Academie du Vin Library and Napa Valley Wine Academy Collaboration

NAPA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- London-based Academie du Vin Library and Napa Valley Wine Academy join forces to offer a series of webinar presentations featuring star-studded wine luminaries such as Hugh Johnson and Steven Spurrier, along with a selection of wine book classics and new titles offered by an array of renown wine authors. A number of the presentations will also include an optional wine kit, allowing viewers to taste along with some of the industry's most venerable experts.

Academie du Vin Library founder, Steven Spurrier, created the Library collection to bring the very best wine writing of the past, present and future under one imprint, offering undisputed wine classics like The Story of Wine (Hugh Johnson), In Vino Veritas (writers such as Charles Walter Berry), and Wine Tasting (Michael Broadbent), as well as new titles that are sure to be the classics of the future. The Napa Valley Wine Academy, two-time winner of the WSET's Global Educator-of-the-Year award, has been at the forefront of online wine education and virtual learning, offering a successful selection of regionally-focused webinars and certification courses such as WSET Levels 1 through 4. The Napa Valley Wine Academy was an early pioneer of wine kit shipments to students, making it an industry leader in the online and virtual educational field.

Each live webinar presentation is offered free-of-charge, and the purchase of the accompanying book title, and wine kit when offered, are optional.

Premier Webinar: Hugh Johnson
The premier webinar presentation, scheduled for September 26th, features an interview with celebrated wine writer, Hugh Johnson, on the topic of the history of wine. A new edition of Mr. Johnson's award-winning The Story of Wine, released by the publisher this week, will be offered for sale through the Napa Valley Wine Academy site when registering for the webinar.

Register for the Hugh Johnson webinar presentation here: https://napavalleywineacademy.com/product/live-webinar-hugh-johnson-the-story-of-wine/

Upcoming Webinars
Upcoming webinars with tastings include a Bordeaux session with iconic educator and author, Steven Spurrier. The schedule of webinars will be continually updated and available on napavalleywineacademy.com, where participants can also register for the events: https://napavalleywineacademy.com/live-on-line-events-classes/

"We are really pleased to be working with the Napa Valley Wine Academy on a series of webinars that bring some of our brightest authors to an audience who are obviously keen to learn as much as they can", states Simon McMurtrie, Publisher of Academie du Vin Library. "The team at Napa already have a peerless reputation for offering the best in wine education and their move to digital formats has been equally successful. Our books are the perfect companion to these talks and we can't wait for them to start."

"Adding iconic wine writers and experts from the Academy du Vin Library to our educational events at the Napa Valley Wine Academy is a natural fit. Our goal, since the Academy's inception, was to provide our students with excellent-level instruction and learning from wine professionals and experts around the world," explains Napa Valley Wine Academy Founder Christian Oggenfuss, "and we are more than honored to be working with Steven Spurrier's Academie du Vin Library."

ABOUT ACADEMIE DU VIN LIBRARY
The Académie du Vin Library is a new imprint founded by Steven Spurrier and friends, dedicated to publishing the finest wine writing of the past, the present and the future. Our list is small and will never be large – because we value quality over quantity. We choose our books with care – above all for their readability, but also because we genuinely believe they have something important to say about the world of fine wine that will enhance your enjoyment.

ABOUT NAPA VALLEY WINE ACADEMY
Napa Valley Wine Academy is America's Premier Wine School™ based in Napa Valley, California with ten locations across the United States. The Academy is proud to be the largest approved program provider of the internationally recognized WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) series of wine, spirit, and sake courses (including WSET Levels 1 through 4 in Wine) and the only two-time winner of Educator of the Year by the WSET. The Academy also offers a host of other online courses including the American Wine Expert, Oregon Wine Expert, Napa Valley Wine Expert, Wine 101 Foundation course and the soon to be released German Wine Expert, Argentina Wine Specialist, and Wine 201 Wine of the World.

For more information about the Napa Valley Wine Academy and its numerous courses and experiences, visit napavalleywineacademy.com.

For more information on the Académie du Vin Library, visit https://academieduvinlibrary.com/

SOURCE Napa Valley Wine Academy