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One of the first two Americans to earn the title of Master of Wine. A professionally trained chef, and international consultant to the wine industry, Hanni is the author of “Why You Like the Wines You Like; Changing the way the world thinks about wine.”

This paradigm-changing book focuses on expanding wine enjoyment by understanding the factors that influence personal wine preferences while eliminating counter-productive myths and misinformation. The Wine and Spirits Education Trust in London has recently adopted, and now teaches, his principles of Flavor Balancing and pairing wines to the diner, not the dinner. Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “The Wine Anti-Snob,” Tim is an innovator, researcher, renegade and a relentless crusader against wine snobbery.

His mission is to eliminate wine myths and misunderstandings so all wine consumers have a stronger voice and easier means to enjoy the wines they love.

After 36 years of wine business experience with Wine Institute and as the head of the California Wine Advisory Board, Dan C. Turrentine founded Turrentine Brokerage in 1973. The company was started to assist grower and winery clients with supply challenges and opportunities and to provide the best, data-driven information and analysis to help clients avoid supply problems and make the most profitable choices in a complex and constantly changing business. For more than four decades, Turrentine Brokerage has stayed true to this goal, developing a team of grape and wine brokers who lead the wine business not only in sales volume but also in understanding supply cycles and evolving market conditions.

During this time, Turrentine Brokerage has grown from one employee to twenty-three and has negotiated sales of grapes and wine in bulk exceeding 1.5 billion dollars. This irreplaceable experience has afforded the company the expertise needed to protect your interests in both spot market sales and long-term contracts. The company has also created various tools to empower their clients, including the Market Update newsletter, the Turrentine Outlook: Strategies and Forecasts for a Competitive Advantage and the Collateral Value Report for facilitating asset-based lending to the wine business. Employee owned, with a majority of the equity held by its senior brokers, Turrentine Brokerage has built up a substantial.

Gordon and his wife Marjorie founded ETS Laboratories, the country’s leading independent wine laboratory, in 1978. He has been continuously involved in the wine industry through a number of associations and leadership roles, including as past president of the Pacific Southwest Section of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists, a past chair of the American Society of Enology and Viticulture Technical Projects Enology Committee, and as a member of the ASEV Technical Projects Analytical Quality Committee, the Wine Institute Technical Projects Committee, and FIVS.

About IBWSS Workshop:

IBWSS Workshops are a new concept for bulk wine and bulk spirit importers, distributors, and private label wine manufacturers to get information and insights from experts in a highly-personalized workshop-style class. There will be 6 workshops planned between two days. Get expert advice from people in the know. Some topics include ‘Postmodern Wine-Making’ by Clark Smith, ‘Bulk spirits – opportunities for adding value to a blank slate’ by Steve Burch, ‘They want what?? Practical responses to demands for Certificates of Analysis in International Trade’ by Gordon Burns and much more.