Robert W. Bentley CWE CWS

Bio & Background:
 Bob Bentley (short) Bob founded and has been President of the Olympic Peninsula Enological Society (OPES) since moving to Port Townsend. He is a member of and certified by the Society of Wine Educators. In addition to prior wine articles written for various news publications, Bob has written wine features for “Peninsula Lifestyles” Magazine and other area based magazines. He has also traveled extensively tasting,evaluating wines and meeting with wine experts in New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, France, Germany, as well as the many wine areas of the USA. Both he and wife, Dianne have recently served as judges at the prestigious Northwest Wine Summit held in Oregon (largest in the Northwest), Greatest of the Grapes, Southern Oregon Wine Assoc., Evergreen State fair, and others. He also offers educational wine programs for distributors and wineries, having held events for Bacchus distributors and Willamette Valley winery in Salem, Oregon He has been featured on a major South American wine marketing website (www.andeswines.cl following several seminars and programs given on that area. Also,Bob has conducted many other theme events, including the a “Return of the Empire”, on the reemergence of wines from Austria, Hungary, other nationalities part of the former Hapsburg Empire. Bob’s wine education and experience began, during a break in his University of Michigan education many years ago, when he visited California, drinking and learning about wine with the likes of August Sebastiani and Robert Mondavi, After retiring from a long career in health care organization, he combined his writing, organizational development and training skills with his credentials in wine education; he now also offers a range of services available directly to the wine and hospitality industries, including marketing promotions, staff training, seminars and organizational retreats. He also has tought wine courses at Pen

More info:

81 Victoria Loop Port Townsend,WA 98368

• rwbentley@mac.com
• www.Bentleywines.info
• (360) 379-4087