Your Personal Sommelier

Through my event planning business, Hip Tastes, and my wine consultancy, Your Personal Sommelier, I offer clients fun and stylish wine tastings and customized food pairings. When I’m not working, I’m either on the tennis court, traveling, taking a long lunch with friends, or enjoying a good wine.

Member Since

Apr 4, 2006

Sites

• HipTastes
• Courtney Cochran

What is the next…

Purchase you’ll make?

A great compact wine cellar for my growing wine collection

Trend in design?

Home wine making units that blend into your other furnishings â┚¬“ truly making wine a lifestyle pursuit at long last

Car you’d like to own?

Vintage silver Jaguar coup

Big step you’d like to make?

Pursuing the Master Sommelier diploma--it’s a long and rigorous but rewarding journey

Fad that will fade?

Merlot and Chardonnay bashing

Vacation you’ll take?

The northern Italian wine country--Piedmont, Alto Adige, the Veneto

Thing you’re going to fight for?

Breast cancer research. It touches so many women’s lives.

Secret that’s going to leak?

Point scores and ratings for wines don’t mean $!*@

Hollywood blockbuster going to be about?

A fabulous female entrepreneur

Life you’ll lead?

This may sound cheesy but I fantasize about being a DJ...

Fountain of youth?

Water! It’s the best and most overlooked source of rejuventation.

Book you’ll read?

I’m geared up to read Paris to the Moon just as soon as I wrap up Perigrinations of an Epicure, which I’ve loved

Thing that will change the world?

Happiness, tolerance, living in the moment. Oh, and good wine that’s affordable for all.

Guilty-pleasure food in which you’ll indulge?

Mint chocolate chip cookies from Arizmendi Bakery in San Francisco with a Banyuls Vin Doux Naturel from France.

Person to whom you’ll say, “I love you”?

Gosh, I don’t know. I love the anticipation. ;)