June 17, 2025 (6 - 8pm)
Concannon Vineyard
Please join us at Concannon Vineyard for Interwinery Tasting 2025. Don't miss out on the opportunity, as winery staff and industry partners, to taste wines from other local Livermore Valley wineries. This enables you to be better equipped to refer to a winery that the customer might enjoy. This event sells out every year, space is limited so reserve your spot today!
June 3, 2025 (6 - 8pm)
Certified Alcohol Training California’s Premier RBS Training Provider With the passage of Assembly Bills 1221 in 2017 and 82 in 2020, effective July 1, 2022, any alcoholic beverage server and their manager must have a valid responsible beverage service (RBS) certification within 60 days from their first date of employment if they perform certain duties related to alcoholic beverage service. To become certified, they must complete RBS training from an ABC-accredited RBS training provider and pass an ABC-administered RBS exam. Certified Alcohol Training is presently the only ABC-approved training provider authorized to offer live in-person, live virtual, and online RBS training in this state and the only provider whose courses are designed and taught by the team of Jerry R. Jolly and Associates - all former ABC executives, managers, and investigative staff. We are excited to announce that we are partnering with Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association to offer its members a special rate on RBS training. Certified Alcohol Training offers courses that are quick, efficient, and effective. All of our courses require a minimal amount of time, while being comprehensive enough to help your servers pass the state exam and provide the knowledge and skills they need to protect themselves, your business, and the public. For those interested in the online course, use coupon code LVWINEPROMO for a substantial discount off the normal price of the course. Go to our website for further information. Click into FAQ’s for Licensees for instructions on making a group purchase and setting up a group page for your business.
May 20, 2025 (6 - 9pm)
Dante Robere Winery
Join us for a fun night of hanging out as a wine country community on the patio at Dante Robere Winery! As always, please remember to bring a bottle of your favorite Livermore Valley Wine to share!
May 13, 2025 (6 - 8pm)
3 Steves Winery
Building rapport and effective engagement means increasing overall guest satisfaction and sales/signups. In this workshop, WISE will present tools on building rapport techniques to help increase engagement with guests. Attendees will develop skills on use of effective icebreakers, the right open-ended questions, compelling analogies, and great storytelling. With great rapport, attendees will learn how to effectively close the sale in a brand-appropriate way with planting sales seeds along the way to increase sales and wine club signups.
