Introducing the NW Wine Academy Wines on cheapwinestore.com!

I am really excited that we are now selling wines from West Seattle’s only winery, right around the corner from me!  The South Seattle Community College has one of the few really comprehensive wine education programs in the state, with classes in everything like sales and marketing, enology, and full on wine making!

The chief winemaker and instructor, Peter Bos, has been a leader and very respected in the industry for years and has won several medals for the wine produced with the students at the SSCC.  The unoaked Chardonnay this year is killer!!!  I really need to stash a few bottles for myself!

Regina Daigneault is the program coordiantor as well as being an instructor.  I took a class with Regina and she was a wonderful teacher and brings a huge wealth of real world knowledge to the program.

I would recommend trying all of the wines as soon as you have a chance.  We have them at NW Academy Wines at CheapWineStore.com  at very good prices so they are affordable as well as approachable.

My adventures in wine

So, like all other things government, when I decided to open cheapwinestore.com I had to fill out form after form to get my license.  I felt like I was buried in paperwork!  My enforcement officer is a good guy and has been doing his job for a while and he was a lot of help in navigating the right and wrong ways to do things.

After getting my liquor license the next step was getting to know my local distributors.  The wine world is pretty close-knit and it seems like everyone knows everyone.  I was fortunate

in meeting some really cool reps and other people who have really helped in fine-tuning the project.  The really nice perk in this business too is the numerous wine tastings that I get to go to.

A good friend told me that the only way to expand my knowledge was to taste, taste, taste.

That has proven to be really good advice!  I’ve gotten to taste a lot of really good wines at the industry tastings.  The other nice thing is that you get to meet the winemakers and really get a feel for their personal styles of winemaking and what is important to them.  It really helps to put a face with a wine and it lends that much more to the whole experience.