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Enrichment Trips
Guild Members have the opportunity to apply for scholarship enrichment programs that allow them to travel to wine regions around the globe to feel the terroir, taste the wines and learn first-hand from producers. Enrichment programs currently include:
- South Africa – Supported by Vineyard Brands, this enrichment trip allows two sommeliers to travel to South Africa for one week and to visit the Cape Winelands.
- Tuscany – Supported by the Banfi Vintners Foundation, this enrichment trip allows five or more sommeliers to visit Tuscany for one week.
- Greece – Supported by Wines of Greece and the Hellenic Foreign Trade Board, this enrichment trip allows two sommeliers to visit the wine regions of Greece for one week.
- Germany – Supported by Wines of Germany and the European Union, this enrichment trip allows two sommeliers to visit Germany for one week.
- Napa – Supported by Napa Valley Vintners, this enrichment trip allows more than a dozen sommeliers to travel to Napa to visit numerous local wineries.
- Bordeaux – Supported by the CIVB, this enrichment trip allows four sommeliers to visit Bordeaux for one week.
- Chile – Supported by Wines of Chile, this enrichment trip allows four sommeliers to visit Chile for one week.
- Armagnac – Sponsored by the The Bureau National Interprofessionnel de l'Armagnac (BNIA), this trip affords two sommeliers the opportunity to visit Gascony during the heart of the distillation season for Armagnac.
- Australia – Supported by Wines of Australia, this enrichment trip allows one sommelier to visit Australia for two weeks to visit the country's winegrowing regions.
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