Erin Palmer opened The Wine Cellar in Portland in 2003. Over the past 20 years she has been teaching classes for groups of friends and business events. Erin has also been teaching community education classes through Portland Community College for the better part of two decades. Her PCC classes famously book all 400 available registrations within minutes of registration opening. She has taught more than 2,000 classes. Join Erin for an approachable, fun, interactive, and interesting class session. She teaches dozens of class topics or may be able to design one just for your group’s needs.

Book a class with Erin, starting at $200 per hour.

Andy McVay is our fermentation scientist who has also worked professionally as a winemaker for both small and large wineries; including knocking out over 500,000 cases in a single vintage. As a winemaker Andy often taught informally to coworkers and winery guests. In 2021 he left winemaking to join Erin as he pursued his desire to teach wine professionally. He has received is WSET diploma (the highest level of wine education available through the Wine and Spirits Education Trust). He also began teaching PCC classes and private events and classes with Erin in 2021. Andy has taught more than 100 classes with wonderful reviews from guests. He’s witty, smart, and not afraid to get into the scientific weeds- if that’s what the guests are looking for.

Book a class with Andy, starting at $150 per hour.

Read an article Andy wrote.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2024.2419333