W I N E O L O G Y
Educational Wine Tasting
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