Masterclass Seminar: Virginia’s Wine History in 12 Iconic Wines presented by Sommelier Erin Scala

Taste Virginia's Iconic Wines

The burgeoning Virginia wine industry counts over 300 wineries and has divided into three tiers: elite level, mid-level, and everyday.  Led by Ms. Erin Scala, Sommelier and owner of Vino Veritas Fine Wines in Keswick Virginia, this seminar offers a very special opportunity for you to taste twelve elite-level, iconic Virginia wines while taking you on a unique historical tour of Virginia's wine roots.  This seminar is held in the Head House of beautiful Main Street Station.

With Your Ticket, You Will:

• Enjoy an all-inclusive, interactive, immersive seminar
• Taste 12 extraordinary, iconic Virginia wines
• Learn why these wines are so exceptional and about Virginia wine history

Important Information

• You may arrive anytime after 4:00 pm
• Street parking is available for free on Saturday
• Casual attire
• 21 and over

About Sommelier Erin Scala

For the better part of a decade, Erin worked in New York City at several Michelin star restaurants, notably JoJo, PUBLIC, and The Musket Room. In 2014, she returned to her home state of Virginia to run the wine programs at local downtown restaurants, Fleurie & Petit Pois. Today, she is the sommelier at Common House social club in downtown Charlottesville, and since 2017, she's owned In Vino Veritas Fine Wines, a wine retail shop in Keswick, Virginia. Erin writes the thinking-drinking wine blog, produces audio essays for the I’ll Drink to That wine podcast, and consults about wine privately and commercially through her company, ThinkBev. Her articles about wine have been published in The Washington Post, Wine & Spirits, Wine & Country Living, and Knife & Fork magazine. For several years, she covered the Virginia wine scene in a column for her local paper, The C-Ville Weekly.  Named one of Wine Enthusiast's 40 Under 40 wine professionals to watch, her wine list at Fleurie won a Wine Spectator “Best of Award of Excellence” in 2016 and 2017. Erin received a James Beard Rhône Rangers Travel Study Grant to study Rhône varieties in California in 2016. She competed in the Sommelier Scavenger Hunt held by Wine & Spirits Magazine to find delicious Pinot Noirs in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA in 2017. In January 2018, the I'll Drink to That podcast was written up in the New York Times.   Certified as a Certified Sake Professional, and also with the WSET Diploma of Wines and Spirits, she believes that fermented beverages are a unique and dynamic communion with time and place, and that often the best beverages come from small vineyards, orchards, and breweries using products farmed by passionate families who believe in minimal intervention.