TIMOTHY PAUL KRANTZ, Ph.D

Dr. Krantz has been organizing and hosting structured wine tastings for twenty-five years. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Redlands in 1977, with an emphasis in ethnobotany–the cultural uses of plants, with a particular interest in paleoethnobotany–the archeology and cultural evolution of cultivated plants, including, of course, the early cultivation and production of wine! Tim obtained his Masters at Stanford in 1991 in Latin American Studies, and his Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley in 1994, where he organized his first “geographical” wine tastings. Since then, Dr. Krantz has refined a series of seminars into a very popular class at the University of Redlands–the Geography of Wines–combining historical and physical geography perspectives. He has been the invited guest lecturer for many wine tastings, wine tours, fund-raising events and private parties; organizing a wide range of vertical, horizontal, varietal and geographical tastings. He is presently working on a Geography of Wine Atlas.

LYNN BERKELEY KRANTZ

Lynn Berkeley Krantz has been instrumental in organizing culinary events for over thirty years and has been a wine enthusiast for the past ten years, with an emphasis on wine and food pairing. She is currently enrolled at the University of Redlands, as a Creative and Performing Arts major, and with the Culinary Institute of America and the Wine Spectator School in the field of Wine Education. Lynn has helped to create and facilitate the popular Geography of Wine courses Dr. Krantz has taught at the University of Redlands–adding the culinary aspect to the courses. Lynn is the primary creative force and the webmaster for Wineology-Educational Wine Tasting. She is an expert events planner and connoisseur in her own right. Lynn and Tim have been a highly sought after ‘team’ for many lectures, wine tastings, wine tours, fund-raising events and private wine tasting parties.

Tim and Lynn are members of the