aka wine geek specializes in the professional presentation of wine, beer, sake, spirits and non-alcohol beverage education for the trade, consumers, press and the media.
Most importantly, we make tasting and learning fun!
Our goal is to empower members of the trade and consumers alike to make their own decisions and trust their palates.
The company is based on Steven Olson’s standing as being one of America’s foremost experts and most sought-after lecturers in the business.
aka winegeek is more than Steve Olson. It is a network of employees and contracted consultants, including several speakers and sommeliers, bartenders and servers throughout the US, that collaborate to make his vision happen.
The company acts as a liaison between all strata of the industry, serving in an educational and advisory capacity between producer, importer, distributor, sales force, restaurateur, retailer, management, servers, and all others involved in the presentation and sales of beverages, creating the opportunity for successful interface with the consumer.
February 12, 2012
aka wine geek is joining LUPEC and the Colorado Bartenders Guild for Speed Rack in Denver where the best female bartenders from Colorado will duke it out in a top bartender competition of speed and accuracy, all in the name of charity. Tickets available at Casselman’s website.
http://www.casselmans.com
February 21, 2012
Steve Olson will be at this years Arizona Cocktail Week, hosting Nectar of the Gods: The Agave Elixirs. During the seminar, we'll pay our respects to the artisan producers that have truly mastered this craft, as we pay homage to the heritage, the history, and the culture of Mexico’s national spirit, the pride of an entire nation, and explore with us the historical implications of the possibilities of distillation in a Mexico before the Spanish conquest.
http://www.arizonacocktailweek.com
March 06, 2012 - March 08, 2012
Steve will sit on the highly esteemed panel of judges in the 3rd Ultimate Spirits Challenge. The USC is part of the Ultimate Beverage Challenge whose primary goal is to generate a new platinum standard of trustworthiness, integrity, reliability, and, most important, meaningful and relevant results to international beverage competitions in order to recognize the highest degree of product quality. The Ultimate Spirits Challenge seeks systemically cull from the pack and reward those distilled beverages which in the collective and numerically arrived at opinion of the judges standout in their respective categories, showing uncommon quality.
http://www.ultimate-beverage.com/
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