About Courtney
Courtney
Cochran is the Founder & Principal of Your Personal SommelierTM, through
which she offers personalized wine services to adventurous wine collectors,
purveyors and enthusiasts, often venturing to clients' homes or offices
to entertain with her fresh and unique take on wine. Courtney is also
the founder of HIP TASTES Events, through which she offers fun and stylish
wine tastings to the general public in San Francisco.
Courtney grew up in California's Central Valley, where she gained an early
appreciation for wine and food while sampling the abundant produce at
local farmer's markets and traveling frequently to the state's numerous
wine regions on vacations with her family. A summer exchange program in
France cemented her interest in both the French language and the country's
finest export, its award-winning wines. A semester at the Sorbonne during
college led to extensive travel through France's most renowned wine regions
and contributed to her decision to pursue a formal education in wine tasting
and evaluation.
Courtney holds her sommelier certification from the International Sommelier
Guild and the Master Sommelier Guild of America. She has passed levels
1 and 2 of the Master Sommelier diploma and continues to work towards
that designation. And, much less exciting but nonetheless helpful, she
graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in English and French from the University
of California, Los Angeles and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society.
She also holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where
she studied marketing and entrepreneurship and was president of the school's
wine tasting group. When she is not working, Courtney enjoys golfing,
traveling, rummaging through flea markets and vintage boutiques, kibitzing
with friends over long lunches, and drinking good wine.
Press
Domino, October 2007 (pdf)
San Francisco Magazine,
October 2007 (pdf)
San
Francisco Chronicle ,
September 28, 2007 (pdf)
California Style,
May 2007 (pdf)
Daily Candy
Profile,
January 25, 2006
Weekend
Guide, March 30, 2006
Weekend
Guide, February 16, 2006
Weekend
Guide, September 21, 2006
Contra
Costa Times, October, 2006 (pdf)
Vogue,
November, 2005 (pdf)
BusinessWeek
Online (pdf)
tablehopper
March 21, 2006
June
27, 2006
November
28, 2006
StyleHive,
March 18, 2006
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