Treasury Wine Estates Master Sommelier Tasting Seminar

Join the Wine Industry Club in welcoming Treasury Wine Estates' Master Sommelier Gillian Ballance to Haas. Ms. Ballance will be presenting a guided tasting workshop and sharing her insights as wine enthusiast working in fine dining.

The Master Sommelier diploma is the highest distinction a professional can attain in fine wine and beverage service. Testing is focused on the areas needed for superior beverage department management, which include Tasting, Theory, Service, and also encompasses spirits, beers, as well as global wine knowledge. There are 230 professionals worldwide who have received the title of Master Sommelier since the first Master Sommelier Diploma Exam was held in 1969.

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More about Gillian Ballance MS, DWS
Gillian Ballance MS, DWS has spent the last 20 years working in the best fine dining restaurants in the United States. Ms. Ballance began her career at The Rainbow Room, one of the most beloved restaurants in New York City, and worked under Andrea Immer Robinson.  While there, Ballance’s thirst for knowledge and passion for wine became evident, so when Andrea became the Beverage Director at the Windows of the World Restaurant, she took Gillian with her. Exposed to a cellar with over 100,000 bottles was the best education a passionate wine enthusiast could have and Ballance’s career soared. Her career includes opening up Cello in NYC, Wine and Beverage Director at Bacara Resort in Santa Barbara, Plumpjack Group’s Wine Director, Wine Consultant and Sommelier for Bottega Restaurant in Napa Valley, Wine Director at the luxurious Cavallo Point. Currently Ballance is the National Education Manager for Treasury Wine Estates.

Ballance has been featured in numerous publications; Wine Spectator, Food and Wine Magazine and an abundance of Trade publications. She has also judged at several wine competitions and conducts wine seminars and lectures across the United States. In 2012, Ballance passed the esteemed Master Sommelier Diploma Exam through the Court of Master Sommeliers, representing one of 21 women in the world. She received her Higher Certificate of Distinction as well as her Diploma in Wines & Spirits from the British Wine and Spirits Education Trust. Ms. Ballance has a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and grew up in Tulsa.

More about Treasury Wine Estates
Treasury Wine Estates is one of the world’s largest wine companies. The Company has a rich heritage and a portfolio of some of the most recognised and awarded wine brands in the world, including: Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Beaulieu Vineyard, Lindeman’s, Sterling Vineyards, Blossom Hill, Pepperjack, Rawson’s Retreat, Matua, Beringer, Stags’ Leap, 19 Crimes, Gabbiano, Chateau St. Jean and Wynns Coonawarra Estate. TWE is focused on portfolio premiumisation and brand-led marketing, with world-class production facilities in internationally recognised wine regions. The Company sources grapes from a mix of owned, leased and third-party vineyards. Employing approximately 3,500 winemakers, viticulturalists, sales, marketing, distribution and support staff across the globe, TWE’s wine is sold in more than 70 countries around the world.

 

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