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Sommelier Service in San Jose: Your Private Event Resource

Are you looking for an top sommelier or wine expert to host your private/corporate wine event in San Jose?

Are looking for entertaining and educational event formats that top hotels, corporations and private groups have enjoyed as an unforgettable experience?

Would you be comfortable to work with the #1 specialty firm in the country that has the trust of some of the best corporate clients in the world?

The Wine Elite Sommelier Company is Your Expert Resource in San Jose and Silicon Valley.

Go to www.SommelierCompany.com for details --- or write to event@WineElite.org, or call 310 467 5582.


FAQ:

Where is the company located?

We’re headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with a fully trained sommelier and wine expert team in San Jose.
We have professional wine educators and sommeliers in most major U.S. cities, each of them delivering the specific service and content standards based on the wine experience philosophy built by company founder Jorn Kleinhans.

How does this work?

Call or email our office right away, we walk you through popular event formats, listen to your plans, and give you a quote. We spell out the details of your event, help you with wine choices and any other needs, and then show you a number of wine experts to choose from that you may enjoy having at your event. You will have 24/7 support from our main office in all planning and detail questions of your event.

Who are your wine experts, educators, speakers and sommeliers?

We only work with certified and tested wine experts who are able to speak well in front of a group of people, and look great. The majority of our sommeliers are certified with the Court of Master Sommeliers, are specialists with the Society of Wine Educators and part of the WSET wine education program. Many of our seminar leaders, private sommeliers and corporate event experts hold master's and PhD degrees, and had a successful career in a different field, enabling them to interface with corporate executives and deliver the highest standards known in the wine appreciation space.
When you work with us, you will receive several sommeliers or speakers to choose from, based on your event and your preference. We are your only necessary stop in the United States when it comes to special events including wine and spirits, and obtaining the market-leading expertise at the location of your choice.

What are the most popular event formats?

We are the leader and inventor of Sommelier-Guided WIne Tasting Experiences. Fortune 500 companies, top hotels as well as private parties trust the Wine Elite Sommelier Company, for their corporate meetings, client receptions, pairing dinners, wine country excursions, home entertainment, private blind-tasting training, executive retreats, private entertainment

I have a very short-notice need. Probably no one can help us? We also have a bizarre or impossible service request related to wine. Should we give up?

No, that's what you call the #1 for. We respond to each email within 20 minutes. We can handle pretty much anything you dream of, very quickly. Just don't expect discount prices, or ask for our hourly rate.

Are we limited to wine?

No, we also have whiskey, tequila, beer, honey, chocolate, cigar, cheese and other spirits experts on staff.

Just call or email us now. We reply to every request within 20 minutes.

Here is a list of all services that we can assist you with. We are headquartered in Orange County, California, and have a network of sommeliers and wine experts available for your tasting event or project in nearly all American cities.

- Corporate and Private Wine Tasting Events
- Wine Dinner Presentations
- Hire a Sommelier
- Sommelier-Guided Wine Country Excursions
- Special Event Entertainment and Team Buildings
- Executive Retreat Speakers and Etiquette Workshop
- Blind-Tasting Methodology
- Replication of the Tasting Approach You Saw in the film movie SOMM
- Learning about Wine and Spirits
- Becoming a Sommelier or Wine Educator
- Restaurants looking for Staff Sommeliers
- Home Wine Tastings and Seminars
- Keynote Speakers on Wine
- Wine Tasting Courses Online
- Wine Consultations and Expertise Requests
- Access to Rare Wines and Wine Experts
- Working in the Wine Industry and Sommelier Career
- Taking CSW Course with Society of Wine Educators
- Becoming a Certified Wine Specialist
- We work with all the leading hotels in town