Wine Wars World Tour
The Wine Wars World Tour is slowing down for the summer — I’m busy working on the next book! Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a Wine Wars book event.
June 2012
- University of Puget Sound Alumni College. June 8-9. Details here. I’ll be talking about “Robert Mondavi and the ‘Grape Transformation’ of American Wine.”
- June 17, 2012: One year anniversary of Wine Wars publication. Lift a glass to celebrate!
July 2012
- International Pinot Noir Celebration, McMinnville, Oregon. July 27-29, 2012. Details here. I’m teaching “Globalization 101: The Revenge of the Terroirists” as part of the University of Pinot curriculum.
August 2012
- American Wine Bloggers Conference, Portland, Oregon. August 17-19, 2012. I’ll be moderating one of the breakout sessions.
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Previous Wine Wars World Tour Events.
May 2012
- Eastside Business Roundtable breakfast talk, Thursday May 3. Overlake Golf and Country Club.
- University of Puget Sound Olympia area alumni event, Thursday May 3. Details here.
April 2012
- University of Puget Sound Seattle alumni event at Chateau Ste Michelle. Thursday, April 12. Details here.
- Puget Sound Women’s League Luncheon. 11:30 am on April 25 in Kilworth Chapel basement, Puget Sound campus.
- Mortar Board “Last Lecture” series on “Second Thoughts.” I won’t be talking about wine, but I think it will be interesting. 7pm on April 25 in Trimble Forum, Puget Sound campus.
- World Trade Center Tacoma Monthly Lunch Meeting Friday April 27. Details here.
- Pike and Western Wine Shop book signing, Pike Place Market, Seattle April 27. I’ll be signing books from 3-6pm and the Pike and Western folks will be sampling some of their great “terroirist” wines. The tasting is free and it should be a lot of fun!
March 2012
- Clover Park Kiwanis Club, Lakewood Ram Restaurant, Noon Tuesday 3/6.
- University of Puget Sound New York City alumni event. Wednesday, March 14. Details here.
- University of Puget Sound Washington DC area alumni event. Thursday, March 15. Details here.
- University of Puget Sound Honolulu alumni event. Tuesday March 27. Details here.
February 2012
- CSI (that’s the Construction Specifications Institute) dinner talk, Tacoma Washington . Thursday, February 2, 2012.
- Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers Annual Meeting. February 8, 2012. Kennewick, WA.
- Mercer Island Rotary Club. Noon, Tuesday February 14, 2012.
January 2012
- Transportation Club of Seattle. Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Click here for details.
- Rotary Club of South Everett/Mukilteo. Friday, January 13, 2012.
- University of Puget Sound Olympia region Alumni Event, Thursday, January 19, 2012. Click here for details.
- Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, Sacramento, California. Wednesday, January 25, 2012. I will be moderating the “State of the Industry” session and leading an afternoon break-out on global wine supply issues.
- Wine Wars book signing at Raymond Vineyard in Rutherford, Napa Valley. Friday 1/27 from 3pm – 6pm. This is a public event to supplement the Puget Sound alumni event on Saturday.
- University of Puget Sound Bay Area region Alumni Event at Raymond Vineyards, Rutherford, California. Saturday, January 28, 2012. Click here for details.
December 2011
- Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce Luncheon. Thursday, December 1, 2011. Noon.
- Retired Teachers Association of Tacoma. Saturday, December 3, 2011.
- World Affairs Council of Oregon. Thursday, December 8, 2011. Portland, Oregon. 6:30 pm at the WAC headquarters, (Madison Room, 3rd Floor, The Oregon Historical Society), 1200 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR.
- Metropolitan Market wine tasting and book signing. Friday, December 9, 2011 from 4-7 pm. 25th & Proctor Street, Tacoma, WA. (This is the store featured in chapter 3 of Wine Wars). I’ll be chatting and signing books at the kiosk in the deli section.
November 2011
- World Affairs Council of Seattle. Thursday, November 3, 2011. 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Erickson Theater, 1524 Harvard Ave, Seattle, WA.
- Washington Association of Wine Grape Growers. Thursday, November 10, 2011. Red Lion Hotel, Pasco, WA.
- Urban Enoteca Holiday Open House and book signing. Saturday, November 26, 2011. 4130 First Ave. South, Seattle, WA. I’ll be there to chat and sign books from 3-5pm, with a book talk at 3pm.
October 2011
- Wine Wars Book Signing and Wine Tasting. Saturday, October 1, 2011. Powells Home and Garden Bookshop & Pastaworks Hawthorne Street. 2-4 pm. Portland Oregon.
- World Premier of Boom Varietal. Oregon Film Festival, Bend Oregon. Friday, October 7 and Saturday October 8, 2011. I appear in this interesting independent documentary on the Argentina Malbec boom.
- San Francisco Treasury Symposium keynote address “Wine Boom and Bust — with lessons for Finance in the 21st Century.” Thursday October 20, 2011. Palace Hotel, San Francisco California.
September 2011
- “The Miracle of Two Buck Chuck and the Revenge of the Terroirists.” Saturday September 17 2011 11:00 am in McIntyre Hall 103, University of Puget Sound.
- ”Wine Wars: A Tale of Curses, Miracles and Revenge.” Thursday September 29 2011. 7:30 pm Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon.
- “Wine Wars: A Tale of Curses, Miracles and Revenge.” Friday September 30 2011. Noon. McMinnville Rotary Club, McMinnville, Oregon.
I am interested to assist to the event in Washington DC on March 15, but I am not a student of University of Puget Sound .
Please let me know.
Susana Tamayo
February 21, 2012 at 11:12 am
Write to me at Mike@wineeconomist.com, Susana, and I will see what I can do.
Mike Veseth
February 21, 2012 at 7:11 pm