WineGroceries.com creates Videos designed to make you a savvy buyer of wine in your favorite grocery store wine department, with entertaining instruction from one of America's top independent wine educators: Anita LaRaia.
Meet Anita LaRaia:
EDUCATION
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York - BA
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York - MA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Oglethorpe University - Veteran Instructor Continuing Education - 10 years
CNN.com Online - wine expert answering questions worldwide
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
London, England Wine staff - earned certificate from the wine and spirits guild
PUBLISHED AUTHOR
Author of premier wine course formatted in a paperback presentation
Pick a Perfect Wine in No Time Que Publishing 2006 - 5 star reviews on Amazon
Featured Nationally - in Real Simple Magazine Women & Wine in Atlanta
WINE EDITOR
Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles Magazine - monthly column for 5 years
PUBLIC SPEAKING AND TEACHING
Anita LaRaia’s Wine School, Inc. Anita has personally graduated over 2000 classes over a span of 33 years, training young adults working in the hospitality industry, as well wine trade professionals and the general public.
Famed as an entertaining wine educator and speaker, Anita has performed hundreds of live events: for Delta, Grand Union, Wyeth, Safeco, Ritz-Carlton Hotel and others.
Anita did wine training for Jack Nicklaus Bear’s Club in Jupiter, Florida
Headlined large wine events at Bellagio, Las Vegas, Fairmont Hotel, Bermuda Ferrari Club of Sarasota.
WORK EXPERIENCE