When you ask most people the first thing that pops into their minds when they hear the words "California Wine" they will probably say "Napa!", but did you know that Southern California's wine history is much older than our cousin to the north?

To celebrate the wonderful qualities of this AVA, the Temecula Valley Wine Growers Association has started a video contest with all kinds of terrific prizes. If you don't feel creative, get yourself a glass of wine, watch the entered videos and vote for your favorite. Just click here!

To wet your appetites, here is my choice ! Temecula Valley Wine Country: My Hometownby Karima Salmi 

Cheers. 

Three weeks from now,  beginning July 25th, I will be sitting in a hotel conference room, surrounded by like minded wine geeks (and I use the term lovingly because I am one myself) absorbing knowledge like a giddy schoolgirl.  Hopefully, this euphoria will not come just from the fantastic wines that I’ll be privileged to taste, but from the amazing symposiums I will attend.

I will take “A Fast & Deep Dive Deep into California’s Appellations”, taste “The Great Wines of Spain”, travel through “Provence: Ancient Roman Roads to Modern Biodynamics” and “Island Wines: Off the Beaten Path”. 

Other session will aid me in transferring all this information to my students with “A Revolutionary Way of Teaching the Wines of France”  and rev-up my seminars by going “Beyond Classes with Glasses: The Wine Educator’s Tool Belt”.

As you can tell, this is an event that I am looking forward to immensely and I can’t wait to meet all the other 381 attendees, spend three un-interrupted days sitting at those  tables with a row of glasses before me and a world of wine to explore. 

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
John Cotton Dana