste and focus intensively on the wines of Chile and Argentina with a brief introduction to Brazil, Uruguay, and Peru.     

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Instructor Mitch Price is an advanced sommelier who works for Addison Restaurant at the Grand Del Mar. He is a former student of the Professional Certificate in the Business of Wine program.

 

“The SDSU program helped me land my current job at the Addison, Southern California’s only five-star/five-diamond restaurant,” Price said. “In my free time, I focused on progressing through the Court of Master Sommeliers program. I passed the Advanced Sommelier exam in 2010 and am looking forward to taking the Master Sommelier Diploma Exam in the near future.”

 

Cost of the course is $209 or $239 after July 8. Students must be at least 21 years of age to register. For more information, call (619) 594-1138, email mabeyta@mail.sdsu.edu or visit www.neverstoplearning.net/wine. The website includes a video of the program.

 

This is a SDSU Research Foundation program.

 





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